On the morning of April 6, Russia attacked Ukraine with cruise missiles from Tu-95 bombers, Shaheds and Calibers from the sea. At least six people are known to have died in Kharkiv.
"Shakhed" terrorized the central regions all night, and after 5 o'clock in the morning rockets launched from Tu-95s flew by. The Air Force also reported a strike by Kalibr missiles from ships in the Black Sea.
A group of cruise missiles flew into Ukraine from Chernihiv Oblast, flew through Poltava Oblast and Cherkasy Oblast to the west. However, the rockets abruptly changed direction and struck in the direction of Kyiv from Zhytomyr Oblast. Air defense was working in the Kyiv region , there were no explosions in Kyiv itself.
In the village of Makariv of the Buchan district near Kyiv, debris damaged the premises of one of the private enterprises, the Buchi authorities said. There are no victims or injured.
Later, the head of the Kyiv OVA, Ruslan Kravchenko, reported that all air targets in the region were destroyed, and there were no hits to residential and critical infrastructure objects.
As a result of falling fragments of downed targets, a fire broke out in a hangar in one of the settlements, which was contained, he added.
The head of the Zaporizhzhia region, Ivan Fedorov, reported on the rocket attack on Zaporizhzhia and the explosions there. The night before, four people were killed in a rocket attack in Zaporizhzhia, and the number of injured on Saturday rose to 23.
The Air Force warned of a possible missile attack on Pavlograd from the south, as well as an attack on Mykolaiv with "calibers".
The military was warned at night about the approach of the "Shaheed" to Starokostyantynov in Khmelnytskyi, and rockets were approaching Ladyzhyn in Vinnytsia and Kanev in Cherkasy.
After 6 o'clock in the morning, an air alert was declared in most areas.
In the morning, the mayor of Kharkiv Igor Terekhov spoke about the terrible consequences of the night attack of the "Shaheeds".
"As a result of the night strike in the Shevchenkiv district, as of this morning, we have 6 dead and 10 wounded. The arrival of the "shaheeds" hit residential buildings - at least 9 high-rise buildings, three dormitories, a number of administrative buildings, a shop, gas station, service station and cars were damaged," said Terekhov.
At night, the regional authorities reported two dead, but their number increased.
The Defense Forces of Ukraine shot down two Kh-101/Kh-555 cruise missiles, a Kalibr cruise missile and 28 Shahed missiles.
PHOTO AUTHOR, TELEGRAM IHOR KLYMENKO Photo caption, Rescuers fighting fire in Cherkasy region, March 29
The last massive strikes
PHOTO AUTHOR, KMVA Photo caption, Destruction of a residential building in Kyiv on March 21
On March 21, after a month-long break, Russia carried out the first massive spring strike that hit Kyiv. 17 people were injured in the capital and the region, but the rockets were shot down.
Residential buildings, kindergartens and industrial facilities were destroyed in Kyiv and the region.
AUTHOR OF THE PHOTO, LACHENKOV Caption for the photo, Hit on Dnipro HPP
On March 22, Russia carried out the largest attack on Ukraine's energy sector during the entire war. There were hits and damage to generation facilities throughout the country. The legendary Dnipro HPP in Zaporizhzhya was hit, and Kharkiv was left without electricity.
The restoration of power supply after that is still ongoing.
Emergency blackouts began in seven regions of the south and east of the country. Three people died in Khmelnytskyi, and two in Zaporizhzhia.
At that time, Russia attacked Ukraine with more than 60 Shaheds and almost 90 missiles of various types. including aeroballistic "daggers".
AUTHOR OF THE PHOTO, DSNS Caption for the photo, Debris analysis in Khmelnytskyi
Rockets also destroyed energy facilities in Lviv Oblast and the Burshtynska CHP in Frankiv Oblast.
On March 24, Russia launched another combined missile attack on Ukraine.
Some of the missiles hit Kyiv, others flew to Lviv region and hit energy facilities there. One missile even flew to Poland for 39 seconds.
At the same time, most of the rockets hit gas storage facilities near Stryi. Two Kinjal missiles hit there at 9 a.m. that day. The authorities did not report any casualties during that attack.
On the morning of March 25, Russia attacked Kyiv with Zircon missiles, both were shot down, but the Academy of Arts was destroyed in Kyiv. There were no victims.
On March 29, Russia again launched a massive attack on Ukraine with cruise missiles, "shahedas" and "daggers".
Then they damaged energy facilities in a number of regions in the center and west of Ukraine. Problems with light began in six regions.
Among other things, Russia attacked the Kaniv and Dniester HPPs. The authorities did not report any casualties, but they were wounded.
During the massive attack on March 29, which lasted all night, the Russians fired 99 missiles of various types and drones at Ukrainian energy facilities, the Air Force reported. 58 "shaheeds" and 26 rockets were shot down.
On March 31, a massive missile attack mainly fell on the west of Ukraine. In particular, it was reported about an attack near Stryi on energy facilities, which were also attacked in the previous days. Then two people died.
AUTHOR OF THE PHOTO, DSNS Caption of the photo, The strike on Kharkiv killed three rescuers. Russia used a double strike tactic
In April, Russia repeatedly attacked Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia with ballistic missiles and Shaheds.
On April 4, four people were killed in an attack in Kharkiv - during a second attack, rescuers were killed.
On April 5, Russia delivered a double blow to Zaporizhzhia, four people were killed.
Before that, Russia launched massive combined missile strikes throughout the winter, but took a pause in massive shelling from February 15, continuing bloody pinpoint strikes on various cities in eastern and southern Ukraine.
PHOTO AUTHOR, PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE Photo caption, Destruction of Burshtynska TPP
