27.04.2022, Moscow.
Rossa Primavera News Agency publishes a summary of events in Ukraine as of 5 p.m. on April 27.
Summary of attacks by the Ukrainian army on Russian regions by this hour:
Air defense systems opened fire overnight in Kursk region.
An air defense system also opened fire over Belgorod that night.
An ammunition depot near the village of Staraya Nelidovka in the Belgorod region was attacked by the Ukrainian side. The open fire has now been extinguished.
Near Voronezh, an air defense system opened fire. A reconnaissance UAV was shot down near the village of Shilovo. A military airfield Baltimor is located near the village of Shilovo.
In all cases, no damage to residential buildings or casualties among civilians were recorded.
The FSB [the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation – translator’s note] detained two saboteurs in Belgorod, who were preparing a terrorist attack on a transport infrastructure facility. The detainees were transmitting data about Russian servicemen to Ukraine for the Mirotvorets website.
Russian Defense Ministry:
- High-precision long-range sea-based Kalibr missiles destroyed hangars with a large supply of foreign weapons and ammunition supplied by the United States and European countries to Ukrainian forces at the Zaporozhye aluminum smelter.
- Operational and tactical and army aviation of the Russian Air Force hit 59 military targets of Ukraine overnight. Among them: 50 areas of concentration of Ukrainian manpower and military equipment, four depots with weapons and ammunition near the villages and towns of Chervonoye, Dolgenkoye, Pashkovo and Veseloye, and the Buk-M1 anti-aircraft missile system near Slavyansk. As a result of the strikes, more than 120 nationalists and 35 armored vehicles and vehicles were destroyed.
- Rocket troops and artillery carried out 573 firing missions during the night. They hit 432 areas where the enemy’s manpower and military equipment were concentrated, 67 artillery positions, two batteries of multiple rocket launchers and seven ammunition depots.
- Russian air defence forces shot down 18 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles near the villages and towns of Aleksandrovka, Balakleya, Bryanka, Zaporozhskoye, Izyum, Kapitolovka, Peremoga, Petrovka, Popasnoye, Proletarskoye and Trudolyubovka, including two Bayraktar-TB2 UAVs near the villages of Kolesnikovka and Krasny Liman. In addition, a Ukrainian Tochka-U tactical missile was shot down over Illichyovka village.
A total of 141 aircraft, 110 helicopters, 607 unmanned aerial vehicles, 273 surface-to-air missile systems, 2,596 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 296 multiple rocket launchers, 1,134 field artillery and mortar guns, and 2,413 pieces of special military vehicles have been destroyed since the start of the special military operation.
Southern direction
Russian warships again approached Odessa.
The bridge over the Dniester Estuary in Zatoka in Odessa region was shelled again, the head of the Ukrainian Railroad Kamyshyn said.
The bridge across the Dniester Estuary in the Odessa region was destroyed – the head of the Odessa Regional Military Administration Bratchu. Waiting for confirmation from other sources.
Liberation of the LPR and DPR
During the joint operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and the LPR to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine, a group of DPR troops continues to liberate towns and villages in the Donetsk People’s Republic that were previously under the control of the Ukrainian army.
Currently, 167 towns and villages are under control. Mariupol came under full operational control of the DPR and Russian Armed Forces, the remnants of the Nazi paramilitary fighters are hiding in the catacombs of the Azovstal industrial zone.
Another bridge, this time an automobile bridge, was blown up near Krasny Liman. It is most likely a bridge on the Krasny Liman-Seversk section of the road near Yampol.
The enemy opened fire on the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic using 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS, 122mm artillery, 120mm and 82mm mortars. Areas of eight villages and towns in the republic came under the enemy’s fire.
According to the DPR representative to the Joint Centre for Ceasefire Control and Coordination, 30 residential buildings and three civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged. The Ukrainian militants fired a total of 204 rounds of ammunition.
The DPR
As a result of the shelling of the Donetsk People’s Republic by the Ukrainian army, 89 transformer substations, 12 infrastructure and civilian facilities, and over 10,500 household customers were left without electric power.
