Information Defence: Military-Political Situation in Ukraine as of April 29th - Ihor Zhdanov

Ihor Zhdanov, Information Defence Project, Open Policy Foundation

Informational Defence of Ukraine provides a daily review of the military-political situation in Ukraine as of the past day of April 29th, based on an analysis of open sources.

1. The Armed Forces of Ukraine heroically restrain the enemy's attacks in the decisive battle for the Donbas.

According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, russians continue to conduct offensive operations in eastern Ukraine in order to establish full control over the territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions and maintain the land corridor with the temporarily occupied Crimea.

In the Donetsk and Tavriia directions, enemy units are trying to launch an offensive attack in the Lymanskyi, Severodonetskyi, and Popasnyanskyi directions.

The enemy continues to establish full control over the settlements of Rubizhne and Popasna and prepares to advance on the Severodonetsk direction.

In the Mariupol direction, the enemy continued to launch air strikes on Mariupol. The enemies focused their main efforts on blocking the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the Azovstal plant, and transferred some units from Mariupol to the Kurakhiv direction.

In the Slobozhanskyi direction, the enemy group of the 6th General Army, the coastal troops of the Baltic and Northern Fleets is focusing on maintaining positions in the area north and southeast of Kharkiv, trying to deploy additional artillery units.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine liberated the village of Ruska Lozova in the Kharkiv region from the russian occupiers. This is a strategically important settlement located on the Kharkiv-Belgorod highway. It is from this suburban area that the enemy fired at the civilian