Monday results in the occupied territories of Donbas. The highlights
6 violations of the ceasefire by the armed formations of the Russian Federation were recorded in the area of the Joint Forces Operation on April 26, - the JFO headquarters reported. The enemy opened fire from 120-caliber mortars and grenade launchers of various systems near Vodiane. The occupiers fired from 82-caliber mortars in the direction of the village of Hnutove, and from large-caliber machine guns and automatic heavy grenade launchers - near the village of Svitlodarsk. The enemy fired from automatic easel grenade launchers near Pavlopil. The armed formations of the Russian Federation fired at the positions of the Ukrainian defenders from grenade launchers and heavy machine guns in the suburbs of Avdiivka. The Armed Forces of Ukraine returned fire to the actions of the Russian occupation forces. There are no combat losses among the personnel of the Joint Forces as a result of the enemy shelling.
There are already 32 560 people infected with coronavirus infection in the occupied territory of Donetsk oblast as of April 26. This was reported by the fake "Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DNR". Currently, 4 121 patients are undergoing treatment (inpatient and outpatient). There are 2477 lethal cases. Thus, the mortality rate remains at the highest level - 7.6%. The occupiers of the "DNR" did not conduct research on the COVID-19 disease over the past day due to the fact that the only laboratory was being sanitized. At the same time, 43 cases of "usual" pneumonia were detected over the day. Of these, 25 patients were hospitalized. In total, 1417 patients with pneumonia are being treated, of which 624 are on oxygen support (+14 over the day).
Doctors registered three deaths from COVID-19 in the occupied territory of Luhansk oblast over the day, separatist media wrote. Thus, according to the "official" information of the so-called "Ministry of Health of the LNR", doctors have registered 393 deaths of patients diagnosed with coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic. According to the message of the same "Republican Ministry of Health", the total number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the occupied territory of Luhansk region as of April 26 is 4296 cases.
The price of A-95 and diesel fuel at gas stations of the occupied Donetsk region rose by 1 ruble. This was reported by separatist media. So, according to the Republican Fuel Company, the cost of A-95 and diesel fuel is now 52 rubles. The price of A-100 and A-92 gasoline, as well as gas, which has already risen in price by 2 rubles since April 17, remained at the same level. As reported by OstroV, the retail price of gas in the occupied areas of Donetsk oblasts increased by 2 rubles. A liter of gas has been sold for 32 rubles at the filling stations of the Republican Fuel Company since April 17.
Occupation authorities of the "DNR" are going to declare May days off in the "republic" similarly to the Russian ones - all days in a row, from May 1 to 10, plus a day off on the 11th - on the so-called "DNR day", when the illegal "DPNR referendum" was held in 2014. This was written about in the separatist segment of social networks. "It is not yet clear whether there will be a week work on Saturdays and Sundays, as well as whether salaries will be retained. The details are expected in the near future", - one of the local Telegram channels reported. The Donetsk people wrote in the comments that they have no doubt that it would be so: "Show me a person in the DNR who does not expect Pushilin to parrot".
Occupation authorities of the "DNR" admitted the death of two people in a fire in an apartment at a house in the center of Donetsk. This was said in the operational summary of the so-called "Ministry of Emergency Situations". "Donetsk, Kyivskyi district, Cheliuskintsev street, an apartment on the third floor of a nine-story building - a fire that killed 2 people of born in 1965 and 1969. The cause of the fire is being established. The fire destroyed: 3 wooden door interroom blocks, 1 window metal-plastic block in kitchen, things and furniture on the area of 6 sq.m", - the summary said. The fact that the fire was preceded by an explosion was not reported. Occupation administration of the Kyivskyi district of Donetsk earlier confirmed that the explosion occurred in an apartment of a residential building near the Donetsk City shopping and entertainment center, followed by a fire.
A Lexus ES300 car crashed into a tree in the Petrovsky district of occupied Donetsk, the driver died on the spot. This was reported by the fake "DNR MIA". According to the report, "the 62-year-old driver of the Lexus ES300 lost control of the vehicle, drove out of the carriageway to the right and hit a tree". In total, two accidents with injured people were registered in CADO for Saturday-Sunday, as well as 12 accidents without injured people, in which the vehicle received mechanical damage.
In the occupied Luhansk region, the water supply to Holubovske (formerly Kirovsk) has been completely suspended, and has been reduced by 40% to Kadiivka (formerly Stakhanov) due to repair work on the main water pipeline. This was said in the message of the so-called "Ministry of Emergency Situations of the LNR". "In connection with the planned repair work on the main water conduit with a diameter of 900 mm "Krymske - pumping station of the 3rd lift of Stakhanov", the water supply through this pipeline was stopped on April 26 from 00:00 until the end of the repair work…", - the occupation authorities stated. How long the repair works will take is not reported.