Ukrainian Army Repulses Numerous Offensives Of Russian Troops (online)

(Updated) The main developments of the 59th day of the war.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine Repulses numerous offensives of the Russian troops for 59 days. Eight enemy attacks were repulsed, nine tanks, eighteen armoured and thirteen vehicles, a tanker, and three artillery systems were destroyed only in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions over the past day.

The enemy focuses its main efforts on offensive actions in the Sievierodonetsk direction, exerts an intensive fire influence on Ukrainian troops in order to displace them and create conditions for the development of the offensive on Sloviansk. The offensive in the direction of Novotoshkivske and assault operations in the areas of Rubizhne, Popasna and Marinka continue.

Charter97.org is broadcasting online the 59th day of the war. You can see the developments in Ukraine on April 22 in our previous online broadcast.

Ukraine 24 TV channel special broadcast

21:03 Zelensky, answering a question from a Polish journalist about whether he wants to leave for Poland, said that he did not plan to leave the territory of Ukraine until the end of the war:

"I've been hearing this for 60 days already. I have no right and, honestly, I don't want to. With all due respect to Poland, your leader and people... Until the war is over, I have no right to go to Poland or other states."

20:45 Putin changed tactics.

20:25 Tomorrow, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin will arrive in Ukraine, Zelensky said at a press conference. According to him, the pace of arms delivery will also be discussed.

20:14 Zelensky is giving a press conference in Kyiv at the metro station. According to him, he is ready for a personal meeting with the President of the Russian Federation:

"I'm not afraid of meeting President [Putin]. I simply have no right to be afraid, because our people have shown that they are not afraid of anything, they stopped tanks with their bare hands. Just like the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guards. People are afraid for their children, yes. And therefore a normal leader should not be afraid when it comes to our power and independence."

20:08 During the two months of the war in Ukraine, Russia has lost every third soldier. According to military experts, since the beginning of Russia's full-scale military invasion of the territory of independent Ukraine, the occupying troops of the Russian Federation have lost 30% of their manpower.

20:01 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine spoke about the latest events on the fronts of the war.

19:50 Head of the Odesa regional military administration Maksym Marchenko commented on Russia's missile attack on Odesa on April 23, which killed civilians.

19:42 The Times confirms earlier information that the UK will send Stormer vehicles that can launch high-speed Starstreak missiles capable of destroying aircraft and helicopters.

19:35 Turkey has closed airspace for Russian military and civilian aircraft flying to Syria, Turkish Foreign Minister Cavusoglu said.

19:28 The Czech Republic offered to take Russia's place in the UN Human Rights Council. The country has already put forward its candidacy, saying that the Russian Federation must answer for aggression, murder and destruction in Ukraine.

19:20 Volodymyr Zelensky and Boris Johnson discussed new military assistance to Ukraine. It is reported that it will include heavy weapons.

19:12 2 people were rescued from under the rubble of a house that caught fire as a result of the shelling of Odesa. More than 80 have been evacuated. The fire has been extinguished.

At this moment, it is known about 6 dead, 18 injured (8 people are in hospitals in the city).

19:03 Ukraine will receive from Canada high-precision long-range artillery shells with GPS-guided "M982 Excalibur" for new western 155 mm howitzers.

18:56 In Ukraine, vehicles belonging to Belarusian businesses can be confiscated.

18:39 Volodymyr Zelensky published a photo of pre-war Mariupol, photographed by Viktor Dedov, who died there.

"This was Mariupol before the invasion of Russian troops. A beautiful city of half a million. Now there is actually not a single undamaged building. There is no Mariupol. And Viktor Dedov, who took these photos, is also gone," the Ukrainian president wrote.

18:26 Russian invaders disrupted the evacuation from Mariupol and abducted about 200 people.

18:20 Head coach of Rukh Lviv, Belarusian Leanid Kuchuk burst into tears, speaking about what is happening in Ukraine.

