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Escalation also in the Moldovan separatist region? Ukraine warns against activation of Russian troops 

2022-04-27T03:00:48.717Z


Escalation also in the Moldovan separatist region? Ukraine warns against activation of Russian troops  Created: 04/27/2022, 04:52 By: Patrick Mayer, Stephanie Munk, Fabian Müller In the Ukraine war, Russia continues to attack the east of the country. Putin's troops are apparently advancing on two major cities, and there are said to be heavy fighting. News ticker. Ukraine conflict *: A new, 200


Escalation also in the Moldovan separatist region?

Ukraine warns against activation of Russian troops 

Created: 04/27/2022, 04:52

By: Patrick Mayer, Stephanie Munk, Fabian Müller

In the Ukraine war, Russia continues to attack the east of the country.

Putin's troops are apparently advancing on two major cities, and there are said to be heavy fighting.

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    Head of Ukrainian nuclear company Energoatom warns

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Update from April 26, 8:58 p.m .:

According to its own statements, the Russian military has gained control over large parts of eastern and southern Ukraine.

"The Russian army has taken control of the entire Kherson Oblast, parts of Kharkiv, Zaporizhia, Mykolaiv Oblasts and significant parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics," Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev of the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.

Peaceful everyday life is slowly returning to the conquered areas, the social infrastructure is being repaired and sowing has begun, Misintsev claimed.

According to him, the Ukrainian side is blocking all humanitarian corridors opened by Russia.

There are conflicting reports about the complete control of the Kherson region.

In the morning, the Ukrainian military chief of the region, Oleksandr Vikul, said that the defense line was inside the Kherson region and that Russian forces had not been able to break through it.

The Ukrainian and Russian reports could not be checked independently.

Escalation also in the Moldovan separatist region?

Ukraine warns against activation of Russian troops 

Update from April 26, 7:17 p.m .:

The Ukrainian military has warned against activating Russian troops in the self-proclaimed Republic of Transnistria in Moldova.

"The units of the Russian armed forces have been put on full combat readiness," said a report by the Ukrainian general staff published on Facebook on Tuesday evening.

In addition, the security forces of the Moldovan separatists have been put on increased alert.

This was preceded by several explosions in the region that had broken away from Moldova since 1992.

Tiraspol had accused Kyiv of having organized them.

Kyiv rejected the allegations and said that the Russian secret service FSB wanted to draw Transnistria into the Russian war against Ukraine.

In addition, according to the Ukrainian account, there have been hardly any changes in the Russian attacks in eastern Ukraine.

The main objective in the Kharkiv region is still to advance from Izyum in the Kharkiv region in the direction of Barvinkove.

In the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, the focal points of the fighting were near Marjinka, Rubishne and Popasna.

There were heavy bombardments on the Azovstal factory premises in the almost conquered port city of Mariupol, which was still held by Ukrainian soldiers.

Update from April 26, 4:13 p.m .:

As a result of the Ukraine war, over 16,000 people have already been reported missing.

"The first priority is to search for missing people, then what was bombed and destroyed," Ukrainian Parliament Human Rights Commissioner Lyudmyla Denisova said in a television interview published on Tuesday.

About 2,000 soldiers are among the missing.

About a quarter of the missing civilians came from the south-east Ukrainian port of Mariupol, which has been surrounded by Russian troops since the beginning of March.

Ukraine War: Russian missiles destroy railway bridge

Update from April 26, 3:12 p.m .:

A railway bridge in the southern Ukrainian region of Odessa was damaged by a Russian missile attack in the Ukraine war.

It is about the bridge over the Dniester estuary, said railway chief Olexander Kamyshin on Tuesday in the Telegram news service.

According to authorities, the parallel road route has also been closed for safety reasons.

This means that the south-western part of the Odessa region would only be accessible from the Ukrainian heartland via a road through the Republic of Moldova.

In the past few days, the Russian army has deliberately destroyed Ukraine's railway infrastructure.

This is intended to hinder the supply of weapons, in particular, but also fuel from the neighboring EU.

Ukraine war: 200 meter long mass grave discovered - Ukrainians forced to dig the graves?

Update from April 26, 2:31 p.m .:

Another mass grave has apparently been found near the port city of Mariupol, which was besieged by Russian troops.

This is reported by the British news channel CNN, citing an interview with Vadym Boichenko, the mayor of Mariupol, which was broadcast on Ukrainian television on Tuesday (April 26).

The mass grave can be seen on satellite images and is located in the village of Staryi Krim.

As early as March 24, the satellite images showed around 60-meter-long ditches on an old cemetery site, the local authorities announced on Telegram, according to CNN.

By April 24, the mass grave had grown to a length of more than 200 meters.

