Russian Offensive Marketing campaign Review, April 20, 2025
Daria Novikov, Olivia Gibson, Christina Harward, Nicole Wolkov, Davit Gasparyan, Angelica Evans, and Kateryna Stepanenko with William Runkel
April 20, 2025, 5:00 pm ET
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Observe: The knowledge cut-off for this product was once 11am ET on April 20. ISW will quilt next studies within the April 21 Russian Offensive Marketing campaign Review.
[Note: The Ukrainian General Staff’s 0800 SITREP appears to cover battlefield activity from 0800 on the previous day to 0800 on the current day, and the 2200 SITREP appears to cover battlefield activity from 0000 to 2200. ISW is unable to assess whether Russian attacks reported in these SITREPs occurred after Russia’s 30-hour unilateral Easter truce that started at 1800 Moscow time on April 19. The Ukrainian General Staff’s 1600 SITREP appears to cover battlefield activity from 0000 to 1600, and any reports of Russian ground activity in the Ukrainian General Staff’s April 20, 1600 SITREP are by default an accusation of truce violations.]
The snap Russian-proposed Easter truce underscores the need that the textual content of any ceasefire or peace settlement be publicly to be had, officially agreed to prematurely by way of all events, and come with tough tracking mechanisms. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reported at 2000 native time April 20 that Russian forces in “all primary frontline instructions” performed flooring assaults and drone and artillery moves towards Ukrainian forces in violation of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s 30-hour unilateral truce from 1800 Moscow time on April 19 to 0000 Moscow time on April 21.[1] Zelensky additionally mentioned on April 20 that Russian forces performed assaults within the Siversk, Toretsk, and Zaporizhia instructions and are carrying out offensive operations maximum intensely within the Pokrovsk route.[2] Zelensky’s commentary from 1600 native time April 20 additionally reported Russian truce violations in Kursk Oblast, even supposing Zelensky mentioned previous at 0000 native time April 20 that Putin didn’t prolong the truce to Kursk or Belgorod oblasts.[3] Zelensky reiterated that an efficient ceasefire settlement should supply tracking mechanisms of possible violations and that Ukrainian forces will reply “symmetrically” to Russian attacks.[4] The Russian Ministry of Protection (MoD) claimed on April 20 that Russian forces had “strictly” noticed the truce and claimed that Ukrainian forces performed drone and artillery moves towards Russian positions and Russian-occupied settlements for the reason that truce started.[5] Ukrainian and Russian assets famous that combating abated however didn’t totally stop in some instructions, together with the Kupyansk, Pokrovsk, and Toretsk instructions, and that combating in different instructions quickly ceased round 1800 on April 19 however has since resumed with variable frequency and depth.[6] NASA Hearth Data for Useful resource Control (FIRMS) records presentations satellite-detected warmth anomalies alongside the frontline on April 20 that can recommend army job, however ISW is not able to independently examine the particular studies of violations made by way of Russian or Ukrainian assets.
Zelensky reported that Russian forces didn’t habits long-range moves towards Ukraine at the evening of April 19 to twenty and all through the day on April 20 and proposed a brief moratorium on long-range moves towards civilian infrastructure.[7] Zelensky mentioned that Ukraine and Russia completed a long-range moves ceasefire between April 19 and 20 and all through the day on April 20 and one of these ceasefire is the perfect to increase. Zelensky proposed a brief ceasefire on long-range missile and drone moves towards civilian infrastructure for at least 30 days, with the chance to increase the ceasefire past 30 days. Russia and Ukraine many times accused every different of violating the brief power infrastructure moves ceasefire, however Putin and different senior Russian officers have many times rejected the March 13 joint US-Ukrainian 30-day complete ceasefire proposal during the last 5 weeks.[8] A brief civilian infrastructure moves ceasefire settlement — and particularly a normal ceasefire settlement — will require tough tracking mechanisms, public and formal phrases, and a obviously outlined period of time. The Kremlin would possibly proceed to leverage any imprecise long term ceasefire agreements to obfuscate Russia’s rejection of US and Ukrainian ceasefire proposals and to accuse Ukraine of violating such ceasefire phrases.[9]
