/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 1510, Part 1 (Thread #1657)

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Russian forces attack [Kharkiv’s northern outskirts with glide bombs](https://gwaramedia.com/en/russian-forces-attack-kharkivs-northern-outskirts-with-glide-bombs-injure-2-people/?utm_source=listnook&utm_medium=rd_news&utm_campaign=news_post), injure 2 people

[ How motorcycling medic Zoia Kovalets, 55, saves fighters' lives on the front line | Ukrainian Pravda](https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/articles/2026/04/08/8029187/) > "I ran around the village like a hunted hare, trying to find somewhere to hide. I found a pit under the railway track and waited out the shooting there." Senior sergeant Zoia Kovalets, 55, is recalling the events of one day in April 2022. > At the time, Vysokopillia in Kherson Oblast had been occupied by Russian forces for over a month. Zoia had been passing information to the Ukrainian forces about the Russians' positions and movements, so they launched a full-on manhunt for her. > By some miracle she managed to get out of the village at the end of April, saving her several dozen animals – dogs, parrots, squirrels, hamsters, tortoises and frogs – as well. > After escaping the occupation, Zoia went to the enlistment office in Kryvyi Rih, but she was turned away at first. "Maybe it was because they check everyone who comes from occupied territories to see if we've been recruited. Or maybe it was my age – I'm no spring chicken," she reflects. > Zoia took a job at a city hospital in Kryvyi Rih that had been repurposed as a military hospital. She is a trained nurse and had worked for many years in the surgery department at Vysokopillia Hospital. > In early 2023, Zoia was summoned to the enlistment office. > "Have you changed your mind about joining up?" they asked her. "Of course not," she replied. > Zoia now serves as a senior nurse in the medical company of the 47th Magura Brigade. Over the past three years, Zoia has worked on the Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk fronts, and she's currently based on the North Slobozhanshchyna front. She has two talismans from her son and daughter-in-law that she always carries with her on the front line – a toy squirrel, and a keychain featuring a cat in fatigues. > Zoia's alias is "Cyborg", a nickname she acquired when she was young. A keen biker, she rides a motorcycle even at the front – with no protection against electronic warfare, but she always has a medical kit with her. More than 20 years ago, Zoia had an accident on her bike. She underwent many operations, during which surgeons inserted plates and screws into her body. She's been known as Cyborg ever since.

> " The Ukrainian Armed Forces' aviation carried out a series of strikes with SCALP missiles and GBU-39 aerial bombs on the locations of enemy UAVs at Donetsk Airport " > Possibly shahed storage got hit. Map in part 2 I can't tell for sure if SCALP (aka Storm Shadow). If yes then it must have been considered a valuable target. https://bsky.app/profile/the-hedgehog.bsky.social/post/3mjiey2zuyk2v

> The U.S. has reinstated sanctions against Russia now that 30 days have transpired. This could be huge! I was genuinely unsure about what would happen here - but details matter. The only reporting I've found so far is that the waiver on sanctions for Russian oil at sea has expired and not been renewed. https://bsky.app/profile/ukrainewarpod.bsky.social/post/3mji66p5wk223

New threads from ChrisO\_wiki 1/ Ukraine is launching a new, agile system for rapid military deployment of new technologies; Russia, not so much so. Pro-Kremlin warblogger Vladimir Romanov sarcastically highlights the differences between the Russian and Ukrainian systems. ⬇️ [https://bsky.app/profile/chriso-wiki.bsky.social/post/3mjhslc3fbn2i](https://bsky.app/profile/chriso-wiki.bsky.social/post/3mjhslc3fbn2i) [https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2044091186906804393.html](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2044091186906804393.html) 1/ The Russian army has been taken over by an organised crime syndicate, says a Russian journalist. The mass recruitment of criminals means that crimes and corruption of all sorts – murder, torture, extortion, prostitution, drug and alcohol smuggling – are now routine. ⬇️ [https://bsky.app/profile/chriso-wiki.bsky.social/post/3mjhxjryzmn2i](https://bsky.app/profile/chriso-wiki.bsky.social/post/3mjhxjryzmn2i) 1/ Russia's Black Sea Fleet is trapped and largely neutralised, according to gloomy commentaries from Russian warbloggers. Ukraine's recent attack on its ships anchored at Novorossiysk show that its situation is a "catastrophic failure". ⬇️ [https://bsky.app/profile/chriso-wiki.bsky.social/post/3mjgv4dkt722i](https://bsky.app/profile/chriso-wiki.bsky.social/post/3mjgv4dkt722i) [https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2043957489129996658.html](https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2043957489129996658.html)

