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I don't know if this has been posted yet but I haven't seen it before:
 

I thought these were funny.

kind of funny.  With a significant amount of the armaments supply being former Russian equipment from former members of the Warsaw pact... Russia isn't really fighting NATO, they are fighting the Warsaw pact.    History is weird. 😎

So how is Russia supposed to reinforce and supply their forces in Syria? Thru Iran i suppose, except if I were Iran, I would ask them maybe you should sign the new Nuclear Treaty allowing Iran to trade again....
 
 
 
 

Someone else is making a list and checking it twice:
 
Might be worth cross-checking.  Looks like it is missing some of the DNR/LNR command losses.

Guess we’ll see…

Ukrianian snipers of 28th mech.brigade on positions somewhere in Kherson/Mykolaiv oblast

UAR-10 .308 rifle (military version of Zbroyar Z-10) with thermal sight

@sburke @Kinophile
Mayor Pavel Gareyev, unit and data of death unknown. Judging by the signs on lapels he served in air defense unit and his rank is AD battalion command/staff duty.
Out of list, but just for information
"Colonel" (DPR promoted) Vladimir Kovalenko, chief of "non-departamental security of Internal affairs ministry of DPR" (prisoners guarding service). Citizen of Ukraine. Former officer of Ukrainian 20th separate convoy service battalion of Internal troops (later National Guard), dislocated in Donetsk. After his unit was seized in 2014 by DPR he defected to separs side.  Killed in Mariupol about month ago. 
 

Summary about last two days  of most hot place - Izium area.
Many of Russian BTGs, concentrated on spearhead are BTG, based on tank battalions. But instead one "big steam roller push", Russians each day are attacking with several "small steam rollers" in different directions, trying to penetrate our defense. Sometime our troops conduct own counter-attacks, so as told in twitter one soldier, terrain in many places covered with knoked out and abandoned vehicles of both sides. Russians also, understanding hazard of UKR mobile AT-teams, inolved more SOF and recon forces for hunting on them. Especially Russians actively conduct own search in night time. 
Most fierce fights were on eastern bank of Oskil river. Three days ago Russians captured Lozove village and attacked our troops in neighbour villages Rubtsi and Yatskivka. Russians use own standart tactic of "burned earth". They just hammered villages with artillery and MLRS, then tanks attack and shot out remained houses, if they encountered strong resistance, they withdraw and artillery strike the village again. So, the same procedure Russians used on latter two villages. As result they could push off our troops from ruines of Rubtsi, Yatskivka also burns, but situation there still unclear.
Also Russian conducted attacks on Dovhen'ke village - the key to Izium - Sloviansk road, but without success
Ukrainian civil volunteer Roman Donik, which supply 92ns and 93rd brigades wrote about clashes in area south from Izium. He pointed Russian aviation increased quantity of sorties, though for yesterday this also increased their losses. Donik claimed many shot down manned aerial targets, but visually confirmed only two-seats jet. Also he described two clashes - first was probably 2-3 days ago in unpointed place. Russians atatcked with company tactical group of 6 tanks and 10 BMPs after three hours of fight they withdrew having losses 3 tanks and 1 BMP. Today he described Russian attack of presumably 64th motor-rifle brigade on positions of 93rd brigade near Virnopillia village with the same force - comany tactical groop - 10 light armor and tanks. Result - enemy repelled, 3 tanks hit/abandoned, 3 light armor destroyed (I think, 1 BTR and 2 trucks more correctly if his photos corresponded to this episode) - akd alredy posted these photos
Also some of OSINT source issued photos of Russian losses in Brazhivka next to east from Virmopillia - about dozen of armor for small village. But our says Russians are throw new and new tanks in the battle instead burned, so UKR troops forced to withdraw from village to willage after 1-2 days of fight, despite Russians pay high price for own achievments
  
 

Will be looking for more confirmation on this one. This would essentially almost decapitate the Russian forces in Kherson if true.

ISW weekly is up:
https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/ukraine-invasion-update-24
Key Takeaways April 15-21
Russia and Ukraine are unlikely to resume negotiations in the coming weeks. Both sides await the outcome of Russia’s ongoing offensive in eastern Ukraine. Kyiv likely assesses that its military has the potential to push Russian forces back to their pre-February 24 positions and is unlikely to engage in negotiations until that outcome occurs or becomes significantly less likely. The Kremlin is increasingly describing the war in Ukraine as a war with NATO to the domestic Russian audience to explain slower-than-intended operations and mounting casualties. The Kremlin likely intends to create one or more proxy states in occupied southern Ukraine to cement its military occupation and set conditions to demand permanent control over these regions. Russian and Belarusian officials seek to frame Western sanctions as predominantly harming European economies while playing up the efficacy of their sanction-mitigation efforts. The Kremlin is failing to deter NATO expansion and failing to disrupt Ukraine's military alignment with the West. The Kremlin remains unlikely to use a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine in this phase of the war  

According to this: https://bmpd.livejournal.com/4289299.html they got T-80BVM in April 2021. Before this brigade had T-80BV. There is no info how much T-80BVM they received, maybe part of T-80BV remained. But I look on other photo and see trucks with O marking. If this was 64th brigade from Bucha, it should have V. 

Rare Russian equipment - BMP-1AM "Basurmanin" in Kupyansk, Kharkiv oblast
BMP-1AM is BMP-1P with weapon module from BTR-82A. Such vehicles since 2021 were brought to service for units of Eastern military district, where remained enough BMP-1. Probably this BMP-1AM belongs to one of 10 BTGs of 5th CAA, which were moved to Ulraine from Far East three weeks ago.

K-2 UAV unit and mortar battery of 54th mech.brigade struck Russian tank convoy of T-72B3M and UR-77 mine clearing vehicle. Despite only several close hits, part of Russian convoy retreated and part of tanks and UR-77 were abandoned by crews. At the end of video, UKR soldiers take HMGs from these tanks to own pick-up. It is seen one tank has damage of gun barrel, and some other were immobilized because of torn tracks.
Background song is UKR parody "Fried "Tigrs" on very popular Russian song "Crimson LADA" in style of "90th dance-pop"
 

More SPGs for Ukraine apparently. This is on top of undisclosed number that Poland sent - and we (used to) have 13 battalions of 2S1  with modernized fire control systems, plus a lot more stored.
Edit: apparently Ukrainians are also happy about Romania's help, but Romanians are not willing to disclose what exactly they are sending. Artillery ammo and maybe MLRSs would be my guess, plus some smaller stuff.
 

UKR troops ambushed Russian supply truck, which carried 152 mm 3OF39 Krasnopol guided shells. Several of them looks quite intact, but after such explosion, its, alas can't be used safely.
 

BTR-82A in Mariupol takes multiple hits, get dragged away by T-72B3M:
Later same T-72B3M (I think) takes hit (to front hull?) on this street and survives, but then gets abandoned by crew:
EDIT: pointed out elsewhere that left track appears to be headed for an AT mine on surface just before explosion.
 

Today the prime ministers of Spain and Denmark have visited Zelensky. The Spanish Prime Minister also came with a gift for the Ukrainians.

Around 137,000 people have arrived in Spain from Ukraine, most of them women and minors.