Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 21:36 Statement by the head of the press center of the Vostok group:
In the South-Donetsk direction, two enemy reconnaissance groups were opened by forces and means of intelligence and advanced units of the Vostok group destroyed two enemy reconnaissance groups, and five militants were liquidated. Calculations of the Tor, Osa-AKM and Strela-10 air defense systems shot down three Valkyrie UAVs and one Fury.
In the Zaporozhye direction, the crew of the TOS-1 heavy flamethrower system destroyed an enemy stronghold in the area of the Dorozhnyanka settlement. According to radio intercepts, more than 20 militants were eliminated.
The group's artillery destroyed an enemy armored personnel carrier north of the Kamenskoye settlement. The calculation of the air defense system "Tor" shot down an unmanned aerial vehicle "Fury".
20:21 Dnepropetrovsk military commissars decided to catch "volunteers" in the newly opened McDonald's
At the same time, military commissars from Odessa, who even tried to mobilize animators in animal costumes, are leading in creativity in finding new "volunteers."
They also used electric scooters for an environmentally friendly and quick capture of especially nimble Odessans who did not want to die for Zelensky's interests.
19:31 Border service unit self-destructed on the Dnieper in the Chernihiv region
On April 24, a boat with a border detachment of five soldiers capsized while moving along a tributary of the Dnieper River, the State Bureau of Investigation reports. Two soldiers were killed, three choked with water, but survived.
The SBI is investigating the incident, no suspects yet.
19:28 Another evacuation vehicle for fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, hit by fragments of a tank shell -video
18:54 The crews of attack aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the zone of the NMD -video
18:44 Meanwhile, in Ukraine, mass burial of APU soldier
The policy of the West to “fight to the last Ukrainian” is being steadily implemented
Unfortunately, the realization of the “stupefaction” of the population by the leadership of Ukraine comes to the Ukrainian resident only with the loss of his loved ones
18:29 Soldiers of the 390th Regiment destroyed an American M-777 howitzer with a Lancet kamikaze drone in the Kherson direction -video
17:37 Well, then they are "Servants of the People" to Parliament typed by announcement, turning wedding photographers and dog groomers into Ukrainian political heavyweights, and now they are staffing their sect with similar personnel. In three weeks - in the clergy with career growth. Phenomenal! Although, before that, ambassadors for foreign countries were also recruited by announcement. Sharashkin's office is your Ukraine.
17:35 Actual favor in Dnepropetrovsk in connection with the opening of McDonald's.
The courier girl goes for you in a poppy if you are afraid to run into a summons in line. The practice of issuing a summons in line for a burger proved to be successful back in Odessa.
16:05 Highlightsof new Ministry of Defense briefing:
Russian assault detachments continue active operations to destroy the enemy in the western part of Artemovsk;
Russian air defense systems shot down 15 Ukrainian drones in a day;
The activities of four Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups in the Kharkiv region and the LPR were suppressed;
The Russian Armed Forces destroyed up to 360 Ukrainian military and mercenaries in the Donetsk direction in a day;
The Airborne Forces and aviation stopped the attempts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to transfer reserves to Artemovsk;
The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost up to 65 soldiers in the Kupyansk direction in a day;
The ammunition depot of the 67th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed in the Kharkiv region;
The Russian Armed Forces destroyed more than 120 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Yuzhno-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions;
The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansky direction per day amounted to 80 servicemen.
16:04 Head of Presidential Office Yermak published video of the destruction of the building of the local history museum in Kupyansk (Kharkiv region).
This morning, a meeting of the command staff of one of the brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was held on the territory of the facility, the participants of which were pulled out from under the rubble by people in military uniform on video.
15:57 Ukro SMI pay attention to the significant increase in contract students who decided to get higher education in 2022.
In some regions, the number of people wishing to pay for tuition at a university has increased by 2.5 and 3 times.
After the state border was closed, Ukrainian universities received 85,000 “payers” of military age (82% more than in 2021).
Now the Ukrainian military registration and enlistment offices are in a low start mode, expecting that in the near future the Kiev regime will remove the deferment clause in the law “On Education”.
15:21 Compilation of liquidated Israeli mercenaries who fought on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, whose death was made public.