The Ukrainian army attacked the Petrovsky district. A residential apartment building on Osoviakhim Street was damaged.
Ukrainian nationalists from positions in Peski shelled Kuybyshevsky district of Donetsk with 120mm mortar shells. A number of houses on Kurchatov and Kovalko streets were damaged. A gas pipeline was damaged.
Ukrainian militants continue indiscriminate artillery fire on Yasinovataya from positions in Avdeevka. 122mm artillery was used against civilians. Details are being specified.
The LPR
About 6.4 thousand customers in Irmino and Pervomaysk were left without electricity due to a failure on the power line.
On 27 April at 05:00, due to the damage of the 800 mm water pipeline between the Slavyanoserbsk pumping station of the 2nd lift and Slavyanoserbsk pumping station of the 3rd lift, the water supply to consumers in the villages of Zimogorye (partially), Dolgoye, Stepnoye was stopped until approximately 06:00 a.m. on 28 April (including putting into service).
Ukrainian armed units using a Grad multiple rocket launcher opened fire on Irmino and Zolotoye-5 twice.
On April 27, at 2:20 p.m., Ukrainian armed units using a Grad multiple rocket launcher opened fire on Stakhanov in the LPR, killing a child (a 10-year-old girl), injuring a man, and damaging more than 20 residential buildings.
There was information that in the area of the Central Market in Lisichansk, propagandists of the Ukrainian army are preparing a staged demonstration of civilian deaths as a result of alleged shelling by the LPR.
Broken vehicles were brought to the market, which had been mistakenly shelled by artillerymen of the 57th Ukrainian army brigade the day before, and an ambulance brought bodies of Ukrainian fighters disguised in civilian clothes, which will be unloaded for the demonstration to foreigners. Media from the USA, Latvia, Great Britain and Poland have been invited to cover this provocation.
Liberated territories
In the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic, previously liberated by a group of DPR troops, five civilians wounded as a result of the Ukrainian army’s shelling received medical treatment.
The DPR authorities continue to carry out priority activities aimed at restoring the social and humanitarian sphere.
Specialists launched base stations in Zlatoustovka and Privolnoye. In Urzuf and Belosarayska Kosa, climate control was restored at the base station.
At the Volnovakha-Khlebodarovka railroad haul, 2 km of overhead longitudinal power supply line was restored.
Employees of the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy of the DPR received 1,343 applications for the renewal and assignment of pensions.
Medics in the liberated territories continue to receive citizens. 853 patients received qualified medical assistance.
Rescuers examined about 5 hectares of territories, and 3,000 square meters of various premises, and found 203 explosive objects. In Mariupol, 14695 humanitarian kits were distributed.
24 tanks of liquefied gas were delivered to Khlebodarovka and 36 to Kremenyovka.
54 tons of water and 4.5 tons of bread were delivered and distributed in Mariupol.
Political situation
The Chinese Foreign Ministry called the US the master of disinformation and the biggest saboteur and instigator of the conflict in Ukraine:
“The US purports to maintain the centrality of the UN charter. But it is clear to everyone that what the US doing is quite the opposite.
Facts have proven that the US is the master of disinformation and coercive diplomacy, and the biggest saboteur of international and regional peace and stability. <…> the US is using democracy and human rights as pretexts to create division and stoke confrontation and is abusing rules and order to serve its own interests at the expense of others.
Not only small and weak countries are hurt because of this, US allies, including Europe, are also paying a heavy price for the US’ selfish acts. It is hoped that Europe will see the truth and stop holding a candle to the devil.”
Transnistrian Interior Ministry about the shooting near Kolbasna. Last night, several drones were spotted in the sky over the village of Kolbasna in the Ribnitsky district. The drones were launched into Transnistria from Ukraine. At 8:45 a.m. on April 27, shots were fired from the Ukrainian side in the direction of the Transnistrian village of Kolbasna. There is no information about casualties at the moment.
According to experts, the largest ammunition warehouse in Europe is located in the village of Kolbasna.
