Odessa under bombing -.
Russian President Vladimir Putin could drop the term “special operations” to refer to the invasion of Ukraine and speak of “all-out war.” in Kyiv. This was reported by the British newspaper Independent, citing rumors from Russian and Western officials. Looking for a “rematch” for military failure, senior Russian military officials are reportedly urging the president to announce the change at the annual May 9 Victory Day parade. The move would make the Crem possibleto activate martial law to involve its allies in military aid and proclaim the mass mobilization.
Also, to add to the tension, the map circulated by Russian propaganda via a TV channel, Rossiya 1, showing the trajectory and times in which Sarmat, the new Russian ICBM, would reach major European capitals: 106 seconds for Berlin, 200 for Paris and 202 for London. The new rocket has been successfully tested over the past few days.
Meet a Russian village. 3 bodies tortured near Bucha
In which 66th day of the warsays the governor of the Russian region of Bryansk, Alexander Bogomaz “a Ukrainian fighter” would have “hit a Russian village with 2 rockets in Starodubsky district, on the border “and that” the blast “would have damaged equipment used for loading oil”, even if there had been no casualties.
The complaint of the police chief of the Kyiv region, Andriy Nebytov, who speaks about it, is also serious Discovery of “a grave containing the bodies of three men who were tortured, gagged and killed with a blow to the head”. The macabre discovery would have been made in the woods near the village of Myrotske, in the Bucha district. The victims would be “tortured for a long time” and “gunshot wounds” would be found “in the limbs”. The three men were “shot in the ear”. Overall so far Ukrainian investigators are said to have “examined 1,202 bodies of killed civilians” in the Kyiv region.
More and more bitter fights are to be noted above all Mariupol Where many Ukrainian soldiers would remain barricaded in the steel mill, it is also said along with civilians and foreigners. And it is from here that the commander of the 36th Ukrainian naval brigade Sergiy Volynsky (Volyn) appeals to Turkish President Erdogan to apply the “extradition procedure” to them and bring them directly to Turkey. The commander adds that the situation in the Azovstal Steelworks is “very difficult” and that “the fighting” will “never stop”. Ukrainian negotiator and adviser to President Zelenskyy, Mikhailo Podoliak, accused Moscow of “rejecting all proposals to save the people of Mariupol from bombing”.
Moreover, Ukraine declares this Moscow is attempting to take control of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant. Kyiv told the International Atomic Energy Agency (AIEA) that Rosenergoatom (a unit of the Russian state-owned nuclear company Rosatom) would “send a group of 8 nuclear specialists to the Zaporizhia power plant” who would “request daily reports on the power plant.” and “confidential matters” of its operations”. The requested reports would also concern “the management of nuclear fuel, spent fuel and radioactive waste”.
In the evening, the southern city of Odessa was attacked: the damaged and unusable runway of the airport became the target of the bombings.
Russia will leave the International Space Station
Russia will leave the International Space Station due to sanctions imposed over the invasion of Ukraine. “The decision has already been made, we are not obliged to speak about it publicly,” general manager Dmitry Rogozin said in an interview reported by Bloomberg agency, citing Tass and Ria Novosti. “All I can say is: in line with our commitments We will give our partners a year’s notice of the end of our ISS work“, he added.
Lavrov: In the negotiations, the suspension of sanctions
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov insists that stopping sanctions against Moscow must be part of the negotiations for the peace talks between Moscow and Kyiv. A negotiation he describes as “difficult” but which would move forward. In fact, the minister said that “currently the Russian and Ukrainian delegations are discussing the draft of a possible contract via videoconference.” But days ago the Ukrainian President Vlodomyr Zelenskyi had made this very clear, saying that anti-Russian sanctions “could not be part of the negotiations”..
Minister Lavrov said so in an interview with Chinese state media More than a million people were evacuated from Ukraine to Russia from February 24th. Lavrov explained that among the evacuees were thousands of foreigners, as well as people from the eastern regions of Donetsk and Lugansk. Last Thursday, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that 1,002,429 people had been evacuated to Russia, including 183,168 children.
Kyiv: Bombs on schools and houses in Lugansk. “23,200 Russians Killed”
The War Bulletin is getting worse by the hour. According to the head of the regional military administration Sergii Gaidai, who was taken over by Ukrinform “Two schools and 20 residential buildings” were “bombed by the Russian army in the last 24 hours in the Lugansk region”.. And the Russians “also stormed Rubishne and Popasna” while “a police vehicle delivering medical supplies to a hospital” was “hit by mortars in Severodonetsk.” According to the city’s mayor, the Russian soldiers who were captured by the Kiev Independent then “fired on two buses evacuating civilians from Popasna in the eastern part of Lugansk.”
The army of Kyiv claims to have “killed at least 23,200 Russian soldiers since the beginning of the invasion “and just yesterday” have “shot down” 10 Russian planes. All this while military aid continues to arrive from NATO countries. According to CNN, Poland reportedly “sent more than 200 ‘T-72’ tanks to Ukraine in recent weeks”, as well as “armored vehicles, howitzers, drones, several Grad rocket launchers and man-portable air defense systems”. So far, Kyiv has been handed over “military equipment worth $1.6 billion” from Warsaw, as Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki confirmed last week.
The platform for refugee subsidies is launched in Italy
In Italy, the platform allows Ukrainian refugees to “apply for a subsistence allowance of 300 euros per person per month per adult and an integration fee of 150 euros per month for each child under 18”. The contribution is aimed at people who have submitted an “application for a residence permit for temporary protection by the police headquarters” and are “in a state of independent accommodation, i.e. with relatives, friends or host families, for at least 10 days within a month”.