Ukraine At War

The Ukrainian military claims that Russian-backed fighters have resumed mortar attacks near Mariupol.

Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service says that they must have guarantees that Nadiya Savchenko will serve the rest of her prison sentence if extradited home to Ukraine.

Although at least one scuffle broke out and several people, some of them allegedly armed, were arrested yesterday, yesterday’s anniversary in Odessa passed peacefully.

On the 2nd anniversary of the violence clashes in Odessa that left 48 dead, the Ukrainian military reports that, for the most part, Russian-backed fighters in the Donbass now appear to be abiding by the Easter truce agreement. However the Donetsk separatists claim that Ukrainian forces shelled their positions last night and this morning.

Ukraine Day 804: With the fighting in Ukraine escalating for months, the Easter holiday was supposed to bring a new truce. That truce never took place.

Two Ukrainian soldiers were killed and 4 wounded in combat today, Andriy Lysenko, presidential spokesman for ATO issues said at a briefing.

President Petro Poroshenko has dismissed the governor of the Lugansk region, Georgiy Tuka, and the head of the foreign intelligence service, Viktor Hvozd.

The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine reports that impact craters at the scene of an incident yesterday morning in which four civilians were killed were the result of shelling from the direction of Ukrainian-held territory.

Odessa Region Governor Mikheil Saakashvili announced that President Petro Poroshenko had authorized sending 1,000 additional National Guard troops and police to Odessa to help prevent violence there.

Russia’s Prosecutor General, Yury Chaika has made the rather risible claim that Ukraine’s Pravyi Sektor Group attempted to overthrow the Russian government by using social media.