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

The New York Times published a report from the village of Demydiv in the Kyiv oblast, whose residents flooded their own village to stop the enemy on the way to the Ukrainian capital.

During the past 24 hrs, four people died in the Luhansk oblast, four more were injured, and 10 houses in Popasna were destroyed. 29 times the Russian army struck at peaceful homes of Luhansk oblast residents - Luhansk Regional Military State Administration.

The Russian army is preparing to cross the Siverskyi Donets river, and uses Melitopol in the Zaporizhzhia oblast as a base for aviation, the General Staff of the Armed Forces informs.

The invaders in Kherson announced a partial introduction of the ruble in May.

Serhiy Haidai, head of the Luhansk Regional Military State Administration: The Russians destroyed 13 more houses in Lysychansk. Also, three houses caught fire in Novodruzhesk, in Severodonetsk - a shop, in Girske - a carpentry workshop and a transformer, which cannot be repaired. The facility is completely destroyed - people will be without electricity and mobile communications.

During the last 24 hours, Ukrainian forces hit eight enemy air targets: one plane, one cruise missile, and six operational-tactical UAVs.
Six enemy attacks were repulsed in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, five tanks, one artillery system, twenty-two armored vehicles, one car and one anti-aircraft vehicle were destroyed.

The invaders additionally moved airborne units to the town of Izyum, as well as up to 500 units of equipment - the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The enemy increases the pace of the offensive operation. In almost all directions, the Russian invaders are carrying out intense shelling. The greatest activity is observed in Sloboda and Donetsk directions.
The Russians are trying to maintain the reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the northern direction and prevent their transfer to the Eastern Operational Zone - the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The United States has reliable information that the Russian military has executed Ukrainians who tried to surrender in Donetsk oblast - US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice Beth Van Schaack.

Air defense system worked in Belgorod at night, the Russian propaganda media TASS reported.

The Prime Minister of Slovakia, Eduard Heger, has proposed abolishing customs duties on exports from Ukraine to the European Union.

In two days, more than 4,000 Americans have expressed their intention to sponsor Ukrainians who want to come to the United States under the "Let's Unite for Ukraine" program - CNN.

Ukrzaliznytsia has published a schedule of evacuation trains for April 28 from Zaporizhzhia, Pokrovsk, Kharkiv and Odessa.

The main news that happened overnight:

- US President Joe Biden will make a new statement on Ukraine on Thursday. "The President will issue a statement of support for Ukrainians defending their country and their freedom," - The Hill quoted the White House speaker.

- In Russia, it was reported that since the beginning of the war, more than a million people have been deported "from dangerous regions of Ukraine", including 183,000 children.

- Canada is going to resume the work of the embassy in Ukraine in the near future, but does not yet know whether it will be in Kyiv or Lviv.

- US President Joe Biden's administration is considering declaring Russia a state sponsor of terrorism.

- The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted a resolution directly calling for the immediate establishment of a special tribunal for the Russian crime of aggression against Ukraine.

- Prime Minister Denis Shmygal published a column in The Economist on the economic consequences of the Russian invasion. He writes that the Ukrainian economy may reduce by 50% this year due to the war.

- 78% of Americans support the US government's decision to accept up to 100,000 refugees from Ukraine, Gallup reported. It is the highest level of public support for accepting refugees since 1939.

- Journalist Andrey Tsaplienko said that the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Federation, Valery Gerasimov, may have personally arrived in the Izyum region.

- The Polish Sejm has extended for another 60 days the period for the payment of allowance to provide housing and food for refugees from Ukraine. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Poland, there are about 2 million Ukrainians in the country.

- Operational Command South informed about the destruction of enemy ammunition depots near the village of Molodetske near Kherson and Velyka Oleksandrivka in the north of the Kherson oblast.

The House of Commons of Canada voted to recognize Russia's actions in Ukraine as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people.

The United States has reliable information that Russian troops near Donetsk executed Ukrainian soldiers who were trying to be taken prisoner. US Ambassador of the Office of Global Criminal Justice Beth Van Shaak informed about it during a meeting of the UN Security Council in the Arria format.

Mykhailo Podoliak, adviser to the President Office, said on a united TV marathon that Ukraine has long viewed the Russian-occupied Transnistria as a springboard for potential risks to Odessa and Vinnytsia oblasts, so "everything is taken care of there" in terms of defense.

Hungary has agreed to pay in rubles for Russian gas. “The country has no choice: 85% of gas and 65% of oil are received from Russia. Why? It's determined by infrastructure”, Foreign Minister Peter Siarto said in an interview with CNN.

The Israeli government has decided to cancel the annual official parade on May 9. The Ukrainian embassy said it was linked to Russia's aggression against Ukraine.

The consequences of Russian occupation of Moschun village:

Natural gas supply resumed in Bucha with minor exceptions, the Regional Gas Company reports.

Izium City Council employee, Viktor Belsky (who worked in the Department of Youth and Sports), was killed in a battle with the Russian military. The regional prosecutor's office reports that he had joined the fight with the Russians on the outskirts of the city in the ranks of the "National Resistance Group of Izyum."

Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba called on India to support Ukraine in an interview with India Today: “So, in my view, in times when you have an obvious criminal and a victim of his crime, it’s a moral and politically wise duty to be on the side of the victim.”

The video working of separate mechanized brigade named after Prince Vladimir Monomakh:

The legislative assembly of the Krasnoyarsk Territory of the Russian Federation (Siberia) demands to start expropriation of grain in the occupied Kherson region to compensate for the shortage of products due to sanctions. Holodomor researcher Anne Applebom says, "History doesn't even rhyme this time. It repeats itself in exact way."

The European Commission has officially launched disciplinary proceedings against Hungary for undermining the rule of law. EU funding for Hungary could be cut.

The cosmetics company Coty (brands Max Factor, Calvin Klein, Davidoff, Gucci, Hugo Boss, Miu Miu, etc.) has decided to stop working in Russia.

Madeleine Albright was buried in the United States on April 27. On the eve of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, the former US Secretary of State warned that Russia would make a historic mistake if it attacked Ukraine. The farewell ceremony for Albright was attended by three US presidents: Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.

During the day of April 27, Ukrainian anti-aircraft gunners shot down eight Russian targets, including a plane (probably a Su-34), a cruise missile and six drones.

Microsoft has seen at least six separate Russia-aligned nation-state actors launch cyber warfare operations against Ukraine, the recent report says.

The US House of Representatives has passed a law that allows to direct the seized Russian assets to financial support for Ukraine.

The Cabinet of Ministers is preparing a plan to restore Ukraine. "We want not only to rebuild. We want and will try to make better and more modern everything that was destroyed by Russian barbarians. It also means that a serious transformation of Ukrainian economy is expected after the war," the Prime Minister Denis Shmygal said.

Ukrainian air defense forces shot down a Russian reconnaissance UAV over the sea near Odessa. People heard the air defense in the city shortly before midnight, the local newspaper Dumska reported.

Brazil is ready to sell Ukraine 300,000 shells for German anti-aircraft self-propelled guns Gepard. Germany promised to hand over 50 of Gepard anti-aircraft guns to Ukraine on Tuesday, but the same day it became clear there were only 23,000 shells in German warehouses. The rate of firing the Gepard guns is so great that this supply would be enough for only 20 minutes of actual use.

Most of the 155mm American howitzers promised to Ukraine (90 in total) have already been delivered, the Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said.

The situation in the Zaporizka oblast. Russian troops are trying to advance east of Huliaipole and capture Velyka Novosilka to improve the tactical position in the Zaporizhia direction. In the area of Huliaipole the Ukrainian military captured several recruits from ORDLO.

Russia did not have time to leave the UN World Tourism Organization,  it got expelled from there. 40 countries voted in favor of expelling, against were Syria, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Nicaragua, Zimbabwe, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Korea, China, and Egypt.

Kherson separatist Kirill Stremousov officially has moved to the side of the enemy. Russian propaganda called him "deputy head of the region's civilian military administration." Also another well-known traitor, former People's Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the 5th and 6th convocations (2006-2012) Oleksiy Zhuravko, has returned to Kherson, Most reported.

Active hostilities continue on the territory of the Dergachiv community in the Kharkiv region. At least two people were killed there. The number of victims is unknown in the occupied territory of the community, Mayor Vyacheslav Zadorenko said.

Several explosions erupted in Russian-occupied Kherson, In the evening of April 27. Russian propaganda has already accused Ukraine of rocket fire.

The tractor driver came across an anti-tank mine left by the occupiers in the Bucha district of Kyiv region

So far, no agreement has been reached with Russia on the release of people from Mariupol, which has been blocked by its troops. This was announced by the adviser of the head of the President's Office Mykhailo Podoliak on the air of the national telethon.

The occupiers fired on a hospital and a bus with police delivering medicine to Severodonetsk, Luhansk region, two people were injured.

Russia says that more than a million people have been "evacuated" to its territory, including 183 000 children "from dangerous areas of Ukraine" and separate districts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions since the beginning of the war, said Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Defense Management Center, RIA Novosti reported.

Arestovych told that Ukraine will soon receive powerful weapons from the West, and later will launch active offensive actions to liberate the territory of Ukraine.

Adviser of the Mayor of Mariupol Petro Andryushchenko has published a new video of the shelling and fighting in the city, although Russian authorities say there is "no fighting."

In the Sumy region, more than 50 Russian arrivals were recorded in the Esman community in half an hour, said Dmytro Zhyvytskyi, head of the Sumy Regional State Administration.

One person was killed and three others were injured in the day of shelling by Russian troops in Kharkiv (two were in critical condition). In Chuhuiv district, 3 people were injured, including a 14-year-old child.

Local authorities in Kyiv region plan to install temporary pontoon crossings and structures across all destroyed bridges in the region by the end of May, said Oleksiy Kuleba, head of the regional humanitarian headquarters.

The Prime Minister of Slovakia Eduard Heger called on the European Commission to abolish forever all import duties on Ukrainian goods which export to the European Union. Heger reported this on Twitter.