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The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has opened the first recruitment center for the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kyiv, offering both combat and logistics specialties. This facility became the 18th in a network of recruitment centers across Ukraine.
Elon Musk believes that Russia may seize Odesa as part of its policy to establish control over regions included in the Russian constitution, according to his cynical statement about the ongoing war against Ukraine.
During the 26 months of the full-scale war, russians damaged 1,588 and completely destroyed 210 medical facilities in Ukraine, with Kharkiv, Donetsk, Mykolaiv, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Dnipro, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions suffering the most.
A law enforcement officer in Zaporizhzhia demanded and received a bribe of UAH 100,000 from a serviceman for not bringing him to criminal responsibility for an alleged road accident.
Russian troops shelled residential areas in Kherson region, hitting an educational institution, a kindergarten, and a critical infrastructure facility, but there were no casualties.
Russian troops fired 346 times at settlements in Zaporizhzhia region, including a rocket attack on the city of Zaporizhzhia, which resulted in one person being injured.
On April 28, the Ukrainian Defense Forces conducted two air strikes on the positions of the Russian occupiers in Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions, hitting their targets, as confirmed by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi.
Russian troops shelled Nikopol district of Dnipropetrovs'k region with heavy artillery, damaging 5 private houses and 3 outbuildings, but there were no casualties.
Another explosion occurred in Zaporizhzhia. An air raid alert was declared in the region.
Russians attacked an industrial facility in Zaporizhzhia, with no casualties.
An accident occurred in the Zaporizhzhia circus: acrobats fell from a 5-meter height, resulting in a girl suffering a concussion and a boy breaking his leg.
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is facing a critical shortage of experienced personnel due to the Russian occupation, which seriously jeopardizes its ability to operate safely and respond to emergencies.
In Poltava, Odesa, and Zhytomyr regions, law enforcement officers detained "black gunsmiths" who were trying to sell trophy grenade launchers, explosives, and other weapons illegally taken from the sites of former hostilities to criminals.
Zaporizhzhia region plans to build at least 10 shelters, so-called "underground schools," by the end of the year, each with a capacity of about 1,000 students per shift.
The deputy head of the Zaporizhzhia regional council was suspended from his duties for 1 month after he was caught taking a bribe of over UAH 650,000 for medical procurement.
Work to restore the Dnipro hydroelectric power plant damaged by Russian missile strikes may begin as early as May, and the debris is currently being cleared.
Russian troops shelled the border of Chernihiv region with mortars and cannon artillery, 24 explosions were recorded.
In the occupied territories of Zaporizhzhia region, the Russian occupiers are preparing for a massive nationalization of land plots, giving owners only a month and a half to confirm their ownership, in order to take away most of the land from Ukrainians.
The occupiers appoint unskilled personnel, such as laboratory technicians and cleaners, as directors of educational institutions in the temporarily occupied territories due to the lack of qualified teachers willing to work there.
Explosions were heard in some areas of Zaporizhzhia and Dnipro. An air alert was declared in 12 regions of Ukraine.
Due to the failure to fulfill its contractual obligations, the State Logistics Operator refused to use the services of Tviy Khlib LLC and redistributed the volume of supplies to other companies to deliver food to the Armed Forces.
In the two years since russia's full-scale invasion, Ukraine has rebuilt 513 medical facilities out of 1,581 damaged and 210 completely destroyed, despite constant bombardment and attacks by russia.
Ukrzaliznytsia topped the ranking of the largest employers in Ukraine with 187,620 employees, followed by ATB-MARKET with 44,000 employees and Ukrposhta with 34,700 employees.
Russian troops conducted 202 attacks on 6 settlements in Zaporizhzhia region, including air strikes, drone attacks, MLRS and artillery shelling, destroying residential buildings but causing no civilian casualties.
Russia will intensify its shelling of Ukraine to maximize the destruction of critical energy infrastructure.
According to Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Ilya Yevlash, the most vulnerable to enemy attacks are Kharkiv, Odesa, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Chernihiv, Sumy, and Dnipro regions, which can be protected by more air defense systems.
Over the past 24 hours, Russians launched missile and air strikes on 7 settlements in Zaporizhzhia region, destroying residential buildings, but there were no casualties.
In the occupied Mariupol, the Russian occupiers transferred 15 land plots for the construction of multi-storey buildings into mortgages without bidding, which caused outrage among residents who are left without housing and rights.
The russian occupiers launched a ballistic missile at Odesa from Crimea, hitting an infrastructure facility, and the air defense forces destroyed 3 enemy reconnaissance groups in Kryvyi Rih, Mykolaiv and Odesa regions.
A Russian SuperCam reconnaissance drone has been destroyed in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, the Vostok Air Command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reports.