Russian invasion of Ukraine: tanks and rocket attacks on the cities. Breaking news
Early in the morning of February 24, 2022, Russia launched missile strikes on the territory of Ukraine and launched a direct full-scale invasion. Ukraine repulses the enemy. As of April 28, 2022, more than 22800 russian servicemen, thousands of units of military equipment (187 planes, 155 helicopters, 970 tanks, 2389 armored vehicles, 1688 machines, 582 artillery / rocket artillery systems, 8 ships and more) have been eliminated.
“Putin’s cook” and the owner of PWC Wagner Evgeniy Prigozhin has joined political freak Vitaliy Milonov in Donbas. Photo proof below.
Another collaborationist under investigation: according to the Prosecutor’s Office, he accepted the invaders’ offer to collaborate and was appointed the head of the temporary civil administration of Nova Kakhovka, Kherson Region.
TV presenter Lesia Nikitiuk has recorded a “Ukrainized” version of the famous Soviet cartoon soundtrack.
Сommander of the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksii Neizhpapa has been promoted to Vice-Admiral.
The Russian invaders might be preparing a landing operation in the besieged Mariupol—the information is being checked, deputy MoD Anna Maliar said on the air of the national TV marathon.
40,000 soldiers from the whole world are already in. The International Legion of Ukraine to fight Russia: how to join.
“We came here for a blitzkrieg but managed only to sh*t ourselves.”: an occupier’s handwritten diary was found in liberated Katyuzhanka, in which he details his “work” and fears the war will become Russia’s curse, Radio Svoboda reports.
“Russia has ruined itself. And it’s all downhill from here,” former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Volodymyr Ohryzko said on the air of Radio NV.
The former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Rowan Williams has returned from his trip to Ukraine and told BBC that the Russian Orthodox Church needs to push for an Easter truce lest its leadership “risk all moral credibility”.
Since 6 April, 41 bodies have already been extracted from under the rubble of the houses destroyed by Russian shelling in Borodianka, Kyiv Region.
The statue of Marshal Zhukov in Kharkiv has been torn down. A dumper came, and the monument was removed from its pedestal and taken to the dump without any fanfare.
“Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the Lord,” Boris Johnson said in Ukrainian during his Easter greeting.
The self-proclaimed head of the Dymerka Amalgamated Territorial Community has been served a notice of charges of collaborating with the invaders. According to the investigation data, he helped the occupiers take their bearings in the locality in exchange for personal safety guarantees and announced to the locals that he took on the responsibilities of the head of Dymerka Amalgamated Territorial Community.
Bulgaria has banned Russian vessels from entering its ports, the country’s maritime administration informs.
The EU has ramped up the aid programme for Ukrainian refugees by another EUR 50 million. EUR 5 million will go to Moldova and the rest to Ukraine, DW reports.
In Bucha, local resident Ilya Navalny was murdered allegedly because of his surname, Bild reports.
Bucha resident Ilya Navalny was murdered. The alleged reason was his surname
❗️BILD journalists have talked to Bucha residents who witnessed the murder of Ilia Navalny, a namesake of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny. They assumed it was the man’s surname that prompted the Russian soldiers to kill him.
Maria saw Ilya on 12 March, when he was shot dead. “We entered our block of flats and met Ilya—he was going down the stairwell. I told him: don’t go out—shoot-outs may happen. Still, he insisted on going out and having a cigarette. Then, I heard gunshots over and over again.”
When Maria left the basement an hour later, she saw him lying on the ground. They shot him in the head. His passport was lying near him.
It is unknown if Ilya Navalny had any connection to Alexey Navalny. The man was originally from Zalissia, a village near Chornobyl where the Russian opposition leader’s father was born.
Security Service of Ukraine has published another intercepted conversation between invaders. In it, a man mobilized in the so-called LPR confesses that the occupiers have been opening fire point-blank on Ukrainian women. As it turned out, the killed woman’s only crime had a brother in the Azov Battalion.
