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Frontline report: Russians outflank Berdychi after heavy losses in frontal assaults Euromaidan Press (RSS) Day 797: April 30 Today, there is a lot of news from the Avdiivka direction, Donetsk Oblast. Screenshot from a Reporting From Ukraine video. Here, Russians have launched a series of costly attacks on the Ukrainian settlement of Berdychi to take it into a pocket. Screenshot from a Reporting From Ukraine video. The main Russian goal to the Northwest of Avdiivka is to break through Ukrainian defensive lines and reach the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, which serves as the main Ukrainian headquarters in the region. Screenshot from a Reporting From Ukraine video. The first Ukrainian line of defense in the way of the Russian operation is located along the Durna Rive... View original post

Frontline report: Russians outflank Berdychi after heavy losses in frontal assaults Euromaidan Press (RSS) Day 797: April 30 Today, there is a lot of news from the Avdiivka direction, Donetsk Oblast. Screenshot from a Reporting From Ukraine video. Here, Russians have launched a series of costly attacks on the Ukrainian settlement of Berdychi to take it into a pocket. Screenshot from a Reporting From Ukraine video. The main Russian goal to the Northwest of Avdiivka is to break through Ukrainian defensive lines and reach the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, which serves as the main Ukrainian headquarters in the region. Screenshot from a Reporting From Ukraine video. The first Ukrainian line of defense in the way of the Russian operation is located along the Durna Rive... View original post

Frontline report: Ukraine’s drone warriors repels two Russian assault attempts on Vuhledar Euromaidan Press (RSS) There are a lot of updates from the Kurakhove direction. Here, Russian forces resumed assault operations on Vuhledar, one of the main strong points in this direction that is still being held by Ukrainian forces. Vuhledar additionally bears an important symbolic significance because Russian forces repeatedly tried to attack Vuhledar from the south over the past two years and suffered catastrophic losses, including a devastating defeat in one of the largest tank battles of the war. Vuhledar’s key role is based on two main factors. Firstly, Vuhledar is of high operational importance because it is located at a dominating height. If we look at the topographic map, we can see that Vuhledar is situated at a significant elevation over the area further south. However,... View original post

Frontline report: Ukraine’s drone warriors repels two Russian assault attempts on Vuhledar Euromaidan Press (RSS) There are a lot of updates from the Kurakhove direction. Here, Russian forces resumed assault operations on Vuhledar, one of the main strong points in this direction that is still being held by Ukrainian forces. Vuhledar additionally bears an important symbolic significance because Russian forces repeatedly tried to attack Vuhledar from the south over the past two years and suffered catastrophic losses, including a devastating defeat in one of the largest tank battles of the war. Vuhledar’s key role is based on two main factors. Firstly, Vuhledar is of high operational importance because it is located at a dominating height. If we look at the topographic map, we can see that Vuhledar is situated at a significant elevation over the area further south. However,... View original post

Frontline report: Ukraine’s drone warriors repels two Russian assault attempts on Vuhledar Euromaidan Press (RSS) There are a lot of updates from the Kurakhove direction. Here, Russian forces resumed assault operations on Vuhledar, one of the main strong points in this direction that is still being held by Ukrainian forces. Vuhledar additionally bears an important symbolic significance because Russian forces repeatedly tried to attack Vuhledar from the south over the past two years and suffered catastrophic losses, including a devastating defeat in one of the largest tank battles of the war. Vuhledar’s key role is based on two main factors. Firstly, Vuhledar is of high operational importance because it is located at a dominating height. If we look at the topographic map, we can see that Vuhledar is situated at a significant elevation over the area further south. However,... View original post

Russia launched 3,200 gliding bombs against Ukraine in April Euromaidan Press (RSS) Russia has launched over 300 missiles of various types, nearly 300 Iranian-designed Shahed kamikaze drones, and more than 3,200 guided aerial bombs against Ukraine in the month of April alone, Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy said in a tweet.  In recent months, air defense has emerged as a primary need for Ukraine, and the search for Patriot air defense systems, capable of intercepting ballistic missiles, has accelerated in April. Gliding bombs present a particular problem, as Ukraine lacks capabilities for intercepting these powerful explosives, which Russia utilizes not only to level frontline cities but also pummel border cities like Kharkiv. Cities and communities across Ukraine, including Sumy, Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Mykolaiv, and... View original post

10-year-old Ukrainian defeats Russian champion at World Chess Championship Euromaidan Press (RSS) A 10-year-old Ukrainian chess prodigy, Oleksii Nakonechnyi from Ukraine’s western city of Truskavets, delivered a victory at the World Rapid Chess Championship U10 in Albania, defeating Russian player, Lviv Chess Federation reported. Oleksii defeated the highly-touted young Russian champion Roman Shogdzhiev from Russia’s Kalmykia, who competed under the neutral flag. ... View original post

Zelenskyy fires security service chief accused of “weaponized draft” against journalist Euromaidan Press (RSS) Ukrainian President Zelenskyy has fired Ilia Vitiuk, chief of the Security Service’s (SBU) cybersecurity department, following accusations of Vitiuk’s retaliation against a Slidstvo.info investigative journalist digging into his questionable real estate with a draft notice. The incident had drawn condemnation from the Ukrainian media community. It was seen as continuing a trend of the SBU’s abusal of its powers to silence whistleblowers, as in February the SBU illegally surveilled investigative journalists from Bihus.info, obtaining material that allowed to launch a smear campaign against them. Zelen... View original post