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[NewsFrontInfo] 23:00 Video- The Armed Forces, retreating, themselves blew up their opornik inside a multi-storey building in the south-west of Bakhmut.
The Armed Forces publish footage from their drone, which clearly shows that they themselves blew up the house before their retreat.
22:00 Video- The destruction of the running fighters of the ukrovermacht in the forest belt in the Zaporozhye direction.
21:42 As a result artillery attack Ukrainians from the area of ??the Sokol plant in the city of Novaya Kakhovka, Kherson region, damaged the city electrical substation. De-energized Novaya Kakhovka and all settlements of the urban district.
Repair and restoration work is already underway, the deadline for restoring power supply is tomorrow morning.
21:38 OUR HERO!
Acting as part of the engineering and sapper department, senior sergeant Victor Bilyk performed the tasks of demining a section of the area near one of the settlements controlled by the nationalists. Moving through the area, Viktor discovered a sabotage and reconnaissance group from among Ukrainian nationalists operating in this direction.
Quickly orienting himself in the situation, Bilyk made the only right decision - to suddenly attack the enemy, and, having correctly distributed the personnel, entered the battle. The enemy offered desperate resistance, but under the pressure of sappers-paratroopers began to retreat.
During the battle, senior sergeant Viktor Bilyk, not only did not allow losses among the personnel, but also personally destroyed five nationalists. Thanks to his observation, skillful actions and courage, an attempt to encircle and destroy the entire sapper unit was prevented, and conditions were created for a subsequent offensive in order to liberate the settlement.
21:15 Video- Combat work of artillery of 132 brigade 1AK in the Avdeevsky direction.
20:49 Video- Ukrainians, when retreating from their positions in Bakhmut, blew up the building with the mural “Community of Happy People”.
20:27 Video- Tanks of the 1st Slavic brigade Donetsk 1st Army Corps are working on the sheltered Ukrainian infantry in the Avdievka direction.
20:08 Ukrainians started shouting “These are models, these are cardboard layouts, these are inflatables"
You yourself are not funny?
19:51 An explosion sounded in Melitopol. This was reported in the military-civilian administration of the city.
19:34 House at: st. Serdyukova, 20 (village Panteleymonovka),damaged in artillery attack of the VFU.
19:32 Five children injuredin the Budenovsky district of Donetsk.
One of the children is in serious condition, four are in moderate condition. Presumably, the cause of the tragedy was the explosion of a mine "Petal", which neo-Nazis regularly scatter in residential areas of the capital of the DPR. The boy is in serious condition, most likely, he lost his leg, now doctors are fighting for his life.
18:59 Ukrainian militants fired on Vladimirovka, firing five rounds with a caliber of 152mm, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported.
18:45 Artyomovsk on the evening of April 27:
Since last night, the positions of the 101st and 73rd Territorial Defense Brigades in the Khromov area, as well as the 5th Specialized Brigade and the 104th Troop Brigade near Ivanovskoye, have been actively processed.
Artillery works almost without interruption, aviation is constantly in the sky. One gets the feeling that a powerful breakthrough of the Wager operators is being prepared from the south and from the north.
There is not enough transport for the evacuation of the dead by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Drivers of minivans and trucks with refrigerators are invited to “carry goods” from neighboring cities: Druzhkovka, Konstantinovka, Toretsk.
In the city itself, there are heavy battles in the area of the military unit: from the high-rise buildings adjacent to the territory of the military unit along Levanevsky Street, the enemy snarls with fire from the anti-tank systems, in response, the tanks of the "orchestra" sort out the targets and force the Armed Forces of Ukraine to leave floor after floor.
The intersection of Yubileinaya and Chaikovsky in the west of the city, which the Military Chronicle reported earlier, is not yet under the physical control of Wagner operators, but is actively being shot through, and there is no longer any supply of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on it.
From the north, the tanks and artillery of Wagner PMC are pushing through the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of ??the dispensary of the construction college. At the moment, about eight percent of the city remains behind the Armed Forces of Ukraine - the area of school No. 18 and the children's hospital, the 54th kindergarten, as well as houses between Levanevsky and Pobedy streets.