EU prepares Ukraines 90 billion Euro loan package https://united24media.com/latest-news/eu-prepares-eur90b-loan-package-for-ukraine-first-funds-expected-in-second-quarter-of-2026-17907

>DniproOsint satellite images show damage to a technical overpass near the AVT-5 unit at Bashneft’s Novoil refinery after the April 2 drone strike, affecting key refining infrastructure. [https://bsky.app/profile/noelreports.com/post/3mjho4fridc24](https://bsky.app/profile/noelreports.com/post/3mjho4fridc24)

Some headlines from the hellscape that is russia: >Losses of Russia's "Microsoft killer" soared by 230%. [https://archive.is/8Hjlf](https://archive.is/8Hjlf) >Russian fast food chains face a profit collapse due to widespread household savings. [https://archive.is/bPink](https://archive.is/bPink) >"Not just slowing, but already falling." Sberbank announced a sharp deterioration in the economy and warned of a wave of loan defaults. [https://archive.is/Xxt7v](https://archive.is/Xxt7v)

**The estimated total russian war losses from 24.02.22 to 14.04.26 inclusive are as follows****:** * personnel - approximately 1 312 960 (+820); * tanks ‒ 11 863 (+2); * armored fighting vehicles ‒ 24 389 (+3); * special equipment ‒ 4 123; * vehicles and fuel tanks ‒ 89 300 (+201). * artillery systems ‒ 39 953 (+38); * MLRS ‒ 1 732 **(+4)**; * air defense assets ‒ 1 346. * aircraft ‒ 435; * helicopters ‒ 350; * UAVs (operational-tactical level) ‒ 237 853 (+2 459); * cruise missiles ‒ 4 517. * warships and boats ‒ 33; * submarines ‒ 2. Source [https://mod.gov.ua/en/news/total-russian-combat-losses-in-ukraine-as-of-april-14-2026](https://mod.gov.ua/en/news/total-russian-combat-losses-in-ukraine-as-of-april-14-2026) Russia grows weaker every day. Slava Ukraini!

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Kremlin dumps orban like a waste bag >‘We were never friends’: Kremlin plays down loss of ally following Orbán’s election defeat [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/14/hungary-new-era-russia-back-foot-vladimir-putin-viktor-orban](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/14/hungary-new-era-russia-back-foot-vladimir-putin-viktor-orban)

I find this soldier's writing to be kinda poetic and want to share. > We're having a general's salo from Poltava and mushroom soup for lunch, talking about fishing. Some have experience on the Danube, others on the Psel River, the Southern Bug, and the Dnieper. I'm talking about my native Desna, where I spend the night and go for a few days. With me is a man who fished in Soviet Leningrad. I, however, mostly remember catching bream and carp with a feeder. I have three fishing rods waiting for me at home. > There's a guy with us who served in Zaporizhia in 2023, and on weekends, he and his comrades-in-arms went to the Dnieper. > I sip that soup and it's like I'm not in these eastern ruins, like tomorrow is a weekend and I'm putting my tent in my Renault Megane, fishing rods, homemade vodka made by my grandmother, and heading off. > Everyone here is dreaming. Everyone dreams of living longer. Living for themselves, for their loved ones. Just living. War is shit. A war like ours that's been going on for years is shit for those involved, because it steals lives and time every day. I hate war, I hate Russians, and everyone here feels the same. I've honestly never met people who enjoy war. There are professional soldiers for whom it's a job, and they'll make money from it after our war, somewhere far away, if we don't create private military companies here. Maybe in Africa. But those who've gone or been forced to - they all hate it. Only people on distant screens can enjoy war, who'll never sip this soup with us. But they'll never taste this salo with black bread and soup in the East, where every moment feels like a teleport to peacetime. https://t . me/bahshiddemon/3277

>The electronic budget system shows a 6.26 trillion ruble deficit as of 10 April 2026 [https://bsky.app/profile/prune602.bsky.social/post/3mjgdom4xpk2o](https://bsky.app/profile/prune602.bsky.social/post/3mjgdom4xpk2o)

Russians using guided bombs on a dam recently, article has a video https://united24media.com/latest-news/russia-hits-major-water-supply-dam-near-kharkiv-with-six-guided-bombs-video-17901

> russian fossil fuel exports. Unfortunately ru revenue ist back to around 650 mio € per day like in 2024 due to higher prices as the world is craving for oil. If the ports in the Baltic sea can be kept open, this will persist. If not (partially closed as now) it will go down again. https://bsky.app/profile/swissdataguy.bsky.social/post/3mjhfgaylts2m

