Battle For Donbas: Main Current Developments
- 27.04.2022, 7:37
The timeline of the 63rd day of the war.
Russia is waging war against Ukraine for the 63rd day. Enemy troops are shelling cities and trying to advance in the east of the country. The Armed Forces of Ukraine successfully hold the defence and counterattack the enemy in the Mykolaiv and Kharkiv directions. There is a danger of an attack by the Russian Federation from the territory of so-called Transnistria.
Charter97.org is broadcasting online the 63rd day of the war. You can see the developments in Ukraine on April 24 in our previous online broadcast.
Ukraine 24 TV channel special broadcast
22:59 Australian Bushmaster armored cars are already at the front helping to destroy the invaders.
22:42 In the Kharkiv region, five invaders were captured. Now they are testifying against their command, Oleh Sinehubov, head of the region, said.
22:25 The United States announced the lifting of a number of restrictions on the provision of intelligence information to the Ukrainian side, Bloomberg reports.
22:06 Grads of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in action.
21:40 Disappointing forecast for Russian fascists for May from terrorist Girkin:
The attempt of the occupiers to advance in the Donbas is doomed to failure due to insufficient numbers, low level of training, huge losses and stupidity of the military leadership.
21:17 Shell has changed the requirements for the purchase of petroleum products and will no longer accept Russian oil in any quantity, including mixtures.
20:55 An important decision of the European Union is being prepared, Zelensky said.
"The European Commission agreed to remove all duties and quotas on Ukrainian exports for a year, as well as to suspend anti-dumping tariffs.
Today I discussed the details of this proposal with President Ursula von der Leyen. I am grateful to her personally and to all our European friends for this step.
Right now, this will allow us to maintain maximum economic activity in Ukraine, our national production."
20:37 Ukrainian Stugna against enemy armored vehicles.
20:16 Finland refused to pay for Russian gas in rubles.
This was reported by the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, citing the Minister for European Affairs and Property Management Tytti Tuppurainen.
"We made a decision in the government committee on economic policy that Finland will not agree to ruble payments," the newspaper quotes the minister as saying.
20:07 The drone of the Armed Forces of Ukraine worked on enemy positions and equipment.
19:58 Belarusian volunteers fighting for the freedom of Ukraine shared a video from the front line.
19:30 The World Tourism Organization has suspended Russia's membership.
19:22 Another village liberated from the invaders. Soldiers of the 72nd Motorized Brigade named after Black Cossacks continue to push back the invaders from Ukrainian land in their area of responsibility.
In addition to the return of the territories, the amount of the exchange fund was also replenished.
18:58 This is a video of the combat use of the French ATGM Milan by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
18:44 A video of the shelling of the Ministry for State Security building in Tiraspol on April 25 has appeared.
There were three shots. They came from grenade launchers, at the second floor. The third shot was the most powerful. The time of the shot is 17:44.
18:40 Nova Poshta resumed delivery from foreign online stores.
This was reported by the press-center of the company.
Now Ukrainians can again order goods in foreign online stores that do not have direct delivery to Ukraine, and receive them at their address, in any working branch or post office of New Mail. Resumed delivery of orders from the US, Germany, France, Spain, UK, Poland, Turkey and Italy. In the near future, the company plans to add China to this list.
18:30 It will be very difficult for Russians to live in the coming years due to the crisis against the backdrop of Western sanctions.
This situation was predicted by the head of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation Alexei Kudrin. He also noted that the current crisis will be greater than the crisis of 2009, or the pandemic one.
18:08 The State Emergency Service showed a video of the explosion of 475 units of enemy ammunition.
If you see a suspicious object, be careful. Don't come close. Call the rescuers.
17:50 A Ukrainian pilot managed to take off from the military airfield after the start of its shelling, and saved the combat aircraft.
17:28 The President of Slovakia tried to reach out to the Russians.
Zuzana Čaputová made an appeal in Russian to increase the chances of reaching out to the Russian-speaking population.
"Russian soldiers, commanders and everyone involved. If you still feel the remnants of humanity in yourself, revive them, and end this terrible war. After all, every day you only increase the army of wounded souls and bodies of women, children, all innocent people. To hurt the defenseless is a manifestation of the greatest weakness.
17:17 iPhone in Russia turns into a "brick".
After the closure of Apple's official stores and service centers in Russia, the App Store, developed by Apple for iPhone smartphones, began to remove popular applications from Russian companies that were subject to sanctions: client banking, navigation, ordering a taxi, food, etc.
16:56 Over the past eight years, Ukrainians have been preparing around the clock to repel a full-scale armed aggression from the Russian Federation. Now acquired skills help them to effectively destroy the enemy.