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is under the illusion that the Russian army is winning in Ukraine, and delusions of this kind can lead to tragedy, advisor to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine and a participant of the Ukrainian delegation in the negotiations with Russia Mykhailo Podolyak wrote on Twitter.
The evacuation of Luhansk Region residents continues even without any relief corridors and a ceasefire. Today, 27 residents of Lysychansk and six residents of Severodonetsk have been rescued, Head of the Luhansk Regional State Administration Serhiy Haidai informs. The evacuated people are heading to Dnipro.
Viktor, a displaced man from Popasna, told Radio Svoboda about the outcome of the Russian shelling of Zarichne, Donetsk Region: his daughter-in-law died, and his son was injured and has been hospitalized. The couple went to the pharmacy but almost immediately came under shelling.
The enemy has shelled 13 localities in the Donetsk Region over the past 24 hours, the National Police of Ukraine reports. As a result of Russian strikes, two civilians were killed and one injured. At least 17 civilian installations have been destroyed: houses, a mine, and administrative buildings. The invaders shelled the people with missiles from the Grad MLRS as well as tank and artillery shells.
The General Staff told about the hero of Ukraine, who led two units of the Armed Forces out of the encirclement of the Russian invaders. Captain Yuriy Mykhailyuk is defending the Donetsk direction.
In March, during a 12-hour battle with the occupiers, surrounded by the enemy, he managed to unite with a battalion of the adjacent military unit, rescue their wounded combatant, take the unit under his command, hold back and withdraw from the encirclement.
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson informed Volodymyr Zelensky about further military assistance that the United Kingdom will provide to Ukraine in the coming days, he wrote on Twitter.
"The United Kingdom will stop at nothing to provide Ukrainians with the resources they need to defend their country from an ongoing Russian onslaught. #StandWithUkraine️," Johnson added.
The result of yesterday's massive shelling by the occupiers of Donbass: a 46-year-old man died in Marinka, and a woman was wounded in Avdiivka.
State Border Guard Service: In the Kharkiv direction, the air assault troops inflicted heavy blows on the enemy and destroyed 5 tanks, 10 units of armored vehicles (fighting infantry machines and armored personnel carriers), as well as a column of occupiers' marines.
Ukraine receives many appeals from the Russian military who want to surrender. This was announced by Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar on the air of the national telethon. "The demoralization of the Russian armed forces is already speeding up," Malyar said.
Kharkiv. Over the past 24 hours, the occupiers launched one rocket and 23 artillery, mortar and multiple launch rocket system shells in the areas of Northern Saltivka, Pyatykhatky, Oleksiyivka, the city center, Kharkiv tractor plant, and Dergachi. Oleg Sinegubov, the head of the Kharkiv regional state administration, writes about it. 31 people were wounded and three died. Also during the demining of Russian cluster munitions near Kharkiv, three sappers exploded and four were wounded.
Iryna Vereshchuk, Minister of Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories: As of this morning, April 17, we have not been able to agree with the occupiers on a ceasefire on the evacuation routes. Thus, unfortunately, we are not opening humanitarian corridors today.
The head of the Mykolaiv regional state administration Vitaly Kim: shelling of the city continue. Electricity was cut off in the city. This can be repaired whereas the issue of restoring water supply is also being resolved. On military situation, time is favouring us: while the enemy is preparing troops and mobilization, weapons are coming to us. Enemies already have skirmishes between themselves.
The curfew is changing in Kyiv and the region, the Kyiv City State Administration writes. Starting from April 17, the curfew will begin an hour later, ending an hour earlier and last from 22:00 to 5:00 am.
The symbol of Ukrainians' strong spirit - a kitchen cabinet with a ceramic rooster from the occupied Borodyanka - is now in a part of the National Museum of the Revolution of Dignity. This was reported by the museum on its website.
