The latest on the Russia–Ukraine crisis, April 23. Click here for updates from April 22.
Ukraine: Russian Offensive Continues in East
The Ukraine military’s general staff says that Russian forces continue their “offensive operations” in eastern Ukraine with the goal of defeating Ukrainian forces, establishing full control over the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, and securing “a land route between these territories and the occupied Crimea.”
Ukrainian forces in the past 24 hours repelled eight Russian attacks in the two regions, destroying nine tanks, 18 armored units and 13 vehicles, a tanker, and three artillery systems, the general staff said on its Facebook page on Saturday morning.
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