On 26 April and the morning of 27 April, fighting continued on all fronts in Ukraine with the exception of the blockaded Azovstal plant in Mariupol.
The Russian Armed Forces continued targeting military infrastructure and transport hubs in Ukraine. Although the AFU, in turn, intensified strikes on facilities located directly on Russian territory, the Russian Armed Forces did not attack “decision-making centres”. Earlier, the Russian Armed Forces stated that they would take such actions if the AFU continued strikes on facilities located in Russian cities.
The Russian Defence Ministry has reported that a fortified area of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Mykolayiv Region has been destroyed.
The positions of the Ukrainian units had an extensive network of trenches and equipped firing points.
The Russian Defence Ministry said that Ukrainian servicemen were asked to lay down their arms. Furthermore, those who did not voluntarily lay down their arms were destroyed by artillery fire.
While retreating, the Ukrainian soldiers left small arms, ammunition and over 30 dead servicemen in their positions.
On 26 April, DNR artillery successfully hit AFU positions in the Donetsk direction.
The DPR units seized several fortified positions of the Ukrainian armed forces near Avdiivka, outside Donetsk. Significant losses have been reported in the Ukrainian armed forces.
On 26 April, Zavody, Zarechnoye and the outskirts of Yampol came under Russian control in the Izyum-Slavonic direction. The information was confirmed by the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ General Staff.
The AFU positions in the Zavody settlement prevented the Russian Armed Forces to advance to Velyka Kamyshevaha. The path is now free. On the morning of 27 April, the advance of the Russian Federation and D/LPR units in the area continued.
On 26 April, the Ukrainian armed forces attempted a counterattack in Rubizhne and Novotoshkivske. The attempt was unsuccessful, the Ukrainian Armed Forces retreated with losses in manpower and equipment.
On 26 April, a group of servicemen from the AFU’s 79th Detached Brigade Combat Team surrendered near Yampil. They surrendered weapons and military equipment.
Columns of heavy military vehicles of the Russian Armed Forces move towards the front.
The offensive in the area of Yampol demonstrates that the TVD is systematically moving directly into the territory of the Slovyansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration.
The blockade of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol continues. The Russian Armed Forces have no active combat operations over there.
An aerial photo of the plant with the exact coordinates of the bunkers where the remaining Azov regiment fighters are hiding has been circulated on the Internet.
On the morning of 27 April, a second strike was carried out on a railway bridge in Zatoka, Odessa region, Ukraine, which had already sustained damage from the first strike yesterday.
On the morning of 27 April, an AFU Bairaktar UAV was shot down over Kursk Region, Russia.
Over the Russian city of Voronezh, the air defence system was also activated several times.
This morning in the skies near Voronezh, the air defence system detected and successfully destroyed a small reconnaissance UAV. I have the situation under my personal control. There is no threat to the life and health of the region’s residents”, said the Governor of the Voronezh Region, Alexander Gusev.
The video below captured the moment the UAV was hit by a Russian missile in Voronezh.
In Belgorod, a Russian Armed Forces ammunition depot was also struck, apparently using a Bairaktar UAV.
Two Russians with Ukrainian Nazi ideology detained in Belgorod, Russia, while preparing to sabotage a transport facility.
On the night of 27 April, a sabotage by a Ukrainian reconnaissance group was prevented in Transnistria, near the village of Colbasna, where large ammunition and weapons storage facilities are located. Several grenades exploded near the military depots as a result of gunfire contact.
Russian Defence Ministry reports that high-precision long-range sea-launched Kalibr missiles destroyed hangars with a large batch of foreign weapons and ammunition supplied by the US and European countries to Ukrainian troops at the Zaporizhzhya aluminium plant.
Russian air defence forces shot down 18 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles near the villages of Aleksandrovka, Balakleya, Bryanka, Zaporizhske, Izyum, Kapitolovka, Peremoga, Petrovka, Popasne, Proletarske 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 the village of Illichivka.