Ukrainian officers proceed to spotlight Russia’s systematic persecution of spiritual communities all the way through occupied Ukraine, together with towards Christians. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reported on April 20 that Russian forces have killed or tortured 67 Ukrainian clergymen, pastors, and clergymen and destroyed 640 spiritual websites, maximum of that are Christian websites, for the reason that get started of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022.[10] ISW has up to now reported on Russia’s spiritual oppression in occupied Ukraine, together with arbitrary detention and assassinations of Ukrainian clergy or spiritual leaders and the looting, desecration, and planned destruction of puts of worship.[11] ISW has additionally reported at period on Russia’s systematic repression of Orthodox Church of Ukraine and different spiritual minorities, in particular Ukrainian Protestants and Baptists, who’ve confronted Russian brutality and different repressions all the way through Ukraine.[12]
The Kremlin continues to repurpose narratives that Russian officers have many times used to justify Russia’s invasions of Ukraine so that you could additional militarize Russian society in the long run, most probably in preparation for a possible long term protracted war with NATO. Russian state journalist Pavel Zarubin requested Russian Overseas Minister Sergei Lavrov a query on April 20 concerning the EU’s advice that Eu leaders chorus from attending Russia’s Would possibly 9 Victory Day Parade in Moscow.[13] (Victory Day is Russia’s major patriotic vacation and commemorates the Soviet Union’s contributions to victory over Nazi Germany within the 2nd International Warfare, recognized in Russia because the Nice Patriotic Warfare.) Lavrov accused the EU of stoking “neo-Nazi ideology” in Europe and mentioned that Russia “will make each effort to be sure that this ideology does no longer lift its head,” and can damage Nazism “as soon as and for all.” Lavrov’s statements are a part of a long-standing Kremlin effort to invoke the Soviet Union’s contributions to victory over Nazi Germany and the broader mythos of the Nice Patriotic Warfare and vilify Europe and NATO. Those efforts purpose to exacerbate destructive sentiments amongst Russia’s inhabitants and drum up reinforce for the militarization of Russian society in the long run.[14] The Kremlin has up to now appealed to the mythos of the Nice Patriotic Warfare to steer the Russian inhabitants that their expanding social and financial sacrifices for the Russian conflict effort in Ukraine can assist reach overwhelming victory.[15]Russian President Vladimir Putin and different high-ranking Kremlin officers steadily invoke the imprecise time period of “denazification” to name for regime trade in Ukraine and the set up of a pro-Russian proxy govt, and Putin leveraged claims that meant Nazis management the Ukrainian govt to justify the full-scale invasion in February 2022.[16] The Kremlin is an increasing number of using the similar playbook that it used towards Ukraine in opposition to Finland and previous Soviet states, together with Estonia and Moldova to justify its makes an attempt to management impartial nations and set informational stipulations for imaginable long term Russian aggression.[17]
Key Takeaways:
The snap Russian-proposed Easter truce underscores the need that the textual content of any ceasefire or peace settlement be publicly to be had, officially agreed to prematurely by way of all events, and come with tough tracking mechanisms.
Zelensky reported that Russian forces didn’t habits long-range moves towards Ukraine at the evening of April 19 to twenty and all through the day on April 20 and proposed a brief moratorium on long-range moves towards civilian infrastructure.
Ukrainian officers proceed to spotlight Russia’s systematic persecution of spiritual communities all the way through occupied Ukraine, together with towards Christians.
The Kremlin continues to repurpose narratives that Russian officers have many times used to justify Russia’s invasions of Ukraine so that you could additional militarize Russian society in the long run, most probably in preparation for a possible long term protracted war with NATO.
Russian forces not too long ago complex in Kursk Oblast and close to Toretsk prior to the beginning of the Easter truce.
We don’t file intimately on Russian conflict crimes as a result of those actions are well-covered in Western media and do indirectly have an effect on the army operations we’re assessing and forecasting. We can proceed to judge and file at the results of those legal actions at the Ukrainian army and the Ukrainian inhabitants and in particular on fight in Ukrainian city spaces. We completely condemn Russian violations of the rules of armed war and the Geneva Conventions and crimes towards humanity despite the fact that we don’t describe them in those studies.
