Russian drone attack in Dnipro – Ukraine has attacked refinery and oil depot – Russian losses and activities

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Two people were killed and at least eight injured in a Russian drone attack on Dnipro during the night, among the wounded are two children being treated in hospital. Read more here.

According to social media, Ukraine is said to have once again attacked the Samara region and Ukrainian drones have hit the Novokuibyshevsk oil refinery (Samara) and the Gorky oil pumping station along with the joint oil depot (Nizhny Novgorod). Links here, here, here and here. Just now an article also came from Kyiv Independent.

Russian losses in Ukraine

Still high losses for the Russians and today also losses of most in the “lottery line”.

  • 1100 KWIA
  • 3 Tanks
  • 5 AFVs
  • 58 Artillery systems
  • 3 MLRS
  • 1 Air defense system
  • 1941 UAVs
  • 202 Vehicles and Fuel tanks
  • 2 Special equipment

Russian activities

  • 159 combat clashes
  • 73 air strikes
  • 234 KAB/CAB
  • 9,096 kamikaze drones
  • 3,231 shelling (52 from MLRS)

The night’s drone attack

Russia attacked with a total of 155 different drones (of which about 100 were of the Shahed type).
Ukraine managed to counter 139 of these (e.g. by jamming them or shooting them down, or via “interceptor” drones).

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126 thoughts on “Russian drone attack in Dnipro – Ukraine has attacked refinery and oil depot – Russian losses and activities”

    2. DenGamle

      But someone is needed who can manage the blog without threats so that it doesn’t become a hateful election platform like the other blog has become.
      OT is okay as a spice to lighten up all the crap that happens.
      That’s what I and my 10 million followers on social media think.

      3. Pehr

        As long as no one starts promoting AFS, there is unlikely to be any major risk since there is now basically a consensus among most parties and definitely the parliament regarding support for Ukraine.

    3. johan No.1

      Yes, you are right Dengamle 👍

      Sometimes MXT gets a little extra upset about Trump and his posts set the tone for the day, or I get going on the Green Party’s society-disrupting activities where I really hold back on the criticism that should be more.

      But…

      You SHOULD have different opinions as long as you maintain GOOD TONE.

      We have not kickbanned anyone and few have probably left, Wesley only?

      I want to have a discussion in the thread – how can you move forward in the reasoning if you don’t have different opinions and see things differently?

      Why it works well here and not in other places, or the newspapers’ comment sections, well the Nobel Prize committee will have to figure that out before I get the peace prize but it does.

      1.5 years soon.

      Sometimes the thread half-dies and we need more active writers.

      Many read but it’s probably a perishable good and if it’s a slow week you change your habits?

      MXT’s daily posts are vital.

      The own goal on the site you know where, several wrote that they are stopping writing there now. They don’t know we exist, at least those must we catch up with MXT?

      Now we are the largest in Western Europe but Sheinu is bigger because they have so many Chinese so we need to get in more since we don’t get enough swish to buy traffic from Indian bot farms, we’re a bit stuck

      2. Jan W

        I think it’s nice to have a bit of OT discussions. As long as they are respectful in tone.

        I also appreciate the friendly, not to say loving, banter. Really fun.

      1. johan No.1

        Step two is that they shoot all the ammunition, but we are not quite there yet.

        Or they need a cricket field, could be like that 👍

    2. Lasse W

      At one time, the Russians believed they could get away with anything. Like Mariupol and Bucha. And cutting off the ears and other organs of captured Ukrainian soldiers. I believe that has stopped. There will come a time after the war when the reckoning will be made. If, when, how, and where is uncertain. But the risk exists. And it can make many Russians fear future reprisals. I believe many war criminals have been hidden away in Siberia. Didn’t Ukrainian SOF find someone in Siberia?
      It is strange that they are trying to remove the mass graves in Mariupol. Do the Russians see a risk that they will be forced to return all the territory they have taken in the SMO?