According to the Russian Defence Ministry, the AFU lost 284 people killed, wounded and prisoners of war in 24 hours. The total losses of dead, wounded and prisoners in the AFU, NGU and PSCs exceeded 45,000.
According to the report of the General Staff of the AFU, it has lost four tanks, six armoured vehicles, nine field artillery guns and mortars, four long- and medium-range air defence systems, two short-range air defence systems, 21 vehicles and special equipment and 22 UAVs.
There are reports from various sources that 3,000 militants of the Turkish far-right organisation Grey Wolves have been transferred to Ukraine.
The arrival of 3,000 Grey Wolves at the Ukrainian-Polish border was first reported about ten days ago, but it has only now become known that they have already been moved to the Kharkiv and Odessa-Mykolaiv directions (three squads of 1,000 fighters each have been deployed). Convoys with Turkish fighters were passing through Zhmerenka – along with heavy equipment and artillery.
Apparently, these units are planned to be used for counterstrikes near Kharkiv and Mykolaiv or for an attack on Transnistria.
Foreign fighters and soldiers from NATO regular units are increasingly replacing exsanguinated Ukrainian army units on the front lines.
The photo below shows a Finnish mercenary unit in Kharkiv.
The conflict is slowly but steadily moving into the phase of full-scale war between Russia and NATO.
As much as SF readers want Russia to win, they are sorely mistaken. They may win the battle in Ukraine but that’s just the small picture. US will still dominate economically in the future and will inflict long term damage to Russia economically and militarily. Ukraine is just a cannon fodder and will continue to bleed them for years to come.
While it is true that Putin/Russia are acting defensively due to NATO’s slow approach to their border, that doesn’t mean they will win. Understand that.
time is on the EAST’s side poor negros dont rob trains in Vladivostok or Shanghai homeless do not inject drugs on the sidewalks of Rostov or Wuhan the Beaches in Crimea are not littered with needles and feces confused little boys with genital self mutilations do not run around Minsk or Hunan in high heels declaring men can get pregnant
if you think The west still have ‘years to come’ before destroying itself from inside. you are going to be disappointed. its already hollow from rot
Best to Tsunami bomb the tyrants.
There are millions of us with good college degrees and good work records just sitting around disemployed, unemployed and underemployed here in USA while the companes hired Indians, Chinese, Mexicans and Eastern Europeans in order to save on employment costs. This has caused part of the rot within USA.
Loyal? Why would I be loyal to a bunch of lying creeps who kept me and millions of other Americans out of the system in favor of aliens?
Putin would put out the Eye of Sauron.
Have you heard of competence? It’s not about fucking foreigners are taking your jobs. Work on yourself, develop your skills and you’ll get a job.
No competence required. Just check off the correct ethnic/sex box and wear a mask and wig to the interview.
Most American college degrees these days are in gender studies and basket weaving. Or is it in gender weaving and basket studies? I’ll have to check.
Interesting Thesis
You’re telling me I’m living here. My countries best women’s collegiate swimmer is a man. Bruce Jenner was declared time magazine’s woman of the year. Will the last sane person leaving California please turn the lights off.
Yep, I’ve about had it with this nonsense along with Washington’s chronic war mongering and seriously looking for more sane surroundings. This country’s well done and maybe even burned to a crisp before long.
But they are winning and this is why you can hear western officials scream like autistic small children, they have tried to destroy Russia economially and failed and now the sanctions boomerang right back at them and Russia has not even introduced counter sanctions. Battle on the ground is going very bad for them once the russians understood that the elite of ukraine wont support them like it was promissed they pulled back from kiev and are slowly grinding ukranian army with minimal loss in Donbass, onece that part is done, there will be no army left, low morale of ukranians and panic in the west. Ukraine will be devided into parts. Now the reason why it is taking so long in Ukraine is because Russia wants to capture ukraine instead of destroying, other nato states can be just destroyed russians don’t care about those. Also i see a split coming in Nato, it might collapse as an organization soon. Not everyone supports warmongering of US and UK
Western officials contradict themselves 24/7 and not to be trusted. Yes, these sanctions will have counter effect on them but they can withstand it, not sure about Russia in the next few years.