Liberated territories of Ukraine
Russian soldiers lit an eternal flame on the Walk of Fame of Heroes of the Great Patriotic War in the city of Golaya Pristan, Kherson region, liberated from the Ukrainian Nazis.
Today the nationalists tried to hold a rally in Kherson, but they were quickly dispersed.
Mercenaries
Brahim Saadoun, a mercenary from Morocco, was captured. Saadoun served as a sailor in the 36th separate brigade of marines, having signed a three-year contract with the Ukrainian army in December 2021. He was a mortar officer of the first battalion.
The mercenary reported that he was 21 years old, registered in the city of Meknes in northern Morocco, 150 km from its capital Rabat. In fact, he lived in a hostel on Kiev’s Khreshchatyk.
Brahim decided to leave Morocco in 2019, because in his home country he could not find a job or study. The family decided to send him to Ukraine, having bought the cheapest, for $100, ticket to Poltava. There, the young man studied Russian for a year in a course at the Poltava University of Economics and Trade, and then entered the Department of Aerodynamic and Space Technology at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute.
However, according to him, he then became interested in the conflict in Donbass and decided to join the ranks of the Ukrainian army – Ukrainian legislation allows for the recruitment of foreigners.
Sanctions
Commercial banks in Estonia suspend payments related to Russia and Belarus. Major commercial banks in Estonia have announced that they are suspending payment transfers related to Belarus and Russia because of the Russian military special operation in Ukraine, the Estonian Broadcasting Company reported. April 20, Coop and Swedbank do not make payments for Russia and Belarus.
In this case, financial institutions continue to accept payments from banks that comply with the requirements of the European Union, as well as payments related to the public interests of Estonia or humanitarian activities. From June 1, SEB bank will also suspend payment services related to the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation. Luminor Bank will suspend outgoing payments to Belarus and Russia from June 1, and incoming payments from July 1.
The Estonian media specifies that not all commercial banks decided to completely suspend payments related to Russia and Belarus. For example, LHV bank. However, they warned customers that in the current situation, payments related to Russia, Belarus and Ukraine could take longer than usual.
Hungary confirms its intention to buy gas for rubles.
The Hungarian foreign minister said Budapest would transfer euros to pay for Russian gas, and they would be converted into rubles at Gazprombank. The Foreign Ministry added that, according to Gazprom, transit gas supplies via Bulgaria to Hungary are carried out independently.
Gazprom completely suspended gas supplies to Bulgargaz (Bulgaria) and PGNiG (Poland) due to non-payment in rubles.
Ten European buyers of Russian gas have opened accounts in Gazprombank, and four have already paid in rubles, Bloomberg sources said.
Austria and Austria’s OMV have accepted the terms of payment for Russian gas in rubles, the Austrian chancellor said.
Poland wants the EU member states to agree on the procedure for confiscation of Russian assets. Warsaw expects to get other EU member states to agree on the authority to confiscate Russian assets subject to sanctions, said Polish Undersecretary of State for Economic and Development Cooperation, Africa and the Middle East Paweł Jabłoński. According to the newspaper, the Polish side believes that the assets, including “the property of sanctioned Russian oligarchs and hundreds of billions of euros from the Bank of Russia reserves frozen by Western countries,” after confiscation should be used to restore infrastructure in Ukraine following the end of the Russian special military operation.
“We consider it necessary to make a political decision that we want to pursue this course, that we are ready to confiscate these assets irrevocably,” the newspaper quotes Jabłoński as saying.
The Polish Undersecretary of State said Warsaw was “open to consultations” about the procedure for possible confiscation.
Ukraine
Kiev has confirmed cyberattacks against Russian and Belarusian companies and institutions. The statement was made by Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine Mikhail Fyodorov. Fyodorov said that he was able to organize the world’s first “cyber army”. It has already managed to carry out more than 660 cyber attacks. It includes about 300 thousand specialists. Participation in the “army” is voluntary.
Zelensky’s spokesman Arestovich said that in case of an appeal from Moldova, Ukraine is ready to seize Transnistria.
