Russian invasion of Ukraine: tanks and rocket attacks on the cities. Breaking news

Oksana Bersan, an artist, dedicated her work to Ukrainian railway workers.

The Ministry of Digital Transformation asked Meta to ease the requirements for Ukraine in moderating content about Russia's war against Ukraine, Mykhailo Fedorov tells RBK-Ukraina.

Russia officially confirms the fact of the forcible evacuation of more than a million Ukrainians "without the participation of the Ukrainian authorities". The information is provided by the head of the RF National Center of Defense Contol Mykhailo Mizyntsev, according to the propaganda Media.

The occupants were dropping heavy bombs on a military hospital at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol all night, Azov Regiment informs. After that, the enemy continued to fire at the ruins of naval artillery.

As a result of the shelling, the operating room collapsed in the Azovstal shelter. Among the wounded servicemen there are dead, newly wounded, and injured.

Three Ukrainians died and three were wounded due to the morning air strike on New-York in Donetsk region - the Head of the Region Military Administration Pavlo Kyrylenko.
Russian unguided missiles hit the industrial area and the living blocks - at least nine private houses are damaged but the exact amount of ruination is yet to be figured out.

Viktor Medvedchuk's yacht Royal Romance, arrested in Croatia, will most likely be sold and the money received (about 200 mln USD) will be credited to the Ukrainian budget - the speaker of the profile National Agency Pavlo Buldovych for "Skhemy".

Ukrainian Prosecutor's Office revealed 10 servicemen of the Russian army who were torturing local residents in Bucha - Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova.

64th separate motorized shooting brigade was granted the title of honor "guards" which confirms the fact that the atrocities in Bucha were the order from above.

It is now possible to watch cartoons and sports channels on Diia TV.

Occupants stole in Mariupol and brought to occupied Donetsk more than 2000 museum exhibits including paintings of Arkhyp Kuindzhi and Ivan Aivazovskyi, old icons, Gospel of 1811, more than 200 medals.

Oil giant Shell will no longer accept oil products with any content of Russian raw material, including fuel fusions - Reuters.

Security Service of Ukraine revealed the hidden storage of tank details in Kharkiv that were meant for occupants.

In underground storage 19 tank engines and other equipment for the machines were stocked. The overall amount of the found items is 1.5 mln USD. It was enough to repair half of the tank battalion.

Illegal storage was organized by a 61-year-old Kharkiv resident that colluded with occupants and planned to give them the details in case of their invasion in the city. The criminal investigation was started with the accusation of the treason under the martial law.

"Antonov" warns of the fake fund raising for restoration of An-225 "Mriia".

"Claiming noble mission the unknown company raises money the usage of which cannot be traced".

Aircraft company is now developing an official web page with bank data on which it will be possible to track money for aircraft restoration.

In blocked Mariupol more than 100 000 people are at risk of catching different deadly diseases due to lack of sanitation - Mariupol City Council.

The temperature in the city is 20 degrees Celsius and soon some fatal epidemics can start (cholera, dysentery, coli) - due to no water supply and out-of-order sewerage, decay of thousands of corpses under the debris and catastrophic lack of water and food.

In blocked Mariupol more than 100 000 people are at risk of catching different deadly diseases due to lack of sanitation - Mariupol City Council.

The temperature in the city is 20 degrees Celsius and soon some fatal epidemics can start (cholera, dysentery, coli) - due to no water supply and out-of-order sewerage, decay of thousands of corpses under the debris and catastrophic lack of water and food.

Russian Intelligence states "information" that Washington and Warsaw are preparing to establish Polish control over part of western Ukraine under the slogan of their "protection from Russian aggression." According to the propaganda Media, this "plan" was announced personally by the head of Russian Foreign Intelligence Serhiy Naryshkin.

Ukraine may attack Russian storehouses and bases to defend from the aggression - the advisor of the Head of President Office Mykhailo Podolyak.

The right to do so was recognized by the officials of the USA and Great Britain.

For the latest week direct losses of the Ukrainian economy have grown by 3.1 bln USD due to the destruction and damage of the civil and military infrastructure.

The overall amount of the documented losses of infrastructure as of April 26th is nearly 88 bln USD or 2.6 trillion UAH - the results calculated by the project "Russia will pay".

Lysychansk will not have water supply until the end of combat - the Head of Luhansk Region State Administration Serhii Haidai. He also reminded that there is no water supply in Rubizhne, Popasna and Severodonetsk - meaning nearly all the free cities of the region. He urges residents to evacuate.

Russia must do everything for the safe and swift evacuation of people from the combat areas in Ukraine - the President of the PACE Tiny Kox.

He also urged the international organizations and communities, including the agencies and bodies of the UN and the Red Cross, to provide humanitarian corridors.

The Russians shelled one of the eastern districts of Kharkiv, the head of Kharkiv RSA Oleh Synyehubov informs. One person died, two more injured.

At least six Russian cyber groups carried out more than 237 attacks on Ukraine, according to Microsoft reports.

According to the company's analysts, the threat groups linked to the RF were preparing for the conflict starting March 2021.

