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28 April 2022
The US House of Representatives has supported a bill that would streamline a military lend-lease program to more quickly provide Ukraine and other Eastern European countries with American equipment to fight the Russian invasion.
At least ten people were injured after a Russian missile strike damaged a 25-storey residential building in Kyiv late on Thursday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he hopes that US Congress will soon approve a new package of response to Russian aggression, which provides for the allocation of $33 billion in aid to Ukraine at the initiative of US President Joe Biden.
The Ukrainian military repelled two enemy attacks in the area of responsibility of the Operational and Tactical Group East on Thursday, April 28, killing 42 Russian troops and destroying three tanks, two infantry fighting vehicles and other equipment.
Bulgaria will provide EUR 706,000 in humanitarian aid to Ukraine and EUR 181,000 to help Ukrainian refugees.
Explosions were heard in the Kyiv region after three hostile missiles hit the town of Fastiv.
Air defense units of the Ukrainian Air Force shot down three cruise missiles of the Russian invaders over the Odesa region late on April 28.
Ukraine is ready for immediate talks to evacuate people from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.
Two explosions were heard in the center of Kyiv on Thursday evening, April 28, according to an Ukrinform correspondent.
The Ukrainian military regained control of the settlement of Kutuzivka in Kharkiv region, as well as repelled the enemy's offensive in the Kurakhiv and Southern Buh directions. In addition, the Armed Forces repulsed enemy to previously occupied positions near Rubizhne.
Since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has recorded 6,009 civilian casualties in the country: 2,829 killed and 3,180 injured.
As part of the exchange of prisoners of war with Russia, 45 Ukrainians are returning home.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has stated that sanctions against Russia must be effective and strong.
Russian forces fired Smerch multiple rocket launchers on residential districts in Mykolaiv, damaging private houses, cars, and shops.
Law enforcement operatives have initiated criminal proceedings against Russian forces, who appear to have stolen 61 tonnes of wheat and other property from an agricultural firm in Zaporizhia Region.
Servants of the Russian Orthodox Church have been clearly instructed to campaign among parents and relatives of young Russians to encourage them to sign contracts for military service.
Ukraine’s law enforcement officers have exposed the first ten servicemen with the 64th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade of the Russian Ground Forces, involved in the crimes documented in Bucha, Kyiv region after the Russians were forced to withdraw from the area.
As a result of hostilities waged by the Russian invaders, more than 100 cases of ecocide have already been recorded in Ukraine.
In Mariupol, Russian aggressors bombarded an operating room in a military field hospital located on the premises of the Azovstal metallurgical plant, the last stronghold of the Ukrainian defenders in the area. The Geneva Convention guarantees protection of inpatient and mobile medical institutions.
The Russian military have launched one more strike on the eastern part of Kharkiv, leaving two civilians injured and one killed.
The Ukrainian military in the besieged city of Mariupol will fight as long as they have to, although the situation is difficult.
Russian troops have shelled the urban-type settlement of Pokotylivka, Kharkiv District. Reportedly, three civilians have been injured, and some people are remaining trapped under the rubble.
As of April 27, 2022, a total of 5,372,854 refugees had fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion started.
Russia has spent more than $1 billion to launch air and artillery strikes on the city of Mariupol, while these funds could have been used to improve the lives of Russian citizens.
A unit of the Ukrainian Air Assault Forces has destroyed a modified Russian BTR-80 armored personnel carrier and its crew.
The Ukrainian Air Force needs modern medium-range and long-range anti-aircraft missile systems and fighter aircraft.
Ukrainian defenders killed about 22,800 Russian troops between February 24 and April 28.
The enemy launched a missile strike on residential buildings in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia this morning.
Russia cannot replace its cruiser Moskva that was destroyed in the Black Sea, because the Bosphorus remains closed to all non-Turkish warships.
Given a series of Russian provocations in the self-declared breakaway republic of Transnistria, the defense forces of the Odesa region have strengthened the protection of the state border with Moldova.