News about the war in Ukraine
20.37 Twenty civilians left the premises of the Azovstal Steelworks in Mariupol to be evacuated. This was announced by the Ukrainian Azov Battalion.
09/19 The Ukrainian army said Russian planes continue to launch attacks on the besieged city of Mariupol, focusing on the Azovstal Steel Works, where troops and civilians are taking refuge. In a Facebook post, the General Staff of the Armed Forces also claimed that the Ukrainian army had regained control of four settlements in the Kharkiv region.
06/18 Odessa under attack: Local authorities have confirmed that the southern city is being bombed by Russian forces. The damaged and no longer usable runway of the airport in the viewfinder.
17.24 Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk announced a new exchange of prisoners with the Russians. According to what Vereshchuk himself wrote on social media, “14 Ukrainians, 7 soldiers and 7 civilians, including a pregnant woman, are returning home.”
16.54 “The Russian special services planned to destabilize the situation in the Odessa region by inciting citizens to riots and protests on May 2”, on the occasion of the eighth anniversary of the massacre at the House of Trade Unions, which left more than 40 dead , an event for which the curfew was tightened. The national police reported this according to what UNIAN writes. Persons who could cooperate with the Russian Federation have been checked. “Weapons, communist paraphernalia, brochures with communist symbols and other banned symbols, as well as grenades, ammunition, mobile phones and equipment were found and confiscated during the searches.”
16.21 “I thank President Draghi and Italy for their clear position on the side of Ukraine. Italy responds very quickly to the challenges and proposes solutions, we appreciate that very much ». This is what Ukrainian Presidential Advisor Zelenskyy Mykhailo Podolyak said in an interview with Rai News 24. He then added: “We would like Draghi to put even more emphasis on sanctions in the discussion about heavy arms supplies to Ukraine and about the possibility that Ukraine will now join the EU ».
15.38 Actress Angelina Jolie makes a surprise visit to Ukraine. As reported by the Daily Mail, the Hollywood star was spotted in a bar in Lviv in the west of the country. The British newspaper’s website also publishes the video of the actress in sportswear. “Nothing special. Just Lviv. I just went for coffee. Just Angelina Jolie,” Maya Pidhorodetska wrote in Ukrainian on Facebook, posting photos of Jolie at the bar, which were then reprinted by the Daily Mail.
04/15 The bodies of three other men with signs of torture and shots were found in a grave near the Ukrainian city of Bucha, the scene of the massacres discovered during the Russian occupation in recent days. The victims had their hands tied, their mouths gagged and their eyes blindfolded. Ukrainian police said: “The victims were tortured for a long time and finally each killed with a bullet to the head,” said Kyiv police chief Andrii Nebytov in a statement.
14.24 French President Emmanuel Macron today promised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to “strengthen” military and humanitarian aid to Kyiv, BFM TV learned from its sources. In the course of a phone call lasting about an hour, Macron promised in particular to “increase support for Ukraine in defense weapons”.
14.00 Vladimir Putin could drop the term “special operations” to refer to the invasion of Ukraine and speak of all-out war in Kyiv. The Independent reports, citing rumors about Russian and Western officials. Seeking “revenge” for military failure, senior officers in the Russian army, British media reports, are urging the Russian president to announce the change during the annual May 9 Victory Day parade. The move would allow the Kremlin to activate martial law, engage its allies in military aid, and call for mass mobilization.
13.38 For the artistic director of the Vienna Opera, Bogdan Roscic, the dispute over the right to veto artists with ties to Russia, which exploded after the invasion of Ukraine, is “hot air”. For his part, Roscic opposed the exclusion of soprano Anna Netrebko and conductor Teodor Currentzis: “The audience doesn’t care. It’s a debate that’s happening between a sadly small group of people,” Roscic said at the launch of the 2022/23 season.
12.25 Russia continues to reject Ukrainian proposals for a humanitarian corridor to evacuate civilians from Mariupol. This was stated by Ukrainian Presidential Advisor Mykhailo Podolyak, quoted by the Kyiv Independent. “For them, destroying Mariupol and the fighters of the Azov regiment is symbolic,” Podolyak said.
