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

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic has decided to resume the work of the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Lviv. This was reported on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In Kryvyi Rih, they plan to rename all topographic names that are related to Russia or Belarus. A special commission was set up for this purpose during the session of the city council, the head of the military administration of Kryvyi Rih Oleksandr Vilkul told in Telegram.

The troops of the operational and tactical group East (Skhid) repulsed three attacks by Russian troops in one day. 75 Russians were killed, 1 infantry fighting vehicle, two artillery units and two drones were destroyed.

Five occupiers were captured in Kharkiv region today. They are now testifying against their command.

Italian oil and gas company Eni S.p.A. is preparing to open ruble accounts in Gazprombank, informs Bloomberg.

The enemy is unsuccessfully trying to reach the borders of the Kherson region. The Advisor to the chief of the president’s office Oleksiy Arestovych said this at a briefing.

"Thanks to an effective combination of reconnaissance, aviation and artillery, the Armed Forces of Ukraine inflict precise strikes on enemy groups, their command posts, ammunition depots, which effectively disrupts the pace of the offensive, slows it down and stops it in some areas," Arestovych said.

French authorities have arrested three villas that may belong to Russian businessmen, BFMTV reports.

Villa in the area of Saint-Tropez (probable owner Oleg Deripaska), the city of Biarritz (owned by Kirill Shamalov) and in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat (owned by Musa Bazhayev) were arrested.

The Russians continue to inflict missile strikes on the Odesa oblast, this way they want to get at least some success until May 9, said the head of the Odesa Regional Military State Administration Maksym Marchenko.

In the near future, the "demilitarization" of Russia's border regions with Ukraine will continue. Mykhailo Podoliak, an adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, announced this on the telethon.

Zelensky awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine to Lieutenant General Serhiy Nayev.

Switzerland has imposed additional sanctions against Russia in the framework of the decision to implement the fifth package of EU sanctions. This was reported on the website of the department.

New measures include a ban on imports of timber and coal, as well as goods that are important sources of income for Russia (such as cement, seafood, caviar).

Germany no longer sees Russia as a reliable partner, said German government spokesman Steffen Hebeshtrait after Russia's decision to cut off gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria.

In Dnipro, a 6-year-old girl collects money for bulletproof vests for the Armed Forces while playing the flute.

The German chemical concern BASF is leaving the Russian and Belarusian markets against the background of Russia's aggression against Ukraine. This is stated in a press release from BASF.

The Center for Counteracting Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine warns that Russia is conducting an aggressive informational and psychological operation aimed at suppressing resistance from the population of the temporarily occupied Kherson region.

Russia began to spread the thesis that "Ukrainians have come to terms with the transition of territory under Russian control and are adjusting to the new reality."

On April 27, Russian troops killed a civilian in the Donetsk region (in Mariinka) and wounded eight, according to OVA Chairman Pavlo Kyrylenko.

The European Commission has agreed to remove all duties and quotas on Ukrainian exports for a year, as well as to suspend anti-dumping tariffs, said Volodymyr Zelensky.

Russia's Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) is protesting against the transfer to the United States of Ukraine of Soviet and Russian weapons, including Mi-17 helicopters, according to the publication of propaganda RIA Novosti.

The Swiss government has vetoed the re-export of Swiss-made ammunition used in Gepard anti-aircraft self-propelled guns, which Germany plans to supply to Ukraine. This was reported by the Swiss TV channel SRF.

The UN has formed a team to evacuate people from Mariupol. Negotiations are underway with the Russian and Ukrainian authorities to secure conditions, said Farhan Haq, a spokesman of the UN Secretary-General.

The International Center for the Study, Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) will provide Ukraine with funding to assess the scale of the post-war restoration of cultural heritage. This was announced by Minister of Culture and Information Policy Oleksandr Tkachenko in a Telegram.

The Italians have expressed readiness to promote the reconstruction of Bucha, said the head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration Alexander Pavlyuk.

AliExpress began to cancel orders to Ukraine en masse. According to Interfax-Ukraine, this was noticed in the communities of Ukrainian masters.

Gazprombank Vice President Igor Volobuev left Russia for Ukraine and joined Kyiv's territorial defense. He told this in an interview with journalist Denis Kazansky.

A video of the shelling of the building of the so-called Ministry of State Security of unrecognized Transnistria appeared on social networks.

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A former serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine received 14 years for treason. In 2014, he betrayed Ukraine and sided with Russia.

The Schemes identified Russian servicemen who tortured Ukrainians in the Kyiv region.