Alleged Ceasefire Violation
Ukrainian Operations within the Russian Federation
Russian Supporting Effort – Northern Axis
Russian Primary Effort – Japanese Ukraine (made out of 3 subordinate primary efforts)
Russian Subordinate Primary Effort #1 – Push Ukrainian forces again from the global border with Belgorod Oblast and solution to inside of tube artillery vary of Kharkiv Town
Russian Subordinate Primary Effort #2 – Seize the rest of Luhansk Oblast and push westward into japanese Kharkiv Oblast and encircle northern Donetsk Oblast
Russian Subordinate Primary Effort #3 – Seize the whole thing of Donetsk Oblast, the claimed territory of Russia’s proxies in Donbas, and most likely advance into Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Russian Supporting Effort – Southern Axis
Russian Air, Missile, and Drone Marketing campaign
Russian Mobilization and Power Era Efforts
Russian Technological Variations
Vital Job in Belarus
Alleged Ceasefire Violations
See toplines and axis sections for studies of Easter truce violations.
Ukrainian Operations within the Russian Federation
Russian forces not too long ago complex in Kursk Oblast’s border spaces previous to the Easter truce.
Assessed Russian advances: Geolocated pictures revealed on April 19 signifies that Russian forces not too long ago complex east of Oleshnya (southwest of Sudzha).[18] The pictures was once posted previous to the start of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s unilateral Easter truce at 1800 Moscow time on April 19.
Unconfirmed claims: A number of Russian milbloggers wondered on April 20 Russian Leader of the Basic Body of workers Military Basic Valery Gerasimov’s April 19 declare that Russian forces seized Oleshnya.[19]
The Ukrainian Basic Body of workers’s April 19 2200 state of affairs file (SITREP) and April 20 1600 SITREP reported that Russian forces attacked in unspecified spaces of Kursk Oblast.[20] The Russian assaults reported within the Ukrainian Basic Body of workers’s April 20 SITREP passed off after the beginning of Russia’s Easter truce at 1800 Moscow time on April 19. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned on April 20 that Putin didn’t prolong the Easter truce to offensive operations in Kursk and Belgorod oblasts, even supposing the precise phrases of the truce stay unclear as of this file.[21]
A Russian milblogger claimed that Ukrainian forces are launching drone moves however have no longer performed any attacks within the Kursk route for the reason that starting of the truce.[22]
Russian milbloggers claimed that Ukrainian forces violated the Easter truce and attacked in northwesternmost Belgorod Oblast on April 20.
Russian milbloggers claimed on April 20 that combating persisted close to Demidovka and Popovka (each northwest of Belgorod Town) and accused Ukrainian forces of unsuccessfully attacking into Popovka in violation of the Easter truce.[23]
Order of Combat: Components of the Russian 204th “Akhmat” Spetsnaz Regiment are reportedly working in northwesternmost Belgorod Oblast.[24]
Russian Supporting Effort – Northern Axis (Russian function: Create defensible buffer zones in northern Ukraine alongside the global border and solution to inside of tube artillery vary of Sumy Town)
Russian milbloggers issued contradictory claims about meant Ukrainian truce violations in northern Sumy Oblast on April 20.
A Russian milblogger claimed that Ukrainian forces attacked in unspecified spaces in northern Sumy Oblast on April 20 in violation of the Easter truce, however any other milblogger claimed that there have been no studies of fight job close to Vodolahy (north of Sumy Town).[25]
Russian Primary Effort – Japanese Ukraine
Russian Subordinate Primary Effort #1 – Kharkiv Oblast (Russian function: Push Ukrainian forces again from the global border with Belgorod Oblast and solution to inside of tube artillery vary of Kharkiv Town)
Ukrainian and Russian assets accused every different of violating the Easter truce within the Kharkiv route within the night of April 19 and on April 20.
A Ukrainian regiment commander working within the Kharkiv route mentioned on April 19 that Russian forces persisted to fireplace on Ukrainian positions in Kharkiv Oblast after the beginning of Russia’s unilateral Easter truce at 1800 Moscow time on April 19.[26] The spokesperson of a Ukrainian brigade working within the Kharkiv route mentioned that Russian forces are the use of the Easter truce to amass forces and proceed to habits drone moves.[27]
A Russian milblogger claimed on April 20 that Ukrainian forces persisted to function artillery and drones close to Vovchansk (northeast of Kharkiv Town) however that the depth of those moves has reduced.[28]
Russian Subordinate Primary Effort #2 – Luhansk Oblast (Russian function: Seize the rest of Luhansk Oblast and push westward into japanese Kharkiv Oblast and northerly Donetsk Oblast)
Ukrainian and Russian assets accused every different of violating the Easter truce within the Kupyansk route within the night of April 19 and on April 20.