In the video you can see precise work of the JFO units of the Command of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
16:53 The Tiger Lillies group from Britain showed a cartoon of Russians supporting the Russian attack on Ukraine.
16:25 A criminal "authority" who collaborated with the Russian Federation was expelled from Odesa. This was reported in the Department of Strategic Investigations of the National Police. According to Dumskaya's source in the law enforcement agencies, this is a citizen of Georgia, Tristan Karelidze, born in 1988. His relative is "crime lord" Revaz Katamadze.
16:11 Head of the Mykolaiv regional military administration Vitaliy Kim assessed the threat of an attack by Russians from Transnistria:
"I don't know what the orcs are thinking of. In fact, Transnistria has always been a place where the peacekeeping contingent is, the salaries are higher, everyone has always tried to get there in retirement, for money. There are not very professional war-dogs there, just some silver-spooners of the orc army. I think they will be the first to grab their suitcases and run away, and leave us warehouses. Well, or explode. But rather, they will leave."
15:55 The strange ships that Odesa residents saw are barges and tankers left without crews. Previously, they were fired upon by the military of the Russian Federation.
15:42 "We refused to go forward as a company." The invaders talk about the low morale in the ranks of the Russian army.
15:38 In Mykolaiv, they no longer accept those wishing to join the ranks of territorial defense, said the mayor of Mykolaiv Oleksandr Senkevich. There is simply no need for so many volunteers.
15:33 Austria returned its embassy to Kyiv.
15:29 The crew of the captured T-80BVM destroyed a tank of a similar model under the control of the occupiers.
15:23 Russian vehicles stuck in the Ukrainian forest and crushed their own soldiers.
15:20 Poland makes an appeal to the European Commission with a request to impose duties of 25-35% on gas and oil imports from Russia.
15:18 Many people are leaving so-called Transnistria, fearing an escalation of the conflict.
15:14 “Oi u luzi chervona kalyna” (Oh, the Red Viburnum in the Meadow) Musicians from around the world perform a famous Ukrainian song.
15:08 President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky received an invitation to the G20 summit.
15:05 The occupiers robbed the Star Wormwood Museum in Chornobyl.
14:55 29-year-old fighter of the National Guard of Ukraine Yevhen showed a Russian tank destroyed with NLAW.
14:51 According to Ukrainian intelligence, the CSTO does not support Russia in the war against Ukraine.
The members of the CSTO are Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. It is stated that they do not want to make a decision to conduct peacekeeping operations outside their countries.
14:45 President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola called for a pan-European embargo on Russian energy resources.
14:40 The BM-21 Grad barrages burn out the positions of the invaders from the Ukrainian land.
14:30 Russian tanks captured by the Armed Forces of Ukraine are already at the forefront of the fight against the invaders.
14:25 The Armed Forces of Ukraine gave a lesson to the Russian military, who decided to use a car stolen from one of the peaceful Ukrainians. The occupiers in the stolen VAZ were hit by a Ukrainian UAV.
14:21 General Motors handed over 50 large and powerful American SUVs to Ukraine.
14:13 Peskov said that the Kremlin would not exchange Ukrainian prisoners of war for Putin's daughter godfather Medvedchuk.
14:10 The Security Service of Ukraine announces the liquidation of the intelligence network that collected data on Ukrainian aircraft.
14:02 Kyiv residents propose to rename Leo Tolstoy Street into Polk Azov Street.
14:00 In the Donbas, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are targeting Russian aircraft with MANPADS.
13:55 Soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine showed the ejected pilot of the downed aircraft. He shelled the civilians near Chernihiv.
13:47 The destruction of the bridge in Odesa is an attempt by Russia to destroy the Ukrainian industrial potential as much as possible, said Vadym Denysenko, the adviser to the Ukrainian Minister of Internal Affairs.
13:40 Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Kherson today. It is for this reason that the occupiers had to disperse the action.
13:32 The Armed Forces of Ukraine liquidated three officers from the Stavropol Krai and Transbaikalia.
13:31 Russian occupiers raped children and adults, they committed real atrocities in the Kyiv region. Now psychologists are working with the victims. There is an 11-year-old boy among the victims of the Rushists. Specialists are trying to help him.
13:24 According to Bloomberg, the EU may cancel all duties and quotas for the goods from Ukraine. According to preliminary information, this decision will affect all existing tariffs and quotas for steel, industrial goods and agricultural products, which are now included in the EU trade agreement with Ukraine.
13:21 In the occupied town of Nova Kakhovka, the partisans took away the Russian tricolour and raised the Ukrainian flag.