> Ukraine struck multiple Russian radar systems including Nebo-U in Feodosia and airspace control radars in Belgorod region. A Tor-M1 air defense system was also hit in occupied Luhansk region https://bsky.app/profile/noelreports.com/post/3mjhfl5dphc25

> SBU drones struck Novorossiysk’s Sheskharis port over a week ago. Satellite imagery confirms only 2 of 7 oil loading stands remain under repair, with 3 resuming operations and 2 undamaged. Initial reports of 6 damaged stands remain unverified. Russian ports need to be hit again. https://bsky.app/profile/the-hedgehog.bsky.social/post/3mjgb7l7odk2i

Germany will provide Ukraine with new military aid packages that include air defense systems, long-range weapons, drones, and ammunition, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said during a joint press conference with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. “Today we once again agreed on new aid packages, primarily in air defense. This includes air defense, long-range weapons, drones, and ammunition,” he said. [Read more](https://united24media.com/latest-news/germany-steps-up-military-support-to-ukraine-with-air-defense-missiles-and-drone-deals-17902)

It's four years since the Moskva somehow accidently did something.. we aren't sure what.. but it definitely wasn't sunk by Ukraine in some kind of war. No. Not that at all.

From ISW today: >**An open-source analysis of Russian contract recruitment reports that Russian recruitment continues to decline as battlefield casualties rise, consistent with other indicators of Russian recruiting and manpower challenges that ISW has observed.** German Institute for International and Security Affairs economist Janis Kluge assessed on April 12 based on an analysis of the budgets of Russian federal subjects that Russian forces recruited between 800 and 1,000 soldiers a day in the first quarter of 2026 (between January 1 and March 31, 2026), compared to 1,000 to 1,200 a day in the first quarter of 2025, a 20 percent decrease year-over-year.[7] Kluge noted that regional increases in one-time signing bonuses failed to prevent slowing recruitment despite average signing bonuses reaching a record high of 1.47 million rubles (roughly $19,300) in March 2026. Kluge also assessed, based on Russian Finance Ministry data, that Russian authorities paid compensation to the families of around 25,000 killed Russian soldiers in the first quarter of 2026, compared to around 20,000 killed in the first quarter of 2025 and almost 10,000 in the first quarter of 2024. Kluge extrapolated these total compensation figures from data from 17 Russian federal subjects. ISW is unable to verify the underlying data and conclusions in Kluge’s analysis, but his conclusions are consistent with multiple other indicators that ISW has observed that Russia is increasingly suffering recruiting and manpower challenges, such as reported recruiting shortfalls relative to casualties, the commitment of strategic reserves, increased signing bonuses, and expanded covert mobilization efforts.[8] Ukraine’s “I Want to Live” initiative reported on April 6 that the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) recruited 940 soldiers a day for a total of roughly 80,456 in the first three months of 2026, fewer than the 1,100 to 1,150 soldiers a day that it would need to recruit to be on track to meet its 2026 recruiting target of 409,000 contract soldiers, and insufficient to replace the roughly 85,290 casualties that Ukrainian General Staff data indicates that Russian forces suffered during the same period.[9] Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reported that Russian forces have likely begun committing strategic reserves to the battlefield to compensate for mounting casualties and successful Ukrainian counterattacks in the Oleksandrivka and Hulyaipole directions as of April 10.[10] ISW has also observed reports that at least 12 Russian federal subjects increased signing bonuses by between 50 and 80 percent since mid-February 2026, and that Russian forces have also recently intensified their forced covert mobilization effort to businesses and universities.[11] https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-april-13-2026/

Hey Ukraine, what are you dropping on our side? Are these AN196 or Chaika? Wishing you the best, but try not to miss Russia. It should be big enough a target :) [https://www.hs.fi/politiikka/art-2000011942334.html](https://www.hs.fi/politiikka/art-2000011942334.html) (Finnish: Drones revealed to be smaller than thought – many open questions still remain Security|At least four drones have fallen in Finland. On Monday, it emerged that they are a different model and smaller than previously reported.)

> President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has arrived in Berlin, where a meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is scheduled. Germany marks the start of the Ukrainian delegation's diplomatic week in Europe. Video at https://bsky.app/profile/wartranslated.bsky.social/post/3mjh43n5dhk2k

Stop being so 'unfriendly' to Russia, gais. Would a 'friend' resist an invasion? I think not!

