u/Flimsy_Pudding1362

Translation:

Dear residents of the Leningrad Region, dear Leningraders!

We have just completed a meeting of the operational headquarters under my leadership.

The meeting of the headquarters was attended by state authorities of the Leningrad Region, federal authorities, security structures, as well as directors of the largest critical, especially important facilities of the Leningrad Region.

Within the framework of the meeting of the headquarters, a decision was made on the need to strengthen and enhance the protection of the Leningrad sky from attacks by unmanned aerial vehicles.

As part of the decision, additional material and technical assistance will be provided to the 6th Guards Air and Air Defence Army, deployed on the territory of the Leningrad Region.

It was also decided to create additional mobile fire groups, which will be deployed on the territory of enterprises and organizations of critically important infrastructure facilities, and will also be placed at the disposal of the 6th Guards Air and Air Defence Army and individual military units deployed on the territory of the Leningrad Region.

Within the framework of the decision, it was determined that all material and technical support, including the purchase of vehicles, necessary equipment, and inventory, will be undertaken by the government of the Leningrad Region and enterprises of critical infrastructure facilities.

For the formation of crews of mobile fire groups, it is planned to involve reservists. Therefore, I would like to address the residents of the Leningrad Region, primarily veterans — participants of the special military operation, guys with combat experience, retired servicemen who have served in the ranks of the Soviet and Russian Army: through the Leningrad Regional Military Commissariat we will offer to conclude a three-year contract under the reservist scheme to participate in the formation of mobile fire groups and the protection of the Leningrad sky.

At the same time, all reservists will be employed at enterprises and organizations of critical infrastructure to protect these facilities.

The term of service under the contract is up to three years, while the maximum service in barracks conditions for the protection of the Leningrad sky is from 2 to 6 months, with a minimum term of 2 months — up to 6 months at the discretion of the reservist.

We are doing everything possible to protect the Leningrad sky and to ensure the safety of the residents of the Leningrad Region. Victory will be ours!

Contact phone numbers of the Leningrad Regional Military Commissariat for addressing issues and answering questions on how to conclude a contract and join the reservists:

Dumskaya reports:

The detention of TCC officers on Balkivska Street today was accompanied by a chase and gunfire.

According to public channels, the operation was carried out by the KORD special unit and officers of the SBU internal security.

According to unofficial information, the TCC members were detained for bribery. One of them managed to escape, but was later detained at the radio market.

According to media reports, during the detention, batons, brass knuckles, and money were found on the TCC officers. Earlier, the military recruiters had staged a dispute among themselves involving two vans on Mykhailivska Square.

According to sources from “Dumska,” those detained turned out to be employees of the Peresyp district TCC. They forcibly dragged a former serviceman with an official deferment into a van and, threatening him with weapons, demanded $30,000 from him.

Batons, brass knuckles, knives, and unregistered firearms were found in their vehicle.

“They were really prepared to use brass knuckles and beat the person, but the SBU intervened in time. They will be charged with robbery,” said the source.

The man from whom they attempted to extort money had previously contacted the SBU in advance. He had already been detained earlier by TCC officers. Despite presenting documents (including veteran status confirmation), pressure continued and he was told they would ‘take him anyway’.

He then pretended to agree to hand over $30,000, but contacted the SBU beforehand. After that, the special operation began.

Another source from “Dumska” claims this is not the first such case. The detained group of TCC officers allegedly worked together with police on high-value targets.

* * *

The heads of the Odesa regional and Peresyp district TCC have been suspended for the duration of the investigation in connection with a high-profile scandal in Odesa.

An internal investigation will be conducted by the Military Law Enforcement Service, the Ground Forces reported.

They emphasized that they are providing comprehensive assistance to law enforcement agencies.

According to sources from “Dumska” within the Defence Forces, today all servicemen received an order from above requiring them to “inform leadership about all cases of contact with TCC representatives.”

https://dumskaya.net/news/v-odesse-so-strelboy-zaderzhali-ttskshnikov-vide-190832/ua/

* * *

Armed Forces of Ukraine statement:

Regarding the detention of military personnel from TCC alert groups in the Odesa region

In connection with the detention by officers of the Internal Security Department of the Security Service of Ukraine of military personnel from alert groups of the Peresyp District Territorial Center for Recruitment and Social Support, an official internal investigation has been launched within the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

By decision of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the head of the Odesa regional Territorial Center for Recruitment and Social Support, as well as the head of the Peresyp district Territorial Center for Recruitment and Social Support, have been suspended from their duties.

It has also been instructed that the Head of the Main Directorate of the Military Law Enforcement Service of the Armed Forces of Ukraine conduct an official investigation into this incident.

We emphasize that any violations of the law, abuse of authority, or unlawful actions are unacceptable and must receive an appropriate legal assessment.