13:13 Today in Odesa, there are funerals of people who died as a result of an airstrike on a residential building. One of them is a three-month-old girl.
13:06 The Ukrainian fighter against the background of the destroyed aircraft of the Russian occupiers.
13:03 “There is no command иге they don’t want to withdraw the regiment,” An occupier tells his mother about the problems with the command in the Russian army.
13:02 Poland is ready to accept wounded and sick citizens from Mariupol for treatment.
12:56 Russian ships were detected on the horizon near Odesa.
12:51 Putin needs to stop fooling himself, the besieged Mariupol is not captured, since our military controls a quarter of the city. In the near future, the offensive of the occupiers may falter, and then there will be a chance to realise the city.
This was stated by the former Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine (2014-2021) Arsen Avakov.
12:48 This is what two tanks of the occupiers targeted by the Armed Forces of Ukraine look like.
12:41 CNN, the American TV channel, received a drone video from Bucha, Kyiv region. The video had been filmed when Russian invaders were there. According to CNN, it confirms that the bodies of the killed people were there at the same time period with the presence of the Russian troops.
12:32 Sergei Kiriyenko, First Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of the aggressor-country, the Russian Federation, became the curator of relations with the terrorist organizations LPR and DPR (so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics) instead of Dmitry Kozak.
12:20 Another video of the first minutes after the bombing of the drama theater in Mariupol appeared. Mariupol residents are coming to the scene of the tragedy and again falling under an air raid.
12:11 “Officially, that's one thing, but I'll tell you: 25,900 dead. In 2 months…" Russian command hides a real quantity of those killed during the war in Ukraine.
12:07 The cost of basic building materials in Russia has increased by 15-30% over the past month.
12:00 Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer has denied reports that his country is going to pay for gas in Russian rubles.
11:51 The Ukrainian military shot down an enemy missile over the Dnipropetrovsk region.
11:47 The Office of the Ukrainian Ombudsman receives appeals from citizens about cases of sexual violence by Russian invaders. Currently, there are about 400 such appeals.
11:41 An occupier's wife said that Russian servicemen are deceived with the payments.
11:37 The Russian army hit Avdiivka twice with phosphorus shells.
11:36 Three out of four Americans support the supply of weapons to Ukraine.
11:30 "Ukraine can seize the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic with the twist of a spanner, but only if there is an appeal from Moldova," said Oleksiy Arestovych, the adviser to the head of the President's Office of Ukraine.
11:29 The occupiers are taking out a pot, a children's backpack and alcohol from one Ukrainian house.
11:18 This is what the map of battles for Ukraine looks like.
11:14 "A referendum in Kherson is impossible," said Ukrainian political scientist Volodymyr Molchanov. According to him, the occupiers have no election commissions, no polling stations, no voter lists, nothing.
11:12 Ukrainian fighter skillfully shot down an aircraft of the Russian Federation.
11:06 In Kherson, on Freedom Square, the occupiers dispersed a peaceful rally with tear gas and flash-bang grenades.
10:53 The Azov fighters showed how they destroyed the equipment and manpower of the occupiers.
10:46 The head of the European Commission called Gazprom's statements about the suspension of gas supplies "blackmail".
“The EU is ready for such a scenario and has a response,” said Ursula von der Leyen.
10:41 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine provided information on the new losses of the Russian occupiers. 300 Putin's invaders were destroyed during the day.
10:35 The Ukrainian Stugna ATGM dealt with Russian military equipment.
10:28 Some media report on shooting near the village of Kobasna in unrecognised Transnistria. One of the largest ammunition depots in Europe is located there.
10:26 Fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed a Russian Kub-BLA UAV.
10:23 "We have noone left of the regiment at all," An occupier with the tears tells father, that they throw them to the foremost.
10:20 Australia will send six howitzers and ammunition to Ukraine.
10:12 Today British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is going to deliver a speech in London. She will call on allies to provide aircraft to Ukraine, according to the BBC.
10:06 The Security Service of Ukraine reports that the special services of the Russian Federation are filming staged stories for the Russian media trying to show that the people of Ukraine are "happy with the arrival of the Russian world".
10:01 The Armed Forces of Ukraine liquidated the platoon commander of the 26th Brigade of the Russian army.
9:56 Poland no longer intends to buy gas from Russia.
The representative of the Polish Government on Strategic Energy Infrastructure Piotr Naimski stated this.
9:49 Britain has added another 195 individuals and legal entities to the sanctions list for the Russian Federation.
9:45 "We have a maximum of 100 people left from the regiment," The occupier talks about the catastrophic losses of Russian troops in Ukraine.