Kharkiv Oblast Management Head Oleh Synehubov mentioned on April 20 that Russian forces performed 3 guided drift bomb moves towards Kupyansk at the morning of April 20.[29]
Russian milbloggers claimed on April 20 that combating persisted north of Kupyansk close to Mala Shapkivka and Kindrashivka and southeast of Kupyansk close to Stepova Novoselivka.[30] A Russian milblogger claimed at the night of April 19 that Ukrainian forces shelled Russian forces close to Zapadne (north of Kupyansk).[31]
The Ukrainian Basic Body of workers’s April 19 2200 SITREP and April 20 0800 SITREP reported that Russian forces attacked north of Kupyansk close to Kindrashivka and east of Kupyansk close to Petropavlivka on April 19 and most likely on April 20.[32] ISW is not able to evaluate whether or not those assaults passed off after the beginning of Russia’s unilateral ceasefire at 1800 Moscow time on April 19.
Ukrainian assets accused Russian forces of violating the Easter truce within the Borova route within the night of April 19 and on April 20.
The Ukrainian Basic Body of workers’s April 20 1600 SITREP implied that Russian forces violated the truce by way of attacking east of Borova close to Nadiya on April 20.[33]
The Ukrainian Basic Body of workers’s April 19 2200 SITREP and April 20 0800 SITREP reported that Russian forces attacked northeast of Borova close to Nova Kruhlyakivka and Zahryzove; east of Borova close to Nadiya; and southeast of Borova close to Olhivka and Hrekivka on April 19 and most likely on April 20.[34] ISW is not able to evaluate whether or not those assaults passed off after the beginning of Russia’s unilateral ceasefire at 1800 Moscow time on April 19.
Ukrainian and Russian assets accused every different of violating the Easter truce within the Lyman route within the night of April 19 and on April 20.
Unconfirmed claims: The Russian Ministry of Protection (MoD) claimed on April 20 that Russian forces seized Novomykhailivka prior to the beginning of the Easter truce.[35]
The Ukrainian Basic Body of workers’s April 20 1600 SITREP implied that Russian forces violated the truce by way of attacking northeast of Lyman close to Myrne on April 20.[36] A Ukrainian brigade working within the Lyman route mentioned on April 20 that Russian forces proceed to shell Ukrainian positions within the space and that Russian forces are the use of the ceasefire to regroup, switch infantry to frontline positions, and try to transparent crossings around the Zherebets River.[37] A spokesperson of a Ukrainian brigade working within the Lyman route mentioned on April 20 that Russian forces have no longer been carrying out drone, air, artillery, or MLRS moves within the space, alternatively.[38]
A Russian milblogger claimed on April 20 that Ukrainian forces struck Russian forces close to Kreminna (east of Lyman within the Russian forces’ close to rear) at the evening of April 19 to twenty.[39] Russian milbloggers claimed that combating persisted close to Katerynivka (northeast of Lyman) and that Ukrainian forces shelled the realm close to Yampolivka (northeast of Lyman).[40] A Russian milblogger claimed that Russian forces are evacuating wounded and lifeless body of workers within the Lyman route.[41]
The Ukrainian Basic Body of workers’s April 19 2200 SITREP and April 20 0800 SITREP reported that Russian forces attacked northeast of Lyman close to Novomykhalivka, Nove, Yampolivka, Hlushchenkove, and Zelena Dolyne and east of Lyman close to Torske on April 19 and most likely on April 20.[42] ISW is not able to evaluate whether or not those assaults passed off after the beginning of Russia’s unilateral ceasefire at 1800 Moscow time on April 19.
Russian Subordinate Primary Effort #3 – Donetsk Oblast (Russian function: Seize the whole thing of Donetsk Oblast, the claimed territory of Russia’s proxies in Donbas, and most likely advance into Dnipropetrovsk Oblast)
Ukrainian and Russian assets accused every different of violating the Easter truce within the Siversk route within the night of April 19 and on April 20.
