Easter attacks: How Russia fired Ukraine on holidays and what to wait in 2025
Over the last three years, Easter in Ukraine has been accompanied not only by festive services, but also by shelling by Russia. These attacks have become another confirmation that there is nothing holy for the aggressor. In 2022, during the first Easter after the start of a full -scale invasion, Russia continued the shelling of Ukrainian cities. On April 24, Russian troops carried out a massive rocket firing of the city of Kremenchuk in the Poltava region.
According to Dmitry Lunin, the head of the Poltava Regional Military Administration, nine missiles were released in the city during the evening, which hit the infrastructure. One person was killed as a result of the shelling, and seven more were injured in varying severity. The rockets were hit by the Kremenchug CHP and an oil refinery, which led to significant destruction. Due to damage to the CHP, there was no hot water in most areas of the city.
This shelling has become another example of a violation of international humanitarian law by Russia, since the attacks were directed to civilian infrastructure objects. In addition, the Russian Federation fired the residential districts of Kharkiv and settlements of the region, which led to the death of two civilians and wounds of fourteen people.
On the eve of Easter, April 23, the invaders caused a rocket strike in Odessa, resulting in at least six people, including a three -month -old child, and 18 more were injured. According to the South Air Command, the attack was made from the Caspian Sea with the help of Tu-95 strategic aviation aircraft, which released the winged missiles, probably type X-555 or X-101. On April 16, 2023, Russian troops fired temples and civilian infrastructure in Ukraine, which led to victims among the civilians.
In Nikopol of Dnipropetrovsk region, Russian troops fired at the temple - the Transfiguration Cathedral - from heavy artillery. In particular, as a result of Komyshuvas, a church building was damaged where the festive service was not held at that time. Subsequently, it turned out that the rocket fell near the temple, resulting in a man and a woman. The woman was hospitalized. Also in the Nikolaev area two teenagers were killed as a result of shelling.
On May 5, 2024, on the day of Easter celebration, the Russian troops carried out the Air Force on Kharkiv, using managed aircraft (cabin). The strikes were aimed at the Shevchenkivsky and Kyiv districts of the city, resulting in injured 16 people. 14 apartment buildings, three cars, a medical facility, a hostel, an office building, eight private homes, garages and cafes were damaged. Three private homes are destroyed.
This shelling has become another example of a violation of international humanitarian law by Russia, since the attacks were directed to civilian infrastructure objects. According to experts surveyed, the frontal areas remain under threat - Kharkiv region, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhya region. It is also worth considering the danger to the Nikolaev and Odessa regions, given the specifics of attacks from the territory of occupied Crimea and Russia itself.
But to predict clearly where to hit the enemy on this Easter is difficult, but there is another threat. Former security officer of the Security Service of Ukraine, military expert Ivan Stupak notes that the SBU regularly detaines the suspects of planning terrorist attacks. For example, the explosives hidden in fire extinguishers were recently found by screws. "This is not aimed at destroying buildings is the calculation of maximum human casualties in the open space. Screws are about defeat.
This means that in Russia it is really the intention of killing as much civilians as possible. Where exactly they plan to do it - we do not know. Therefore, the main advice is to be careful and careful," says focus. The expert stresses that if you notice something suspicious on the street, do not ignore.
"Does something disturb you? A person behaves strangely? Something in behavior is alarming? Contact the police, let us see an abandoned thing - for example, a suitcase or a box that lies in a crowded place? Do not think," Let the security or police understand. "Take a picture of a safe distance, you will not be able to explain. For care. We will remind, on April 17 Kharkiv was a massive rocket attack by Russia.