The destruction of the Russian "Moscva" cruiser is a strategical success for Ukraine and a blow to the selfishness of the Russians, — the chief of the Basic Planning Department at the Austrian Ministry of Defense Bruno Hofbauer in his interview for Oberösterreichische Nachrichten.
At 3 o'clock in the morning the occupants issued an ultimatum to the defenders of Mariupol demanding to lay down their arms and surrender by six in the morning. Three hours later, there was no such activity, Reuters writes.
New data on occupant losses
The SESU: From the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the RF on the territories of Ukraine 65 320 explosive devices and 417.4 kg of explosives were neutralized, including 1 937 aviation bombs. A total of 10 270 hectares were examined.
The occupants shelled Brovary in the Kyiv region this morning. According to the city mayor Ihor Sapozhko, the infrastructural objects were hit.
During yesterday's shelling of the Zaporizhzhia region, the occupants fired heavy artillery at the homes of local residents of Hulyaipole, the National Guard informs. As a result of the shelling five private houses were hit — some of them are completely destroyed, others have damage of varying degrees. One injured elderly man is currently reported.
Russian army moves equipment to Kharkiv and Severodonetsk, and plans the offense on the East. Its final goals are still unchangeable — to make Ukraine refuse the Euro-Atlantic orientation. These are the data provided by the British Intelligence, the Minister of Defense of Great Britain informs on Twitter.
The mayor of Trostyanets on occupation, life during the war and rebuilding the city. The city was occupied from February 24, was facing problems with evacuation and food supply. Local citizens were afraid to leave their homes. The admirers of "russian peace" accuse local authorities.
Russia threatening to neutral Finland over its possible accession to NATO is no news and it will not affect Helsinki's decision, — the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Finnland Pekka Haavisto informs, accorfing to the Yle.
Ukrposhta negotiates with the occupants to return 3 million UAH stolen from the national post operator in Melitopol. The funds were to go to social payments, salaries, and pensions. The information is provided by the general director of Ukrposhta Ihor Smilyanskyy on air of the national telethon.
In the Donetsk region Sicheslavski paratroopers hunted down a multitarget unmanned aerial complex "Orlan-10", the General Staff of the AFU informs. The price of one such complex is about $100 000.
More than 563 children suffered in Ukraine as the result of the full-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation, the Prosecutor's Office informs. 202 children are dead, more than 361 are injured.
In California National Defense University of the USA has launched a large-scale scenario-based exercise using the situations in Ukraine since the Russian invasion as examples, "Holos Ameriki" (The Voice of America) informs. Soldiers are being prepared for possible future combats with such enemies as Russia or China.
Aerial Reconnaissance shows how Ukrainian UAV "Leleka" fires artillery on Russian occupants.
Russia may begin the next phase of its military campaign in Ukraine this weekend or early next week, according to the American NBC Channel, referring the high-ranking officials of defense departments. The United States is reportedly working to persuade the allies to send more artillery and ammunition to Ukraine so that they do not run out of it when the offensive grows.
Oleksandr Vilkul, head of the Kryvyi Rih Regional Military State Administration, summarized the previous day: the outer perimeter of Kryvyi Rih's defense is being strengthened, it is already moved to the Kherson oblast. There were several shellings in the liberated frontline villages of the Kherson oblast and the frontline villages of the Kryvyi Rih district. There are damaged houses and farms. There are no victims. Our military continues to effectively destroy enemy manpower and equipment.
And one more news about the shelling of Luhansk oblast - on the morning of April 17, the Russian army hit Kreminna with artillery, writes Serhiy Haidai. At least one person was injured - moderate injuries.
At night, new districts of Severodonetsk came under Russian shelling, writes the head of the Luhansk Regional State Administration Serhiy Haidai. After the shells hit, three high-rise buildings on the same street caught fire. And another one a bit further away. Numerous fires in apartments were recorded. Information about the victims is being clarified. Also in the evening, another house was destroyed by the enemy in Novodruzhesk. Firefighters managed to evacuate the owner.