Russia has the natural resources, and in big wars that is usually what determines who wins. See WW2: Germany and Japan were choked off from access to badly needed natural resources, and lost.
They can withstand it? How? With what savings? Or you mean by just printing ever more money?
Christ, there’ll be a bloody civil war in America as soon as the last twinky disappears off the shelves. Yeah, sure – we’ll make it. LMAO.
There will be civil war in southern europe soon if they continue with sanctions, this is the end of EU and NAto
People have been saying EU and NATO will collapse for years now but look around, its not even close to happening.
America is on the brink of civil war. I’m sorry that the MSM has not alerted you to this.
France may take the lead. Say what you want about the French but boy, do they know how to riot.
There will be nation against nation and there will be nukes. America are too belligerent for the rest of the world to be able to tolerate it.
The American ruling class. Fixed it.
Not exactly. The rank and file have been preconditioned well.
“US will still dominate economically in the future” No it will not because it is not doing that even now with its $31 trillion national debt, huge central bank counterfeiting operation and old, shoddy weaponry.
Nice try though, but you need to wake the F up and smell the bacon frying.
You are from the Empire of Lies.
Man, I used to be like you. Believing that federal bank will collapse back in 2012 when I started following Ron Paul but its just a fantasy at this point.
LOL, the Fed wasn’t even consulted, regarding the initiation of Russian sanctions. That means they have played their part, hyperinflation is baked into the cake already, and they are gonna be set up as fall guys to protect someone slightly higher up the chain.
Read ‘Project for the New American Century’ and see how the neocons hope to keep the Fed intact. It’ll blow your mind.
The US decided that Ukraine was Russia’s soft underbelly, while letting their own overgrown belly of mounting deficits hang out over their belts bigger and grosser with every year. Belt-tightening at this stage won’t do anything but cause a cascade of guts. America’s hubris is just mind-boggling.
I’ve been saying for a decade now that China has kept US inflation in check. Wait ’till the new realities sink in.
Cry and rage more, Ukrotard
In fact I want Russia to win but the future is not looking bright for them up ahead
No doubt Russia will pay a price for years to come but hey, isn’t it delicious to see Ukraine’s neo-nazis finally getting what they’ve been deserving all these years?
“US will still dominate economically in the future ”
Hardly, dimwit —– fahclst amerika will grovel at the feet of the Chinese.
The US and the EU … Nazi NATO are going to lose WW 3 it will be by the finger of God. It’s all over the Bible. The vast majority of human beings are entirely ignorant of the Bible, the churches are corrupt, child sex slavery, rape, murder and cannibalism are rampant among the super rich, gays lesbians and tranny’s are standing in the pulpits of the churches and preaching wickedness and the congregations love it. Jesus is on this planet with his destroying Angel’s, they are here for but one reason the overthrow of this entire planet. The Angel’s are the same ones that destroyed Sodom Gomorrah Admah Zeboim and Zoar. The UN will be wiped from the face of this earth. Once WW 3 starts it will not end until every wicked impenitent person on this planet is dead.
The USA has an inflation problem caused by printing money. That was even before the Ukraine war caused a spike in commodity prices. The Fed has to raise interest rates to fight inflation. A 2% increase in interest rates means 100% of US taxes goes to pay their debt. The choice is raise taxes substantially or allow inflation to run rampant.
On top of that the USA printed money on the assumption that the USD would remain the petrodollar. Sorry to say the largest energy producer in the world no longer accepts the USD for their oil and the second biggest … Saudi Arabia … is in negotiations to sell oil in yuan to the biggest buyer of oil in China.