18:04 The occupying troops of the Russian Federation do not give up the attempts to move towards Mykolaiv and go to the borders of the Dnipropetrovsk region. In addition, the invaders are trying to move towards Slavyansk and Svyatohorsk.

17:57 Odesa rescuers are looking for casualties under the rubble.

17:50 UAV Vector from Quantum Systems is already in the possession of Ukrainian defenders. The Vector drone performs artillery spotting tasks. It has vertical takeoff and landing. It is equipped with an HD-40LV optical location station with a laser rangefinder.

17:37 "Here it is, the dearest dream of all Ukrainians," writes Unian.

17:26 In the photo, the "arrival" of a Russian missile in the Dnipropetrovsk region.

"The rocket flew to the outskirts of the village and left a huge funnel in the ground with a depth of more than 4 meters. It touched a low-pressure gas pipe," the head of the Dnipro regional police department said.

17:16 A three-month-old baby died as a result of a Russian fascists' missile attack on Odesa.

17:11 Poland has transferred military equipment worth more than $1.6 billion to Ukraine, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said.

17:04 Yesterday, a new field camp appeared near the village of Bronitsa (Buda-Koshaleva district, Homel region), presumably by the RF Armed Forces. About 7 KamAZ trucks, a field kitchen and a radar installation were seen in a field near the village. All cars without license plates.

16:52 As a result of yesterday's strike on the Russians' command post in the Kherson region, two generals of the occupiers were killed.

16:47 Russia should be recognized as a state sponsor of terrorism the reaction of Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba to the shelling of Odesa.

"The only goal of Russian missile attacks on Odesa is bringing terror. Russia must be recognized as a state sponsor of terrorism and the attitude towards it must be appropriate. No business, no contacts, no cultural projects. We need a wall between civilization and barbarians who are firing rockets at peaceful cities," the Ukrainian Foreign Minister wrote.

16:32 The result of the war with Russia will be the victory of Ukraine and the restoration of its territorial integrity. However, this will happen if politicians do not interfere with the military, says military expert, reserve colonel Oleh Zhdanov.

16:21 It is reported that the Russians fired at Odesa with Kh-101 air-launched cruise missiles.

At least one death is already known. A man burned to death in a broken car in the courtyard of a residential complex, where one of the rockets flew.

16:11 "Neptune destroys the devil's ship." This graffiti was painted by Belarusian artist StreetWind in Warsaw.

16:01 The occupiers have begun forced mobilization, including doctors, in the occupied territories of Kherson, Zaporizhzhya, and Kharkiv regions.

In particular, in the city of Volchansk (Kharkiv region), in primary health care, junior medical personnel are forcibly sent to the front line to provide first aid to the Russian wounded. In case of refusal, doctors are threatened with execution.

15:50 Lviv cooks painted 5,760 eggs in one night.

15:42 There are the details of the rocket attack by the Rushists on Odesa. There were four explosions, and one of the missiles hit the residential buildings. In the video: the passage of one of the "calibres" (missiles) of the invaders.

15:35 The brilliant operation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine against a group of Russian invaders was caught on video.

15:28 The video by the Azov Battalion: they destroyed today more than 100 invaders in the Kherson region.

15:18 Another Russian Orlan-10 was shot down in the Luhansk region.

14:58 More than 20 countries have confirmed their participation in the conference, which will discuss support for Ukraine, scheduled for April 26 at Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany. This was stated by US Department of Defense spokesman John Kirby.

14:40 The rusting "Tiger" in the middle of the camp of the army of the Russian Federation that was defeated by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The General Staff reports that the Ukrainian military has already destroyed 1,543 Russian vehicles, 2,205 armoured combat vehicles and 854 tanks.

14:17 The British Ministry of Defence publishes a new map of hostilities in Ukraine.

14:11 There are practically no “people's policemen ”left in the “DPR” (the so-called Donetsk People's Republic), most of them died in the battles near Mariupol, the Ukrainian Defence Intelligence reports.

