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The Ukrainian captain told why the Russians took such a step.

Over March and April, Russian airpower launched a new wave of mass attacks on energy infrastructure in Ukraine. Energy generating facilities, in particular coal-fired and hydroelectric power plants, have come under the heaviest attacks. For the first time, Russia destroyed or damaged several of Ukraine's biggest power stations, including the Trypilska power station just outside Kyiv.

Ukraine's rapid drone production surge fueled by Western support could tip the balance in regional defense dynamics.

Not only in the occupied Crimea.

Commented Ukraine Naval Forces official spokesman Dmitro Pletenchuk of the hit on Kommuna: “This will keep happening until the Russians run out of ships.”

Russia is thought to have used new Kh-69 cruise missiles during its attack on Ukraine on 11 April, which could have been effectively downed by the Patriot air defence systems that Ukraine desperately needs to reinforce.

Russia has likely used recently developed Kh-69 cruise missiles to destroy the Trypilska thermal power plant (TPP) near Kyiv on April 11, Ukrainian outlet Defense Express reports.

A Russian Ka-27 naval helicopter has been destroyed in temporarily occupied Crimea, Ukrainian Navy spokesperson, Dmytro Pletenchuk, reported on Facebook on April 10.

Ukrainian military intelligence (HUR) has struck a Russian aviation factory in the city of Borisoglebsk, Voronezh Oblast, a HUR source told NV on April 10.

The 117th Brigade of Ukraine's Armed Forces claimed on March 30 that Russian forces had used the bomb for the first time in an attack on the community of Velyka Pysarivka in Sumy Oblast.