18:35 APU retreat from the village of Spornoe, a strategically important hub of Ukrainian defense between Seversk and Artemovsk.
The fights have entered the final stage. During the fighting in the Artemovsky district in the direction of the village of Spornoye, the advanced detachments managed to capture the gas station.
18:28 Ukrainian militants fired at the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, firing 10 rockets from the MLRS, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported.
18:18 Under Bakhmut, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are running out of ammunition, - BBC.
In the vicinity of Bakhmut and Chasy Yar, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are experiencing a catastrophic shortage of ammunition, Ukrainian officers told British journalists about this. They also said that they were waiting for supplies from the Czech Republic, Romania and Pakistan, but there is a problem here too - these rounds are of terrible quality.
“The country is exhausted, the economy too,” summed up the commander of the Ukrainian “Grad”.
17:39 Ukrainian militants fired on the Kashtanovye and Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, firing nine rounds, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported.
16:49 Kherson direction: they report from the field that at night the command post and the location of personnel in the Berislav district of the Kherson region were bombed by the forces of the Russian Aerospace Forces.
UMPK planning bombs make it possible to hit targets in the enemy's close rear without putting the aircraft and crew at risk.
16:23 When departing from the area of ??the former aircraft in Bakhmut (Artyomovsk), the Armed Forces of Ukraineunderminedhouse on st. Tchaikovsky, 105
16:17 Ukrainian militants fired on the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, firing three rounds with a caliber of 155mm, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported.
15:53 Zaporozhye direction April 27 15:00:
Aerial reconnaissance reports fixing dozens of armored personnel carriers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and received armored NATO armored vehicles stuck in the fields up to the windows in the mud.
The situation for the enemy is also complicated by changeable weather from cloudiness to rain. Tracked vehicles, apparently, will try to get them.
15:51 The state of the private sector near the block of high-rise buildings in the western part of Artemovsk -video.
15:47 Statement head of the press center of the group "South":
The aviation of the Southern Military District carried out strikes on the strongholds and the point of temporary deployment of 71st Separate Airmobile Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of Grigorovka and Belogorovka.
Artillery units of the Southern Group of Forces launched fire raids on the point of temporary deployment of the 54th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of Verkhnekamensk, as well as on the accumulations of manpower and military equipment of the 14th Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine in the area of Spornoe, 28th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlement of Kleban-Byk, in Avdiyivka by units of the 110th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As a result, more than five units of transport vehicles, two armored personnel carriers, a 100mm MT-12 artillery gun, a 120mm mortar and a pickup truck were destroyed.
In the area of the settlement of Karlovka, a rocket platoon of the artillery brigade of the Southern Military District destroyed the command post of the 59th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Also, artillerymen of the Southern Military District managed to hit the point of temporary deployment of foreign mercenaries in the area of the village of Gornyak in the Maryinsky direction with a fire raid.
15:32 Ukrainian militants fired on the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, firing seven rounds with a caliber of 155mm, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported.
15:06 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for April 27, as of 15:00, information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
n.p. Panteleymonovka:
- a woman born in 1952 died in the dacha cooperative “Fireproofer”. and a man born in 1953 was wounded.
on st. Gorky, 81 wounded woman born in 1958.
n.p. Vladimirovka:
- according to the lane Donetsk, 4 "a" wounded woman born in 1971 and a man born in 1983
Information was received about damage as a result of artillery attack of the VFU cities of the Republic:
Donetsk:
Kirovsky district:
- as a result of the release of the EP, two cars were damaged in the area of the Abakumov market.
Kuibyshevsky district:
- st. Signalnaya, 7 - a direct hit on a private residential building, outbuildings were also damaged;
- st. Signalnaya, 6 - a private residential building.
n.p. Panteleymonovka:
- Damage was recorded to the building of the MBDOU “Kindergarten No. 43 “Rosinka” on the street. Grape;
- st. Gorky, 81 - a direct hit in a private residential building;
- st. Grape, 48 - a direct hit in an apartment building;
- st. Grape, 50, 52 - multi-apartment residential buildings.