      4. alfaomega

        I believe he is still a prince but not a working royal? Either way, it draws attention in the media that might not otherwise write about Ukraine, so credit to him for that.

  5. MXT

    Good of Spain, which otherwise lags a bit behind in its support for Ukraine.
    “Spain will send 100 VAMTAC armored vehicles and a supply of 155-millimeter artillery ammunition to Ukraine’s State Border Guard, Spanish Defense Minister Margarita Robles announced during a visit to Ukraine on April 22.”
    https://kyivindependent.com/spain-to-send-ammunition-100-armored-vehicles-to-ukraine/

    List of support from different countries sorted by share of GDP, from the start of the war until the end of December 2025 (according to Statista):

     

      1. Proxima

        Sketch by Arve Opsahl about the girls in Lisbon not being better than those in Oslo. Must clarify. Not thinking about having gotten old and everyone here not knowing what was shown on TV in the early 60s.

    1. MXT

      Do not dare to confirm it yet, it seems clear that they have struck the oil infrastructure, but have not seen any evidence that they have hit the refinery specifically. 

      1. johan No.1

        They greet you and wish you all the best, they also wonder why you didn’t come back when you were supposed to “take a walk and try to find something to eat” six months ago

  10. MXT

    Good that they are getting partners!

    Considering the USA’s meager contribution recently, one might see the last thing he writes as double irony when he once again thanks the USA.

    “We signed three big security documents with the countries in the Middle East – Drone Deals with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE. These will translate into many different contracts with both the private and public sectors of Ukraine.

    We are ready to deliver. First, our expertise. Second, training missions and software to integrate different military equipment into one system. And cheap drones and co-production lines to make them.

    A “shahed” can cost between $80 and $130 thousand. They will destroy it using not a $3-4 million missile, but a $10,000 interceptor. We want to help them defend themselves. And we will continue building such partnerships with other countries.

    I think all of this needs to be shared with the U.S. as well. I would be proud if we could do it because we are very thankful to the U.S. for its support.”
    https://x.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/2047203852751904872

    1. johan No.1

      UA and Zelensky are probably a very big problem for the USA and Trump.

      Europe also becomes less scared and cowardly when we are protected by Ukraine.

       

  11. Proxima

    Johan yesterday 8:15: Very good post, didn’t have time to respond. Especially the last paragraph was very thought-provoking. Europe acted fearfully, indecisively, nationally, and in some cases authoritatively when it came to the pandemic.
    Some examples: Finland set up riot fences in Tornio and guarded the border with armed border police. They monitored the Torne River with drones to prevent anyone from rowing across. Norway banned everything related to Sweden from entering Norway; people who worked with wild boars and wolves and even shot down mountain geese so that the Swedish geese wouldn’t mix with the exclusive Norwegian mountain geese. Sylvi Listhaug was really in her worst Sweden mood at that time.
    The Danes just stated that everyone was welcome if they had been vaccinated and wore masks. But as the interior minister added dryly: “the Swedes can just stay home.”
    Meanwhile, Tegnell appeared daily on TV in his gray-green T-shirt and calmly asked Swedes to keep their distance, wash their hands, and above all show judgment.
    I still think Europe acts fearfully and indecisively when it comes to
    Ukraine, Trump, and NATO. Now meetings are being held about sweeping mines in the Strait of Hormuz. One last week, a new one this week. Then there will be another next week. And so it goes on endlessly.

    1. Lasse W

      There is a meeting culture in the liberal West characterized by technocracy. Or eurocracy. A tyranny of portfolio holders. Exercised by people like these Stubb and Bildt types. It is also called the rules-based world order. It fits poorly with war.

    2. johan No.1

      Fun that someone read it and thanks 😀

      I have a post on the way about the bigger picture and why I complain about the UK – where freedom of speech was seriously smoked out until the police on their own initiative said stop, we’re not in anymore.

      Or the USA where MXT is trying to keep up.

      Never a good crisis, now Europe can do right or we become more authoritarian.