The mayor also makes serious accusations against the Russian troops: They would force the local population to help dig the mass graves in order to get food and water.

"There is not enough humanitarian aid in Mariupol anymore, so people are forced to do it," writes Vadym Boichenko on the Telegram messenger service, according to CNN.

CNN could not verify the information from independent sources.

It was already known in the past few weeks that satellite images apparently show several mass graves near Mariupol, presumably containing thousands of bodies.

This satellite photo shows graves about 12 kilometers east of Mariupol on April 20.

Now another mass grave is said to have been found.

© Planet Labs PBC/dpa

Update from April 26, 2:14 p.m .:

There are other serious allegations against Russia in connection with the atrocities committed against civilians in Bucha.

Forensic scientists found tiny metal arrows in some of the corpses, which indicate the use of cruel fléchette grenades.

You can read more about this suspicion and the characteristics of this ammunition here.

War in Ukraine: A third of people in Donetsk and Luhansk without electricity

Update from April 26, 1:40 p.m .:

Apparently, a third of the residents of the heavily contested Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk are currently without electricity – and will remain so for the time being.

As the Ukrainian news portal

The Kyiv Independent

reports, it is currently not possible to restore power to the population.

The portal relies on statements by the head of the largest Ukrainian energy company DTEK, Maxim Timchenko.

The company tried to repair power lines in the region, but failed.

Update from April 26, 1:20 p.m .:

Belarus unexpectedly scheduled a staff maneuver for its air force and air defense troops on Tuesday – with Russian participation.

The Belarusian Defense Ministry said the exercise should last from Tuesday to Friday, according to the Interfax agency.

From the Russian side, leadership of the Air Force and the Air Defense Forces are involved.

There are no further details yet.

During staff maneuvers, the command level simulates certain combat situations, and there are usually no troop movements.

Russia has also attacked Ukraine from Belarusian territory since February 24.

Ukraine and its Western backers are keeping an eye on developments in Belarus.

It is feared that the ex-Soviet republic, which is being repressively led by head of state Alexander Lukashenko, could take part in the Ukraine war.

Ukraine war: Russian missiles over nuclear power plant - "World security at risk"

Update from April 26, 12:30 p.m .:

Russia is said to have fired two rockets over the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in eastern Ukraine during the Ukraine war.

This was announced by the head of the Ukrainian state-owned company Energoatom, Petro Kotin, on Tuesday (April 26) via the messenger service Telegram, as reported by the Ukrainian news

site The Kyiv Independent

.

The head of the nuclear company is quoted as saying that the explosions of the rockets could be heard in the city of Zaporizhia.

Low-flying missiles would jeopardize the safety of the nuclear power plant and the entire world.

The Zaporizhia nuclear power plant has been occupied by Russian troops since March 4. The photo from March 5 shows a fire in the building.

© Energoatom/AP/dpa

The Zaporizhia nuclear power plant is the largest in Ukraine and has been occupied by Russian troops since March 4.

In the course of the conquest, Putin's army bombed the nuclear power plant, causing international outrage.

The British Ministry of Defense announced on Tuesday morning (April 26) via Twitter that Russian attacks on Zaporizhia were expected.

Ukraine war: Russia reports destruction of Ukrainian air defenses

Update from April 26, 10:50 a.m

.: According to its own statements, the Russian army disabled

several anti-aircraft systems of the Ukrainian troops

in the Ukraine war .

Two S-300 air defense systems with rockets and artillery were destroyed near the city of Barvinkove in eastern Ukraine, Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in Moscow on Tuesday.

A launch pad for short-range Totschka-U missiles was also destroyed.

Elsewhere in the Donetsk region, two Ukrainian Buk-M1 and Ossa anti-aircraft systems were destroyed, the spokesman said.

According to him, Russian artillery and missile troops have been shelling almost 1,300 targets in Ukraine since Monday.

The information was not independently verifiable.

The powerful Soviet-designed S-300 systems can fend off approaching aircraft and missiles within a radius of 300 kilometers.

Barvinkove is behind the Ukrainian troops defending the north of the Donetsk region against intensified Russian attacks.

Update from April 26, 10:17 a.m .:

The Ukrainian general staff reports

successes in the fight against Russian troops

in the Ukraine war .

In the Cherson region, Ukrainian troops destroyed a Russian ammunition depot and killed 70 enemy ranks.

The information could not be verified.

According to its own statements, Russia had already taken control of the Cherson region in southern Ukraine at the beginning of the war, which had been going on for a good two months.

In the Odessa region on the Black Sea, losses were inflicted on Russian air reconnaissance, the General Staff said.

Three planes, several drones and rockets were hit.

Six enemy attacks were repelled in the eastern regions of Luhansk and Donetsk.

