Rocket event in Donetsk, Krasnohorivka area, Ukraine on Mon 8th April 2024

48 combat clashes occurred in the combat zone over the past day. The Russians launched 3 missile attacks and 76 airstrikes, as well as 61 attacks from multiple-launch rocket systems. Most attacks were conducted on the Novopavlivka front. Source: evening report by the General Staff of Ukraine from 8 April Quote: "During the day the aircraft of the Defence Forces of Ukraine launched attacks on four anti-aircraft systems and seven clusters of manpower, armament and military equipment of the enemy. Missile units struck an air defence system, two radio-electronic warfare stations and two clusters of manpower of the Russians." Details: On the Kupiansk front the Russians did not conduct offensive (assault) actions but launched airstrikes on the proximity of the settlements of Petropavlivka in Kharkiv Oblast and Stelmakhivka in Luhansk Oblast. On the Lyman front the Defence Forces of Ukraine repelled a Russian attack near the settlement of Terny in Donetsk Oblast. On the Bakhmut front the Russians launched eight attacks near the settlements of Bilohorivka in Luhansk Oblast; Verkhnokamianske, Spirne, Klishchiivka and Andriivka in Donetsk Oblast where the Russians supported by aircraft tried to improve their tactical position. On the Avdiivka front the Defence Forces repelled two Russian attacks near the settlement of Berdychi in Donetsk Oblast where the Russians tried to dislodge the Ukrainian units from their positions. On the Novopavlivka front the Defence Forces continue to deter the Russians near the settlements of Krasnohorivka, Heorhiivka, Novomykhailivka where the Russians supported by aircraft tried to breach the defence of the Ukrainian forces 20 times. On the Orikhiv front the Russians supported by aircraft launched two attacks on the Ukrainian positions near the settlement of Staromaiorske in Donetsk Oblast and north-west of Verbove, Zaporizhzhia Oblast. On the Kherson front the Russians did not give up the attempts to dislodge the Ukrainian units from their positions on the left (east) bank of the Dnipro River. Over the past day the Russians launched three attacks on the positions of the Ukrainian forces but to no avail.