The owner of the private military company Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, released a video in which he showed the corpses of PMC soldiers and blamed Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov for their deaths. According to him, soldiers are dying due to lack of ammunition.

At night, Russia attacked Odessa and Kyiv with Shahed kamikaze drones.
The Kremlin press service reported an attack by Ukrainian drones on the residence of Vladimir Putin.

At night, 26 Iranian drones attacked Kyiv, Dnieper and Zaporozhye. Most were shot down, no casualties.
As a result of the shelling of the Kherson region, 21 people were killed. 48 civilians were injured.

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The Russian army has withdrawn all equipment from a military base near the village of Medvedevka in northern Crimea.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