Four tanks, five artillery systems and dozens of vehicles were said to have been destroyed.

War in Ukraine: British MoD reports advance of Putin's army

Update from April 26, 9:46 a.m .:

Vladimir Putin’s army is apparently continuing its attacks in eastern Ukraine in the Ukraine war.

The British Ministry of Defense reported on Twitter on Tuesday (April 26) that Russian troops have taken the city of Kreminna in the Luhansk region in eastern Ukraine.

The city has around 20,000 inhabitants.

Russian soldiers would also attempt to advance from the north and east toward the major cities of Sloviansk and Karamtorsk.

There is heavy fighting south of Izyum in the Kharkiv region.

Russian attacks on Zaporizhia, Ukraine's sixth largest city with 760,000 inhabitants, are also expected.

The Ukrainian army is preparing to defend the city.

Update from April 26, 8:00 a.m.:

After new Russian attacks, Ukraine has reported further deaths and injuries in several regions of the country.

A railway worker was killed and four others injured when five railway stations were shelled, the state railway company said on the Telegram news channel.

In the Kharkiv region in the east of the country, four people were killed and five injured by Russian shelling on Monday, the region's governor, Oleh Synyehubov, said on Telegram.

Four more civilians were injured in the city of Kharkiv.

A twelve-story house also caught fire, two floors were completely burned out.

Shelling was also reported from the north-eastern Ukrainian region of Sumy.

This was done from Russian territory to the town of Bilopillya, said the region's governor, Dmytro Schywyzkyj.

There are no injuries or damage.

War in Ukraine: According to Russia, there was another shelling in Belgorod on the border

Update from April 26, 6:20 a.m .:

According to Russian officials, there was another shelling in the Belgorod region on the border with Ukraine.

This time the village of Zhuravlevka was hit;

At least two people were injured, said the governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, on Monday in his channel on the social network Telegram.

The region, which according to the authorities has been shelled several times, borders on the Ukrainian region of Kharkiv.

According to authorities, there have been repeated incidents in the region since Russia's attack on Ukraine, ordered by Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin on February 24.

Shelling of the village of Nekhoteyevka was also reported on Monday.

Several buildings and a car are said to have been damaged.

At the beginning of April, two Ukrainian attack helicopters reportedly fired on an oil storage facility in the Belgorod region and set it on fire.

Ukraine has neither confirmed nor denied this.

In view of the shelling, Russia had threatened Ukraine that it would again target command posts for rocket attacks in the capital Kyiv.

A destroyed Russian tank stands in the yard of a private house in Hostomel on April 25.

© -/Ukrinform/dpa

Ukraine war: According to Selenskyj, Russia will achieve nothing

Update from April 26, 6:15 a.m .:

According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Moscow will not be successful with its war of aggression in Ukraine.

Within two months, the Russian armed forces used more than 1,100 rockets against Ukraine, countless aerial bombs and artillery.

Some Ukrainian cities and communities had been destroyed to the ground, said Zelenskyj in his evening video address, which was published on Telegram on Tuesday night.

"But they have achieved nothing.

And they will achieve nothing.”

In the east of the country, the Russian units did not see "a crumb" of support on which they had counted so much.

In the cities of Kherson, Kakhovka, Melitopol, Enerhodar or other cities occupied by Russian troops, people did not bow to the Russian armed forces.

Update from April 26, 12:05 a.m .:

Explosions were reported on Monday evening in a ministry in the Transnistria region, which had broken away from Moldova.

The region borders Ukraine, Russia supports the local regime.

Ukraine is accusing Russia of conducting “false flag operations” later this evening, local media reports.

Russia-Ukraine War: Invading troops allegedly repulsed off Kharkiv

Update from April 25, 10:15 p.m

.: As a reporter from ZDF’s “heute journal” reported on Monday evening from central Ukrainian Dnipro (almost 1 million inhabitants), the Ukrainian armed forces are withstanding the Russian attacks in the south and east of the country.

The resistance, however, demands losses on the part of Ukraine.

According to the report, an average of 40 to 50 wounded Ukrainian soldiers are admitted to the military hospital in Zaporizhia alone every day.

Zaporizhia, with around 760,000 inhabitants, is about 70 kilometers south-east of Dnipro.

In the southwest, Zaporizhia Oblast borders on Kherson Oblast, which is occupied by Russian troops.

And in the east to Donetsk Oblast, which is partly controlled by the pro-Russian separatists.

Heavy fighting is said to rage here.

However, as the Ukrainian general staff explained, advancing Russian units further north-east, before Kharkiv, were repulsed and pushed back into already occupied areas.

