Events on Major Fronts of Ukrainian People's War With Russian Federation

Chronicle of the 66th day of the war.

Russia is waging war against Ukraine for the 66th day. The people of Ukraine are fighting bravely.

Over the previous day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed 10 air targets: 1 aircraft and nine Orlan-10 operational-tactical UAVs. 14 enemy attacks were defeated and destroyed in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions yesterday: 11 tanks, 7 artillery systems, 28 armored vehicles and 14 vehicles.

Charter97.org is broadcasting online the 66th day of the war. You can see the developments in Ukraine on April 29 in our previous online broadcast.

Ukraine 24 TV channel special broadcast

22:08 Kyiv has offered Beijing to become one of the country's security guarantors, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said in an interview with the Chinese news agency Xinhua.

21:58 As a result of a powerful fire strike on the advanced command post of the 2nd army of Russian invaders in the Kharkiv region, General Simonov was eliminated.

21:54 Ukrainian farmers in the Zaporizhzhya region are forced to work in helmets and body armor.

21:38 Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine Olha Stefanishyna said that already at the next meeting of EU leaders (in June 2022), Ukraine will be granted the status of a candidate member of the EU.

21:26 Soon Ukraine may receive Slovak MiG-29 aircraft, writes The New York Times. The publication emphasizes that this is the decision of Slovakia itself, and is not a decision of NATO.

21:03 The captured invaders say that no one wants to fight, everyone is rushing home, and "the commanders are deceiving them."

20:47 Both sides adhere to the silence regime for the evacuation of people from Azovstal.

The representative of Azov spoke about the situation in Mariupol by that evening.

20:38 The phone stolen from one of the residents of Mariupol was "found" in Chechnya.

The occupier from Grozny gave it to his daughter, who recorded a video where she thanked its owner for the "gift".

20:13 Ukraine received Mistral anti-aircraft missile systems from Norway. This was announced by the Minister of Defense of the country Bjorn Aril Gramm.

These weapons allow you to shoot down planes and helicopters at low altitudes up to three kilometers, and they can also hit cruise missiles.

20:03 In the capital of Iceland, a square was named after Kyiv.

Kyiv Square is situated at the crossroads where foreign embassies, including the Russian one, are located.

19:42 As a result of a missile attack by the Russian Federation, the runway of the Odesa airport was damaged, the local council reports with reference to the Pivden operational command.

19:19 Denmark will give Ukraine 25 Piranha III armored personnel carriers.

Denmark will also send M10 heavy mortars and thousands of mortar shells for them to Ukraine.

19:08 As a result of the offensive, the Armed Forces of Ukraine completely restored control over the settlements of Verkhnya Rohanka, Russian Lozovaya, Slobodske and Prylisne in the Kharkiv region, the General Staff informs in the evening report.

18:53 The headquarters of the JFO published a photo of one of the downed drones, which shows that it belongs to the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation.

18:32 The Russian Federation in Mariupol will leave the minimum number of troops to block Ukrainian positions in Azovstal, the Institute for the Study of War reports.

The institute's report says that the leadership of the RF Armed Forces is taking such a measure because of plans to deploy the maximum possible combat power for an offensive in other directions.

18:14 A new exchange of prisoners took place today. 14 Ukrainians were returned home: 7 military and 7 civilians. One of the military women is five months pregnant.

18:01 In the center of Mariupol, the Russian militaries have equipped a checkpoint. Local residents report that unknown people are moving into the houses of Mariupol residents who managed to leave the city.

17:47 Kyiv's strategic interest is a free and democratic Belarus, writes the Nick and Mike Telegram channel.

17:25 Mariupol. The Russians fascists' tank point-blank shoots at a high-rise building, in the basements of which civilians are hiding.

This video is a clear demonstration of why the civilians of Mariupol, including those hiding on the territory of the Azovstal plant, are afraid to leave the basements and do not believe the occupiers regarding the possibility of safe evacuation from the city.

17:09 Dutch port workers have joined their Swedish colleagues in refusing to unload a ship with Russian diesel fuel in Amsterdam.

Earlier, Swedish port workers blocked all loading and unloading operations, towing and mooring of ships from the Russian Federation and following to the Russian Federation, demanding an EU ban on Russian oil.

The unloading of the vessel is consistently refused in the ports of Gothenburg (Sweden), Rotterdam and now Amsterdam (Netherlands).

16:59 The special services of the Russian Federation, through controlled criminals, planned to destabilize the situation in the Odesa region by inciting citizens to riots and protests on the anniversary of May 2.

During the searches at the defendants' places, weapons, communist paraphernalia, advertising brochures with communist and other prohibited symbols, as well as grenades, cartridges, mobile phones and equipment were found.

16:48 Russia will leave the International Space Station due to sanctions — Bloomberg.