Law enforcement agencies are being provided with full assistance in conducting relevant checks and investigations.

https://www.facebook.com/UALandForces/posts/pfbid0SaPeM6jZH7vHbqqSvo4mnqseHdmWXAaPXD4WymPcKSrGEtfmTMzvP9A28UJ1H7PVl

* * *

SBU statement:

The Main Directorate of Internal Security of the SBU and the National Police, with the assistance of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the leadership of the Land Forces, neutralized in Odesa an organized criminal group that included employees of the local TCC.

As the investigation established, the suspects extorted money from people. In case of refusal, they used violence and threatened victims with being sent as “assault troops to the front line” in an accelerated manner.

According to case materials, the “collection” of funds took place directly in the official TCC minivan, into which victims were forcibly dragged.

SBU officers, involving special forces units, detained all members of the group “red-handed” when they abducted another local resident and were extorting money from him.

During the detention, the suspects physically resisted law enforcement officers. SBU special forces used weapons, firing at the wheels of the vehicle in which the group members were trying to escape. No person sustained gunshot wounds.

It has been documented that the perpetrators acted on a “tip-off” from a resident of the region who was serving in the TCC. He was the one identifying potential victims, finding out their financial situation and movement routes.

The suspects then tracked the victims and attacked them either directly on the street or on roads.

For the raids, they used two official minivans: in one, they kept the victims, while a group from the second vehicle monitored the surroundings.

Currently, all detainees are being prepared for notification of suspicion under Part 4 of Article 189 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (extortion that caused significant property damage, or committed by an organized group under martial law).

The issue of selecting a preventive measure is being decided. The perpetrators face up to 12 years of imprisonment with confiscation of property.

The comprehensive measures were carried out under the procedural supervision of the Khadzhibey District Prosecutor’s Office of Odesa.

https://ssu.gov.ua/novyny/sbu-ta-natspolitsiia-zatrymaly-v-odesi-predstavnykiv-ttsk-ta-sp-yaki-pidozriuiutsia-u-vymahanni-koshtiv

Dumskaya reports:

The detention of TCC officers on Balkivska Street today was accompanied by a chase and gunfire.

According to public channels, the operation was carried out by the KORD special unit and officers of the SBU internal security.

According to unofficial information, the TCC members were detained for bribery. One of them managed to escape, but was later detained at the radio market.

According to media reports, during the detention, batons, brass knuckles, and money were found on the TCC officers. Earlier, the military recruiters had staged a dispute among themselves involving two vans on Mykhailivska Square.

According to sources from “Dumska,” those detained turned out to be employees of the Peresyp district TCC. They forcibly dragged a former serviceman with an official deferment into a van and, threatening him with weapons, demanded $30,000 from him.

Batons, brass knuckles, knives, and unregistered firearms were found in their vehicle.

“They were really prepared to use brass knuckles and beat the person, but the SBU intervened in time. They will be charged with robbery,” said the source.

The man from whom they attempted to extort money had previously contacted the SBU in advance. He had already been detained earlier by TCC officers. Despite presenting documents (including veteran status confirmation), pressure continued and he was told they would ‘take him anyway’.

He then pretended to agree to hand over $30,000, but contacted the SBU beforehand. After that, the special operation began.

Another source from “Dumska” claims this is not the first such case. The detained group of TCC officers allegedly worked together with police on high-value targets.

* * *

The heads of the Odesa regional and Peresyp district TCC have been suspended for the duration of the investigation in connection with a high-profile scandal in Odesa.

An internal investigation will be conducted by the Military Law Enforcement Service, the Ground Forces reported.

They emphasized that they are providing comprehensive assistance to law enforcement agencies.

According to sources from “Dumska” within the Defence Forces, today all servicemen received an order from above requiring them to “inform leadership about all cases of contact with TCC representatives.”

https://dumskaya.net/news/v-odesse-so-strelboy-zaderzhali-ttskshnikov-vide-190832/ua/

* * *

Armed Forces of Ukraine statement:

Regarding the detention of military personnel from TCC alert groups in the Odesa region

In connection with the detention by officers of the Internal Security Department of the Security Service of Ukraine of military personnel from alert groups of the Peresyp District Territorial Center for Recruitment and Social Support, an official internal investigation has been launched within the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

By decision of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the head of the Odesa regional Territorial Center for Recruitment and Social Support, as well as the head of the Peresyp district Territorial Center for Recruitment and Social Support, have been suspended from their duties.

It has also been instructed that the Head of the Main Directorate of the Military Law Enforcement Service of the Armed Forces of Ukraine conduct an official investigation into this incident.

We emphasize that any violations of the law, abuse of authority, or unlawful actions are unacceptable and must receive an appropriate legal assessment.