14:50 These minutes our aviation destroys enemy in the Avdeevsky direction.
14:35 Ukrainian militants fired at the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, firing four rounds with a caliber of 155mm, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported.
14:30 The Armed Forces of Ukraine struck at the settlement. Rovenki with the use of shock UAVs -video.
14:05 Personnel combat work of artillery units of the Airborne Forces in the Artemovsky direction.
A crew of unmanned aerial vehicles of the Airborne Forces discovered a platoon stronghold of Ukrainian nationalists in a forest belt. The coordinates of the enemy positions were immediately transferred to the airborne artillery command post for their destruction.
With accurate fire from closed firing positions, artillery crews of 122mm D-30 howitzers destroyed the infantry of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who had dug in their positions. From receiving the target to firing the shot, the servicemen spent no more than two minutes.
13:56 Ukrainian militants fired at Vladimirovka, firing six rounds with a caliber of 155mm, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported.
13:52 As a result of enemy artillery attack of the village of Kokhany, Kherson region, a civilian was injured - the victim was taken to the Skadovsk Central District Hospital
Yesterday, militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired at the village of Kokhany - as a result of the attack, a civilian received a mine-explosive shin injury. The victim was taken to the Skadovsk Central District Hospital, where he received stitches and was hospitalized in the surgical department.
Now he is in a state of moderate severity, doctors are providing him with all the necessary treatment.
13:45 Consequences of artillery attack of the village of Panteleymonovka by Ukrainian nationalist gangs.
13:32 Kyiv district of Donetsk under heavy artillery attack -video.
According to the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC), Ukrainian militants fired four rounds with a caliber of 155mm.
13:00 Statement of head of the press center of the Dnepr group on the situation in the Kherson direction:
Subdivisions of the Dnepr group inflicted fire damage on the command post of the 124th Territorial Defense Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near the city of Kherson. The irretrievable losses of the enemy in manpower amounted to about 10 people.
In addition, an American-made AN/TPQ-36 mobile counterbattery radar and crew personnel were destroyed in the area of the settlement of Daryevka.
Also, the group's electronic warfare means suppressed two attack unmanned aerial vehicles in the area of the settlements of Obryvka and Kazachi Lagery.
12:44 One of the downed strike unmanned aerial vehicles of the Mugin-5 Pro type near the city of Rovenki (LPR) -photo.
12:35 The units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Bakhmut have catastrophic losses in manpower, according to VGTRK war correspondent Andrey Rudenko.
According to him, out of 500 servicemen who entered Bakhmut as part of the 347th battalion of the 127th Brigade of the defense, 440 militants fell under the pressure of the forces of the Wagner PMC units and the RF Armed Forces.
In one of the companies of the 129th Brigade of the territorial defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, out of 60 personnel, eight crippled militants of the Ukrainian army are alive today.
Also, information was confirmed about the mass discharge from hospitals of the wounded and those undergoing rehabilitation after combat injuries.
It has been established that untreated Ukrainian servicemen, who have injuries and severe injuries, are massively discharged from the hospital in Dmitrovka, forging the conclusions of the military medical commission to make up for losses and resupply units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine operating on the Bakhmut Front.
Probably, the medical institutions of Ukraine urgently free up places to receive another wave of wounded militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the upcoming counteroffensive.
12:22 Ukrainian militants fired at Vladimirovka and the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, firing nine rounds with a caliber of 155mm, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported.
12:15 The Armed Forces of Ukraine used a new tactic in Bakhmut.
This tactic is very effective. Only now it is connected with looting and works only in those areas where the "musicians" have not yet reached.
How tell PMC "Wagner" fighters, military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have developed a cunning plan, the essence of which is as follows: two Ukrainian units begin to simulate a battle, and to the sound of shots, when there are no extra eyes, they take out the stolen property on stolen equipment.
12:14 Ukrainian militants fired at Panteleymonovka, firing nine rounds with a caliber of 152mm, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported.
