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Russian forces dropped nine guided aerial bombs on settlements in the Kherson region on Sunday evening, targeting Kherson, Chornobaivka, Bilozerka, and Rozlyv.

In the Korabelnyi district of Kherson, a Russian drone attacked a multi-story residential building. 

In Shostka, Sumy region, rescuers from the State Emergency Service extinguished all fires caused by a Russian drone attack on the night of April 19, despite the threat of further strikes.

Ukrainian forces engaged in 135 combat clashes with Russian invaders on Saturday, with the most attacks recorded on the Pokrovsk axis, where the enemy lost more than 90 occupiers.

Ukraine is calling on the United States administration to reinstate sanctions restricting trade in Russian oil.

Ukraine's Defense Forces have repelled a large-scale Russian attempt to break through near Chasiv Yar in the Donetsk region.

Four civilians were injured in Russian attacks in the Sumy region on April 18, regional governor Oleh Hryhorov said.

Five civilians were injured in Russian strikes across the Dnipropetrovsk region throughout Saturday, regional governor Oleksandr Hanzha said.

A Russian drone attacked a train in the Sumy region, leaving the driver injured.

In the Zaporizhzhia direction, fighters from the Department of Active Operations of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine (HUR) carried out a series of successful raids during which they destroyed and cleared Russian military positions.

Russian troops carried out another drone strike on a fire station in the Shostka district of Sumy region on April 18.

The Trump administration on Saturday renewed a waiver allowing countries to buy sanctioned Russian oil at sea for about a month, even as lawmakers accused the government of going easy on Moscow as its war on Ukraine grinds on. The United States Treasury Department’s waiver lets countries purchase Russian oil and petroleum products loaded on vessels as of Friday through May 16. It replaces a 30-day waiver that expired on April 11 and excludes transactions involving Iran, Cuba and North Korea. The move is part of the administration’s effort to control global energy prices that have shot higher during the US-Israeli war with Iran. It came after countries in Asia, suffering from the global energy shock, pressed Washington to allow alternative supplies to reach markets. Reversal by treasury “As negotiations (with Iran) accelerate, Treasury wants to ensure oil is available to those who need it,” a Treasury Department spokesperson said. Just two days earlier, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Washington would no...

In Kyiv, police explosives experts recovered a Russian drone equipped with a warhead from the Dnipro River.

On Friday, April 17, Russian forces launched a drone attack on warehouse facilities in Zelenivka, a suburb of Kherson, causing a fire that spread to a nearby house.

Russian troops are concentrating personnel and equipment on the southern outskirts of Myrnohrad in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region.

President Volodymyr Zelensky signed decrees enacting decisions of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council to impose sanctions on Russian commanders involved in missile attacks against Ukraine, as well as on Russian religious figures who justify Russian aggression.

The number of people injured in a Russian attack on Kyiv on April 16 has risen to 65, with 35 of them currently hospitalized.

In Dnipro, rescue workers have completed search operations at the site of strikes carried out by Russian forces during the night of April 16.

Emergency rescue operations have been completed in Odesa at a high-rise building that was struck twice by Russian drones over the past 24 hours and once the day before.

At least 26 people were injured in Odesa as a result of an overnight Russian attack on April 16, with reports of people still missing.