Zelensky called for “global control” over Russian nuclear facilities. Zelensky, “After what Russian troops did in the Chernobyl zone and at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, no one in the world can feel safe knowing how many nuclear facilities, nuclear weapons and related technologies the Russian state has. If Russia has forgotten what Chernobyl was, it means that global control over Russian nuclear facilities and nuclear technology is needed.”
Kiev called for renaming Leo Tolstoy Street into the street of the Azov Battalion (organization banned in the Russian Federation). Olesya Pinzenyk, a member of the Kiev council from the UDAR party, “Commemorating the patriots and defenders of the Azov Battalion (organization banned in Russia) is crucial for Ukrainian history and culture, because these people have long defended our country from the Russian occupation”.
Western countries
A monument to Red Army soldiers was torn down in Latvia. A monument to the Liberators was torn down in the village of Madliena (Ogre region, Latvia). The monument to the Soviet soldiers who fell during the liberation of Latvia from the Nazis was demolished, and the boulder on which it was erected is going to be used for road construction work.
This monument is protected by article 13 of the Russian-Latvian agreement of 1994 on social security of military pensioners of the Russian Federation and their families living in Latvia. This article states that Latvia “shall ensure care, beautification and preservation of memorial structures and mass gravesites of soldiers on the territory” of the republic.
Georgia will not open a second front and will not engage in hostilities. “There will be no war in Georgia. Moreover, if Saakashvili were in power now, Tbilisi would turn into Mariupol,” Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said.
Earlier, Aleksey Arestovich, advisor to the head of the Ukrainian presidential office, told journalists that he suggested that Georgia invade Abkhazia and South Ossetia. “There is no Russian army left there, everybody has been withdrawn, and secondly, they will get the support of the whole world and Ukraine. Not only are they not doing that, but they are additionally trying to justify Russia’s positions and actions.”
The US will be voting on the lend-lease for Ukraine. The vote is scheduled to take place at 9:00 p.m. on April 27, Kiev time. If the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022 is voted on, it will empower Biden and greatly speed up the delivery of arms, food, etc. from the USA to Ukraine on loan or without payment.
Canada wants to give the assets of Russian citizens confiscated because of sanctions to Ukrainians. “Today, we are seeking the capacity to not only seize but to allow for the forfeiture of the assets of sanctioned individuals and entities and to allow us to compensate victims with the proceeds,” Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly. Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said this law would be the first of its kind in the G7.
The German government is organizing a “grain bridge” from Ukraine through which it plans to export “surplus” bread. With an exceptionally noble goal – “to prevent a hunger disaster in the world,” as German officials assure. There are plans to export 20 million tons of grain by rail. This will require up to 20 thousand trains, paid for from the German state budget. DB Cargo company will perform transportation.
Bulgarian President Rumen Radew, “We must say definite ‘no’ to provide military assistance to Ukraine. It would mean a step towards involving Bulgaria in this conflict. Unfortunately, we see that the calls for peace, for an early end to the conflict are gradually fading, and they are being replaced by belligerent rhetoric, by calls for victory. But it is necessary to understand what the word ‘victory’ means if it means the self-destruction and economic liquidation of Europe, then I don’t think our countries should move in that direction. Bulgaria should be part of the effort to bring peace and end the conflict. Prolonging the conflict will be detrimental in many ways.”
The Bulgarian president also spoke against a government delegation’s trip to Kiev, “The sovereign Bulgarian position is formed in Sofia, there is no need for such a trip.”
British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs will call on the country’s allies to hand over combat aircraft to Ukraine – CNN.
The US will give Georgia $35 million to strengthen its defense against Russia, Georgian media reported on Wednesday. A US State Department spokesman said $322 million of the $713 million in foreign military financing will be spent to strengthen Ukraine’s defense capabilities.
The rest will be distributed among Central and Eastern European and Balkan countries. “Georgia will receive $35 million, which includes combat equipment for a brigade, an unmanned aerial vehicle system, an advanced field artillery tactical data system, mobility capabilities and cyber-defense.”
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
