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Ukrainian forces will need to use US aid to stabilize the front line and stop Russian advances, particularly on the Avdiivka and Chasiv Yar fronts.

Avdiivka, Donetsk Oblast
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Source Reports

Ukrainian forces will initially have to use US aid to stabilise the front line and stop Russian advances, particularly on the Avdiivka and Chasiv Yar fronts

Operators of the eighth separate regiment of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed one Russian armored personnel carrier and two infantry fighting vehicles during a combat operation using FPV drones.

Russian forces managed to break in and gain a foothold in a part of Ocheretyne

Ukrainian Special Operations Forces (SSO) reported via Telegram the elimination of nine Russian soldiers with the assistance of first-person view (FPV) drones

The SSO eliminated the enemy in the Donetsk region and destroyed two infantry fighting vehicles and an armored personnel carrier

Two people were wounded in the Mariinka district due to shelling on 27 April.

Multiple settlements in Pokrovsk and Kramatorsk districts, including Terny and Yampolivka, were under hostile fire on 27 April.

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