Russian units withdraw from the area around Zaporizhzhia. This is reported by an influential Russian military blogger.
April 21, 2026, 05:01April 21, 2026, 05:01
The area around the Ukrainian Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is hotly contested. “In the last 24 hours alone there were brutal attacks on Dnipro, Cherkassy, Kharkiv, Kryvyi Rih, Chernihiv, the Donetsk region and Zaporizhia,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj posted last week.
The Russian army is said to be in retreat near the city of Zaporizhzhia, which was badly damaged by the war.Image: keystone
Now a video from the influential Russian military blogger “Rybar” is surprising. Accordingly, the situation on the front around Zaporizhzhia “continued to deteriorate”. And the blogger acknowledges the Russian withdrawal in the area. The “Ukrainian superiority in drones and well-trained forces” plays a crucial role, said Rybar.
There have been reports for days that the Russian Geran drones are losing their effectiveness. Poorly trained staff led to errors in production. The drones, which are based on the Iranian Shahed model, would therefore sometimes fall apart in the air.
Ukraine reports advances around Zaporizhia
The Ukrainian site “Ukrinform” reported on Monday about advances around Zaporizhia, in which Ukrainian special forces “carried out a series of successful attacks in which they destroyed and cleared Russian military positions.”
A video published on Facebook is intended to prove this initiative.
News from the front is difficult to verify. Konrad Schuller from the German “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” accompanied Ukrainian troops at the front in another sector near Kramatorsk.
The report also describes the current superiority of Ukrainian drones. The “FAZ” quotes a Ukrainian soldier about the consequences of superiority on the Russian side with the words “Chaos breaks out. You lose control. Some try to help their injured people. This is how groups are created. And we attack them.”
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