The night was relatively calm in a lot of regions of Ukraine: in Volyn, Zakarpattya, the Rivne, Ivano-Frankivsk, Khmelnytskyy, Chernivtsi, Lviv, Zaporizhzhya, Vinnytsia, Ternopil, Kyiv, Poltava, Zhytomyr, Kirovohrad, Cherkasy, Sumy, Chernihiv regions.
The local regional military administrations' reports state that as of 8 a.m. on 23 April.
In the Dnipropetrovsk region – one night air-raid alert. An artillery shelling of Zelenodolsk outskirts. No people, no houses were affected. As of the morning, it was quiet.
Kharkiv: during the night – air-raid alerts, there were artillery shellings of the residential areas from the eastern side. Intense shellings of those areas took place during the day as well, in Kharkiv by the end of the day 7 people were injured, and 2 were killed. Throughout the region, there was active fighting going on in the Izium direction, particularly in Barvinkove.
The Luhansk region: housing infrastructure of all the cities was shelled. The most intense situation was in Popasna. In addition to street fights that have been going on in the city for several weeks, russian army constantly fires at high-rise buildings and private houses. Only yesterday the locals endured five artillery attacks from the enemy. 3 civilians and 1 soldier were killed. One woman got injured.
In the Donetsk region: during the night there were shellings along the entire contact line. As of the morning, the shelling of New York (5 residential houses damaged, NY and the village Pivdenne de-energized) and the enemy's increasing activity near Maryinka and Novomykhaylivka were reported.
Mariupol: the blockade continues. Ukrainian forces are holding on. Today there will be yet another attempt to evacuate the locals from Mariupol to Zaporizhzhya.
In the Kherson region, occupiers keep shelling the region's settlements and firing rockets from the occupied villages toward Mykolaiv and the Dnipropetrovsk region. The situation in the village is bordering on humanitarian catastrophe.
In the Mykolaiv region: explosions were heard during the night. According to preliminary data, it was a rocket strike that caused no casualties. The houses' windows are broken, and the power lines are damaged. The situation in the region is under control.