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The Ukrainians have indicated that 6,000 Russian soldiers have been neutralised - killed, captured or wounded - in four days. Even they seem taken aback by that and were questioning the figures, but they seem accurate. Russia has used some its biggest "meat wave" attacks in the war to date in concentrated counter-attacks in  south-western and eastern Zaporizhzhia, Kostiantynivka and on the northern front near Lyman.

Russia has been redeploying military forces from Donetsk to the Zaporizhzhia front to shore up the situation there, which is interesting.

Apparently Ukraine has now received a formal request from unspecified allies to halt attacks on Russian energy infrastructure. They have agreed in return for Russia doing the same. Which obviously they won't.

Azath Vitr (D, on 04 April 2026 - 12:53 PM, said:

Ground combat robots are more complex than other drones and you absolutely need firm control over them meaning the range is limited. They are also a lot more expensive than other types of drones (at least the effective large fighting models are, obviously the ones that look like something from Robot Wars with an AK strapped to the top, not so much), eliminating a key benefit of drone technology.

You'd need tens of thousands of the expensive models to undertake any kind of large-scale ground offensive. And the operators would need to remain relatively close behind them (within fibre optic range at least) as they advanced. Not impossible, but it creates new logistical challenges.

Ukraine apparently has over 200 personnel operating in Libya, working in conjunction with the government in Tripoli in opposition to Russian Wagner mercenaries operating with opposing forces. Ukraine may have a drone base in the region it has been using to target Russian shadow fleet vessels.

During Russia's latest bombardment, Ukrainian defences took down 515 out of 542 drones, 2 Iskander-K cruise missiles and 24 out of 25 Kh-101 cruise missiles. However, they held fire on the 10 Iskander-M ballistic missiles once they realised they weren't hitting any targets of value. They were quite bemused to see most of those missiles land in empty fields or patches of ground. Russian Telegram sources saying they've had dud guidance equipment for a while and have had to start using it because decent guidance stuff is unavailable or too expensive to buy in.

Sweden has detained a shadow fleet tanker near Gotland.

Ukraine is fended off another attack on the Kostiantynivka front.

The Bashneft oil facility in Ufa took a hit and is ablaze, some 1400km from the Ukrainian border.

Another Russian S-30SM fighter has crashed in Crimea, meaning three aircraft were lost this week.

Today marks 1,500 days since the invasion began.

Multiple Russian sources saying Pantsir ammunition is running dangerously low, with air defence units having to ration their supplies.

Ukraine has initiated counter-strikes against the recent small Russian advances at the southern end of the eastern Zaporizhzhia front, securing the Zaporizkaya mine. This is a useful defensive position which commands the surrounding territory and makes it much harder for Russia to advance at all in this region. Meanwhile, Ukrainian counter-offensives continue further north.

Based on ISW reports, Russia did not advance decisively in Ukraine anywhere in March, and lost additional territory to Ukrainian counter-strikes. This was the first time this had happened since late 2023.

The May 9 Victory Day Parade has been cancelled.

Some reports that Russian's ATM payment system has crashed, people have been unable to withdraw cash for most of the day and some banking apps are not working.

Israel used 12 interceptors, probably David's Sling, against one Fattah-1 missile and still managed to miss. The Fattah's late-stage speed boost, which dramatically increases closing velocity but changes the closing trajectory unexpectedly, is not something that interceptors can easily deal with.

Another plane, an A-10 Warthog, crashed on friendly territory after sustaining heavy fire from Iranian territory.

A Blackhawk helicopter was hit by AA fire whilst recovering the F-15 pilot but was able to return to friendly territory.

The largest gas processing plant in the UAE took a pounding overnight. The plant has shut down and one worker was killed.

Iran has blown up a fishing vessel after it entered the Strait of Hormuz without permission.

Ukraine has shot down over 630 drones launched from Russia in the last 24 hours.

The Ust-Luga terminal is still ablaze after being hit four times in four days.