11.45 The strategic stability dialogue between Russia and the US is formally “frozen”. «To date, the situation is such that it is not possible to talk to the United States about the prospects for negotiations on strategic stability. Unfortunately, all of Washington’s actions are directed in the diametrically opposite direction, ”the diplomat noted. «In any type of dialogue, and even more so in strategic dialogue, it is necessary at least to have a partner with an appropriate mentality. At the moment, this dialogue is formally “frozen” on the American side, the Russian official added. Yermakov predicts that “it will be possible to return to meaningful dialogue” with Washington “only when Russia has achieved the goals of its military operation in Ukraine.”
10.46 Ukrainian defenses have repelled Russian breakthrough attempts in Mariinka, Krasnohorivka and Nowomykhailivka on the Donetsk front line, along which air, missile and artillery attacks continue. This was reported by the Ukrainian regional authorities, as reported by Ukraine’s Pravda. In the other disputed region of Donbass, Lugansk, according to the local governor, 16 artillery attacks were registered, hitting 20 residential buildings and 2 schools.
09.40 A Ukrainian warplane hit a Russian village in Starodubsky district of Bryansk region on the border with Ukraine today with two rockets: the blast damaged equipment used for loading oil. This was stated by the governor of the region, Alexander Bogomaz, reported by Tass. There are no casualties or injuries. «Today at 6.50 (5.50 in Italy) Russian air defense systems detected a Ukrainian fighter jet. While measures were underway to prevent the target from entering Russian territory, two bullets hit the Zhecha settlement in Starodubsky district,” Bogomaz said.
08.42 In the past 24 hours, two schools and 20 residential buildings have been damaged by Russian army bombings in the Lugansk region. This was announced by the head of the regional military administration Sergii Gaidai via telegram, Ukrinform reported. “The Russians are storming Rubizhne and Popasna,” wrote Gaidai.
07.57 Ukrainian forces shot down ten Russian planes yesterday, the Air Force Command of the Kyiv Army said, according to Ukrainian media reports. The destroyed aircraft are a Su-25 fighter jet and nine Orlan-10 drones.
06.55 On the 66th day of the war in Ukraine, Russia is stepping up its pressure in the east, in the Kharkiv region, slowing the advance into the Donbass, while continuing Ukrainian resistance at the Azovstal Steel Plant in Mariupol, where an attempt to evacuate civilians is underway is. including 600 injured. On the diplomatic front, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy continues to say he is ready for dialogue with Moscow “despite the atrocities committed by the Russians”. A dialogue the stalemate of which Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov blames on NATO, accused of raising specters of nuclear war, which the Kremlin instead ruled out.
In Kharkiv, the Ukrainian army announces a number of “tactical” victories, including the liberation of a nearby village, while not hesitating to describe the situation at the steel mill as “worse than a humanitarian catastrophe”. Violent explosions were heard overnight in the country’s second-biggest city, which had been shelled by Russian artillery for weeks. According to the regional military administration, the bombings in Kharkiv yesterday left at least one dead and several injured. Zelenskyy admits that the situation here is currently “difficult”.
Zelenskyi says he is still ready to talk to Vladimir Putin despite the atrocities committed by the Russians in Bucha, Mariupol and other cities. However, he clarified to the Polish media that the risk of the negotiations with Moscow collapsing is “high”.
In the evening, Tass will broadcast two interviews with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, one to Al Arabiya and the other to China’s Xinhua. The NATO states “are doing everything possible to prevent the conclusion of the Russian special operation in Ukraine through political agreements,” said the Kremlin diplomatic chief. “We are witnessing the manifestation of the classic double standards and hypocrisy of the western establishment. By publicly expressing their support for the Kiev regime, NATO countries are doing everything possible to prevent the conclusion of the operation by reaching political agreements,” the Russian minister added.
Lavrov then declared that Russia was not at war with NATO and was not threatening to resort to nuclear power, as the West has been urging instead. He accuses Kyiv of laying mines in the Black Sea by threatening shipping. In conclusion, he assures us that Moscow “intends to continue to fairly honor its obligations under international treaties related to export shipments of food, fertilizers, energy resources and other sensitive products.”
Meanwhile, a G20 case has been opened: Indonesia, which will host it in November, has formalized the invitation to Russia and Ukraine, prompting the response from the White House, although the Kremlin itself has not yet decided whether Putin will attend will be appointment and if present. The US accuses the Russian president of “depravity” and calls for Indonesia to be barred from the meeting.
And it’s CNN that raises another case, colored yellow: At least six Russian businessmen have reportedly died by apparent suicide in the past three months, some of them with their families. According to the broadcaster, four of the six deaths involved executives linked to Gazprom or one of its subsidiaries.
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