A Russian milblogger claimed on April 20 that Ukrainian forces attacked northeast of Siversk close to Bilohorivka and that Russian forces are evacuating lifeless body of workers within the Siversk route.[43]
The Ukrainian Basic Body of workers’s April 19 2200 SITREP and April 20 0800 SITREP reported that Russian forces attacked east of Siversk close to Verkhnokamyanske.[44] ISW is not able to evaluate whether or not those assaults passed off after the beginning of Russia’s unilateral ceasefire at 1800 Moscow time on April 19.
Ukrainian and Russian assets accused every different of violating the Easter truce within the Chasiv Yar route within the night of April 19 and on April 20.
The Ukrainian Basic Body of workers’s April 20 1600 SITREP implied that Russian forces violated the truce by way of attacking close to Chasiv Yar and south of Chasiv Yar towards Bila Hora and Stupochky.[45]
Russian safety forces claimed on April 20 that Ukrainian forces shelled the outskirts of Chasiv Yar with MLRS and mortars.[46] A Russian milblogger claimed that Ukrainian forces are carrying out drone moves close to Stupochky.[47] Some other Russian milblogger claimed that Russian forces are evacuating lifeless body of workers within the Chasiv Yar route.[48]
The Ukrainian Basic Body of workers’s April 19 2200 SITREP and April 20 800 SITREP reported that Russian forces attacked close to Chasiv Yar; southeast of Chasiv Yar close to Kurdyumivka; and south of Chasiv Yar towards Stupochky.[49] ISW is not able to evaluate whether or not those assaults passed off after the beginning of Russia’s unilateral ceasefire at 1800 Moscow time on April 19.
Order of Combat: Components of the Russian 78th “Sever-Akhmat” Motorized Rifle Regiment (forty second Motorized Rifle Department, 58th Mixed Palms Military [CAA], Southern Army District [SMD]) are reportedly working close to Chasiv Yar.[50]
Russian forces not too long ago complex within the Toretsk route prior to the beginning of the Easter truce as Ukrainian and Russian assets accused every different of violating the truce.
Assessed Russian advance: Geolocated pictures revealed on April 19 prior to the beginning of the Easter truce signifies that Russian forces not too long ago complex east of Shcherbynivka (west of Toretsk).[51]
The Ukrainian Basic Body of workers’s April 20 1600 SITREP implied that Russian forces violated the truce by way of attacking close to Toretsk, east of Toretsk close to Druzhba, and southwest of Toretsk close to Sukha Balka.[52]
The Russian Ministry of Protection (MoD) and Russian milbloggers claimed on April 20 that Ukranian forces violated the Easter truce by way of attacking close to Sukha Balka.[53] A Russian milblogger claimed on April 20 that Russian forces complex in northern Toretsk at an unspecified time most likely on April 19 prior to the beginning of the truce.[54]
The Ukrainian Basic Body of workers’s April 19 2200 SITREP and April 20 0800 SITREP reported that Russian forces attacked close to Toretsk; north of Toretsk close to Dachne and Dyliivka; east of Toretsk close to Druzhba; and southwest of Toretsk close to Sukha Balka on April 19 and most likely on April 20.[55] ISW is not able to evaluate whether or not those assaults passed off after the beginning of Russia’s unilateral ceasefire at 1800 Moscow time on April 19.
Ukrainian and Russian assets accused every different of violating the Easter truce within the Pokrovsk route within the night of April 19 and on April 20.
The Ukrainian Basic Body of workers’s April 20 1600 SITREP implied that Russian forces violated the truce by way of attacking east of Pokrovsk close to Myrolyubivka and Yelyzavetivka, southeast of Pokrovsk close to Lysivka, and southwest of Pokrovsk close to Kotlyne and Udachne on April 20.[56] Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned at the afternoon of April 20 that Russian forces violated the Easter truce and that Russian fight job was once absolute best within the Pokrovsk route.[57] Zelensky mentioned at the morning of April 20 that Russian forces performed 3 attacks within the Pokrovsk and Novopavlivka instructions in violation of the truce.[58]
A Russian milblogger claimed on April 20 that Russian forces are evacuating wounded body of workers close to Lysivka and that Ukrainian forces fired mortars towards Novotroitske (southwest of Pokrovsk).[59] Some other Russian milblogger claimed on April 20 that Ukrainian forces performed first-person view (FPV) drone moves within the Pokrovsk route however that there were no assaults within the space.[60]
The Ukrainian Basic Body of workers’s April 19 2200 SITREP and April 20 800 SITREP reported that Russian forces attacked northeast of Pokrovsk close to Malynivka; east of Pokrovsk close to Tarasivka, Vodyane Druhe, Yelyzavetivka, Promin, Novotoretske, and Svyrydonivka and towards Stara Mykolaivka; southeast of Pokrovsk close to Lysivka; south of Pokrovsk close to Shevchenko; and southwest of Pokrovsk close to Zvirove on April 19 and most likely on April 20.[61] ISW is not able to evaluate whether or not those assaults passed off after the beginning of Russia’s unilateral ceasefire at 1800 Moscow time on April 19.