9:41 Stock prices for gas in Europe at the beginning of trading rose rapidly by more than 16%, exceeding $1,300 per thousand cubic metres.
9:32 Musician Svyatoslav Vakarchuk sings his song "Vse bude dobre" (Everything Will Be Fine) in one of the parts of eastern Ukraine.
9:31 Members of pro-Russian parties will be banned from running for parliament and president of Ukraine.
The law affects the deputies who were members of the Opposition Platform - For Life, Party of Sharia, State, Left Opposition, Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, Union of Left Forces, Socialist Party of Ukraine, Socialists, Opposition Block, "Nashi" and Vladimir Saldo's Block.
9:25 The BTR-82A captured from the Russian occupation forces in the Kharkiv region.
9:19 Russia has confirmed the suspension of gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria from April 27. The countries refused to pay for gas in rubles.
9:12 Polish television reported that the republic's special services detained a Russian and a Belarusian in Bialystok on charges of espionage.
9:11 Russian troops tried to advance towards the Mykolaiv region in the area of the villages of Tavriyske and Nova Zorya, but suffered significant losses and retreated.
9:09 A General of the Security Service of Ukraine predicted a turning point in the war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine
According to Victor Yaguna, modern weapons from the West will contribute to this. In particular, aviation and air defense systems.
8:55 The Netherlands stops issuing visas to citizens of the Russian Federation.
8:43 The bridge over the so-called Dniester Estuary in the Odesa region was subjected to another shelling.
8:42 Russia was deprived of the right to host the 2023 IIHF World Championship.
8:41 Igor Volobuev, vice-president of Russian Gazprombank, left for Ukraine and joined the Territorial Defense. He is Ukrainian by ethnicity, he was born in Akhtyrka.
8:39 Ukraine retains control over most of its airspace. Russia has failed to destroy the Ukrainian Air Force or suppress the Ukrainian air defense system, according to British intelligence.
8:38 The Chinese company DJI Technology Co Ltd, specializing in the production of drones, announced a temporary suspension of business in Russia and Ukraine.
8:33 Ukrainian artillerymen with a well-aimed shot eliminated a column of Russian military equipment.
8:30 The U.S. Department of Defence has set up a command and control center to coordinate deliveries and provide the logistics of military assistance to Ukraine in Stuttgart, Germany, in the area of responsibility of the U.S. European Command.
8:24 Occupiers' artillery attacks against Zelenodolska Hromada thing of the Dnipropetrovsk region.
8:17 The Azov repulsed the enemy's attack near Huliaipole and took prisoners. The demotivated prisoners immediately disclosed all the information about the location of the troops and the military equipment of the occupiers.
8:12 These companies still continue to work in the Russian Federation.
8:07 A Russian Su-34 RF-95858 downed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
8:04 Yesterday, an ammunition depot detonated in the occupied Irmino, Luhansk region.
8:00 The Russian Federation announced explosions at the ammunition depot in Belgorod and allegedly the work of air defense in Kursk and Voronezh. The governors reported the incidents.
7:58 Destroyed enemy military equipment in Zaporizhzhia region.
7:39 Defenders of Ukraine targeted the positions of the occupiers, which are located in the Black Sea on Snake Island. The warriors hit the control post.
7:38 Over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian soldiers hit at least 7 air targets of the occupiers:
Su-25 aircraft
Ka-52 helicopter
3 UAVs.
7:37 The Ukrainian army returned full control over three settlements in the Mykolaiv region: Shyroke, Lyubinу and Novopetrivka.
23:50 Ukraine continues to grind the troops of the Russian Federation. Over the past 24 hours were destroyed: 9 tanks; 11 artillery systems; 4 special equipment; 14 armored vehicles; 3 armored fighting vehicles; 3 units of special engineering equipment; 16 vehicles; 4 fuel tanks; 1 air defence missile system; 1 Su-25 aircraft; 1 Ka-52 helicopter; 2 cruise missiles; 3 UAVs (probably Orlan-10).
23:30 U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says that "Russia has failed in its mission to eliminate Ukrainian sovereignty". According to him, he is not predicting a scenario in which Ukraine loses its sovereignty. Kyiv's allies are looking toward long-term sustainability in self-defense against the aggression.
"It’s important to try to make sure that when that is accomplished, Russia is not in a position to repeat this exercise next month, next year or in five years," Blinken said.
23:16 Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki is sure that the country is now capable of completely replacing Russian gas.
23:01 Gazprom informed the Bulgarian gas distribution company Bulgargaz about the cessation of gas supplies from April 27, the Bulgarian Ministry of Energy reports.