I wanted to share my thoughts on Ukraine's population issues and how it should affect their long term strategy in this war. In 2019, Ukraine's population was almost 45 million. Number of births and deaths were 300k and 600k respectively. This was before even 2 years of covid where the births decreased further and deaths increased. Population dropped to around 41 million, due to covid and high emigration as well. The war would unfortunately make this worse. It caused a mass exodus of millions (many of whom won't come back), forced mobilisation of men by Russia, civilian and military causalities, etc. Given these factors and the exponential rate of deaths as well as the massive drop in natural births, the population would be dropping by almost a million every year. In 2021, it was only around 420k. Ukraine also has an ageing population, which will put further pressure on government and the youth. This is something that cannot be easily solved during this war and afterwards. Russia also suffers from this but theirs is not so severe and would not affect them in the near future. Ukraine is basically facing the same existential crisis that Israel does. I believe that they have to continue this war now instead of accepting even a temporary ceasefire. They need to take advantage of their drone gap and hit Russia until they not only give back the occupied territories but also Crimea, along with the kidnapped children and reparations. A ceasefire would only benefit Russia, allowing them to regroup and attack later. They will always have the manpower to do so. If not next year, it will be a decade later. Just as they did after taking Crimea. But by then, Ukraine's population will be falling by almost 2 million per year. Ukraine also has to sustain a large standing army even if the war ends at some point. This further puts strain on their population, as a significant part of the pop would be involved in military activities.

[NOELREPORTS | BlueSky](https://bsky.app/profile/noelreports.com/post/3mjgr4phh6c24) > A Russian drone strike damaged a Panama-flagged vessel in Izmail port, along with port infrastructure including a pier and barge. Civilian damage included buildings, vehicles, buses and an ambulance in the city.

[NOELREPORTS | BlueSky](https://bsky.app/profile/noelreports.com/post/3mjgr72vozs24) > A Ukrainian drone strike hit a power substation in occupied Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia region. A major fire broke out after multiple explosions, causing a partial blackout in the city.

[Lewi Whalberg | BlueSky](https://bsky.app/profile/anno1540.bsky.social/post/3mjgrnhjfwk2c) > In the Sumy region, an attempt at a mass assault - again through the gas pipeline. > 29 occupiers attempted to infiltrate the rear of the positions of the 71st Airborne Assault Brigade, moving along the gas pipeline. > The enemy had already used this same route before. > Thanks to the coordinated work of the reconnaissance units, UAV crews, and artillery, the enemy's movement was detected in time, and the entire group of occupiers was neutralized.

[Lewi Whalberg | BlueSky](https://bsky.app/profile/anno1540.bsky.social/post/3mjgtyevpsk2c) > Soldier Serhiy Saliy joined the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the beginning of the invasion. > He served as a crew commander of unmanned aerial systems. Unfortunately, the soldier died🙏💔 on April 5, 2026 as a result of enemy fire. > May the memory of the Hero be bright.🙏🇺🇦❤️

Israel buys grain stolen from Ukraine https://latifundist.com/en/novosti/69971-izrayil-dozvoliv-rozvantazhennya-rosijskogo-sudna-z-vikradenim-zernom-iz-tot-ukrayini-pislya-tritizhnevoyi-zatrimki

In other news Spain and Belgium have donated 1bn Euros each in aid for Ukraine: [Belgium and Spain pledge €2bn in aid and F-16 jets for Ukraine in 2026 | Ukrainska Pravda](https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2026/04/14/8030021/)

Russia has lost 820 soldiers killed and wounded over the past day, bringing its total number of personnel losses to 1,312,960. **Source:** [Russian losses over past day: 820 soldiers killed and wounded | Ukrainska Pravda](https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2026/04/14/8030028/) **Details:** The total combat losses of the Russian forces between 24 February 2022 and 14 April 2026 are estimated to be as follows \[figures in parentheses represent the latest losses – ed.\]: * approximately 1,312,960 **(+820)** military personnel * 11,863 **(+2)** tanks * 24,389 **(+3)** armoured combat vehicles * 39,953 **(+38)** artillery systems * 1,732 **(+4)** multiple-launch rocket systems * 1,346 (+0) air defence systems * 435 (+0) fixed-wing aircraft * 350 (+0) helicopters * 237,853 **(+2,459)** operational-tactical UAVs * 4,517 (+0) cruise missiles * 33 (+0) ships/boats * 2 (+0) submarines * 89,300 **(+201)** vehicles and fuel tankers * 4,123 (+0) special vehicles and other equipment. The information is being confirmed.

f\*ck Putin, f\*ck Trump, f\*ck Netanyahu, f\*ck imperialism

Slava Ukraini! Heroyam Slava!

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