16:39 The AFU seized a serviceable BMD-4M with full ammunition.

16:25 Hundreds of people picketed the office of the French Engie demanding to terminate gas contracts with Russia.

Participants doused themselves in red paint and lay down on the pavement in front of the main entrance to the Engie office in protest against the cooperation of the French company with the Russian Gazprom.

16:13 This is the map of the state of affairs in Ukraine on April 30, according to British intelligence.

16:07 That's how the fighters of the Kastus Kalinouski battalion take a rest near the destroyed equipment of the occupiers.

15:56 Famous Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie visited Lviv with a humanitarian mission. Together with her colleagues from the UN Refugee Affairs, Jolie organizes assistance to refugees.

15:44 The fighter of the 128th Separate Mountain Zakarpattia Brigade destroyed 6 Russian armored vehicles with Javelin in one day. He mastered the new weapon in just two days.

15:35 Ukrainian intelligence officers liquidated an enemy truck with a Javelin along with three Russian occupiers.

15:22 Ukraine arrested 51 rail tank cars from Belarus. We are talking about rail tank cars that crossed the border with Ukraine on February 23, they contained 3,000 tons of diesel fuel produced by Belarus and Russia.

15:15 Ukrainian fighters destroyed the Russian BTR-ZD Skrezhet combat vehicle with the ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft installation.

15:09 The fighters of the Azov Battalion showed evacuation of people in the Kharkiv region. They had been living for 2 months in the occupation. About 600 Ukrainians were evacuated from the liberated villages of Ruska Lozova and Lisne.

14:56 Russians run out of precision-guided munitions. “Their stocks are limited and being undermined, and we see that they have to move the Kalibr missiles from other strategic directions where they can be stored. This indicates that their stocks of high-precision munitions are being reduced," a Western official told the Financial Times.

Russia's difficulty in resupplying guided weapons was due to both "the quality of their industrial base" and Western sanctions that "limit their ability to build up capabilities at a time when they need to have an effect on the battlefield."

14:45 The Times revealed the identity of the "Ghost of Kyiv". He died in an unequal fight with the Rushists. He has a family.

29-year-old fighter pilot, Major Stepan Tarabalka, who accounted for 40 Russian aircraft, died in an unequal fight on March 13. In the first days of the war, he received the nickname "Ghost of Kyiv". He was killed during an air fight with a superior enemy. He was posthumously awarded the Gold Star, the highest combat award for bravery. Also, he was awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine. He has parents, a wife and a son.

14:33 This is a side-by-side comparison of the first aid kits of Russian (top) and Ukrainian (bottom) soldiers.

14:20 The special forces of the Security Service of Ukraine destroyed the equipment of the Russian army with mines. A truck of the occupiers crumbled "to ashes" after it was blown up by a Ukrainian mine.

14:09 In temporarily occupied Nova Kakhovka, the f**ked around Russians put a Lenin monument in front of the City Council.

13:57 According to a resident of the village of Staryi Krym near Mariupol, the houses of owners who have left the occupied territory are being settled by unknown persons. This permission is issued by the “settlement council”, which works under the flag of so-called DPR (the Donetsk People's Republic).

“I learned earlier that some people are living there because there is no connection with the relatives, I just hoped that it was my sister. But today I was informed that the settlement council gave permission to certain people. I cannot imagine that such a case is possible in the civilised world. It is painful to be aware that this occurs in our native city,” she says.

13:45 The Russian tank "successfully" got stuck in the mud and was destroyed by the Ukrainian artillery.

13:34 A conflict is growing around Putin among the elites in Russia.

13:23 The Ukrainian military for the first time revealed the details of the battle with Russian paratroopers for the airport in Hostomel.

13:10 Fighters of the Belarusian Kastus Kalinouski Battalion showed burnt Russian Tigers vehicles.

12:58 German Ambassador to Ukraine announced the new Berlin position, saying that they do not oppose the oil sanctions, but also actively support a phase-out of oil. Moreover, Germany supported requirements about the introduction of sanctions for the import of uranium from Russia.

This indicates that actually Germany accepted the total loss of all new energy projects with the Rosatom.

12:46 The occupiers begin to panic with a single mention of Chernobaievka. They massively refuse to advance in this direction. The recording of a conversation between a battalion commander from the Russian Federation and a company commander who arrived with reinforcements from the so-called Donetsk People's Republic evidenced it.

12:35 The hottest frontlines: three directions.

12:23 Ukrainian artillery this morning covered the occupiers with dense fire at their positions.

12:10 Yesterday, the Armed Forces of Ukraine drove the occupiers out of the village of Ruska Lozova, Kharkiv region. Several military trophies were added to the APU's funds and several prisoners were captured.