Law enforcement agencies are being provided with full assistance in conducting relevant checks and investigations.

https://www.facebook.com/UALandForces/posts/pfbid0SaPeM6jZH7vHbqqSvo4mnqseHdmWXAaPXD4WymPcKSrGEtfmTMzvP9A28UJ1H7PVl

ria ru/20260421/gerasimov-2088069769.html

Article by Gazeta:

The so-called “oil rain” in Tuapse after a Ukrainian UAV attack on the seaport and the ignition of infrastructure is the result of burning oil, during which combustible substances are released into the atmosphere. Since the oil contains certain impurities, some of these substances later settle back onto the ground. People in such conditions should observe personal hygiene. This was stated to Gazeta Ru by Sergey Serov, associate professor of the Department of Ecology and Industrial Safety at Bauman Moscow State Technical University.

“This is not really oil rain; it’s due to the fact that when oil burns, combustion products are released into the atmosphere, and then they settle. That’s all. It was the same in Iran <...> We throw in 10 kilograms of firewood, and get, for example, 200 grams of coal. So where do those 9.5 kilograms go? They go into the atmosphere in the form of heat, gases, and other substances formed during combustion. The same thing happens here. Oil is already impure when it burns. A cloud forms in the atmosphere, and all of it disperses depending on how high it rises,” the specialist noted.

Answering a question about the threat to the region’s ecology from the “oil rain,” Serov emphasized the need for personal hygiene under such pollution conditions. At the same time, a proper assessment of the environmental threat requires knowing the concentration of oil and the substances released into the atmosphere as a result of combustion.

Tuapse came under a massive drone attack on the night of April 20. As reported on his Telegram channel by Krasnodar Krai governor Veniamin Kondratyev, a fire broke out in the seaport. It is also known that UAV debris damaged windows in several buildings across the city, including an elementary school and a kindergarten, a museum, a church, an apartment building, as well as a gas pipeline.

Local media report that after the UAV attack on Tuapse, unusual black droplets were recorded falling in the city, which residents are taking for oil rain.

Earlier, transport infrastructure in the port of Tuapse was also damaged during the UAV attack.

gazeta ru/politics/news/2026/04/20/28305409.shtml

Source: t me/osvedomitell_alex/34003

Text from the source:

Kherson. Red zone.

Ran out of cars? No problem, there are enough kh0kh0ls for everyone. 🤙 The enemy has slowly started switching to motorized transport and bicycles.

Any target on the ground in the Red zone is a priority. The task is to fully localize movement in Kherson.

Source: t me/usf_army/1810

Text from the source:

Unmanned Systems Forces struck an S-350 radar and a “Tor-M2KM”

On the Zaporizhzhia direction, operators of the 414th separate brigade “Magyar’s Birds” hit the 50N6E radar from the S-350 system. The S-350 “Vityaz” is a Russian medium-range air defense system of a new generation. Its radar detects targets at distances up to 60 km and altitudes up to 25 km, simultaneously tracking dozens of objects. This is a valuable and extremely scarce element of the enemy’s air defense.

In the area of Melitopol, operators of the 1st separate center hit the “Tor-M2KM” SAM system — this is an autonomous combat module of the “Tor” family surface-to-air missile system. It is intended to provide air defense for naval groupings and can be used as a mobile air defense element on various platforms.

The operations were carried out in coordination with the Deep Strike Center.

☠️ USF: One step ahead!

russian.rt com/ussr/news/1621690-vsu-bespilotniki-rossiya-shturmoviki

Source: t me/mod_russia/62742

Text from the source:

An air religious procession took place for the first time in the SMO zone.

A Mi-8 helicopter carrying an icon of the Archangel Michael flew along the line of deployment of the 27th motorized rifle brigade and the 68th motorized rifle division of the “West” group of forces.

Escort was provided by a Ka-52 helicopter.

https://www.facebook.com/Serhii.Flash/posts/pfbid0FBn6th4dtiYJkk1K41xEMMq7z98EVr871rkt3aP3AzfwedoQTZz8mp59CMx97MT6l

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0PPNSM8QjM

Head of the Ukrainska Pravda investigations department Mykhailo Tkach

Executive Director of the Anti-Corruption Action Center Daria Kalenyuk

Editor-in-Chief of Ukrainska Pravda Sevgil Musaeva

Text version:

Daria Kaleniuk: Well, but let’s give a diagnosis, where we actually are. That is, I feel like a hostage. Well, I live in Ukraine, the state of Ukraine. The survival of this state depends on what the president does. The president we cannot change, because elections. There is a high probability that the president was directly involved in high-level corruption, because his close friends and most likely he himself built most likely houses for themselves, on blood. And it's only what is known.

At the same time, this president enjoys great respect in the world, represents us well abroad. Yes, it depends on him, on his speeches, including his communication, relations with other world leaders, whether we will receive funding, money, weapons. Yes, anti-corruption bodies, which do their work, can at any moment stop doing their work, because this same president builds his line of defense and more finely, most likely, plans an attack on these anti-corruption bodies. That is, we as a country are hostages. And there is war. Well, we do not forget about war.