12:05 Ukrainian troops are preparing a series of diversionary maneuvers before the start of the counteroffensive of the main forces, the head of the movement “We are together with Russia” Vladimir Rogov told RIA Novosti.
"The fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are preparing a series of distracting maneuvers before the start of the counteroffensive of the main forces in the Zaporozhye region. I have practically no doubt that the main blow will fall on the central section of the line of contact in the Zaporozhye direction between the cities of Orekhov and Gulyaipole, simultaneously carrying out artillery attack of the western section of the Zaporizhzhya Front," Rogov said.
According to him, as a diversionary maneuvers, the Ukrainian side is betting on reconnaissance in force using small landing and sabotage and reconnaissance groups that will try to cross the Dnieper in the Kherson region, as well as through the Kakhovka reservoir in the Energodar region in the Zaporozhye region.
11:40 Ukrainian troops fired at the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, firing eight rounds with a caliber of 155mm, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported.
11:35 Armed formations of Ukraine inflicted hits in the city of Rovenki (LPR) using seven UAVs.
On the night of April 27, armed formations of Ukraine attacked the city of Rovenki (LPR) using seven Mugin-5 Pro strike unmanned aerial vehicles, five of which were shot down and two detonated on the territory of an oil depot. As a result of the shelling, administrative buildings and technical premises of the oil depot were damaged.
11:17 Statement head of the press center of the Vostok group:
In the South Donetsk direction, the enemy attempted to attack the units of the Vostok group with five kamikaze drones. The UAVs were suppressed by the electronic warfare complex, after the fall they self-destructed.
The artillery reconnaissance complex "Zoo" discovered and the calculation of the 152mm self-propelled guns "Hyacinth" destroyed the mortar crew of the enemy in the area of the settlement of Novomikhailovka.
In the Zaporozhye direction, three missile strikes from the Haimars MLRS were repelled, nine rockets were destroyed by the Buk air defense systems. The crew of the Tor air defense system shot down the Leleka UAV.
10:47 Job LNG in the Avdievka direction along the enemy's dugout. Our wars work quickly, accurately, and most importantly, accurately.
10:32 Ukrainian troops fired on Gorlovka and Novobakhmutovka, firing eight rounds with a caliber of 155mm, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported.
10:15 Frontline summary on the morning of 04/27/2023:
On the Donetsk front, the RF Armed Forces, after shelling, carried out assault operations in the city of Maryinka and in the direction of Pervomaisky. They also launched a ground attack in the Severny area (this is west of Avdiivka). With the support of artillery and aviation, Russian troops launched an offensive on the southwestern approaches to Avdievka. Everywhere without promotion.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to counterattack just north of the village of Krasnogorovka. Russian artillery shelled Novomikhailovka, Paraskovyovka, Pobeda, Georgievka, Nevelskoy, Karlovka, Netaylov, Thin, Lastochkin, Stepnoy, Novobakhmutovka (this is west of the village of Krasnogorovka), Novokalinov, New York and Severny (this is east of Gorlovka). The Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked Donetsk, Novobakhmutovka (this is to the northeast of the village of Krasnogorovka) and Gorlovka.
PMC "Wagner" continues assault operations in the southern, western and northern regions of Bakhmut. Significant progress in the last two sections. Wagner operators managed to reach the intersection of Tchaikovsky and Yubileynaya streets. This is the main entrance to the city, both from Ivanovsky and Khromovoe.
Thus, the main, but not the last, logistical route for the Armed Forces of Ukraine has been cut. To the northwest of Bakhmut, the "musicians" also attacked near Khromovoy and Bogdanovka. No progress here.
Russian artillery and aviation were actively working on the Bakhmut site. Belaya Gora, Ivanovskoye, Chasov Yar, Grigorovka, Markovo, Orekhovo-Vasilyevka, Vasyukovka, Pereezdnoye, Spornoye, Seversk and Verkhnekamenskoye were under attack. From the side of the last of these settlements, the Ukrainian army was already counterattacking.
