Russian forces used ground- and air-fired missiles, rocket launchers and weaponized drones to bombard the provinces of Ukraine it has illegally annexed but doesn't fully control, causing casualties, building damage and power outages Friday. The Ukrainian military said Russian forces launched 18 airstrikes, five missile strikes and 53 attacks from multiple rocket launchers between Thursday and Friday mornings. Most of Friday's battlefield reports concerned the four Ukrainian provinces Russia annexed in September: Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson. In the latest fighting, the Ukrainian military said it downed a Russian Su-25 ground attack jet near Marinka. The Russian military, in keeping with its general silence on losses, didn’t confirm the warplane's downing.

Source: The Guardian April 08, 2023 01:23 UTC