War in Ukraine. The latest information is on April 27 [papildināts 23:01]

Live text – short and concise on the highlights of Russia’s war in Ukraine on April 27. Ukraine has been heroically defending its land against an aggressor invasion for two months now.

23.32. The Canadian government will amend the laws governing sanctions to allow seized and sanctioned foreign assets to be used to compensate victims or rebuild a country after the war, Canadian Foreign Minister Melania Jolly said.

23.01. The Ukrainian army hit six attacks by the Russian army in Donbass on Wednesday, the operative group “East” reports to Facebook.

22.23. German politicians from various parties have called for sanctions against former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder for his close ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his defense.

21.46. Representatives of the group set up to investigate war crimes and crimes against humanity will soon leave Lithuania for Ukraine to collect investigation data there, said Prosecutor General Nida Grunskiene.

20.53. Berne has banned Germany from delivering Swiss-made ammunition to Ukraine using the Cheetah self-propelled gunpowder, Swissinfo reported. Switzerland explains its decision with a policy of neutrality, which prohibits it from sending military goods to conflict zones.

20.22. Sources close to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s administration told Internet media Medusa that “referendums” on joining Russia could be held in mid-May in the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic and Lugansk People’s Republic. Two of Medusa’s three sources even mentioned possible referendum dates – May 14 and 15, 2022.

19.39. Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened on Wednesday that Moscow would give an immediate military backlash if another country intervened in the war with Ukraine. Addressing MPs, Putin said: “If anyone wants to interfere in the current events from the sidelines and pose an unacceptable threat to us of a strategic nature, he must know that our response (…) will be lightning fast.”

19.06. Russian soldiers who were sent back to Russia to regroup after their units were defeated in Ukraine are beginning to revolt and refuse to fight, the Ukrainian Security Service said on Telegram on Wednesday. More and more Russian soldiers are beginning to revolt and refuse to fight in Ukraine, especially those who were sent to regroup after their units were defeated by the Ukrainian army, the Ukrainian Security Service said. This is evidenced by the telephone conversations of Russian military personnel, which were intercepted by the Security Service of Ukraine.

18.28. In response to the expulsion of Russian diplomats from Japan, Russia is expelling eight Japanese diplomats, Russia’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday.

Accusing Tokyo for “openly hostile anti-Russian politics,” Russia’s foreign ministry said eight Japanese diplomats had to leave Russia by May 10.

17.25. The commander of the National Guard Egils Leščinskis said that in the short term, Western supplies will not be able to change the situation on the front, because military equipment needs to be integrated into the Ukrainian armed forces and soldiers need training.

“Perhaps they will not help the attacks immediately, but will keep them in place. In a matter of months, these supplies could give Ukraine an impetus to carry out offensive operations if no political solution is found by then,” Leshchinski said.

16.37. Poland and Bulgaria on Wednesday condemned Russia’s decision to suspend gas supplies, calling it unacceptable blackmail. As reported, the Russian gas company Gazprom announced today that it has stopped supplying gas to Poland via the Yamal-Europe gas pipeline and Bulgaria because they have refused to pay for gas in rubles. Urzula von der Leiena, President of the European Commission (EC), then announced that both countries were already receiving gas from the European Union’s (EU) neighbors.

“The Kremlin has once again failed to crack down [ES] Member States. Russia ‘s fossil fuel era in Europe is coming to an end, “said Leiena.

15.39. The meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the aggressor Vladimir Putin could take place in the coming days, said Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akars, the press service of the Turkish Ministry of Defense said. “President Erdogan has met several times with Mr Putin and Mr Zelensky. At these meetings, the President is working to reach a ceasefire as soon as possible and to sit down at the negotiating table. Minister.

13.58. Russia is banning 287 members of the British parliament from entering the country in response to British sanctions on Russian parliamentarians, the Russian Foreign Office said on Wednesday.