Following the meeting of the defense ministers of 40 countries in Rammstein, it can be concluded that "these are truly historic changes that will materialize in the coming weeks and months," Reznikov said.

Qualitative shifts towards strengthening the Ukrainian army have already taken place. The Ukrainian military is already mastering Western weapons, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said on Facebook.

The Kremlin denies that dictator Vladimir Putin has agreed to the participation of the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross in the evacuation of civilians from the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. This was stated by Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov, Interfax reports.

After the war, the Kharkiv City Council will renam all topographical names associated with Russia. This was announced by Mayor Igor Terekhov.

Ukrzaliznytsia restricts the route of suburban trains in the direction of Odesa - Belgorod-on-Dniester.

Personnel of the Russian occupiers, who are being taken to replenish losses from the occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, have their personal documents confiscated in order to make it impossible to identify them. There have been more and more cases of enemy soldiers searching for new ways to avoid participating in fighting. The personnel resort to desertion, captivity and self-mutilation, the General Staff notes.

In the Transnistrian region of Moldova, due to provocations from Russia, a "red" level of terrorist threat has been started. The personnel of the security forces were transferred to the "barracks state", the control at the checkpoints was strengthened, the preparations for the holiday parade on May 9 were canceled, the General Staff reports.

The Summary from the General Staff as of 18:00:

• In the Donetsk and Tavriisk directions the enemy fires along the entire line of contact. In the Kurakhove area, the enemy unsuccessfully tried to break through the positions of the AFU.
• In the Pivdennyy Buh direction subdivisions of occupant troops continue to improve the engineering equipment of the positions, replenish stocks of material and technical means, ammunition, and fuel, and conduct air reconnaissance under cover of artillery fire. Russian occupants tried to improve the tactical positions of their troops in the Zaporizhzhia direction, failed, and retreated with losses.
• The invaders continue to perform "filtration measures" on the temporarily occupied territory of the Kharkiv region.
• On the temporarily occupied territory of the Zaporizhzhia region occupants inspect houses of residents to detect Ukrainian forces. They conduct a census of the local population.
• On the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson region occupants prepare for "the referendum" and forbid locals to leave the area.

Russia withdrew itself from the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) on the day of the vote on her expulsion from this organization at an extraordinary session of the General Assembly, Secretary-general of the UNWTO Zurab Pololikashvili informs on Twitter.

Commander of the 36th Marine Brigade of the AFU Serhiy Volynskyy ("Volyna") recorded a video in which he called for the extraction procedure to be used for Ukrainian soldiers and civilians trapped in Mariupol, following the example of the Dunkirk operation during World War II.

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In the Dnipro region, the occupants have already fired cluster shells three times today at Velyka Kostromka, which borders the Kherson region.

"Fortunately, people were not affected. The village is partially without electricity", — the head of Dnipro RSA Valentyn Reznichenko informs.

One more Ukrainian village is liberated from Russian invaders. Our fighters of the 72nd Separate Mechanized Brigade named after the Black Zaporozhians (Chorni Zaporozhtsi) continue to push the occupants out of the Ukrainian land in their area of responsibility. Also Ukrainians captured several Russian military.

Russian occupants increase the pace of the offensive and prepare additional units to participate in the war against Ukraine, Spokesman of the Ministry of Defense Oleksandr Motuznyak states at the briefing of April 27.

The Russian took out medical equipment from Mariupol Hospital №4, Petro Andryushchenko informs. Equipment was taken to a maternity hospital in another district, where the occupants are setting up their military hospital.

Kremlin denies UN reports that Putin has agreed to the organization's participation in the evacuation of civilians from Azovstal, Suspilne informs.

Russian looters begin to loot from themselves — news from another intercepted conversation of an occupant. They steal their own military equipment, and also arms and ammo of their killed and wounded. They dig it in to return later.

The Ministry of Defense does not exclude possible Russian provocations along the border, Oleksandr Motuznyak informs at a briefing, according to Ukrinform. To do this, the Russians sent additional units of the Russian Guard to the border zone in Belarus.

The SESU shows what an explosion of 475 enemy ammo units looks like.

The Prosecutor General's Office reported the suspicion of the head of the State Duma and 418 of her deputies who voted for decisions that violate the territorial integrity of Ukraine.

48 kilograms of gold were confiscated from Yanukovych's entourage ex-official, The Prosecutor General's Office informs. It will be handed over to the defense.

In two months of the war, Russia's missile stockpile has more than halved, and it will take years to restore missile capabilities, Hanna Malyar says.