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[Korrespondent] 18:37 During the day, the Russians carried out 13 kamika drone strikes in the Nikopol district of the Dnepropetrovsk region, said the head of the OVA Sergei Lysak. Two five-story buildings, nine private houses, an agricultural company, and a power line were damaged. More than 300 subscribers were left without electricity.
17:44 The Australian Department of Defense announced a new aid package for Ukraine worth $100 million. It will include $50 million in military assistance (of which $30 million is for the purchase of drones and another $15 million for other priority equipment, including helmets, inflatable rigid boats, shoes, fire masks and generators), $50 million for air defense systems short-range, as well as precision-guided air-to-ground munitions.
17:12 The Russians fired mortars at Kazatske, Kherson region, three people were injured. In addition, one person was injured as a result of Russian shelling in Stanislav. Over the past 24 hours, one person was killed and eight were injured as a result of Russian shelling, the OVA reported.
15:45 The defense forces control two-thirds of the village of Ocheretino in the Donetsk region, and the part into which the enemy broke through is under the fire control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, said Nazar Voloshin, spokesman for the Khortitsa military group. “The enemy is blocked, and measures are ongoing to drive him out of there. There are heavy battles there, but the situation is under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces,” he added. According to Voloshin, the situation is similar in the village of Solovyevo - approximately two-thirds is under the control of Ukrainian forces.
Voloshin also said that the enemy continues to put pressure on the Bakhmut direction, namely on the outskirts of Chasov Yar. However, the Ukrainian Armed Forces control the situation both in the city and around it; there is no enemy army in the city. “An increase in the number of Russian units was noticed in the Kleshcheevka area. Most of the assaults in the Chasovoyarovsky direction were carried out in the Belogorovka area,” the speaker noted.
15:29 Not far from Volchansk, Kharkov region, an enemy FPV drone hit a truck - the driver was hospitalized in serious condition, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
15:03 Zelensky warned Speaker of the US House of Representatives Mike Johnson that without American help Ukraine would hold out “until March or April,” Politico writes, citing sources. A source from the House of Representatives told the publication that after this conversation, Johnson decided to support assistance before this deadline and ordered the preparation of a corresponding bill.
14:19 Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that at night one of the Russian missiles fell in the Lviv region, 15 km from the Polish border.
13:38 Syrsky said that at yesterday’s meeting, Ramstein informed the coalition participants “about the complex operational-strategic situation, which tends to escalate,” as well as about the specifics of Russian airstrikes on energy infrastructure, about the urgent needs for missiles, ammunition, weapons, military technology and the key role in their timely arrival.
12:42 Japan has joined the international coalition for the return of Ukrainian children. Thus, the coalition includes all G7 countries and a total of 36 countries, the President's Office said.
12:23 The enemy hit an infrastructure facility in the Dnieper region, a fire started there, said the head of the OVA Sergei Lysak.
11:20 The Kushchevsk military airfield, as well as the Ilsky and Slavyansky oil refineries in Russia, were attacked by SBU drones, Ukrainian media reported, citing sources. The airfield housed dozens of military aircraft, radar and electronic warfare equipment. In addition, SBU drones hit the rectification and atmospheric columns of the Ilsky and Slavyansky refineries - these are key technological facilities of the plants. After the strikes, fires and personnel evacuation began at the airfield and refinery.
11:07 In the Dnipropetrovsk region, the number of victims as a result of the night attack has increased to two - in the Krivoy Rog region, another person contacted doctors, said the head of the OVA Sergei Lysak.
10:22 As a result of the night attack, energy system facilities in the Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv and Dnipropetrovsk regions were damaged. Due to the consequences, the main overhead line of Ukrenergo in the western region was switched off by protection, the company reported.
09:19 At night, Russia attacked the Lviv region with cruise missiles of various classes and Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles, said the head of the OBA Maxim Kozitsky. Three cruise missiles were shot down. The enemy attacked two critical energy infrastructure facilities in the Stryisky and Chervonogradsky districts - fires started on them, which rescuers have already extinguished. No people were hurt.
09:11 The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that air defense systems allegedly destroyed 66 UAVs over the territory of the Krasnodar Territory at night, and two more over the Crimea. Local residents report a fire at a military airfield in the village of Kushchevskaya, Krasnodar Territory, after a UAV attack. There are also reports of a fire at the Ilsky oil refinery in the Seversky district of the Krasnodar Territory. The administration of the Slavyansky district of the Krasnodar Territory confirmed a UAV attack on a local refinery; the distillation column was damaged.
