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.
The evacuation of the personnel of "Moskva" cruiser was hindered by the storm, as the speaker of the Marine Guard of the State Border Guard Service Natalia Humenyuk informs.
The Federal Service of Security (FSB) addressed the government of Russia with the request to increase funds for the burial of the deceased Russian servicemen and the tombstones for them by 17% (Russian BBC service).
Polish Border Guard Service informs that since the beginning of the war more than 2.75 mln refugees have come from Ukraine to Poland. The amount of people who cross the border to Poland, has decreased in the recent weeks and the amount of those who go to Ukraine has increased (CNN).
The Head of Bucha Regional Prosecutor's Office Ruslan Kravchenko for Current Time: "Animals behave better than Russian soldiers who started to shoot as soon as they saw a civilian".
France plans to return its embassy from Lviv to Kyiv as a sign of support to Ukraine in its battle against the Russian aggression, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of France Jean-Yves Le Drian told Dmytro Kuleba (Anadolu).
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy Luigi di Maio in his phone conversation with Dmytro Kuleba discussed the possibility to return Italian embassy to Kyiv in the nearest time, Anadolu informs. Italy also plans to strengthen sanctions against Russia.
Prosecutor General's Office started an investigation of people's death due to the shelling of evacuation buses in Borova, Izyum district, Kharkiv region, by occupants. It is informed that on April 14th Russians shelled buses with civilians, 7 people died, 27 were wounded.
The Chief Intelligence Staff told how at the end of March they were liberating cities and villages of Sumy and Chernihiv regions together with guerilla and the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Moody's rating agency warns that Russia can admit default on two series of eurobonds if the investors do not receive their guaranteed payments in currency different from RUR by May 4th.
The writer of "House of Cards" Beau Willimon came to Ukraine to collect material for the documentary about the atrocities of Russians during the occupation of Kyiv region.
93th Separate Mechanized Brigade "Kholodnyi Yar" showed the photos of the shot down Russian assault helicopter Ka-52. Welcome to the ground, "Alligator".
Postal services of Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Australia have sent the documents to the Univarsal Postal Union that they cease delivery to Russia and Belarus. The Post of Latvia, which had stopped making any money transfers to the aggressor countries in March, also joined the postal blockade.
Defence Minister Oleksiy Reznikov joked on Twitter that, thanks to the sunken Moskva, divers on the Black Sea had a new "rack".
A "flagship" russian warship is a worthy diving site. We have one more diving spot in the Black Sea now. Will definitely visit the wreck after our victory in the war.
— Oleksii Reznikov (@oleksiireznikov) April 15, 2022
BTW, I already have 300 scuba dives pic.twitter.com/q2Buc51qeI
German Economy Minister Robert Habeck has urged residents to save energy because of the situation around Ukraine. "We will be less dependent on imports from Russia if we approach this as a big joint project," he said (Spiegel).
Russia demands that the USA stop supplying weapons to Ukraine and threatens unpredictable consequences for European and global security if it fails to do so. The Washington Post quoted The Washington Post as quoting the text of the threatening diplomatic note.
Mariupol mayor Vadym Boychenko on Current Time: "There has been bombing since 9 March and for a fortnight, systematic and very harsh. People had no opportunity to bury the dead, they did it in their yards. Now the bodies are being taken [by the Russian military] to storage centres. We assume that they will use mass graves and partial incinerations, as intelligence has confirmed, in mobile crematoriums. Another option is to take the bodies to a controlled part in the town of Khartsyzsk, which has been occupied since 2014, and burn them in crematoria there.
Minister of Internal Affairs Denis Monastyrsky passed a bloodied toy from Kramatorsk to the UN crisis coordinator in Ukraine, Amin Awad, for transfer to the UN International Court of Justice in The Hague.
Hector Jimenez-Bravo and his team are preparing hot lunches for the residents of Irpinj, Bucha and Borodyanka.
Total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02 to 15.04. Approximate data from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The mark of 20,000 dead occupiers has been reached!
Есть 20 000 мертвых оккупантов!
Amid warnings from Ukrainian intelligence about new Kremlin provocations to mobilize Russians for war against Ukraine, the Russian military launched air defense missiles over Belgorod this morning. Russia's propaganda media soon wrote that the Russian military was "repelling the attack."
In the temporarily occupied Skadovsk in the Kherson region the invaders removed the Ukrainian flag and replaced it with a Russian tricolor above the city council. Skadovsk Mayor Oleksandr Yakovlev announced this on Facebook. He added that the Skadovsk City Council will not cooperate with the occupiers, so from today no employee of the executive committee will work in the building under the enemy flag.
Slovakia's defense minister believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin is a modern version of the twentieth-century Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. Yaroslav Nadj said this in an interview with The New York Times, assuring that Bratyslava will continue to support Ukraine.
In the Chernihiv region, Russia is attacking the positions of border guards. Thus, today at 08:25 and at 09:00 from the territory of the Russian Federation there was a mortar shelling of the area adjacent to the state border of Ukraine in the area of Senkivka.
Russia's Ministry of Industry and Trade complains that some foreign logistics companies are refusing to transport Russian goods.
After the start of the full-scale invasion, the State Bureau of Investigation has initiated 154 criminal proceedings for treason and 81 for collaboration. Most - in the Donbass.
