April 26 is the 62nd day of Russia's war against Ukraine.
This day marks the 36th anniversary of the most terrible man-made catastrophe in human
history - the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
And it was exactly on this date that the Russian occupiers again called into question the nuclear
security of Europe and the world.
On the morning of April 26, enemy cruise missiles flew over the Zaporizhzhya NPP, Energoatom
chief Petro Kotin reported.
The flight of low-altitude missiles directly above the Zaporizhzhya NPP site posed a huge
risk as 7 nuclear facilities with a large amount of nuclear material are located here.
After all, missiles can hit one or more nuclear facilities, and this is a threat of the nuclear
and radiation catastrophe around the world.
Later it appeared that two missiles hit one of the enterprises in Zaporizhia.
One missile exploded in the air.
At least one person was killed.
Zaporizhzhya NPP is the largest one in Eastern Europe and is still under the control of the
occupiers.
The Russian military has taken hostage the station's staff and keeps heavy artillery
and ammunition on its territory, which is an act of nuclear terrorism.
The occupiers also fired on Zaporizhzhya NPP more than once.
Odesa city has not recovered yet from the terrible shelling which killed 8 people, as
Russians launched missile strikes at the Odesa region again.
One of the three missiles hit the bridge across the Dniester estuary.
Fortunately, there were no casualties, said Maksym Marchenko, head of the Odesa regional
military administration.
This bridge is one of the main transport highways of the region, the road to Moldova.
There, on April, 26, Russia shelled the territory of the unrecognized Transnistrian Moldavian
Republic.
This is a series of provocations to involve Transnistria in the war against Ukraine.
On the territory of the quasi-state, Russian troops have already been brought into full
combat readiness, according to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
According to adviser to the head of the Presidential office Mykhailo Podoliak, Moldova may become
Putin's next target.
Russia wants to destabilize the Transnistrian region & hints Moldova should wait for “guests”.
Bad news: if Ukraine falls tomorrow Russian troops will be at Chișinău’s gates.
Good news: Ukraine will definitely ensure strategic security of the region.
But we need to work as a team.
In another southern region of Ukraine - Kherson region - the occupiers are doing things that
are impossible to imagine in the 21st century in Europe.
According to the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Verkhovna Rada Lyudmila Denisova,
Russians are forcibly evicting people from their homes.
In the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson region in the urban-type settlement
of Velyka Oleksandrivka, the occupiers are forcing the local population to leave their
homes by April 28.
Forced evacuation will be applied to residents who do not comply with the criminal order
of the rashists.
Part of the Kherson region is currently under occupation.
The Russian military is firing on civilians to intimidate locals and force them to accept
Russian rule.
Despite this, residents of the region do not stop going to peaceful protests against the
pseudo-referendum for the creation of the so-called Kherson People's Republic.
After all, Kherson region is Ukraine.
The occupiers are forcing Ukrainian women to spy under the threat of shooting their
children.
Such atrocities of Russian soldiers in the partially occupied town of Rubizhne were reported
by the head of the Luhansk regional administration Serhiy Haidai.
Not a stone unturned left in the towns of Luhansk region.
In particular, the occupiers fire at the civilian infrastructure of the town of Popasna several
dozen times a day.
They use everything to fire at Popasna.
Artillery, aviation, even small arms battles are taking place now.
People are trapped in the basements.
On April, 26, a house collapsed in the town of Popasna as a result of a shell hit.
At least three people who were hiding from the occupiers' attacks in the basement died
under the blockage.
The occupiers set a trap for the civilians blocked on the territory of the Azovstal plant
in Mariupol.
Russians first announced the opening of the green corridor, and then fired at it themselves,
– said the deputy mayor of Mariupol Petro Andriuschenko.
In fact, it looks like this – from an armored car there is an announcement on speaker that
offers to surrender and leave within 10-15 minutes.
Then there is a short pause and after that an artillery shelling is carried out in the
residential area within the boundaries of the so-called exit from Azovstal.
The enemy continues to shell the plant.
People trapped at Azovstal are in critical condition.
Many of them are wounded.
Doctors perform surgeries day and night in conditions neither suitable for life nor for
medical manipulations.
But there they remove shrapnel, sew up wounds and even amputate limbs.
At the same time, Russians continue to create the illusion of a peaceful life in Mariupol
for Russian propaganda.
To do this, under pressure from the occupiers, the men of captured Mariupol are forced to
clean the debris, arrange mass graves in exchange for food and water to survive.
Also, the Russian military men have begun to mark the houses where they intend to settle.
Enemy symbols appear on them – the letter Z.
Other buildings are looted and destroyed by the occupiers.
The looters even reached the funds of Mariupol museums.
The stolen stuff is planned to be taken to the illegally created Donetsk People's Republic.
A story with a happy end!
Two young residents of Mariupol, 10-year-old Ilya Matvienko and 12-year-old Kira Obedinska,
have been rescued from captivity of the occupiers.
The children lost their parents and were injured.
Russian military took the children to the territory not controlled by Ukraine.
But they were returned to their relatives - grandmother and grandfather.
Currently, the children are recovering at the Okhmatdyt Hospital in Kyiv.
On Illya’s birthday, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky visited the children.
Kidnapping people, seizing documents and deporting Ukrainians to Russia is a regular practice
of the Russian occupiers.
More than 16,000 applications have already been registered in Ukraine to search for people
who are considered missing.