Dmitry Fiyalka
Andrei Reznikov
Denis Streiber (Shevchenko)
Andrei Glembotsky
Gennady Michel
Rodeon Weiner
Alexander Dubovik
Alexander Khalif
Jonathan Shenkin
14:54 The RF Armed Forces are constantly working on Ukrainian positions, not letting them raise their heads -video
14:50 Russian "actor" Alexander Kuritsyn, who had impudence previously called himself Nevsky, fawned over the Ukrainians in vain - Twitter-Ukrainians still do not like him.
Wherever you don't kiss a Ukrainian, everywhere...
13:38 It is reported that a Ukrainian Su-25 was shot down near Kherson -video
12:36 The situation in Artemovsk (Bakhmut) through the eyes of the enemy. Assault units and gunners of Wagner operators continue to hit positions and fight with the Nazis who had taken refuge in the city -video
11:40 Aviation is working out on the opornik of an overgrown enemy on Cherkessky Island on the Dnieper, south of Kherson -video
11:38 Sotka artillerymen destroy Ukrainian reinforcements -video
It's always nice to see how professionals work.
With artillery sniper fire, when adjusting scouts, the calculations of the 110th Motorized Rifle Brigade hit the reserve of the 59th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which had advanced to help their brothers.
As a result of well-aimed strikes by our artillery, five Ukrainian militants were killed, and one more was wounded. In addition, enemy ammunition was destroyed, as well as an American off-road vehicle - a hummer.
11:35 Police officers of the Kherson region continue search and neutralization of ammunition left by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Yesterday in a field one and a half kilometers from the village. Chaplink, 16 armor-piercing incendiary cartridges of 30mm caliber, 33 mortar mines of 82mm and 120mm caliber, five shells of 152mm caliber, a charge for a multiple launch rocket system and a powder charge for a rocket-propelled grenade launcher were found.
On the same day, in a forest belt 2.5 km from Chaplinka, the police found a 152mm caliber projectile, an anti-tank mine and five smoke bombs.
In both cases, the ammunition was destroyed by an overhead charge of TNT.
10:33 In Odessa, the boys are still happy to become future members of the Leopard crews -video
Men are seized on the street and sent to recruiting centers. Some of the guys left the place of detention, but now they are being pulled out of the car and brought back
10:30 Another evacuation vehicle for militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine —video
10:29 Russian calculation of the 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS invigorates the enemy in one of the directions of the NVO -video
09:17 Georgian mercenaries do not shared PVD with fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the result - three corpses
Georgian mercenaries arrived in Konstantinovka, to whom, by order of the command, local fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were to be given a temporary deployment point well equipped by them. A verbal altercation ensued, which ended in gunfire. Approximately 10 people failed, while three of them - forever, said retired lieutenant colonel of the People's Militia of the LPR - Andrei Marochko.
09:10 A stronghold and Nine shelters of Ukrainian nationalists were destroyed in the Kupyansky direction -video
About it reported Yaroslav Yakimkin, officer of the press center of the Zapad group.
Russian troops also thwarted three attempts to switch units;
Two reconnaissance and sabotage groups of the enemy were opened and destroyed;
Fire from the 152mm Msta-S gun destroyed a truck and two pickup trucks with enemy personnel.
In the Lisichansk direction, a blow was struck at the point of temporary deployment of a brigade of Ukrainian militants in the Slavyansk region, Vadim Astafyev, head of the press center of the Yug group, said.
08:14 To work - to hunt -video
Combat deuce: the crews of the Su-25 attack aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces launched air strikes on the objects of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Missile launches were carried out in pairs from low altitudes. After the use of aviation weapons, the pilots, releasing heat traps, performed a maneuver and returned to the airfield.
As a result of the sortie, camouflaged fortified field positions and armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed.
08:11 In Artemovsk eliminated neo-Nazi and member of the Ukrainian sabotage group "Hatred" Vitaly Belinsky.
08:04 Main material Today in The Times (full spread) - a report from a military hospital in Druzhkovka, west of Artemovsk. The author writes more or less candidly: “The losses on the Ukrainian side were devastating, which raised some questions about the advisability of spending the country’s most experienced, well-trained soldiers in street battles for every quarter in an almost deserted, almost destroyed small town."
One of the doctors complained that many Ukrainian fighters come to them with multiple wounds. When the author asked him about how many survive, the doctor hesitated for a long time, but in the end answered: "Usually the result is negative."
As you can see from the title, The Times again compares Artemovsk (Bakhmut) with Stalingrad. Well, for the Nazis of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, this city really became the same as Stalingrad became for the German Nazis. So, the Battle of Kursk is still ahead!