What this means for the USA is weakening demand for the USD which in turn means Americans can buy less for their USD or to put it another way inflation increases.
Russia is commodity rich … the ruble is now pegged to Russian commodities so as long as demand for commodities remains strong the ruble remains strong. The USD’s strength depends on demand for it as a reserve currency which is eroding fast.
US interest rates with inflation will mimic Russian interest rates for the average soul by the end of this fiasco.
That’s exactly right. Basically, they relied on a ponzi scheme to keep the country afloat, borrowing new money every year on the basis of a dominant petrodollar. Right now, Washington;s standing at the top of a slippery slope, that’s why they’re all in on this war, because they know what awaits the country if this unipolar, dollar as world’s reserve currency, confabulation starts to lose ground.
With the western powers sending “foreign mercs” into this conflict, its not your average citizen groups either. I hope Europe and the USA are ready for EMP bombs and a down power grid. Just remember “Nobody wins in a nuclear war.”
Ok everybody we have Annon here the prestigious military analyst with over 3 weeks of trolling experience here to tell us why Russia isn’t going to win even though Russia with 190 thousand troops completely subjugated a nation of 44 million people, took complete control of the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea and completely annihalated Ukraine’s navy and air force in about 2 hours.
“US will still dominate economically in the future”
Lol… must be the most stupid comment I read in weeks or even months. Better be silent when you don’t have even the most basic understanding of what’s going on.
Yep, any day now – the ruble will be 40000 to the dollar. Dad said so. It would’ve happened already but I’m still looking for my laptop and dad’s still looking for the door.
The US is thrashing around like the dying empire it is. It owes 33 trillion as its national debt and imports 3 times the products it exports (minus weapons to it proxy wars). Regardless of the outcome of this proxy war, the US will end up weaker and the civilian population will like with a ruined economy. Its real enemy is China, and the US President appears to be in their pocket.
Actually, you are wrong. China already dominates economically. The damage to Russia in the long-term will subside, not intensify with passing time.
But most importantly, the massive unilateral coercive actions (not sanctions!) adopted in the West will hugely damage its standing and reputation. And from there, the the downfall of the West is inevitable.
And that will be just due to external factors, not to mention possible internal riots in the West and its sundering into the ruling and the ruled.
Even if Ukraine losses the war, there will be no relieve for Russia, not economical, not military the responsible and war criminals will be hunted down with every thing we have.
We need to see more interviews with Ukrainian/Azov-batallion soldiers explaining how well they are treated when they surrender to Russian forces. Please subtext these interviews in English. The AFU soldiers should also be given the opportunity to recommend that their fellow soldiers surrender and thereby save their lives.
hard to get.. they have to go home at the end of this
I haven’t seen one video of a captured AFU where they weren’t spilling all kinds of info to the camera.
Of course, there might have been one or two nazi fanatics who spit at the camera but the bottom line is, with esprit de corps like that, Ukraine’s junta government is definitely doomed.
Old men and convicts Slava Volkssturm because it certainly helped the last time
More Dead NATO mercenaries is good to see. Keep throwing in the meat grinder. They are too stupid to even realize what they are getting into.
Canadian terrorist mercenary located near frontlines of Nova Zorya/Tavriyskoye northwest Kherson. He just gave away his positions area. twitter.com/CanadianUkrain1/status/1519174512817885184?cxt=HHwWgMCyxfTKmJUqAAAA
RU artillery and MLRS need to flatten this entire area. Send him back to Canada in pieces
Erdogan, a NATO member, is against Russia. I previously mentioned NATO members should not be trusted.
Yes. Putin forgot that long ago. Turkey is literally murdering russian soldiers in Syria, countering russian interests in every front possible and Putin thinks it is a great deal selling them the best AA system they have. Turkey is a decrepit economy with 50% inflation and our chess master think it is a great idea to lick their balls. Even more pointless as unless the next elections are frauded, Erdogan is coming out and being replaced by staunch atlanticists.
