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12:35 p.m.: The World Press Photo of the Year winner is @EMaloletka, @AP, for this confronting image of the Siege of Mariupol, for perfectly capturing the human suffering caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in a single image was caused. Learn more: https://t.co/zLRtQqkU5o https://t.co/fM7HshnAm1
12:34 pm: Associated Press photographer Evgeniy Maloletka wins the World Press Photo of the Year award! His heartbreaking image of rescuers carrying a pregnant woman through the devastated grounds of a Mariupol maternity ward won the grand prize.
(Evgeniy Maloletka / ASSOCIATED PRESS)
12:27 p.m .: The flash of light observed in the sky of Kiev last night is “probably due to the fall of a meteor from the Lyrids,” the Ukrainian space agency now specifies. This swarm of shooting stars usually appears in April and peaks on the 21st. Six days ago, the agency continues, “Earth entered the cloud of Comet Thatcher,” which is close to the source. Lyrids have lightning bolts as their signature, not long streaks of light.
12 noon: “The deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia is a form of cultural genocide,” warns Robert Badinter, guest of “4 Truths” on France 2 this morning. “It’s not possible to arrest Putin, so we have to save face and wait for another Putin to rise in Russia,” said the former justice minister.
11:25 am: .@AP photographer Evgeniy Maloletka won the World Press Photo of the Year Award for his harrowing image of a wounded pregnant woman being carried through the ruined grounds of a maternity hospital in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol. She later died.
11:25 am: Ukrainian photographer Evgeniy Maloletka has won the prestigious World Press Photo, which annually recognizes significant contributions to photojournalism. This picture of the Mariupol Maternity Hospital, taken on March 9, 2022, shows a fatally injured pregnant woman. She revealed to the world the extent of the chaos in the city. “It’s a moment I’d like to forget, but I can’t,” commented the winner, who works for AP agency.
(PETER DEJONG/AP/SIPA)
11:18 am: A residential building in Vouhledar, a town southwest of Donetsk, was hit last night by a strike attributed to Russian forces, Ukraine’s 72nd Mechanized Brigade said on Facebook. There is no human toll available yet. This small mining town is less well known than Bakhmout, but has also been the scene of fierce fighting for weeks.
(72ND UKRAINIAN MECHANIZED BRIGADE)
10:31 am: ⚡️Jens Stoltenberg arrives in Kyiv The NATO Secretary General was seen by a Kyiv independent journalist on the morning of April 20 paying tribute to fallen Ukrainian soldiers on Michael’s Square in central Kyiv. https://t.co/QhY515J305
10:31 a.m.: The Secretary General of NATO is on a surprise visit to Kiev, a Ukrainian media reports through the publication of photos. In these images from independent Kiev, Jens Stoltenberg can be seen meditating on St. Michael’s Square in Kiev, in front of a memorial honoring fallen Ukrainian soldiers.
10:22 a.m.: Denmark and the Netherlands will deliver 14 Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, the Danish Ministry of Defense has announced. The latter states that the tanks would be delivered from “early 2024”.
(FLORIAN GAERTNER / AFP)
09:43: The mysterious flash The view into the sky of Kiev last night is likely due to a meteorite, according to the Ukrainian Space Agency. “The most important thing is the safety of Kiev and its residents. It wasn’t a rocket attack,” the city’s military administration chief had previously responded.
9.10 a.m .: The war in Ukraine has also become a drone war. “The drone operator is a more important target than a sniper,” testifies a Ukrainian pilot. We followed the Orion team of the Ukrainian Territorial Defense on the front line on the Eastern Front.
(SERGEY SHESTAK / AFP)
08:48: Some trams in Mykolayiv are used to bring fresh water to the city. “If I see it dropping too fast, I go down to make sure everyone has water,” said Valentina, a tram driver.
8:49: “It’s our new trip with my wife. We tell the others that we’re going down to refuel.”
Anatoly, 73, pushes his trolley on wheels to the pipes: “I have to fill these four big bottles, five liters each, twenty liters in total.”
08:50: The residents of Mykolayiv have been living without drinking water for a year. “Withdrawing water from civilians is a war crime,” accuses the director general of the water company. After fighting and power outages, the city in the south of the country is now facing another challenge: the water supply for its 500,000 inhabitants. Reporting.
(MATHIEU DREUJOU / FRANCE TELEVISION)
7:22 a.m .: Sergey Lavrov continues his lead. Russian Foreign Minister arrived in Havana last night from Nicaragua. Today he will meet Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, unsurprisingly re-elected as Cuba’s head of state.
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