Ukrainian army observers Kostyantyn Mashovets and Yuriy Butusov spoke back the Russian Ministry of Protection’s (MoD) April 19 declare that Russian forces seized Shevchenko and mentioned that that Ukrainian forces care for positions within the Shevchenko south of Pokrovsk and that there are not any Russian forces within the agreement.[62]
Order of Combat: Components of the Russian thirty third Motorized Rifle Regiment (twentieth Motorized Rifle Department, eighth CAA, SMD) are reportedly working close to Tarasivka, and components of the 1435th Motorized Rifle Regiment (most probably made out of mobilized body of workers) are reportedly working close to Pishchane (southwest of Pokrovsk).[63]
Ukrainian and Russian assets accused every different of violating the Easter truce within the Novopavlivka route within the night of April 19 and on April 20.
The Ukrainian Basic Body of workers’s April 20 1600 SITREP implied that Russian forces violated the truce by way of attacking northeast of Novopavlivka close to Novooleksandrivka and Uspenivka and east of Novopavlivka close to Preobrazhenka on April 20.[64]
A Russian milblogger claimed on April 20 that Ukrainian forces violated the Easter truce close to Uspenivka and performed FPV, mortar, and artillery moves towards Russian forces within the space.[65] The milblogger claimed that Russian forces are evacuating lifeless body of workers alongside the Nadiivka-Preobrazhenka-Bohdanivka line.[66]
The Ukrainian Basic Body of workers’s April 19 2200 SITREP and April 20 0800 SITREP reported that Russian forces attacked northeast of Novopavlivka close to Uspenivka and Kotlyarivka; east of Novopavlivka close to Preobrazhenka, Novooleksandrivka, and Sribne; and southeast of Novopavlivka close to Bohdanivka and Troitske on April 19 and most likely on April 20.[67] ISW is not able to evaluate whether or not those assaults passed off after the beginning of Russia’s unilateral ceasefire at 1800 Moscow time on April 19.
Ukrainian and Russian assets accused every different of violating the Easter truce within the Kurakhove route within the night of April 19 and on April 20.
The Ukrainian Basic Body of workers’s April 20 1600 SITREP implied that Russian forces violated the truce by way of attacking west of Kurakhove close to Andriivka and southwest of Kurakhove close to Rozlyv.[68] A Ukrainian supply mentioned that Russian forces unsuccessfully attacked close to Rozlyv at 1900 on April 19 in obvious violation of the Easter truce.[69]
Russian milbloggers claimed that Ukrainian forces attacked close to Bahatyr (west of Kurakhove) on April 20 in violation of the Easter truce.[70]
The Ukrainian Basic Body of workers’s April 19 2200 SITREP and April 20 0800 SITREP reported that Russian forces additionally attacked west of Kurakhove close to Andriivka and Kostyantynopil on April 19 and most likely on April 20.[71] ISW is not able to evaluate whether or not those assaults passed off after the beginning of Russia’s unilateral ceasefire at 1800 Moscow time on April 19.
Order of Combat: Components of the Russian 14th Spetsnaz Brigade (Russian Basic Body of workers’s Primary Directorate [GRU]) and thirty sixth Motorized Rifle Brigade (twenty ninth CAA, Japanese Army District [EMD]) are reportedly working close to Bahatyr.[72]
Ukrainian assets accused Russian forces of violating the Easter truce within the Velyka Novosilka route at the night of April 19 and on April 20.
