Blasts again reported in Ukraine’s capital Kiev, surrounding regions

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Another series of blasts, the third one since midnight, was reported in Ukraine’s capital Kiev and the surrounding Kiev region in the early hours of Wednesday, the Klimenko Time news portal reported.

Explosions also resumed in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Dnepropetrovsk.

Later on Wednesday, similar reports came from the central Ukrainian city of Kropivnitsky, the administrative center of the Kirovograd Region, the Zerkalo Nedeli media outlet said. An air raid alert was issued for the region.

Blasts were also reported in the central Ukrainian region of Cherkasy, the TSN news agency reported. According to preliminary reports, the explosions were caused by the work of missile defense systems.

Currently, civil defense sirens are wailing in Ukraine’s regions of Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov, Sumy, Chernigov, Kirovograd, Poltava and Cherkasy as well as in the capital Kiev and the surrounding Kiev Region.

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▪️Ukrainian troops lost 430 tanks and other armored vehicles, 277 drones and eight aircraft in April, the Russian Armed Forces continue to eliminate weapons supplied by the West, Shoigu said;

▪️In 2023, a sufficient amount of ammunition was delivered to the RF Armed Forces to inflict effective fire damage on Ukrainian troops, Shoigu said;

▪️In the Donetsk direction, assault squads continue to destroy the enemy in the west of Artemivsk;

▪️In the Kupyansk and Krasnolymansk directions, Kyiv lost up to 125 militants per day, in Donetsk - up to 290, in Kherson - up to 30 people, the Russian Defense Ministry reported;

▪️A man died during the shelling of the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, the JCCC reported;

▪️The terms of the grain deal in part of the Russian agricultural sector have not been met, time is shrinking like shagreen leather, Peskov said;

▪️More than 460 thousand square meters of housing were commissioned and restored in the new regions of Russia in the first quarter of this year.

▪️Members of the Ukrainian intelligence group, citizens of Russia and Ukraine Viktor Podvalny, Alexander Litvinenko, Sergei Krivoshein, Konstantin Evmenenko, Igor Zorin and Sergei Voinarovsky were detained in the case of preparing terrorist attacks in Crimea, the FSB reports.

▪️Petranov, a citizen of Ukraine and Bulgaria, who was involved in the delivery of weapons to Russia, was also detained.

The detainees were found to have 5 ready-to-use bombs, electric detonators, radio-controlled mechanisms, trackers for surveillance.

In addition, a channel for the smuggling of explosives from Bulgaria, organized by the Ukrainian special services, was opened, passing through Turkey and Georgia. The bombs were "camouflaged" under electric stoves, the FSB noted.

▪️The organization of the smuggling of electric stoves with components of explosives from Bulgaria to Russia was carried out by Ukrainian citizen Marina Matushchak, the FSB reports.

After the delivery of electric stoves to the territory of Russia, further transportation to the places of preparation of terrorist attacks went through the transport companies SDEK and Vovovoz, they were sent by Russian citizens who were used "in the dark" and had commercial projects with the Bulgarian company Matushchak, the FSB noted.