      We can also stand alone or run to China for protection.

      There are many layers to the onion but it’s interesting when a state of emergency is declared and suddenly you get to commit abuses against the citizens just because you can.

      Terror laws and gang laws are good and needed but the tougher laws coming now are loosely written and CAN be used against the citizens if one wants.

      I will try to sort that out in a longer post.

      Tegnell was a hero in a knitted sweater and unique in the world.

  12. MXT

    Trump Approval Ratings

    The latest Economist survey is the highest since early March, and one can sense an upward trend despite them normally being among the most negative towards Trump. He stands at -17%.

     

    The New York Times (which collects and weights many surveys including the Economist) goes in the opposite direction. There, Trump is at his worst so far with 58% disapprove and 38% approve, the highest and lowest figures so far, which gives a total of -20%.

    Fox News conducted a survey a week ago and there the numbers are somewhat better, 58% disapprove but 42% approve, so he ends up at -16% overall.

    Fox also reports the different sub-areas, and it is a bit interesting to see the distribution. The economy, which was one of the things he won the election on, for example, does not seem to be viewed so positively, nor inflation (which is related). The war in Iran is also not appreciated.

     

    I have written a couple of times that the decline should level off soon. According to the Economist, this seems to have happened, and Fox also shows a slight increase.
    However, the NYT gives a different picture, but the question is whether it can continue to decline further or if this is the bottom.

    Of these three, the NYT is probably still seen as more credible since they collect around 10-30 different surveys per week (some surveys are done weekly, others once a month, and some even less frequently).

      1. MXT

        Do you mean my analysis? 😄

        Or do you mean the result?

        If it is the result, then it is basically the same as NYT.

        NYT rounds to whole numbers, and if you do the same with Silver Bulletin, it only differs by one percent for approve since theirs would be at 58 disapprove and 39 approve.

        Silver Bulletin does it in the same way as NYT and weighs several surveys and weights them differently depending on the quality. Looking at the surveys they list, you can see that many of them are the same as those used by NYT. 

        But I agree, Silver Bulletin is probably one of the most credible since they also start from summing up lots of surveys and try to weight them.

        I think I will drop Economist, since it is just one of many, it stayed because I started with it and theirs was quite good to follow before the election as they had historical data from several presidents etc. Then they removed that extra information. 

        Maybe I’ll take NYT plus SB from now on so together they might give the best picture!

    2. johan No.1

      This fall you will see a RAIN of free money over the voter base and then things will pick up, whether it will be enough, who the hell knows, but the election promises will simmer

  15. Proxima

    Has the USA only now understood this? Maybe someone in the Pentagon can tell Trump. He hasn’t understood it yet. The amateurs’ FF.😒

    1. johan No.1

      I believe that in every book/analysis/war game down to us here in the thread, the Iranians close Hormuz.

      The fact that the USA was caught with their pants down feels a bit like a hidden agenda, especially since they themselves have now closed Hormuz.

      Hard to know who the enemy is here nowadays

  16. johan No.1

    Will dive into this next week but VDV seems to be on the southern front.

    Not a focus point, right?

    Keep an eye there because RU might know what we are guessing about Crimea?

    Of course, I was modest, I know what is going to happen

     

    1. MXT

      😂 

      Had to check how my savings are doing, I stick to my Avanza portfolio and avoid Bitcoins, Trumpcoins, and whatever else they’re called.

      Right now it feels pretty good, beating both OMX and Dow Jones the past month with an increase of 24.7%. Although it has dropped the last few days, so soon I’ll probably be below (again).

      Not going to reveal how much (or little) money is involved, not much to brag about then. 😄

      I’m also beating Bitcoin, which has done somewhat worse than the stock market lately:

        1. MXT

          Yes, it started going well about the time you started talking about Bitcoin! 😂

          But it will drop again soon, my portfolio has the characteristic that when it goes well it goes better than most, but when it goes badly it drops even deeper instead.
          I have too many high-risk stocks, according to those who know what they are doing. 😄

  23. MXT

    Iran
    “Iran has attacked three ships in the Strait of Hormuz and seized at least two of them, reports AP citing state Iranian media. The incidents occurred just hours after the US once again extended the ceasefire with the country.

