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Day 1508. Russia and Ukraine exchanged drone strikes ahead of the Easter truce. Odessa, Sumy, Novorossiysk and Krymsk attacked
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Ukraine and Russia
On the night of April 11, when the Easter truce was supposed to come into force at the front, the armed forces of Russia and Ukraine exchanged massive drone strikes.
The command of the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces stated that overnight the Russian military attacked Ukraine with 160 attack drones, 133 of which were shot down by air defense. “20 strike UAVs were recorded in 10 locations, as well as falling debris in 11 locations,” the Ukrainian Armed Forces said in a statement.
The greatest damage from Russian attacks was recorded in Odessa. The head of the city military administration, Sergei Lysak, said that civilian infrastructure came under attack: dozens of private and apartment buildings, a hostel, a kindergarten, and food establishments. In addition, infrastructure facilities were damaged.
Two people died - their bodies were found in a private residential building after extinguishing a fire that was caused by a Russian drone. Two more people were hospitalized with injuries.
In addition, Russian troops struck the residential sector of the city of Sumy. There, according to local police, 12 apartment buildings and one private residential building, a kindergarten, and ten cars were damaged. At least 17 people were injured, including a child.
One person was killed and another was injured as a result of a Russian air strike on the Lubensky district of the Poltava region. A store and a coffee shop were damaged, the local military administration said .
The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that over the past 24 hours, air defense systems on duty shot down 259 aircraft-type UAVs and 12 guided bombs.
The operational headquarters of the Krasnodar region reported that on the night of April 11, fragments of Ukrainian drones fell on an oil depot in the city of Krymsk. The fire was extinguished by Saturday morning. In addition, debris from downed drones fell on two apartment buildings and one private house, as well as a warehouse of an enterprise in Novorossiysk. There is no information about the casualties.
Eyewitnesses reported night explosions in Tver. Presumably, they occurred in the area of the Tvernefteprodukt oil depot. Local authorities did not report anything about the attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
At 16:00 on April 11, the Easter truce comes into force along the entire front line - it will remain in effect until the end of the day on April 12. This was announced in the Kremlin. “We proceed from the assumption that the Ukrainian side will follow the example of the Russian Federation,” said a statement from the Russian Presidential Administration. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky also said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces will cease fire on Easter. He added that the Russian side had been informed about a possible continuation of the ceasefire after Easter.
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Anonymous reader (RF) . I was 14 years old when the war began. And at first I supported her.
At school, after the start of the war, my class was told that all this was needed to protect the inhabitants of Donbass from genocide - and, of course, Russia is thus protecting itself from NATO, which threatens its borders.
The world views of “those who are for” and “those who are against” are fundamentally different. They live in different worlds. And “those who are for” seem to live in a matrix, and not in reality. But then I believed everything that we were told. For some time I supported the “special operation”. I entered the matrix.
But then on YouTube I accidentally came across a video that examined Russian propaganda. And no, I didn’t get up, exclaiming: “I have received my sight!” But I realized something very important: everything my country says may not be true. Yes, at the age of 14 this was a big discovery for me.
And the world collapsed. This was not a period of insight, but of doubt. I just didn’t know who or what to believe now. But I think even that was already very important. A revolution was beginning in my head.
Of course, then I figured out what happened and was really happening. I left the matrix. And all my classmates who still support SVO are still in it.
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