Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22.41 On the evening of April 29, the Russian army struck Kharkov with drones, at least three people were injured. This was reported by the city mayor Igor Terekhov.
21.47 Russian troops are trying to accumulate manpower and continue to force the Oskol River in the Kupyansk direction. This was reported on television by National Guard representative Ruslan Muzychuk.
20:43 The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don found Melitopol native Yegor Semenov guilty in the case of the attempted poisoning of graduates of the Armavir Aviation School in Krasnodar Krai. This was reported by RosSMI.
It is noted that Semenov was sentenced to 27 years of imprisonment in a maximum security penal colony, with the first five years to be served in prison.
19.49 As a result of Russian shelling in Nikopol and Sinelnykivsky districts, five people were injured. There is also damage to housing and civilian infrastructure. This was reported by the head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA Serhiy Lysak.
19:45 US Presidential Special Representative Keith Kellogg criticized the proposal of a "three-day truce" announced by Russian newscaster Vladimir Putin, saying that the US is interested in a long-term ceasefire. He said this on Fox News.
19.23 Two Russian servicemen have been found guilty of violating the laws and customs of war. They have been sentenced to 12 years in prison. This was reported on April 28 by the Office of the Prosecutor General. It is noted that the convicted persons are servicemen of the 6th Tank Regiment of the 90th Tank Division of the Central Military District of the Russian Armed Forces.
18:53 The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced five residents of occupied Melitopol to terms ranging from 11 to 14 years in prison in the case of "preparing a terrorist attack" in April 2022. This was reported by Mediazona.
18.34 The draft law on establishing liability for the illegal movement and use of children for military purposes by a representative of a foreign state has been adopted as a basis. This was reported by the press service of the Verkhovna Rada.
18.31 In the Dnipropetrovsk region, the general director of a defense plant and his first deputy were detained for supplying the Ukrainian Armed Forces with a wholesale batch of defective mortar shells. This was reported by the SBU.
18.05 President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke at the Three Seas Initiative (Three Seas) summit and put forward an initiative to increase cooperation in the field of security in the region, in particular in the field of energy protection. This was reported by the press service of the head of the Ukrainian state.
17:58 Police officers have discovered seven spontaneous burial sites in the courtyards of multi-story buildings in Pokrovsk. This was reported by the head of the department for organizing evacuation activities of the Donbass police, White Angel Gennady Yudin.
17.58 The spokesman for the Southern Defense Forces, Vladislav Voloshin, reported on television that the enemy is breaking through to the border of three regions.
"The situation in the Novopavlovsk direction has become quite tense, where the enemy has carried out 23 combat clashes in the past 24 hours. Fierce battles are constantly continuing there, the enemy is literally rushing to the border of the Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhya and Donetsk regions," he noted.
17:30 Servicemen of territorial recruitment and social support centers (TRC and SP) without combat experience and health restrictions will be sent to the front. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
16.59 An FSB agent who spied on the Defense Forces in Sumy Oblast has been sentenced to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property. This was reported by the SBU.
16.33 Since the beginning of the current day, 75 combat clashes have occurred on the front. The largest number of battles were recorded in the Pokrovsky, Limansky and Kramatorsk directions, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in an operational report.
16.01 In order to implement the political interests of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, the Kremlin has identified new representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church responsible for promoting the ideas of the “Russian world” in Ukraine.
The list includes:
• Metropolitan Anthony (Anton Sevryuk) – head of the Department of External Church Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church, close to Patriarch Kirill.
• Metropolitan Dionysius (Petr Porubai) – Metropolitan of Omsk and Tavrichesky, an active propagandist of the Kremlin ideology and the concept of the “Russian world”.
• Metropolitan Pavel (Georgy Ponomarev) – Patriarchal Viceroy of the Moscow Metropolitanate, responsible for the work of the Russian Orthodox Church in neighboring countries.
• Metropolitan Varsonofy (Anatoly Sudakov) – head of the St. Petersburg Metropolitanate, closely connected with the Russian security forces. Actively participates in the implementation of propaganda activities under the guise of church activities.
The intelligence officers explained that the so-called church figures must organize and coordinate contacts with religious organizations whose leadership center is located in the Russian Federation and other pro-Russian elements in Ukraine, transmit instructions to them from Russian special services and control the implementation of provocations in the interests of the Kremlin.
15:57 The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved on Tuesday a bill developed by the Ministry of Defense that creates new educational guarantees for military personnel aged 18-24. This was reported by the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Rustem Umerov.
15.48 The body of the deceased Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchina was returned from Russian captivity without eyes, brain and part of the larynx. This was reported by the publication Vazhnye Istorii, citing a source familiar with the investigation.
15:36 US President Donald Trump suggested that certain actions by Russian dictator Vladimir Putin could sway him to Ukraine's side. He said this in an interview with The Atlantic. Aid to Ukraine may not necessarily be only in the form of weapons, the American leader noted.
15.05 It is important for Russia to start direct negotiations with Ukraine and this is primary, and questions of the "legitimacy" of President Volodymyr Zelensky are secondary. This statement was made by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov in a comment to Russian propagandists.