The Minister of Defense of Great Britain Ben Wallace thinks that the Russian troops should be kicked out from the temporarily occupied Crimea. "International community condemned Russia for the illegal invasion in Crimea in 2014. We do not acknowledge the annexation and constantly say that Russia should leave the sovereign territory. That has not changed" - Wallace stated.

In Yakymivka, Melitopol district, the railway bridge was destroyed by explosion today in the morning - RIA Melitopol. It had been used by occupants to deliver weapons and fuel for military machines from Crimea.

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German Bundestag approved the provision of heavy weapons to Ukraine.

Both the opposition and the coalition voted in favor.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg stated that is Finland and Sweden apply for NATO membership the process will be swift. The states of the block will find a way to guarantee their security until the moment of the official joining.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres visited Borodyanka in Kyiv region that had been vandalized by occupants.

"I imagine my family in one of those houses, now destroyed and black. I see my grandchildren escaping in panic. In the 21st century war cannot be acceptable" - the leader of the UN.

"I imagine my family in one of those homes, now destroyed and black. I see my granddaughters running away in panic. There is no way the war can be acceptable in the 21st century," @antonioguterres said on his visit to the earlier hard-hit #Borodianka near #Ukraine's capital. pic.twitter.com/olI4WtgroJ

— OCHA Ukraine (@OCHA_Ukraine) April 28, 2022

In the Kharkiv region the police detained a woman who was passing information about the location of military equipment of the AFU to her brother, who cooperates with the RF on the uncontrolled territories.

The National Police: yesterday the Russian shelled Mykolaiv and separate districts of the region. Information on casualties and damages is being specified.

The SSU informs: occupants are afraid to enter combats with Ukrainian defenders, therefore preparing provocations that may affect the civilian population.

Head of Lysychansk City MCA Oleksandr Zaika called on the residents of the city to evacuate.

The National Police: In the last 24 hours occupants shelled 22 settlements in the Donetsk region. As a result of Russian strikes, there are dead and wounded. At least 30 civilian objects were destroyed: residential buildings, a school, a sanatorium, plants, a grain warehouse, a garden company, communal and railway infrastructure.

Sluha Narodu (The Servant of the People) Deputy in Kherson Oleksiy Kovalyov is suspected of treason, — the head of the Sluha Narodu Party Olena Shulyak.

Main Directorate of Intelligence of the MD informs: Propagandists in robes, at the behest of the Kremlin, preach the doctrine of "the Russian peace", which does not correspond to Orthodox teachings, and encourage believers to join the ranks of the occupying forces.

Combat losses of the enemy personnel as for April 28 has reached 22 800:

This morning Russians shelled Zaporizhzhia. Two houses in the private sector were damaged. Three victims are known, including one child. The strike was carried out by aircraft, using X-55 air-to-ground missiles.

Zaporizhzhia Defense Forces destroyed one tank and two infantry fighting vehicles of the invaders:

Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine: Unrecognized Transnistria calls on citizens to "special assembly" to strengthen the army. The letter from the Ministry of Defense of the Transnistrian region to the heads of local administrations is dated April 21 - that is, before the beginning of the latest Russian provocations.

Advisor to the chief of the president’s office Mykhailo Podoliak: It will be expensive to quickly switch to alternative supply channels, but not as expensive as when you do not do it. In the medium term, Moscow will face total economic and political isolation. The result is poverty on a scale Russia has never seen before.

Advisor to the chief of the president’s office Mykhailo Podoliak: The introduction of an embargo on Russian energy products is a matter of time. Refusal of Russian oil is not only about moral responsibility, but also about calculation: Russia has ceased to be a reliable and predictable partner in the eyes of the world, so the world cannot afford to depend on it.

Energoatom: Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station works only to supply its own needs - due to damage to the 330 kW high-voltage line in the southern region of Ukraine.

During the last 24 hours, explosive technicians of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine detected and neutralized 1,245 explosive devices, including one aerial bomb.

By the end of the year it is planned to build 30,000 apartments with a total value of UAH 36 billion. Each new house will have a bomb shelter with few separate entrances, houses will have from three to five floors. The construction will be carried out in Kyiv and 15 oblasts - president’s office.

Three floors of the Sievierodonetsk hospital were damaged, electricity and water aren't available. The Russians shelled the medical facility on April 27, at about 11:00.
There are only two hospitals left in the Luhansk oblast, where care is provided to the affected population - in Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk.

British intelligence: There are 20 Russian warships in the Black Sea Operational Zone, including submarines; The Bosphorus remains closed to all non-Turkish warships, making it impossible to replace the sunken cruiser Moscow; The Russian Black Sea Fleet still retains the ability to fire on targets on the shores and in the depths of Ukrainian territory.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe supported the establishment of a tribunal over Russia's aggression against Ukraine.

Luhansk Regional Military State Administration: A 58-year-old local man died in Girske yesterday morning when he went out into the yard near his house and did not manage to escape from the Russian fire, an 85-year-old woman in Sievierodonetsk and two men in Novodruzhesk and Lysychansk were also killed. Four more people were injured to varying degrees.