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The rush to fast-track $6 billion in military aid to Ukraine on Friday reflects the panic felt by the Biden administration and in Congress that the Zelensky regimes forces are collapsing, veteran UK diplomat, former ambassador and political commentator Peter Ford told Sputnik.

Five people have been killed and eight more injured in Russian strikes on Donetsk Oblast. Source: Vadym Filashkin, Head of Donetsk Oblast Military Administration, on Telegram Quote from Filashkin: "Pokrovsk district.

Russian forces pose a real threat of capturing the settlement of Chasiv Yar, Donetsk Oblast, although they may not be able to do so quickly. The capture of Chasiv Yar would allow Russian forces to launch further offensives against the towns that form a significant defensive belt of Ukraine in Donetsk Oblast.

Ukrainian forces continue to inflict losses on Russian troops, and Russia has lost 950 soldiers, 7 tanks, 15 armoured combat vehicles and 31 artillery systems over the past day alone. Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook Details: The total combat losses of the Russian forces between 24 February 2022 and 26 April 2024 are estimated to be as follows [figures in parentheses represent the latest losses - ed.

While it is possible that Russian forces may make some gains northwest of Avdiivka, an offensive in the area is "unlikely to develop into an operationally significant penetration, let alone cause the collapse of the Ukrainian defense west of Avdiivka," the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said.

Russian troops shelled the city of Nikopol in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, wounding two people, including a nine-year-old boy, Governor Serhii Lysak reported on April 26.

Russian forces shelled civilian infrastructure of Bilopillia in Sumy Oblast on April 26, killing two women and injuring three others, Ukraine's Interior Ministry reported.

The injured were hospitalized with blast injuries of varying severity.

Russian troops are trying to encircle the town of Chasiv Yar in Donetsk Oblast, Nazar Voloshyn, the Khortytsia Group of Forces' spokesperson, said on national television on April 26.

As the U.S. took months to approve the next package of much-needed military aid to Kyiv, Russia used the moment to step up its offensive operations in Ukraine. After capturing Avdiivka and multiple villages in the east, Moscow now has its eyes on the next primary target, the town of Chasiv Yar. Outgunned and outnumbered, Ukrainian troops are fighting against an over 20,000 Russian grouping to defend the strategically important town.