14.58 Poland has provided Ukraine with assistance in providing Starlink satellite communications worth 323 million zlotys during the three years of the Great War. This was reported by the specialized publication Polska Zbrojna.
14.44 The Cabinet of Ministers will introduce a support program for cotton producers in three regions. The payment will be 10 thousand hryvnia per hectare. This was announced by Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal at a government meeting.
We are talking about three regions: Nikolaev, Odessa and Kherson regions. The head of government noted that this will be an incentive for the development of light industry.
In addition, Shmigal added, this step will be important for strengthening the state’s defense capability.
14:39 China supports all efforts aimed at establishing peace in Ukraine, and therefore positively evaluates Vladimir Putin's initiative for a "truce" from May 8 to 10. This was stated by the press secretary of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Guo Jiakun, at a briefing.
14.23 Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni assured that the country supports US efforts to achieve a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine, welcoming the Ukrainian side's readiness for an unconditional ceasefire. She noted this in an interview with Corriere della Sera.
The establishment of a just peace first and foremost requires reliable security guarantees, the head of the Italian government reminded.
"Italy has already made its own proposal: a necessary solution inspired by Article 5 of the Washington Treaty, even outside the NATO Treaty," Meloni emphasized.
14.02 Due to massive Russian attacks this winter, Ukraine has lost almost 50% of its gas production. This was stated by Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal during a government meeting.
13.38 Russia does not plan to agree to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's proposal for a 30-day ceasefire, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said .
13:30 The Ukrainian Air Force shared footage of the destruction of a Russian attack drone by a MiG-29 fighter pilot. The corresponding video was published by the Western Air Command.
Pilot Denfix, who has destroyed more than two dozen cruise missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles, noted that it is easier to detect and destroy drones in light.
"Therefore, unlike night combat work, I could clearly see the target in the sight. After the explosion, I was happy that I was doing a good deed and that I was able to see with my own eyes a destroyed enemy drone that did not reach its target and did not destroy anything on our home soil," the pilot said.
12.37 A forced evacuation of parents with children has been announced from several settlements of the Mezhevskaya community of the Dnipropetrovsk region. Families with children must leave the villages of Kolonna Mezhova, Novopodgorodnoye, Raipole, Sukhareva Balka.
10.20 The Security Service counterintelligence detained a Russian agent in Mykolaiv region – a 57-year-old employee of one of the departments of the Pervomaysky City Council, who was spying on the military. The woman was detained when she was at a meeting with her superiors and colleagues.
The traitor tried to discover "new" locations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces units, where they had moved from their standard bases after the start of a full-scale war.
09:15 At night, Russian troops attacked Ukraine with 100 attack UAVs and other types of drone imitators. 37 drones were destroyed, another 47 did not reach their target. The Kharkiv, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk and Kyiv regions suffered as a result of the Russian attack.
08.57 Russian troops attacked Kiev and the region at night with 11 Shahed-type attack drones. Of these, nine were destroyed by air defense systems, and two were lost to radar.
Critical infrastructure facilities were not affected. However, within Kyiv, as a result of the fall of debris from one of the downed drones, a fire was recorded on the territory of a recreation center in the Desnyansky district. There is destruction and damage to buildings and cars. Three people sought medical assistance.
08.35 As a result of a Russian drone attack in the Dnipropetrovsk region, a 12-year-old girl was killed in the Gubinis community of the Samarovsky district. A six-year-old girl and two adults were injured.
The girl was pulled out from under the rubble of her own home. They tried to save the child, but he died on the way to the hospital.
08.10 Over the past 24 hours, 178 armed clashes were recorded at the front. In particular, the Russians attacked the Pokrovsk direction 59 times, and 15 armed clashes occurred in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation.
Aviation, missile forces and artillery of the Defense Forces destroyed 16 areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment, one air defense system and two artillery systems of the enemy.
07.35 As of April 29, 2025, the total combat losses of Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine amounted to approximately 950,860 people (+1060 per day).
04.10 Vice President of the United States of America J.D. Vance believes that Ukraine will not be able to win a war with the Russian Federation. He said that the country will not win if hostilities continue in the coming years. At the same time, Vance suggests that in such a case, a scenario of nuclear escalation by the Russian Federation is quite possible.
02.20 On the night of Tuesday, April 29, Russian military launched kamikaze drones in the direction of Ukraine. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported that as a result of falling debris in the Desnyansky district, a three-story recreation center building burned down. One woman was injured, and doctors provided assistance to her on the spot.
01.14 French President Emmanuel Macron said that international pressure on Russia would be increased over the next eight to ten days to achieve a ceasefire in the war against Ukraine.
"In the next 8-10 days, we plan to increase pressure on Russia. I remain cautious because part of this equation depends on Moscow. We need to act as one," he said.
00.34 US Vice President J.D. Vance stated that negotiations to resolve the Russian-Ukrainian "conflict" are in full swing.
"The negotiations around the settlement of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict are in full swing... Sometimes you have to apply pressure, sometimes you have to be more friendly, sometimes you have to promise rewards, and sometimes you have to promise punishment, because "it's dirty, routine work, but it's the work that the American people elected the Trump administration to do," said J.D. Vance.