Russia-Ukraine War: Five train stations in central and western Ukraine bombed

Update from April 25, 9:45 p.m

.: According to Ukrainian information, the Russian army fired on five train stations in central and western Ukraine on Monday morning.

According to Kyiv, several people were injured.

The head of the regional military administration of the western region of Lviv (Lviv), Maksym Kozytsky, posted a video on Twitter showing burning infrastructure at the railway site near the village of Krasne, which is around 100 kilometers east of the Polish border.

The Ukrainian military command then wrote on Facebook this Monday that the Russian bombardments are currently concentrating on junctions in the Ukrainian rail network.

Arms deliveries from the West are said to be prevented in this way.

For safety reasons, the routes and timetable of several trains are now being changed, reports the

image

.

Russia-Ukraine war: assessment from Washington - Kyiv can win the war against Moscow

Update from April 25, 8:45 p.m

.: According to the US government, Ukraine can win the war against Russia with sufficient military support.

"They can win if they have the right equipment and the right support," US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said Monday after a visit to Kyiv.

Meanwhile, Moscow announced a ceasefire for the besieged Mariupol steelworks.

According to Kiev, however, no agreement was reached on safe escape corridors from the facility.

Austin met with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday evening with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv.

"The first step to winning is believing that you can win," Austin said after the visit.

Ukraine is convinced of that.

Russia, on the other hand, must be further weakened: "We want Russia to be weakened to the point where it is no longer capable of something like invading Ukraine."

Russia-Ukraine War: Moscow is probably having junctions in the rail network bombed

Update from April 25, 8:15 p.m

.: In this second phase of the war, the Russian bombardments are concentrated on nodes of the Ukrainian rail network.

This is what the Ukrainian military command writes on Facebook.

"They are trying to destroy the supply lines for military-technical support from partner countries," says one post.

Russia allegedly wants to interrupt the supply of weapons from abroad.

Update from April 25, 7:15 p.m

.: “The Russian armed forces are not making any progress in Kharkiv Oblast.” This was reported and claimed by the Ukrainian general staff earlier in the week.

The Russian troops "intensified their offensive in the Kharkiv region" and tried to "advance".

However, they suffered losses and had to withdraw to occupied areas,

The Kyiv Independent

quotes the general staff from Kiev as saying.

The same media reported on Monday afternoon that Ukrainian forces shot down a Russian Sukhoi Su-34 fighter-bomber near the eastern Ukrainian city.

Russia-Ukraine War: Moscow reportedly loses Sukhoi Su-34 near Kharkiv

First report from April 25th:

Munich/Kiev/Kharkiv - She is the pride of the Russian Air Force: the Sukhoi Su-34.

The heavy fighter-bomber, which has been in production since 2006, has been in service with the invasion forces of Moscow ruler Vladimir Putin since the Russian president invaded neighboring Ukraine.

Sukhoi Su-34s are said to have bombed around 2,000 trapped Ukrainian infantry soldiers and reportedly 1,000 civilians in the besieged Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol.

The Ukrainian armed forces announced this Monday (April 25) that they shot down one of the Russian fighter-bombers near the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv in the east of the country.

The shooting down was not confirmed by Moscow.

The information cannot be checked independently of one another.

Russia-Ukraine War: Alleged Russian Su-34 fighter plane shot down near Kharkiv

Combat aircraft in the Ukraine war: a Russian Sukhoi Su-34.

© IMAGO / SNA

Since the outbreak of Russia, photos have repeatedly been shown on social media showing crashed and/or shot down Su-34s of the Russian Air Force.

This is indicated, among other things, by the azure blue paintwork of the fighter planes and the red numbers on the sides.

According to Ukrainian information, the Sukhoi Su-34 has long been part of the major losses in the Russian army in recent days.

This is indicated by information from Kiev shared by

The Kyiv Independent

on Twitter.

The independent Russian media project updates the alleged Russian casualties on social media every day, using information from the Ukrainian armed forces as a source.

Accordingly, between Friday April 22 and Monday April 25, Russia allegedly lost 46 more tanks.

At least 884 Russian tanks are said to have been destroyed or captured.

In addition, five planes were shot down or destroyed and another helicopter that the Russian army lost.

Russia-Ukraine War: Alleged heavy casualties among invading Russian troops

Russia-Ukraine War: London assumes around 15,000 Russian soldiers were killed

In total, more than 21,900 Russian soldiers were killed or wounded.

However, assessments from Great Britain differ from these figures.

Defense Secretary Ben Wallace announced this Monday that his government assumes that around 15,000 Russian soldiers have been killed.

According to information from London, 60 Russian helicopters and fighter jets were destroyed, as well as 2,000 armored vehicles, including 530 tanks.

Follow all military developments in the Russia-Ukraine war here in the news ticker

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Source: merkur

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