Geolocation
Airwars assessment
One person was injured by confirmed Russian shelling of Barvinkove in Kharkiv on April 29, 2022
Ukrainska Pravda News quoted the Kharkiv Regional Military Administration which reported that one person in the Barvinkove community was injured by Russian shelling.
Other local sources provided the same casualty numbers without any additional details.
The Russian MOD posted on Telegram announcing that “Two missile and artillery weapons and ammunition depots near the settlements of Barvenkovo and Ivanivka were also destroyed.”
This assessment has reference to UKR56789.
The local time of the incident is unknown.
Summary
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Screenshot of Facebook post by Kharkovskie Izvestiya
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Screenshot of Facebook post by Liudmila Denisova
Geolocation notes
Reports of the incident mention the town of Barvinkove (Барвінкове), for which the generic coordinates are: 48.902874, 37.020906. Due to limited satellite imagery and information available to Airwars, we were unable to verify the location further.
Russian Military Assessment:
Original strike reports
🇷🇺🇺🇦 Briefing by the Russian Ministry of Defence (28.04.2022)
◽️Вооруженные Russian Federation forces continue a special military operation in Ukraine.
💥 High-precision airborne missiles of the Russian Air Force hit four Ukrainian military facilities overnight. Two areas of concentration of the enemy's manpower and military equipment were hit. Two missile and artillery weapons and ammunition depots near the settlements of Barvenkovo and Ivanivka were also destroyed.
💥 The Russian Air Force's tactical and army aviation hit 67 military facilities in Ukraine overnight. They include six command posts, two company strongpoints, two large rocket and artillery weapons and fuel depots in the villages of Preobrazhenka and Orekhov, as well as 55 locations where enemy manpower and military equipment were concentrated. As a result of the strikes, over 300 nationalists and up to 40 armoured vehicles and vehicles were destroyed.
💥 Missile troops and artillery carried out 408 firing missions during the night. 18 control points and 383 areas of concentration of manpower and Ukrainian military equipment were hit.
💥 Russian air defence forces shot down an Su-24 aircraft of the Ukrainian air force over the village of Mykolaivka in the Luhansk People's Republic.
💥 Five Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed in the areas of Veselohrovka, Zatishne, Novomikhailovka, Lyubimovka, Kharkiv. Also this morning, air defence forces repelled a strike by a Ukrainian Tochka-U ballistic missile against residential areas in the town of Izyum in the Kharkiv region. The target of the strike was the city hospital, where a Russian medical detachment providing aid to the population of Kharkiv region is stationed.
📊 A total of 142 aircraft, 111 helicopters, 614 unmanned aerial vehicles, 276 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2,623 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 299 multiple rocket launchers, 1,146 field artillery guns and mortars, and 2,431 pieces of special military vehicles have been destroyed since the start of the special military operation.
◽️ On 27 April at around 11 p.m. Moscow time, the Ukrainian armed forces launched a massive rocket attack using Tochka-U ballistic missiles and multiple rocket launchers of high power on residential areas in the central part of the city of Kherson.
◽️ The targets of the indiscriminate rocket attack by the nationalists were residential areas in the area of Ushakov Avenue, where kindergartens, schools and many social institutions are also located.
◽️ Russian air defence units repelled a missile attack by Ukrainian forces on residential neighbourhoods in Kherson.
◽️В twelve high-powered multiple rocket launchers and two Ukrainian Tochka-U ballistic missiles were shot down over the city. Fragments of one of the downed Ukrainian Tochka-U missiles fell in Shevchenkivskyi Park.