The Uzhhorod City Council commission has decided to rename 58 streets connected with Russian figures, the Uzhhorod City Council informs.
A resident of Sweden sold his sailing yacht and made the first installment to buy ambulances for the long-occupied city Trostyanets in the Sumy region. This was reported by the Trostyanets City Council.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces destroyed the drone of the Russian occupiers trying to carry out reconnaissance activities aimed at the infrastructure of Odessa. The speaker of Odessa State Military Administration Sergey Bratchuk reports it on Facebook.
Despite public "neutrality", Hungary could supply Ukraine with weapons from its arsenals through other countries. This was reported by The New York Times.
Polish President Andrzej Duda has signed a law providing for an embargo on coal imports from Russia and the possibility of freezing the assets of Russian citizens and companies for support of aggression against Ukraine. This was reported on the website of the Office of the Polish President.
From the first days of the war, the Russians shelled Chernihiv's residential areas and blocked them. How was it? LIGA.net visited the half-ruined streets of the city.
In the cities and villages of the Zhytomyr region the destruction caused by the Russian occupiers is being eliminated. UAH 100 million has been allocated for this from the state budget.
This was announced by Deputy Head of the President's Office Kyrylo Tymoshenko on Facebook.
The statement of the Russian occupiers' command that the Slovak air defense complex C-300, allegedly handed over to the Armed Forces, was destroyed near Dnipro - a Kremlin fake "to calm the nerves" of the pilots of the Russian Air Force. This was reported by The New York Times, citing Slovak Defense Minister Jaroslav Nadia.
Dmytro Kuleba adopted a puppy from Mariupol and named him Marik. The video with the new pet was posted by the Foreign Minister on Instagram.
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Russia itself shelled the village Klimovo in the Bryansk region, although it blamed Ukraine for this. This is confirmed by recent interceptions of telephone conversations of the occupiers, which are available to the Security Service of Ukraine.
Armenia has started paying for Russian gas in rubles, the country's economy minister Vagan Kerobyan said in an interview with RBC.
The Mariupol City Council informed that Russian troops have begun exhuming bodies that were buried in the yards of residential buildings.
"The occupiers forbid the burial of people killed by them. In each yard they put their guard, not allowing Mariupol residents to bury their dead relatives or acquaintances. It is unknown why the exhumation is being carried out and where the bodies will be sent," the statement said.
The Vatican intends to arrange a procession during which a Ukrainian and a Russian woman will carry the cross. This was reported by Polish Radio.
80 servicemen of the 72nd separate mechanized brigade named after the Black Cossacks stood their ground against thousands of Russian troops trying to break through the village of Moshchun to Kyiv.
Hundreds of people have been kidnapped in the Zaporizhzhia region since the start of the war with Russia. The list includes politicians, journalists and educators.
# KIDNAPPED
You can't be silent.
Please repost as much as possible!
Sergey PRYIMA
Head of the Melitopol district council.
Kidnapped on March 13, 2022
Victor DUDKA
deputy of the regional council.
Kidnapped on April 6, 2022
Eugene MATVEEV
Dniprorudne mayor.
Kidnapped on March 13, 2022
Iryna LYPKA
Molochansk mayor.
Kidnapped 31.03.2022
Ivan SAMOIDYUK
First Deputy Mayor of Energodar.
Kidnapped on March 19, 2022
Oleksandr Chub
Deputy Mayor of Tokmak.
Kidnapped 02.04.2022
Volodymyr RYKUN
Mikhailivka village head.
Kidnapped on April 6, 2022
Oleksiy YURCHENKO
manager of affairs of the executive committee of the Berdyansk city council.
Kidnapped on April 6, 2022
Sergey YAVORSKY
starosta Verkhnya Krynytsya village
Kidnapped on March 26, 2022Released
Oleksiy DIBROVSKY
deputy of Pology city council.
Kidnapped on March 25, 2022
The sunken flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet covered the entire Kherson group of the occupying forces from the air. In addition, the ship was supposed to cover landings in Odesa and Kherson oblasts, said Oleksiy Arestovych, Advisor to the chief of the president’s office.
Russian troops are shelling Kreminna with heavy weapons. The shelling of the town didn't stop all night and continues to this moment. Five locals were injured by shrapnel. One elderly man died.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine showed how the Ukrainian military is turning another Russian death machine into scrap metal.
More than 553 children in Ukraine became victims of the Russian invasion. 198 children died. More than 355 people were injured, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine informs.
Famous screenwriter of American TV series, including the House of Cards, Beau Willimon visited Ukraine to collect materials about the brutal atrocities of Russians in the Kyiv oblast. He will make a documentary about the atrocities of the Russians. This was reported by the Bucha City Council on Facebook.
Ukrainian musicians dedicated an old-school track to Ghost of Kyiv and the Air Force of Ukraine.
Ukrposhta has announced a contest for the next target.
оголошуємо конкурс на наступну ціль pic.twitter.com/comd3zcKzh
— Укрпошта (@ukrposhta) April 14, 2022
Ukrainian director Serhiy Sotnychenko was at the epicenter of the mass shelling in Irpen. He captured some moments on the phone.