Denazification of Ukraine: operational summary (April 25, updated)

UKRAINE: 18:50 Three powerful explosions in the building of the Transnistrian Ministry of State Security. They write that they shot from a grenade launcher.

18:50 In the forest between Sukha Kamenka and Dolgenkiy (south of Izyum), Russian special forces destroyed a group of Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters.

18:50 Without changing their tactics, the fleeing soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine blew up the overpass leading from Kupyansk to Kharkov. Thus, both road and rail links are no longer possible.

18:49 The British Ministry of Defense reported that the country will transfer Stormer self-propelled anti-aircraft guns with Starstreak missiles to Ukraine.

17:43 About 1 million refugees entered Russia from Ukraine (including the republics of the DPR and LPR), Russian President Vladimir Putin said. According to him, this number includes about 100 thousand children.

17:43 6 defendants in the criminal case on the attempted murder of Vladimir Solovyov were detained, the RF IC reports. The investigation will ask for their arrest. The criminals planned to blow up the journalist’s car.

16:43 Ukrainian President’s adviser Arestovich admitted that at the beginning he did not believe that Ukraine would be able to cope with the onset of Russian troops.

16:42 Kharkiv, air raid alert.

16:41 In Dagestan, officers of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation honored the memory of servicemen who died during a special operation in Ukraine. Department officers and cadets laid red carnations at the obelisk of the “Grieving Mother” in Kaspiysk and honored the memory of the dead with a minute of silence.

16:40 US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on the supply of American M777 howitzers to the Kyiv regime:

“The training of 50 Ukrainian artillerymen has been completed. A 6-day course for the next 50 people will start soon. 18 howitzers are already in Ukraine. Now 7 more are being prepared and 72 more are coming soon. A total of $322 million in foreign military assistance has been allocated to buy everything Ukraine needs, including ex-Soviet munitions.”

15:40 The Russian Guard announced the destruction of the armored group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv direction.

15:35 The Russians are preparing an attack on Zaporizhia, – the regional state administration.

“The military of the Russian Federation has collected a large number of equipment and personnel at the Bolshaya Novoselka – Novodarovka – Malinovka section and are preparing for an offensive towards Zaporozhye,” the speaker of the regional state administration said.

14:35 This week, a sculpture of two workers under the Arch of Friendship of Peoples in the center of Kyiv is being dismantled – Klitschko. It was installed in 1982 “in commemoration of the reunification of Ukraine with Russia.”

14:35 A group of neo-Nazis was preparing the assassination of journalist Vladimir Solovyov by order of the special services of Ukraine. During the searches, a home-made explosive device, 8 home-made Molotov cocktails, 6 PM pistols, a sawn-off hunting rifle, an RGD-5 grenade, more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition, drugs, fake Ukrainian passports, nationalist literature and paraphernalia were seized. Members of the criminal group give confessions about the preparation of the murder of Solovyov, after which they planned to hide abroad.

14:34 FSB stopped the activities of a terrorist group that planned attacks on well-known Russian journalists – Putin.

13:44 Near Kharkov, Russian troops launched massive strikes from cannon and rocket artillery on the city of Chuguev, where the Armed Forces of Ukraine have long been trying to organize a counteroffensive. In addition, the regional center itself was under fire. Also, Russian artillery divisions fired on the villages of Malaya Danilovka and Zolochev.

13:43 Near Kherson, Ukrainian troops are already preparing for an attack on the regional center. After a massive artillery strike by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the village of Kiselevka, Russian troops retreat to the Chernobaevka airfield. Which, by the way, has become a trap for them more than once. The Ukrainian army has already shot well at this place.

13:43 In the near future, we should expect an attack on Krivoy Rog from the territory of the Kherson region. There, the Russian group formed a powerful armored fist. Moreover, the strike is being prepared in two directions: to the west of the Kakhovka reservoir near the village of Shevchenkovo ​​and from the area of ​​the village of Vysokopole.

13:41 The pause is over. Over the past day, fierce ground battles have been going on in Ukraine in almost all the main sectors of the front.

12:58 Tonight, Bryansk was attacked by Ukrainian drones. The Armed Forces of Ukraine planned to carry out the same provocation in the Kursk region, but they managed to shoot down the vehicles there 40 km from the border.

12:57 Two men suspected of setting fire to a car and military equipment have been detained in Kupyansk. Also, two men tore the Russian flag from the city building. One of them had tattoos with runic symbols common among the Nazis on his body.

11:48 EMERCOM of Russia has delivered another batch of humanitarian aid to Melitopol. This is reported by the city authorities. We are now packing the delivered food and essentials. Targeted delivery of humanitarian aid will continue in the near future.

11:47 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 141 aircraft, 110 helicopters, 566 unmanned aerial vehicles, 265 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2526 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 283 installations of multiple launch rocket systems, 1096 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 2362 units of special military vehicles.

11:46 During the night, the missile forces delivered 19 strikes, destroyed: four command posts, three ammunition depots, more than 240 personnel.

11:46 During the night, six military facilities of Ukraine were hit by high-precision air-launched missiles.

11:46 The Russian Aerospace Forces hit 56 Ukrainian military facilities, including a fuel storage facility in the Kharkiv region, killing up to 160 personnel.

11:45 High-precision long-range weapons in Kremenchug destroyed the facilities of an oil refinery, as well as storage facilities with oil products.

10:44 Ukrainian media report rocket fire on 9 junction railway stations in the country.

10:43 As a result of the hit of 9 missiles on the infrastructure of the Krmenchug Oil Refinery, serious damage was caused to the enterprise.

10:41 Today at 4.15 am in the village of Borovskoye, Rylsky district, Russian air defense crews shot down 2 Ukrainian drones. There are no casualties, injuries or damage. The situation is completely controlled by the governor of the Kursk region Roman Starovoit.

10:29 According to the internal report of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 8 tanks, 19 armored vehicles, 14 field artillery guns and mortars, 3 MLRS, 2 short-range air defense systems, 21 vehicles and special equipment and 7 UAVs were lost.

10:17 During the day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost 348 people killed, wounded and captured. The total losses in killed, wounded and captured in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, NGU and State Border Service are over 44 thousand people.

10:07 It is difficult for the US to track what is happening with the weapons transferred to Ukraine – Lloyd Austin.

10:03 Blinken and Austin during their visit to Kyiv announced the allocation of $713 million for military needs to Ukraine and 15 other countries – Associated Press.

10:00 Russia sent a note to the United States demanding to stop the supply of weapons to Ukraine.

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