The American White House said that Russia lost 20 thousand soldiers killed in the battles for Bakhmut.
In the Bryansk region, a freight train derailed due to the undermining of tracks.

At night, Russian aviation fired 18 cruise missiles into Ukraine. 4 people died. In Pavlograd, 40 people were injured, including three children, and 19 high-rise buildings were damaged.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces received another package of military assistance from Germany: the IRIS-T anti-aircraft complex, eight Zetros trucks and two forklifts.

An air raid alert has been declared throughout Ukraine. Kyiv and the Kiev region, Kharkov, Sumy regions, and Kherson came under attack.

The village of Suzemka in the Bryansk region suffered from Ukrainian shelling. 4 people were killed, 2 more were injured.

Russia attacked the Dnepropetrovsk region and Uman with cruise missiles. In Uman, a rocket hit a residential high-rise building, killing at least 20 people.

The Russian army has withdrawn all equipment from a military base near the village of Medvedevka in northern Crimea.

On April 26, at night, a missile strike was carried out on Nikolaev. 1 dead and 23 injured were reported. As a result of the shelling of Kupyansk, 2 women were killed and 10 people were injured.

Human Rights Center «Memorial» has documented the statistics of administrative and criminal cases about «discrediting of the Russian Army» in the North Caucasus.

As a result of Russian shelling of the Nikopol district of the Dnepropetrovsk region, 2 elderly women were wounded. 10 residential buildings were damaged.

The SBU has charged the head of the Chechen parliament, Magomed Daudov, with involvement in a full-scale Russian invasion.