The invaders involved the entire personnel of the so-called "Ministry of Internal Affairs of the DPR" in the battles near Mariupol. Including servicemen of the “internal troops of the DPR” and cadets of the “Donetsk Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs”.

13:58 "If the occupier decides to attack... then the one will "reach" Volgograd and Urengoy in a zinc wrapper..."

Ukrainian marines truly defend Odesa.

13:31 Russia has lost another warship. Military analyst Oleksandr Kovalenko reported this.

So, during the transition of the patrol vessel of the project 22460 "Rasul Gamzatov" by inland waterways (Volga-Don Canal) from the Caspian to the Sea of Azov, to strengthen the marine grouping of the occupiers with the tugboat, which ensured the transition of this border patrol ship. The elements of the propeller-steering group of the ship were damaged.

13:03 In Yasnogorsk, Tula Region, a young mother received a fine of 48,000 rubles for "discrediting the Russian army."

The nursery teacher's assistant reported to the police about the woman, who removed the "Z" symbol from the windows of the kindergarten.

12:45 The fighters of the Kastus Kalinouski Battalion do not lose their mood and sense of humour even during combat missions.

In the video: while the Russians vainly shoot ammunition, the Belarusian volunteers take the opportunity to rest.

12:24 The Armed Forces of Ukraine became the fourth NATO army.

"In terms of combat readiness, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are the fourth army among NATO countries after the United States, Great Britain and Turkey," said member of the Atlantic Council Yuriy Romanyuk, the head of the all-Ukrainian public organization "Ukraine in NATO".

“They showed that there is no Russian army. There is a bunch of murderers and rapists,” he stressed.

12:08 The Rushists are shocked by the resistance of the Ukrainian defenders.

They are afraid of the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and feel in danger even in those settlements that they managed to temporarily occupy.

11:49 The Ukrainian military "said hello" to the Kadyrov's tiktokers in Mariupol.

11:35 The Armed Forces of Ukraine carry out a counter-attack in the Kharkiv region.

11:14 An updated map of the situation in the East of Ukraine by European military experts.

The Russian occupiers were heavily shelling almost along the entire front line.

Russia unsuccessfully attempted to break through the villages of Zavodi and Virnopillia (South-West of Izyum) and Trudolyubivka on the western bank of the Dnieper.

10:51 In the Kharkiv region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have carried out a successful counter-attack consolidating positions.

This was announced by the chairman of the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Oleh Synyehubov. According to him, the Ukrainian units knocked out the Russian troops from the settlements of the Dergachivsky district: Bezruki, Slatine, Prudianka.

10:40 Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs explained in one sentence the importance of expanding the Alliance on Twitter:

"To those who think that NATO enlargement was a mistake keep in mind this: where there is NATO, there is peace; where there is Russia, there is war."

10:28 Kharkiv region, a new trophy from the Northern Fleet of the Russian Federation.

10:16 The occupiers distribute deadly humanitarian aid to the residents of the temporarily occupied city of Kherson. Local residents found explosives in a bag of milk.

10:08 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine published current data on the losses of the Russian army in Ukraine.

09:59 "They targeted an abandoned cafe, no one was injured," the head of the Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration Vitaly Kim commented on the morning shelling.

Kim also noted that the curfew in the area is established from 19 pm to 5 am, since there is a high probability of shelling at night.

09:50 Anonymous hackers hacked Enerpred, the largest supplier of hydraulics for the Russian energy sector.

So, a group of hackers hacked 645 thousand letters with a total volume of 432 GB.

The company specializes in the energy, petrochemical, carbon, gas and construction industry.

09:40 In Zhytomyr, they decided to dismantle a tank standing on the city's Victory Square.

According to the mayor Serhiy Sukhomlin, this will be done symbolically on May 9.