Putin is strange for sure with regard to torki lorki porkis
Always thought Putin’s Pas de Lunas with Turkey was weird
RU kalibrs have just destroyed Zatoka bridge south of Odessa (main transit route for fuel/weapons from Moldova/Romania). Good job. But more bridges/railroads in Odessa oblast need to be quickly destroyed. These include
-M-28 bridge at Chernomorsk NE of Odessa city -M-14 bridge at Koblevo NE of Odessa city/East of Yuzhne -M-14 bridge at Varvarivka W of Nikolaev
Taking out all these will prevent any weapons/fuel from reaching Nikolaev from Romania/Moldova
Get to work, Russian Army! Lots more work to do :)
Gay wolves PMSL turks have proposed to position one(1) gay wolf behind every ukrop so he cannot retreat and be reminded of what awaits him upon any victory. a smelly foreigners cock up his arse Slava gay wolves
Gray Wolves stand behind Azov in case they lose their nerve and Golden Dawn stand behind Gray Wolves.
Which explains the old bathroom saying, ‘watch out, there’s either a Turk or a Greek standing behind you.’
I just can’t figure out where all the fucking Kosovar Albanians are and why no Thaqirovtsi? Now that Albright’s dead, the ingrates have washed their hands, I guess.
Get them to a big vodka depot.
Russia will punish the capitalistic world that pushes for the Ukrainian game of chess 👏
We have all been waiting for this for decades… When the hell is Russia actually going to DO this, instead of licking globalist capitalists’ asses???
Nothing wrong with capitalists. It’s the neo-nazis that ruffle my feathers.
What Russia needs is new leadership. Putin and his leaderships made many blunders in Syria and now in UA. No army can win, when you have incompetent leaderships and Military General Command. When you appoint people based on close relation and not based on qualification, than you have garbage.
As example, there have been very foolish take Chernobyl and go to Kiev, than give up. Russia military will be better off take the portion of UA South West from Odessa. Border with Moldavia and Romania. This will cut off NATO supply route and Odessa could be approach from East and West, plus access to Moldova. Strategically this was more valuable then Chernobyl. Furthermore, taking Kharkov will be more better, than send solders to Chernobyl and Kiev.
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The Russian military impotence is largely now reckoned all over the world even among us who 2 months ago were guessing that this will be relatively short victorious Russian operation. 63 days fighting and results quite pathetic: Mariupol almost totally destroyed, 30-50 miles penetration in Donbas, but huge economic and political damage to Russia itself. Its oil industry 50% kicked out from Europe and EU fastening the change from hydrocarbons to renewable energy and/or from Russia to other exporters. Russians can sing like Millwall football fans: “nobody likes us but we don’t care”. But when money flow stopps then they will feel how Devil bite their ass. The destiny to become big pariah state, Euroasian bitch owned by China is far from harmony.
you shake vulgarity, one winter in the EU without Russian gas and oil and the EU is a thing of the past
remind that ukraine is not only the biggest country in europe, also with the largest ground forces heawy weaponry in europe. thousands of tanks, ifcs, afvs, artillery aso. russia destroys till now ukrainian 100% navy, 90% airforce, 70% air defence, 50% ground forces heawy armament. not bad after only 8 weeks.
“Fastening” haha This guy thinks it means making something go faster! He might use Snowden’s mug, but he sure doesn’t have his brains lol
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only due to the mRNA shots will the need for oil and gas go down in the EU
That’s what Putin gets for not wiping out the ne0 nahtzees with it’s thermobarics like they did in Chechnya.
Why is russian high command being retarded and not striking kiev “decision making” centres?