08:56 In the Ivano-Frankivsk region, as a result of a night attack, a fire occurred at a critical infrastructure facility, no people were injured, said the head of the OVDA Svetlana Onischuk.
08:42 Air defense destroyed 21 of 34 Russian missiles at night, the Air Force reported. Russia launched a combined attack on Ukraine using different types of missiles - air, ground and sea-based:
- nine X-101/X-555 cruise missiles from Tu-95 TS strategic aviation aircraft (launch area - Saratov region);
- nine X-59/X-69 guided aircraft missiles (from the airspace of the Belgorod region and the waters of the Azov Sea);
- two S-300 anti-aircraft guided missiles (from the Belgorod region);
- two Iskander-K cruise missiles (from Crimea);
- four Kh-47M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles from MiG-31K aircraft (from the airspace of the Ryazan and Tambov regions);
- eight Caliber cruise missiles from the Black Sea.
Six X-101/X-555 cruise missiles were destroyed; eight X-59/X-69 guided aircraft missiles; one Iskander-K cruise missile; six cruise missiles Caliber.
08:35 At night, the Russians fired an S-300 missile at the territory of a mental hospital in Kharkov, one person was wounded, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. At the time of the strike, there were 60 patients and five staff in the hospital. In total, the institution has about 900 patients and about 250 employees on daily duty. In addition, in the evening the enemy shelled Volchansk, killing one person. In the village Shestakovo, Chuguevsky district, one person was injured as a result of an air strike on the territory of an agricultural enterprise.
08:24 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of April 27:
- personnel - about 465,054 (+1124) people,
- tanks - 7268 (+6),
- armored combat vehicles - 13,971 (+14),
- artillery systems - 11 905 (+38),
- MLRS - 1049 (+0),
- air defense systems - 775 (+3),
- aircraft - 348 (+0),
- helicopters - 325 (+0),
- UAV of operational-tactical level - 9485 (+24),
- cruise missiles - 2124 (+5),
- ships/boats - 26 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 16,019 (+35),
- special equipment - 1968 (+6).
08:13 Over the past 24 hours, 94 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report. In particular, in the Avdeevsky direction, 29 enemy attacks were repelled in the areas of the settlements of Arkhangelskoye, Keramik, Ocheretino, Semenovka, Umanskoye, Kalinovo, Donetsk region. In the Novopavlovsk direction, the enemy tried 17 times to break through the defenses of Ukrainian troops in the areas of Krasnohorivka, Georgievka, Prechistovka and Urozhainy, Donetsk region.
In the Kupyansk direction, the Defense Forces repelled ten attacks in the areas of Kislovka, Berestovo in the Kharkov region and Stelmakhovka in the Lugansk region; in Limansky - 14 attacks in the areas of Druzhelyubovka, Kharkov region, as well as Grekovka and Serebryansky forestry, Lugansk region, Ternov and south of Zarechny, Donetsk region; on Bakhmutskoye - ten attacks in the Belogorivka districts of the Lugansk region and Novy, Vyemka, Sporny, Ivanovsky and Kleshcheevka of the Donetsk region; on Orekhovsky - three attacks in the districts of Staromayorsky, Donetsk region and Rabotino, Zaporozhye region; on Kherson - four attacks on the left bank of the Dnieper.
07:57 In the Dnipropetrovsk region, air defense forces destroyed 13 missiles during a morning attack, said the head of the Air Defense Forces Sergei Lysak. In the Dnieper and Krivoy Rog regions, energy facilities were damaged, several fires occurred, and one person was injured. There are interruptions in water supply in the Krivoy Rog region.
In addition, in the evening and at night the Russian army shelled the Nikopol region with artillery, one person was injured in Nikopol. Seven five-story buildings, a market, more than ten shops, and an administrative building were damaged. As a result of yesterday's shelling of the Marganets community, two villages with 600 subscribers were left without power supply.
07:48 The Russians attacked four thermal power plants of DTEK at night, the company reported. According to preliminary information, there are casualties. Enterprise equipment was seriously damaged. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, DTEK thermal power plants have been attacked more than 170 times.
07:36 At night, Russia again attacked the Ukrainian energy infrastructure, said Energy Minister German Galushchenko. In particular, objects were attacked in the Dnepropetrovsk, Ivano-Frankivsk and Lvov regions. There was damage to equipment; a power engineer was injured at one of the facilities.
05:23 Governor of the Krasnodar Territory Veniamin Kondratyev announced a large-scale drone attack; more than ten drones were allegedly suppressed in the Slavyansky, Seversky and Kushchevsky districts. According to him, the UAVs tried to attack oil refineries and infrastructure facilities, “there were no casualties or serious damage.”