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2025-04-11 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: April 10, 2025
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title
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[Korrespondent] 23.50 British Prince Harry arrived in Lviv as part of an unannounced visit, where he visited a clinic where wounded defenders are treated.

The Duke of Sussex visited an orthopaedic clinic in Lviv that treats and rehabilitates wounded soldiers and civilians. The unannounced trip was only revealed after the prince had already left Ukraine.

Photos from the visit show Prince Harry, wearing a jacket with the name of his Invictus Games foundation, talking to wounded Ukrainian veterans.

23.25 A Russian drone hit a multi-story building in the Zhitomir district on the evening of April 10. The State Emergency Service published a photo of the destruction.

As a result of the enemy attack, one person was killed, five are known to have been injured. Among them is a child born in 2011. All the injured were hospitalized in medical institutions.

As a result of the attack, at least five multi-story buildings were damaged, and a fire broke out in one of the buildings. It has already been extinguished, and the aftermath of the emergency is being eliminated.

22.20 Russian troops struck a multi-story building in Zhitomir district with a drone. One person was killed, five others were injured, including a child born in 2011. This was reported by the head of the OVA Vitaliy Bunechko.

19:40 The SKALA regiment successfully carried out a combat operation in the area of ​​the village of Shevchenko in the Pokrovsky direction. The video was published on the TG channel of the 425th OSHP Skala. As a result of 6 days of fighting, Shevchenko was gradually cleared of occupiers. As a result of the assault actions, the enemy's losses exceeded 1,100 people killed and wounded.

18.19 Ukraine continues to clarify all the circumstances of the involvement of Chinese citizens in the Russian occupation contingent. This concerns the systematic work of the Russian Federation to recruit Chinese citizens, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

The head of state also released a video of the interrogation of one of the captured Chinese.

17:30 Since the beginning of the day, 85 combat clashes with Russian invaders have occurred on the front. Fighting is currently ongoing in six directions, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in an operational report as of 16:00.

17.19 Russian troops have begun using UAVs with explosive devices. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Attention, new threat! Russian troops have begun using UAVs that scatter explosive objects," the statement noted.

The Interior Ministry noted that they could be used by the enemy to strike any region of the country. The risk is extremely high also because the time of explosion of such ammunition is unknown.

16.08 An indictment has been sent to court against two occupiers for cruel treatment of civilians and other violations of the laws and customs of war by prior conspiracy by a group of persons. This was reported by the Office of the Prosecutor General. According to the investigation, in July 2022, in Izyum, the accused, together with other occupiers, broke into the house where a woman lived - the mother of a Ukrainian law enforcement officer. They detained her and took her to a prison set up on the territory of a railway hospital.

15.01 US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will join the next meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in the Ramstein format virtually, Defense News reported.

14.21 The Chinese authorities are calling for a correct understanding of the role of the PRC in the "Ukrainian conflict" and not making "irresponsible statements" about the participation of Chinese citizens in the war in Ukraine. The corresponding statement was made by the spokesman for the PRC Foreign Ministry, Lin Jian.

13.33 Russian aggressors attacked the city of Nikopol with a drone. 12 people were injured, said the head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA Serhiy Lysak. As a result of the strike, a hostel and five cars were damaged in the city. The territory is being surveyed.

13:19 Russian troops have stepped up their offensive attempts in the Liman direction, as well as in the Kupyansk area - on both sides of the Oskol River. This was reported on air by Viktor Tregubov, a representative of the Khortitsa operational-strategic group of troops.

According to him, the Russians are trying to increase their presence in this area, setting up a permanent crossing over the river to supply forces.

12:19 Four people were injured in the night attack by Russian troops on the capital. Two of them were hospitalized. This was reported by Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko.

12:10 The United States and Russia have exchanged prisoners in a sign of "confidence building." The exchange took place in the UAE capital of Abu Dhabi.

Russia released Ksenia Karelina, a US and Russian citizen sentenced to 12 years in a maximum security penal colony for donations to a Ukrainian charity in the United States.

In exchange, the United States released Artur Petrov, a citizen of Germany and Russia, who was arrested in 2023 in Cyprus at the request of the United States for the possible export of sensitive microelectronics.

12:09 During the intensified shelling of Kharkov, Russian troops began using a new tactic, in which they strike a large number of times at one district of the city in a short period of time. This was reported by Kharkov Mayor Igor Terekhov on the air of the telethon.

10:32 Russian troops killed four civilians in Donbass on April 9: in Novoekonomichesky, Bogatyr, Konstantinovka and Pokrovsk. Two more people in the region were injured in the past 24 hours.

In total, since the beginning of the invasion, 3,135 civilians have been killed in the region, 6,911 have been wounded (excluding the victims of Volnovakha and Mariupol).

10:10 Three people were injured as a result of the night attack by Russian drones on the capital. One of them was hospitalized. Two were treated by doctors on the spot.

09:30 Russia attacked Ukraine at night with 145 Shahed-type attack UAVs and various types of drone imitators. Air defense forces eliminated 85 drones. Another 49 enemy drone imitators were lost without negative consequences.

As a result of the Russian attack, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kiev, Khmelnytsky, Poltava and Nikolaev regions suffered.

08:52 Over the past 24 hours, 149 combat clashes have been recorded on the front. Aviation, missile forces and artillery of the Defense Forces have hit 11 areas of concentration of personnel and equipment, an air defense system and two guns of the Russian invaders.

08:36 Ukraine is ready to pay for future aid packages from the United States, including Patriot systems. This was stated by President Volodymyr Zelensky.

During a telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump, the issue of transferring at least 10 Patriot systems was discussed.

"I told him on the phone, give us at least ten (Patriot systems – ed.). This is protection, this will help us after the end of the war, this is a guarantee of security, that Ukraine is covered by air defense. There are many different formats and instruments that we are ready for. We were ready to find 30 and 50 billion for the corresponding package," the president said.

08:10 Two women were injured during a night attack by Russian drones in Kyiv's Darnitsky district. One of them had an acute stress reaction, the other had multiple minor wounds to her right forearm. The victims were treated on the spot without hospitalization.

In Darnitsky district, private houses and cars were damaged, and one of the outbuildings was completely destroyed.

In Goloseevsky district, as a result of an enemy attack, a warehouse caught fire.

07:55 As of April 10, 2025, the total combat losses of Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine amounted to approximately 929,000 people (+1,420 per day).

07:35 As a result of falling debris from downed Russian drones, 10 residents of Nikolaev were injured. Nine apartment buildings, three cars, 30 garages and an administrative building were damaged in the city.

As of this morning, a 29-year-old woman and a 59-year-old man are in hospital in moderate condition.

03:57 As a result of the UAV attack on Mykolaiv, two fires occurred in the city. Two people were hospitalized, others are receiving medical assistance on the spot.

0:45 In the Holosiivskyi district of Kyiv, a fire occurred in a non-residential building due to falling UAV debris. And in the Darnitsky district, a private building was destroyed as a result of falling debris.

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