In the Luhansk direction, Russian troops managed to advance somewhat in the Serebryansky forest area. Attacks in the area of Torskoy and Nevsky after artillery strikes did not bring success to the RF Armed Forces. Russian artillery hit Novoselovsky, Kislovka, Kupyansk, Liman First, Dvurechnaya, Novomlynsk, Figolevka, Krasny Perevayy, Kamenka and Topolsk.
09:50 View from above on the city of Bakhmut, in the western part of which fighting is underway. Having crossed the railroad and liberated residential high-rise buildings along Pushkin Street, as well as the SIZO building, the Wagner assault units reached the military unit - clashes continue in its western part.
It is reported about the active assault actions of the fortified area near the once MIG-17 monument, the village of Khromovo and the village of Ivanovskoye. At the moment, the enemy forces control no more than ten percent of Bakhmut.
09:23 All positions of the Ukrainian troops in Maryinka came under fire control of the Russian forces, the vast majority of quarters were liberated, Pushilin said.
09:21 The RF Armed Forces destroyed four S-300 launchers, an anti-aircraft self-propelled gun "Gepard" and a mortar crew in the Kherson region.
Yesterday in Kherson, four S-300 launchers and a Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft gun were destroyed by strikes from Lancet unmanned loitering ammunition - 14 AFU militants were eliminated, 10 wounded.
In addition, at night, artillery fire in the area of ??N. p. Olgovka was destroyed by a mortar crew with a caliber of 120mm and ammunition for it - five militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were liquidated, two were wounded.
09:20 The criminal Kiev regime continues to shell the civilian infrastructure of the settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Armed Forces of Ukraine were fired from barrel artillery:
-- Golaya Pristan fired six rounds;
-- Korsunka fired 22 rounds;
-- Peschanovka fired six rounds;
-- Krynki fired 12 rounds;
-- Kardashinka fired 10 rounds;
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure to be confirmed
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the settlement. Novaya Kakhovka, n.p. Kakhovka, n.p. Kardashinka, firing a total of 34 rounds from cannon artillery.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being specified.
09:17 The representative office of the DPR in the JCCC reports 36 facts of firing from the AFU per day.
The enemy fired from MLRS, attack UAVs, 155mm and 152mm artillery, firing 201 units of various ammunition across the territory of the DPR.
Under the fire of the VFU were: Panteleymonovka, Verkhnetoretskoye, Yasinovataya, Mineralnoye, Vasilievka, Donetsk, Makeevka, Aleksandrovka, Vladimirovka.
Over the past day, information was received about the wounding of three civilians.
09:11 The enemy bases in Kherson were subjected to heavy artillery attack at night. Local residents report that they have never heard such powerful explosions before.
08:59 One policeman was killed, one was injured in an explosion near a residential building in Melitopol, reported the Main Department of Internal Affairs in the Zaporozhye region.
08:48 Ukrainian troops fired at the Kirovsky district of Makeevka, firing seven rounds with a caliber of 155mm, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported.
08:13 Sapper PMC "Wagner" told and showed what kind of mines one has to deal with in Artemovsk.
08:08 Counterattack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: what do the fighters in the Maryinsky direction (DPR) think about the impending large-scale attack -video.
An officer with the call sign Khram in a conversation with RT military correspondent Vlad Andritsa:
"In the event of their attack on us, we will be ready, there will be no moment of surprise. We observe everywhere - both Maryinka and the whole direction. Such a large crowd of people and equipment, it seems to me, they will not succeed. Let's strike immediately. And if people are stretched along the entire front line, then such a large-scale offensive, it seems to me, will not work."
07:45 At night, Ukrainian troops stepped up the transfer of forces to the Zaporozhye direction, Rogov said.
07:07 In Melitopol, an explosion occurred near an apartment building - an IED went off, one person was injured.
In Melitopol, at the entrance of a high-rise building on the street. Kirov explosion. According to the local administration, an improvised explosive device went off. One person was injured and has been hospitalized.
The circumstances of what happened are now being investigated. Emergency services are on site.