The "Tank - conqueror", as Zhytomyr residents call it, was installed in honour of the 20th anniversary of the Victory over the German troops in World War II and the liberation of Zhytomyr from occupation.

However, now the square will become the square of Ukraine's victory over Russia, and the Soviet tank no longer has a place on it.

09:28 The Ukrainian Armed Forces ambushed a Russian convoy. A pair of KAMAZ 6x6 fuel trucks and a 2S3 Akatsiya self-propelled howitzer were hit.

09:20 The Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed part of the invaders of the 64th Separate Motorized Brigade near Izyum. This is the brigade that committed atrocities in Bucha.

Also, according to some reports, the Ukrainian military took alive a group of invaders who raped Buchan girls and women.

09:12 The destruction of the Russian fascist's command post near Kherson by the Armed Forces of Ukraine was confirmed.

About 40 officers, an electronic warfare station and about 10 armored vehicles were destroyed, Serhiy Bratchuk said.

08:58 Belgium decided to transfer a new batch of weapons to Ukraine.

We are talking about anti-tank missile systems and, possibly, self-propelled artillery mounts.

08:43 The Transcarpathian Legion destroyed a Russian T-72 tank. The target was hit by a 120 mm mine, the crew was eliminated.

08:33 The Ukrainian military published a video chronicle of the liberation of the Kyiv region.

08:28 British intelligence on Russia's failures in Ukraine:

— Despite increased activity, Russian forces have made no major gains in the last 24 hours as Ukrainian counter-attacks continue to hinder their efforts.

— Russian air maritime forces have not established control in either domain owing to the effectiveness of Ukraine's air and sea defence reducing their ability to make notable progress.

— Despite their stated conquest of Mariupol, heavy fighting continues to take place frustrating Russian attempts to capture the city thus slowing their desired progress in the Donbas.

08:25 Canadian sniper "Wali" continues his work in Ukraine.

08:19 The Azov fighters have published a new video with children hiding in the Azovstal bunkers from the occupiers.

08:15 The Czech Republic is ready to replace Russia in the UN Human Rights Council.

The country's Foreign Ministry noted that Russia, expelled from the UN Council, should be responsible for aggression, human suffering and destruction in Ukraine.

08:13 The enemy continues to shell Mykolaiv.

After five in the morning, reports appeared on social media that a powerful explosion had thundered in the city.

08:07 Advisor to the Head of the President's Office Oleksiy Arestovych expressed confidence that a counteroffensive of the Ukrainian army will be carried out in Mariupol.

"The counteroffensive will be launched, I am 101% sure. The question is when, with what forces, and where. Because this will be decided by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Based on the amount of information that none of us has. He makes the decision. And perhaps he is now preventing four new Mariupols or two," Arestovych said.

08:03 184 settlements were cleared of mines in Ukraine.

According to Zelensky, this is a very good pace. Humanitarian headquarters operate in more than 500 de-occupied settlements.

23:55 Evening address by Volodymyr Zelensky:

The Armed Forces of Ukraine brilliantly perform their tasks. The intelligence, the National Guard, the Territorial Defence, the police and our border guards – all one hundred percent work for victory. But each citizen also must work for the victory, at their tasks and places.

Support Ukraine if you are abroad.

If you are engaged in ordinary economic activities, do everything to make it more useful for Ukraine.

If you are in a temporarily occupied territory, try to create more problems for the occupiers.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine are our foundation. The fortress of our national unity must always be based on it.

23:41 Soldiers of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the site of the explosion of the bridge in the Kharkiv region, along which the column of fascists were marching.

23:24 A cool cartoon from the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, which is dedicated to Russian propagandists.

23:08 The Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed the command post of the Russian troops in the Kherson region.

"We covered an advanced army-level command post in the Kherson region. It will be cooler than Chornobaivka. There were about 50 field Russian officers there. Their fate is not known, but I think it is sad. It has been exploding for a long time. This was a leading command post. It could be even so that one more army commander is added," said Oleksiy Arestovich.