Musaeva: And it is necessary every month, every month to look for money in order to find them, yes, for the army, for existence, for financing the country.

Kaleniuk: And money and people. The president goes to Germany and there says: “I need people to fight. Return, please, men who left to Ukraine to fight”.

The head of the office Yermak showed an example, how to fight. Yes, he said: “I will go to the front”, went and fights, attaches himself to the military in order to legitimize himself in some way. Of course, his friends do not go there to defend the state. This hypocrisy looks like this, but what should we do with it? We are hostages.

Musaeva: Start telling the truth.

Tkach: This is the first. Secondly, what is constantly said, in particular by the president, that we are not Russia, we are a civilized country. The basis and why for so many years we cannot break away from Russia is that every new president builds here a small Russia. And mentally it is very convenient when there is unlimited power, very convenient when you can appoint without any competitions friends somewhere. And all this is very convenient. And taking into account the mentality, it kind of suits everyone.

But as soon as we begin really at a serious level, and I believe that NABU and SAPO last year really saved our country from any social internal upheavals. As soon as we begin to appeal to the law, and you all know this quote, I do not know what to do, act according to the law. And as soon as we really these bodies, it so happened that there are no others, will be able to bring the situation to legality. This will be the starting point from which we will begin to recover from this diagnosis acute dynastism of some kind.

But if this does not happen, if accordingly those people win who are satisfied with this comfort, unlimited power, absence of elections and so on, then accordingly we will continue to slide into a coordinate system in which operate those countries, in particular that country which attacked us.

Kaleniuk: We will lose the war. Not at the front, we will lose the internal war.

Tkach: Inside (Ukraine), yes, that is what we were talking about. When in 2022 we were saying, I wrote about internal enemy, everyone said: “What are you doing? It is not allowed. How can you, why?”

Kaleniuk: We were not saying, we supported, we were talking about internal enemy.

Tkach: Yes, yes, but I remember what kind of reaction there was: no need, we are all here together, we are in one boat and so on. Well okay, let’s go settle in the cooperative Dynasty.

Musaeva: But just at this moment, yes, someone from this boat…

Tkach: Therefore first is the law.

Musaeva: …was building his own raft.

Tkach: First is the law. If they do not bring NABU and SAPO cases to the end or will not be able to, or there may be different reasons, they will not finish, then accordingly we lose any chances. Second is constitutional limitation. Constitutional limitation. We all understand what the motivation was on the eve of 2019. Give unlimited opportunities. We will now do everything here, fix it. This morning they sent me a video, where candidate president Volodymyr Zelenskyy sits in a cap in Odesa, says: “We know everything how to do”. Well everything, you will like it, you will like it. He says: “We will do everything”.

Okay, fine. We gave, these people received unlimited power. Happened 1, 2, 3, 4, in particular full-scale invasion, to which someone believed someone there, I do not know, fortune tellers, astrologers, numerologists, that it would not happen, but did not prepare. Okay, we these people, they remained. Okay, no conclusions, yes, no conclusions were made. Okay, then everyone told them, everyone said: “Limit yourselves”. Well, this will go somewhere. We all risk.

They drive in last year again—what conclusions were made, somehow are these people limited, or they still can make those mistakes, and we all risk?

Musaeva: They changed the casting of the new season of Servant of the People.

Tkach: Removed the negative character, yes, put a positive one, pulled up from previous seasons, you know, like in series someone left, went somewhere into some disaster, was in a coma, returns and here meetings. Hello Oleksandr Kubrakov, who was destroyed by the whole office. Hello Dmytro Kuleba, who either the foreign intelligence service, or something else there—remember, it was spinning, what kind of—well, this is just a tangle of news.

Kaleniuk: But in the series there is one actor, whom Zelenskyy did not foresee. The people of Ukraine. NABU and SAPO, I agree, saved the state last year, but before that NABU and SAPO were saved by people,

Tkach: Yes.

Kaleniuk: Who went out into the streets. Completely unexpected for me. I thought there would be 100 people. Already was preparing myself for prison. And for the Office of the President also very unexpected. And unexpected for Zelenskyy himself. He is detaching from reality. He sold this idea that he is servant of the people. But young people do not believe in it. Yes, already and not exactly young also do not believe in it.

Tkach: Because to sell the destruction of NABU and SAPO under some invented slogans did not work.

Source: t me/kyriienko_press/1795

Text from the source:

An underground shelter that even partners from NATO countries have appreciated.

I already showed you how cars drive there.

Now watch how trucks enter such shelters.

This is actually an entire underground town.

How long it takes to walk from the beginning of the shelter to its exit — I’ll show in a report later.
For now, take a look at the underground residents.