    Donald Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt tells Fox News that the attacks do not constitute a violation of the ceasefire, as they were not directed at American or Israeli ships.

    – Donald Trump has made it very clear to Iran what his red lines are, she says.

    Iran’s Revolutionary Guard states that the operations targeted three ships attempting to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, of which two – Epaminondas and Francesca – were seized. No crew members are reported to have been injured, but one of the ships sustained extensive damage to the command bridge, according to information from both Iranian and international sources.”
    https://omni.se/iran-beslagtar-tva-fartyg-i-hormuzsundet-men-vapenvilan-tycks-intakt/a/j03d5z

    1. MXT

      “A law from the 1970s could force US President Donald Trump to end the war in Iran as early as May 1 if he does not get Congress’s support to continue, writes the New York Times. The law gives a president the right under certain circumstances to start a war without asking Congress, but only for 60 days.

      So far, the Republicans have blocked a series of attempts by the Democrats to end the war. But several Republicans have already announced that they will not vote to give Trump the green light to continue the war beyond the 60-day deadline.

      However, the law allows the president to on his own initiative continue the operation for an additional 30 days if needed to withdraw the troops safely.

      Congress can also vote to give the military operation clearance to continue without any time limit, which a group of Republicans is working for.”
      https://omni.se/tidsgrans-i-lagen-kan-satta-press-pa-trump-att-avsluta-kriget-1-maj/a/ArRl53

  30. MXT

    USA

    “The White House has produced what Politico describes as a list of ‘naughty and nice’ NATO countries, according to American and European sources for the site.

    The list is said to be part of threats to punish countries that have not supported the US war against Iran, and was developed ahead of NATO leader Mark Rutte’s visit to Washington in April.

    What this might mean in practice is unclear, but according to sources it could involve moving American troops from countries that have not supported the US to those that have.

    – They don’t seem to have very concrete ideas when it comes to punishment. Moving troops is one option, but doesn’t that mainly punish the US? wonders a European diplomatic source.

    There is no information about where different countries are placed on the list, but according to Politico Poland and Romania may be near the top – while Spain is likely placed near the bottom.”
    https://omni.se/kallor-usa-tar-fram-lista-over-stygga-natolander/a/pBMpKX

      1. MXT

        😂 I heard that even the Vatican City is in trouble. Partly because the Pope was critical of the war but mainly because they refused the US permission to establish a base there for their Hercules planes.

        Apparently, Trump had muttered something about bringing all his NATO forces home from there and sharply raising tariffs.

        1. alfaomega

          And nowadays, people don’t even raise an eyebrow at a post like that; it could just as well have been real and not MTX “fantasies.” Think about how desensitized one has become from all the idiot comments that T keeps spewing out, all the time and completely unfiltered.
          I am so utterly tired of that man and his entourage.

          1. MXT

            Well, you hardly need to come up with fake crazy statements when it comes to Trump.

            (I should have thought about making some long fake Trump post on April 1st.. 😂)

  32. MXT

    “‘Now is a good time to invest in Ukraine’ — Brussels and Kyiv sign over $1 billion in deals

    Ukraine and the European Union signed over 1 billion euros in deals, as Kyiv and Brussels move to more tightly interweave their economies.

    EU institutions and investment banks signed agreements on loans, guarantees, and grants across a range of sectors at the EU-Ukraine Business Summit held in Brussels on April 22–23.

    The deals come as the EU finalizes a massive 90-billion-euro ($105 billion) EU loan to Kyiv, agreed by European countries in December and likely to be approved on April 23, after outgoing Hungarian Prime Minister dropped his opposition to the loan.”
    https://kyivindependent.com/brussels-and-kyiv-sign-over-1-billion-in-deals-in-defense-tech-push/

  34. MXT

    Tips for art enthusiasts visiting Stockholm from May 4 to 11.