11:56 Adam Mikhnik, famous Polish journalist, former political prisoner of the Communist regime in Poland, founder of the Gazeta Wyborcza, analyzed Putin's psychology, the course of the war and gave forecasts about Belarus.

11:45 Russian BMP-3 fighting vehicle was destroyed by Ukrainian drone R18. It is noteworthy that the drone was made with improvised means.

11:32 Kinder withdraws products from the Belarusian market, but not all the kinds.

11:25 In the eastern direction, Ukrainian artillery destroyed at least two Msta-B enemy howitzers and an Ural truck.

11:14 Children at the Azovstal Mariupol plant.

11:07 Ukrainian resistance destroys the Kremlin's plans in the Kherson region. Ukrainian intelligence data have been published.

10:56 They liquidated a Russian occupier at the moment when he was speaking about his “successes”.

10:44 The border guards of the Donetsk detachment, who continue to fight in Mariupol blocked by the Russians, conveyed their congratulations on the Day of the Ukrainian Border Guard.

10:35 Soldiers of the Azov Troop Dnipro, together with the artillerymen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, eliminated the equipment of the occupiers hidden in the bushes with accurate fire.

10:20 The Russian occupiers, who have experienced the power of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, urged their friends not to go to war in Ukraine. An interception by the Security Service of Ukraine.

10:14 The Armed Forces of Ukraine, together with the National Guard, destroyed the command post, military equipment and personnel of the Rushists in the Izyum direction. Artillery defeated more than 30 military vehicles, mostly tanks and armored personnel carriers, the BMD combat vehicles and the MTLB light armored multi-purpose tractors.

10:01 Photo of the consequences of shelling by the Rushists in the Luhansk region appeared.

“Groundhog Day for the Russians in the Luhansk region. It's the same every night. They attack, die, and return to their previous positions. That night, the Russians, traditionally, threw all their forces to assault Rubizhne and Popasna. They did not succeed again and suffered losses,” Serhiy Haidai, the head of the Regional Military Administration, describes what is happening in the region.

09:54 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine published the total combat losses of the enemy from February 24 to April 30:

09:44 The fighters of the 30th Prince Konstanty Ostrogski Mechanized Brigade destroyed the Grad missile systems and many vehicles of the enemy with a well-aimed volley.

09:28 Soldiers of The 93rd Kholodnyi Yar Mechanized Brigade showed the destroyed Russian BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicle.

09:20 Pope Francis has addressed Putin three times because of Mariupol. He requested to permit a vessel with the flag of the Vatican to evacuate innocent civilians from the Azovstal, Mariupol metallurgical plant, but all three times his request was rejected.

08:52 Odesa received new air defense systems. The night in the city and the region passed without shelling.

08:45 Today in Sakhalin there was a strong fire at the Hydroelectric Power Station-2.

08:38 The Ukrainian military shot down 25 enemy Su-25s and 9 occupier drones over the past 24 hours. According to the Command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on April 29, 10 air targets of Russian invaders were downed.

"On April 29, one Su-25 jet and 9 Orlan-10 drones were defeated by the air defense of the Ground Forces and the Air Forces with various means and weapons, including foreign man-portable anti-aircraft missile systems," the report says.

08:32 In the Kharkiv region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine defeated the enemy's command post with a powerful artillery strike.

08:25 "Russian paratroopers tried to defeat the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Luhansk region," said the head of the Regional State Administration Serhiy Gaidai. Only seven Russians managed to survive after the meeting arranged by the Ukrainian 24th King Daniel Separate Mechanized Brigade, the rest were eliminated.

The photo shows what is left of them.

08:19 The United States has begun training Ukrainian soldiers at military facilities in Germany, according to Pentagon spokesman John Kirby.

"The exercises are based on basic artillery training that Ukrainian forces have already undergone elsewhere, and also include training in radar systems and armored vehicles that were recently announced as part of security assistance packages," he said.

08:14 There are already 27 foreign diplomatic missions in Kyiv. In particular, the British Ambassador to Ukraine Melinda Simmons returned.

"Already 27 foreign diplomatic missions are working in the capital of our state. And this is an extremely important gesture of support for Ukraine. We are grateful to all of them for it," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

23:53 The 59th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade destroys a Russian tank in a new video from the Web.

23:46 Actor Artur Smolyaninov about the war in Ukraine, Russia and propaganda:

23:29 The 503rd Separate Battalion of the Marine Corps of the Armed Forces of Ukraine hit two Russian IFVs with shells dropped from a drone.

23:12 Russian troops are behind schedule for their offensive in Donbas and far from their goal of encircling tens of thousands of Ukrainian troops.

The high-ranking representative of the Pentagon made the comment.

23:03 According to the Russian media, residents of Belgorod again hear "pops" in the sky.