Because the decisions are being made in the US. Zelenskey is a puppet who is not even in Kiev, he’s been in Poland since the start of the war. The Ukrainian military is in shambles and sadly those young soldiers are being slaughtered senselessly. I also think Russia is trying to minimize damage to Kiev so as to not cause unnecessary suffering to civilians. Russia is firmly in control and if things were to get out of hand I’m sure Russia would act decisively and cut off electricity, water, internet and gas to Kiev but I don’t think that will be necessary. Now if Ukraine continues to attack cities inside Russia then Russia might be left with no choice but to begin to destroy Kiev’s infrastructure.
Good question
Patience, grasshopper.
Another day in the meat grinder.
Looks like the Ukrainians are finally being pureed. And deservedly so. Soup for everyone!
The U.S. and it’s debt based financial system is on the verge of collapse and is the reason for desperation in the west for this war. You can only paper over a debt problem with more debt so many times. The world is transitioning to an asset based financial system and Russia is a treasure trove of resources the world needs. The West wants Putin gone and another incompetent Yeltsin puppet in to allow the pillaging of Russia as was done after the fall of the USSR.
US and Natostan are not working out so well with sanctions and in fact Europe is taking a beating with their decision with the US.
Ukraine is being humiliated
Lost Crimea, Kherson, Mariupol. Lost most of Donbass. Their remaning forces are surrounded, immobilized, running out of supplies. GDP is 40% down already, while Russian Ruble is stronger than ever. Their airports are fucked, their military industry is destroyed. Lost access to the Azov sea, will lose access to the black sea soon. Their women escaped to Europe, while their men are shredding their blood for that american puppet jew. Receiving unlimited military aid from NATO and still losing to Russia.
NATO has an mRNA problem
‘According to the report of the General Staff of the AFU, it has lost four tanks, six armoured vehicles, nine field artillery guns and mortars, four long- and medium-range air defence systems, two short-range air defence systems, 21 vehicles and special equipment and 22 UAVs.’
I’m guessing that this is in the last 24 hours. The AFU has always been sketchy when announcing combat losses.
‘Foreign fighters and soldiers from NATO regular units are increasingly replacing exsanguinated Ukrainian army units on the front lines. The conflict is slowly but steadily moving into the phase of full-scale war between Russia and NATO.’
I’m sure that every military expert in this world knows that Ukraine is done militarily. They have already lost this war. This war is now moving towards and will more openly be fought by NATO using just the name ‘Ukraine’ as a camouflage.
The announcement from Ukraine that their forces have transitioned to NATO weaponry is not a surprise at all. If you look at it from a knowledgeable perspective, Ukraine doesn’t know how to use all NATO weaponry, I’m sure they know how to use some, but not all, including heavy and complicated ones.
So, you should ask a question – how can they transition to using weapons that they are not all familiar with?
It is evident that NATO forces will be entering in to use those weapons. This is surely escalating.
Only an idiot doesn’t know that it is the US and NATO attacking Russian territories and ships. Ukraine on it’s own cannot do this. There capability to do such attacks have seriously been degraded by weeks of systematic destruction of their land, air and see assets.
Since during the Cold war and up to the present times, US either directly or through weapon supply to Soviets or Russian adversaries have killed over 100,000 Russians. And this is not a secret. US even brags about it and don’t hide ill feelings and vile words towards Russia.
So, what will Russia do about all these. What Russia does best is what they are known to do – pretend that they don’t know who is attacking her. This weakness is very well known by US and that’s why the attacks will continue and be intensified deeper and deeper into Russian territory.
Russia, unfortunately disappoints and disappoints heavily. To the very least, Russia must let the gloves off and start attacking all vital infrastructures of Ukraine including government buildings, military schools, academies railway depots, vital roads etc. etc.
Over 300 billion dollars of their money has been frozen, part of which will now be used for Ukraine purposes. So the gloves should be off and make sure she achieved all her aims in Ukraine.
If they want to demilitarize and denazify, they better start being serious.
Russia disposes of new weapons of America and the EU. How will they fight with us when the Ukrainian army ends?
Those guys in the first pic look like they were conscripted out of a homeless shelter
Dumbass Finns looking to relax in thermobaric saunas.