    “Svenska pressfotografer stöttar Ukraina i ny utställning
    In connection with Press Freedom Day, a photo exhibition opens where well-known Swedish press photographers have donated images taken in Ukraine. The proceeds go to those affected by the war in the country. The initiator is journalist and author Lisa Bjurwald.

    The exhibition runs from May 4–11, at Konsthallen Stockholm in Gamla stan.”
    https://www.journalisten.se/nyheter/svenska-pressfotografer-stottar-ukraina-i-ny-utstallning/

  35. MXT

    “The situation at the front for Ukraine is currently better and more stable than it has been in a year. This is what the Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrij Sybiha told The Independent. According to Sybiha, the explanation is that Ukraine is superior both in terms of drone warfare and air defense.

    – We have minimized the Russians’ numerical superiority by using drones, he says.

    According to Sybiha, Ukraine manages to repel 90 percent of the Russian attacks on cities in the country.

    The statement comes in the wake of a report from the think tank ISW which concluded that Russia made no territorial advances at all during March.”

  38. MXT

    Israel

    “Entire villages and residential areas have been demolished by Israel during the ongoing ceasefire, witnesses report according to AP. Due to the security situation, neither the UN nor Lebanese authorities have been able to be on site to document the extent.

    The news agency has spoken with Hassan Sweidan who lives near the village of Beit Lif, which has basically been leveled.

    – They demolished step by step until they reached the square and now, as you can see, there are no houses, he says.

    The Israeli military IDF defends the operation by stating that they are destroying buildings used by Hezbollah.

    During the day, Israel and Lebanon are meeting in Washington to discuss an extension of the ceasefire between the countries, which expires on Sunday. Lebanon has beforehand stated that it will try to secure a one-month extension of the ceasefire.”

    https://omni.se/byar-jamnade-med-marken-finns-inga-hus/a/e7zPRM
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/04/23/lebanon-israel-hezbollah-home-demolitions/a8347570-3eca-11f1-bb46-ed564688d953_story.html

  39. 205

    Gosh, there was a lot of action in the thread!

    AFU’s daily summary of battles along the front this morning showed a day of rest for the Russians with a tendency that the current offensive reached its peak yesterday. Up and down every other day.

    N Slobozhansky-Kursk 0
    S Slobozhansky 4
    Kupyansk 7
    Lyman 5↘️
    Slovyansk 2↘️↘️
    Kramatorsk 2↘️
    Kostjantynivka 20💥↘️
    Pokrovsk 36💥💥↘️
    Oleksandrivskij 8↘️
    Huliaipole 16💥
    Orikhivsk 1↘️
    Prydniprovskij/Dnipro 4

    Localized 105↘️↘️
    Unlocalized 54↘️
    Total 159↘️
    Ratio unloc/loc: 0.51↗️

  41. MXT

    Hope something good comes out of this.

    “President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Cyprus on April 23 to attend a European Union summit, Ukraine’s President’s Office said.

    Zelensky is expected to meet Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda, Danish acting Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, as well as Antonio Costa, president of the European Council, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

    Zelensky is also expected to deliver a speech at the summit, which will take place from April 23 to April 24.”

    https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-arrives-in-cyprus-to-attend-eu-summit/

  42. johan No.1

    MXT further up – it will probably be the case that the Baltics will be abandoned quite soon, the rest of the list is uninteresting.

  43. johan No.1

    Also MXT,

    Soon we should stop giving money and instead invest in Ukraine as a business.

    Not like the USA but to collaborate with UA companies where UA agrees to it – buy/sell.

     

    1. MXT

      Absolutely, it will probably get started sooner or later.

      Ukraine should have been proactive from the beginning and made it easier for foreign individuals to invest, I believe it would have yielded a lot. 

      They have sites aimed at companies and institutions that want to invest heavily but nothing for ordinary people.

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