12.42. Igor Volobuyev, a former vice president of Russia’s Gazprombank, said in an interview with The Insider and Liga.net that he had left Russia for Ukraine and joined the Kiev Territorial Defense Forces. When the Russian war against Ukraine broke out, he collected his belongings and left Moscow on March 2.

12.28. Russia’s attack on Ukraine from the breakaway region of Transnistria in Moldova is currently absolutely impossible from a military point of view, says the former commander of the Latvian Land Forces, retired Colonel Igor Rajev.

According to Rajev, such an invasion is currently “absolutely ruled out”, as the Russians have about two battalion tactical groups in the region, which are being blocked by two brigades from Ukraine. “They have absolutely no ‘chance’ of carrying out offensive operations in this direction,” Rajev said.

11.30. The loss of life force of Russian troops in Ukraine has reached about 22,400 soldiers by Wednesday morning, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Army reports.

Since the beginning of the invasion, the Russians have lost 939 tanks, 2,342 armored personnel carriers, 421 cannons, 149 multi-barrel jet launchers, 71 anti-aircraft artillery equipment, 185 aircraft, 155 helicopters, 1,666 cars, three ships and five high-speed boats, 76 tankers, 207 unmanned aerial vehicles. four tactical rocket launchers.

09.43. Ukraine still controls most of its airspace, the British Ministry of Defense concluded in a daily report on the situation on the Ukrainian front. Ukraine continues to threaten Russian aviation, which has failed to destroy the Ukrainian air force and air defense system, the ministry said on Twitter.

09.30. If Russian President Vladimir Putin succeeds in achieving his goals, Europe will face new suffering, warns British Foreign Secretary Lisa Trass. Countries that have condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine must redouble their aid to Kiev, including the supply of heavy weapons, including tanks and planes, to stem this aggression.

09.20. SZ DJI Technology Co., China’s largest unmanned aerial vehicle manufacturer – announced the suspension of operations in Russia and Ukraine. Thus, this is the first large Chinese company to decide to suspend sales of its products in Russia after its attack on Ukraine.

08.15. The Ukrainian Armed Forces is aware of the capabilities of the Russian troops stationed in Moldova’s breakaway region of Transnistria and is not afraid of it, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

“As for this or that Russian troops, who are permanently in the temporarily occupied part of Moldova, and especially in Transnistria for many, many years, we know that they are constantly on standby, waiting for this or that order, but we know about their power, and Ukraine “The armed forces are ready for them and are not afraid,” the president said at a press briefing.

07.28. The end of the active phase of the Russia-Ukraine war in Donbass will not mean the end of the whole war, Oleksiy Arestovich, an adviser to the Ukrainian president’s office, told journalist Mark Feigin in an interview published on YouTube on Tuesday night.

07.09. Russia has fired more than 1,300 missiles at Ukraine, and Russia’s missile arsenal has halved, Ukraine’s deputy defense minister Hannah Malara said on television.

04.18. Russian troops have killed 432 civilians in the Chernivtsi region since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine and injured another 609, the Chernivtsi region prosecutor’s office said on Facebook.

02.55. When Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, the United States provided Ukraine with intelligence on the timing and targets of Russian missile and bombings, allowing Ukraine to remove its aviation and air defense equipment from endangered areas, NBC News told former US officials.

01.01. Lithuania, together with Ukraine, is looking for ways to help the war-torn country, which lost its seaport, export grain and other agricultural products, so a train will travel from Lithuania on a test drive to Ukraine on Wednesday to bring containers with various goods on the way back.

00.23. Russian President Vladimir Putin has “political space” to end his invasion of Ukraine, thanks in part to censorship in Russia, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday.

“Given the massive Russian support for what he is doing, given the apparent ignorance of the Russian media about what is really going on in Ukraine – the paradox is that Putin has much more political space to make concessions and withdraw” Russian troops from Ukraine, Johnson said. for the TV channel TalkTV.

00.10. The Netherlands has stopped issuing visas to Russian citizens.

00.05. In Ukraine, the Internet is currently available in 85% of settlements.

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