The Ukrainian Basic Body of workers’s April 20 1600 SITREP implied that Russian forces violated the truce by way of attacking north of Velyka Novosilka close to Skudne and towards Odradne.[73]
The Ukrainian Basic Body of workers’s April 19 2200 SITREP and April 20 0800 SITREP reported that Russian forces additionally attacked northwest of Velyka Novosilka close to Pryvilne and west of Velyka Novosilka close to Novosilka on April 19 and most likely on April 20.[74] ISW is not able to evaluate whether or not those assaults passed off after the beginning of Russia’s unilateral ceasefire at 1800 Moscow time on April 19.
Order of Combat: Components of the Russian thirty seventh Motorized Rifle Brigade (thirty sixth CAA, EMD) are reportedly working within the Shakhtarske route.[75]
Russian Supporting Effort – Southern Axis (Russian function: Care for frontline positions, protected rear spaces towards Ukrainian moves, and advance inside of tube artillery vary of Zaporizhzhia Town)
Ukrainian and Russian assets accused every different of violating the Easter truce in western Zaporizhia Oblast within the night of April 19 and on April 20.
The Ukrainian Basic Body of workers’s April 20 1600 SITREP implied that Russian forces violated the truce by way of attacking southeast of Orikhiv close to Mala Tokmachka and southwest of Orikhiv close to Stepove on April 20.[76] The spokesperson of a Ukrainian brigade working within the Zaporizhia route reported at the night of April 19 that Russian forces persisted to habits drone and mortar moves towards Ukrainian positions.[77]
Russian milbloggers claimed on April 19 and April 20 that Ukrainian forces persisted shelling Russian positions within the Pyatykhatky route (southwest of Orikhiv) and different unspecified spaces of western Zaporizhia Oblast.[78] A Russian milblogger claimed on April 20 that some Russian forces are evacuating lifeless body of workers within the Zaporizhia route.[79]
The Ukrainian Basic Body of workers’s April 20 0800 SITREP reported that Russian forces attacked west of Orikhiv close to Novoandriivka and southeast of Orikhiv close to Mala Tokmachka on April 19 and most likely April 20.[80] ISW is not able to evaluate whether or not those assaults passed off after the beginning of Russia’s unilateral ceasefire at 1800 Moscow time on April 19.
Ukrainian and Russian assets accused every different of violating the Easter truce within the Dnipro route within the night of April 19 and on April 20.
Ukrainian Kherson Oblast Army Management Head Oleksandr Prokudin mentioned on April 19 and 20 that Russian forces persisted to shell and release airstrikes towards Ukrainian settlements in Kherson Oblast.[81]
Kherson Oblast career head Vladimir Saldo and different Russian assets claimed at the night of April 19 that Ukrainian forces performed mortar and drone moves towards Russian positions in occupied Kherson Oblast.[82]
Russian Air, Missile, and Drone Marketing campaign (Russian Function: Goal Ukrainian army and civilian infrastructure within the rear and at the frontline)
Russian forces didn’t habits a long-range strike sequence towards Ukraine at the evening of April 19 to twenty.
Russian Mobilization and Power Era Efforts (Russian function: Amplify fight energy with out carrying out normal mobilization)
ISW is postponing Russian technological diversifications protection in its day-to-day Russian Offensive Marketing campaign Checks. ISW is introducing a brand new product line monitoring Russian mobilization, power technology efforts, and technological diversifications. Click on right here to learn the Russian Power Era and Variations Replace.
Russian Technological Variations (Russian function: Introduce technological inventions to optimize programs to be used in Ukraine)
ISW is postponing Russian technological diversifications protection in its day-to-day Russian Offensive Marketing campaign Checks. ISW is introducing a brand new product line monitoring Russian mobilization, power technology efforts, and technological diversifications. Click on right here to learn the Russian Power Era and Variations Replace.
Vital job in Belarus (Russian efforts to extend its army presence in Belarus and additional combine Belarus into Russian-favorable frameworks)
Not anything vital to file.
Observe: ISW does no longer obtain any categorized subject matter from any supply, makes use of handiest publicly to be had knowledge, and attracts broadly on Russian, Ukrainian, and Western reporting and social media in addition to commercially to be had satellite tv for pc imagery and different geospatial records as the root for those studies. References to all assets used are equipped within the endnotes of every replace.
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