The Ukrainian military repelled more than 40 attacks in the Donetsk region and destroyed the occupiers' ammunition depot.
This is reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Today, the Russian Federation launched another massive missile attack on civilian objects and residential buildings. Unfortunately, there is a hit. Civilians were killed and injured.
In total, during the day, the enemy launched 23 X-101 and X-555 cruise missiles. Our defenders destroyed 21 cruise missiles, as well as two operational-tactical UAVs. The cities of Uman (Cherkasy Oblast), Dnipro, and Ukrainka (Kyiv Oblast) were affected by the Russian rocket terror.
According to preliminary information, more than 20 civilians died, including 3 children. More than 10 apartment buildings and other civil infrastructure were damaged.
The enemy also carried out 28 airstrikes and carried out 11 attacks from rocket salvo systems. The probability of launching missile and airstrikes throughout the territory of Ukraine remains high.
The enemy is concentrating its main efforts on conducting offensive actions in the Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiiv and Marin areas. During the day, he carried out more than 40 attacks on the specified areas of the front. Bakhmut and Maryinka remain at the epicenter of hostilities, our soldiers bravely defend themselves.
On the Volyn and Poliske directions, the operational situation has not undergone significant changes. There were no signs of the formation of offensive groups.
The military presence of the enemy in the border areas of the Russian Federation with Ukraine is maintained in the Siverskyi and Slobozhanskyi directions. During the day, the enemy:
carried out airstrikes on the settlements of Semenivka and Leonivka;
carried out mortar and artillery shelling of the settlements of Galaganivka, Leonivka, and Buchka in the Chernihiv region; Romashkove, Vilna Sloboda, Iskryskivshchyna, Volfyne and Obody in the Sumy region, as well as Morokhovets, Lyptsi, Gatyshche, Volohivka, Nesterne and Budarky in the Kharkiv region.
In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy did not carry out offensive actions, actively using unmanned aerial vehicles to adjust artillery fire.
The settlements of Krasne Pershe, Novomlynsk, Figolivka, Dvorichna, Zapadne, Lyman Pershey, Synkivka, Kislivka, Berestov in Kharkiv region and Novoselivske in Luhansk region were hit by enemy artillery and mortar attacks.
In the Lymansky direction, the enemy carried out unsuccessful offensive actions in the direction of Bilogorivka.
He carried out airstrikes on the settlements of Nevske, Bilogorivka, Torske, Serebryanka, Spirne, Ivanovka. Makiivka, Nevske, Dibrova, Belogorivka of the Luhansk region were hit by artillery fire; Terny, Verkhnokamianske, Spirne, Donetsk region.
In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy continues to conduct offensive actions. Fighting continues in the city of Bakhmut. In addition, during the day, the enemy conducted unsuccessful offensive actions in the direction of Bohdanivka and Chasovoy Yar.
Vasyukivka, Orikhovo-Vasylivka, Bakhmut, Hryhorivka, Ivanivske, Kostyantynivka, Oleksandro-Shultyne, Pivdenne, Nelipivka and New York of the Donetsk region were affected by enemy shelling.
In the Avdiivsk direction, the enemy carried out offensive actions in the areas of Avdiivka, Severna and Pervomaiske settlements of the Donetsk region, without success. Shelled the settlements of Novobakhmutivka, Novokalynove, Avdiyivka, Vodyane, Pervomayske, Nevelske of the Donetsk region.
In the Marinka direction, our defenders repelled enemy attacks in the areas of Maryinka and Novomykhailivka settlements. At the same time, Krasnohorivka, Maryinka, Pobieda and Novomykhailivka of the Donetsk region were subjected to enemy shelling.
The enemy did not carry out offensive actions in the direction of Shakhtarsky during the day. He carried out airstrikes on Vugledar, Prechistivka and Shakhtarsky in the Donetsk region.
The enemy continues to conduct defensive operations in the Zaporizhzhуа and Kherson directions. Meanwhile, he shelled more than 40 settlements.
Among them - Gulyaipole, Zaliznychne, Gulyaipilske, Biloghirya, Vysoke of the Zaporizhzhуа region; Mylove, Berislav, Odradokamyanka, Vesele, Antonivka, Kherson and Bilozerka of the Kherson region.
The enemy continues to use the educational institutions of the temporarily captured territories for their own purposes, sets up their military facilities in them, covering themselves with a "human shield" of schoolchildren and teaching staff.
For example, in the Lubyanka settlement of the Luhansk region, servicemen of the Russian occupation forces are stationed in the building of the local school. The personnel are placed in the buildings of educational institutions, while the occupiers force the teaching staff to continue the educational process with compulsory attendance by children and teaching staff.
The occupiers converted the local hospital of the city of Kalanchak, Kherson region, into a military hospital, where, during April 27, a large number of seriously wounded Russians were brought. He used a KAMAZ-based medical truck to transport his wounded enemies.
During the day, the Air Force of the Defense Forces made 4 strikes on the areas of concentration of personnel and military equipment of the occupiers.
Units of missile troops and artillery, at the same time, hit 3 control points, an ammunition warehouse, and 4 areas where the enemy's manpower was concentrated.
We will remind that the Russian aviation carried out another strike with guided aerial bombs on the border of the Chernihiv region. As a result of shelling, civilian houses were damaged.
The Russian military continues to storm the positions of Ukrainian defenders in the east of our country. However, the Armed Forces repulse the attacks and prevent the enemy from advancing.
A mine exploded near the Zaporizhzhуа nuclear power plant this week.
