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War for Ukraine Day 773: This Morning’s Butcher’s Bill from Kharkiv

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Art by NEIVANMADE of a Ukrainian painted black and outlined in blood red kneeling in grief with hands covering the face surrounded by the bodies of Ukrainians killed by Russians on a grey background. "Russia Is Committing Genocide Right Now" is across the top center of the image.

(Image by NEIVANMADE)

As was the case when I started typing the update last night, right now – 6:00 PM EDT – only the eastern half of Ukraine is under air raid alert. Unfortunately, that didn’t last and all of Ukraine was under air raid alert last night/this morning.

Kharkiv is already being targeted again!

Odesa too!

Here’s the butcher’s bill from Russia’s overnight attack on Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia:

The S-300s and four of the drones got through.

Yet another massive Russian missile attack on Ukraine last night.

◾️In Kharkiv, 6 people dead and 10 injured. Drones hit a residential area – at least 9 apartments buildings, three dorms, administrative building, vehicles, etc. are damaged.

◾️In Zaporizhzhia, 4 people dead and 23 wounded. At least five Russian missiles were targeted at Zaporizhzhia.

◾️In total, Ukrainian defense shot down 28 Russian drones and 3 cruise missiles. Air defense worked in several regions of Ukraine.

These horrible numbers are becoming a mundane reality. We need air defense systems to stop these murders of innocent people.

Here is President Zelenskyy’s address from earlier today. Video below, English transcript after the jump.

I thank everyone who preserves normal living – address by the President of Ukraine

6 April 2024 – 20:47

Dear Ukrainians!

Important words of gratitude for today and this week. Gratitude to everyone in Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Odesa, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Donetsk region, and all border communities. To those who work after Russian strikes, who help people, who clear debris, who restore normal living. To all our rescuers from Ukraine’s State Emergency Service, medical workers, police officers, energy workers, repair teams, municipal crews, and volunteers. I thank everyone who preserves normal living.

Last night and this afternoon – new Russian strikes on Kharkiv. Cruel, vile strikes. Almost everything they have was used: surface-to-air missiles, Shahed drones, and aerial bombs. Another missile strike on Odesa. Just a vile strike yesterday on Zaporizhzhia. Among the victims were journalists who were on the scene, documenting the aftermath of the first strike. And then there was a repeated strike.

Currently, correspondent Olha Zvonariova from the Ukrinform agency is still in intensive care. TSN correspondent Kira Oves was also injured. I wish them and all affected a speedy recovery.

We will strike back at Russia for every attack, for every act of terror against our people and state. Ukraine’s defense and security forces are working on this.

Now I want to personally single out those of our people who have particularly distinguished themselves these days, helping save lives after Russian strikes.

Zaporizhzhia – these are rescuers Borys Serdiuk, Dmytro Borodatyi, Oleksandr Kulenko, and our police officers Andrii Hrachov and Mykhailo Malakhov. They were among the first to arrive and provide assistance even despite the repeated strikes. Emergency workers from Zaporizhzhia, Olena Kostriukova, Yaroslav Bardakov, and Olena Starykovska. Thank you!

Kharkiv – our rescuers Vitalii Shkola, Volodymyr Tyshkov, Maksym Ashymkhin, and Maksym Vasyleha, emergency medical workers Marharyta Artemenko and Oleksandr Bairachnyi, our police officers Ruslan Osmanov and Roman Shapovalov. I thank all of you and your colleagues!

Every week there is a reason to commend the workers in Kherson region. Ukraine’s State Emergency Service, particularly firefighters, our rescuers Artem Kovalchuk and Dmytro Pryshko, Oleksii Fedko. Police sergeants Serhii Drozd and Bohdan Kot. I thank all the doctors, all the hospital nurses, and all the volunteers who support healthcare in Kherson region. And especially deserving of gratitude this week are Yurii Shashkin, Viktoriia Hanzha, Oksana Horban. Thank you!

Our state’s resilience is made up of the expertise and dedication of people like you throughout the country, many of those who do everything within their power to ensure that life prevails despite all the circumstances of war.

We’ll go above and beyond to ensure that the world continues to support Ukraine and truly sees how heroic our people are, how Ukrainians defend their state, their cities, and villages, how they rebuild their lives despite everything, and how they defeat the occupier. That’s exactly what Russia deserves – Russia deserves to lose for what it is doing, for its terror.

I thank every our soldier who fights for Ukraine. I thank everyone who works to ensure that Ukraine can endure and prevail. I thank everyone who cares for their neighbor and all of Ukraine.

Glory to Ukraine!

Thank you!

He also sat for an interview with the Unified News Telethon.

Ukraine is expecting a positive decision from the U.S. Congress regarding the adoption of a comprehensive aid package. This was stated by Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an interview with the Unified News telethon.

The President emphasized that assistance from the United States is crucial for our country.

“We understand when the Russians could start counteroffensive actions. So, here is your answer, when it is critical to receive the necessary weaponry being in low supply. Without this money, we cannot obtain such volumes. And I still believe that we will be able to achieve a positive vote from the U.S. Congress,” said Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Ukraine regularly informs the American side about the situation on the front line and the defense forces’ urgent needs. Macro-financial assistance from the United States will strengthen the economy of the state and our Armed Forces.

Here’s the video with English subtitles:

 

The reason:

The price:

Unfortunately, it does still not look like a supplemental aid package is going to be brought up in the House. The Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Republican Congressman McCaul, states that this is because the GOP is now en thrall to Russian propoganda.

The Washington Post has the details:

During the first impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump in 2019, former Trump national security aide Fiona Hill made an extraordinary plea. Seated in front of congressional Republicans, she implored them not to spread Russian propaganda.

“In the course of this investigation, I would ask that you please not promote politically driven falsehoods that so clearly advance Russian interests,” she told them. She was referring to comments they had made during her earlier deposition breathing life into a baseless, Trump-backed suggestion that Ukraine, rather than Russia, interfered in the 2016 U.S. election.

“These fictions are harmful even if they’re deployed for purely domestic political purposes,” she added.

Republicans on the committee blanched at the suggestion that they had served as conduits for Russian misinformation, but Hill refused to back down.

Five years later, Republicans are starting to grapple more publicly with the idea that this kind of thing is happening in their ranks.

The most striking example came this week. In an interview with Puck News’s Julia Ioffe, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Tex.) — none other than the GOP chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee — flat-out said that Russian propaganda had “infected a good chunk of my party’s base.”

McCaul suggested conservative media was to blame.

“There are some more nighttime entertainment shows that seem to spin, like, I see the Russian propaganda in some of it — and it’s almost identical [to what they’re saying on Russian state television] — on our airwaves,” McCaul said.

He also cited “these people that read various conspiracy-theory outlets that are just not accurate, and they actually model Russian propaganda.”

Asked which Republicans specifically he was talking about, McCaul said it was “obvious,” before staff intervened and asked that the conversation go off the record.

These comments are the most significant to date, but they’re not the only ones.

A GOP impasse over additional funding for Ukraine’s defense against Russia — combined recently with Tucker Carlson’s deeply weird promotion of Russia and Trump’s comments about not defending NATO allies from Moscow — has apparently occasioned some self-reflection among Republicans about their colleagues and allies:

Here’s some more evidence of the negative effects that are occurring:

Lithuania:

Holland:

Trerny, Kreminna front:

Azov and 95st Brigade of Ukraine repelling Russian attack on Kreminna front, Trerny area. 11 Russian AFVs were lost during this attempted attack.

Also, the tank crew of the @azov_media
managed to capture one of the Russian tanks. Which is a very rare case in the current period of war.
It’s even more interesting that Azov managed to capture the tank with “Monster EW system”, which attracted a lot of media attention recently.

(Tank is being evacuated by Azov starting from 1:52 on the video)

https://t.me/azov_media/5634

Here’s the full text of the second tweet:

/2. “The Monster EW system” footages that appeared a day ago.

This system consists of many EW systems/drone jammers that operate at different frequencies. Unlike the already classic version when the EW system is powered directly from the equipment on which it is installed, in this case an additional external generator can be seen on the tank. This means that the electronic warfare system can operate after the tank itself is disabled and abandoned, as long as the generator continues working.

https://t.me/serhii_flash/2693

The Bakhmut front:

Here’s the full text of the quoted tweet:

Footages of the repelling of the recent Russian attack on the Bakhmut front, by the Achilles unit of the 92nd Brigade of Ukraine.
The video shows 14 Russian IFV losses as a result of this attack. Fighters of the Achilles say that their unit destroyed 10 AFVs during the day of the attack, which is their record by now.
Russian column consisted mainly of BMPs and BMDs.
Desertcrosses also took part in the attack. The destruction of one of those along with Russian infantry on board can be seen on video (0:58)
https://t.me/fedorenkoys/285

Orsk, Russia:

That’s enough for tonight.

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Here’s some adjacent material from United24 Media, Maria Avdeeva, and the Ukrainian MOD:

Open thread!

Reader Interactions

10Comments

  1. 1.

    dimmsdale

    thanks, Adam. There is so much to say about the images you post day after day, but … for now, my thanks.

  2. 2.

    TeezySkeezy

    If Fluffy bites a certain part, if a dog does it, is it a war crime? This isn’t a serious question, I’m just blowing off steam…and the right wing fascists gimme plenty o’ that STEAM!!!

  5. 5.

    YY_Sima Qian

    These double tap attacks targeting 1st responders are what the Islamic State terrorists might do.

  7. 7.

    Bill Arnold

    @YY_Sima Qian:
    The history of such attacks is long. PGMs make it straightforward for militaries (or others with PGMs) to perform them at long range. Such attacks are arguably (a strong argument IMO) (intentional) war crimes.

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