More than 300 people, including 90 children, were forcibly transferred from Mariupol to Russia, said the city’s mayor’s adviser, quoted by The Guardian.
In a post on Telegram, Petro Andryushchenko said 308 people were taken to them Vladivostok on 04/21 Vladivostok is more than 9,000 km east of Mariupol.
The statement, released by the Kyiv Independent, follows other reports of thousands of Mariupol residents being forcibly relocated to Russia. Ukrainian citizens reported being sent to “filtration camps” before being forcibly relocated to Russia.
The British Ministry of Defense released its latest intelligence update with a map showing Russian movements in eastern Ukraine.
The governor of the region Lvivannounces Maksym Kozytskyy a curfew from this Orthodox Easter Vigil.
Citing “new intelligence information,” Kozytskyy said the restrictions will be in place between 11pm today and 5am Sunday, and at the same time every day thereafter until further notice.
“Unfortunately, the enemy has no concept of a major religious holiday,” Kozytskyy wrote. “They are so stupid they don’t understand what Easter is.”
A video released by the Azov Battalion of the Ukrainian National Guard, which is part of the firmly anchored in the group Azovstal Steelworks from Mariupol, shows refugee women and children underground. Some have been hiding in the smelter’s tunnels for two months.
“We want to see the sky in peace, we want to breathe fresh air”, says a woman. “You have no idea what it means for us to just eat, drink some sweetened tea. For us, that’s lucky.”
A young man says that she and her relatives left their home on February 27th. Since then they have “neither the sky nor the sun (…) We want to get out of here safe and sound so no one gets hurt.”
The battalion’s deputy commander, Sviatoslav Palamar, told the AP that the video was taken on Thursday. Their content could not be independently verified.
According to Ukrainian authorities, about a thousand civilians, including women and children, are still trapped in Azovstal along with the troops holed up at the facility.
Ukraine reported on Saturday about new attacks by Russian soldiers on the Azovstal metallurgical plant in Mariupol. According to Advisor to the President Oleksiy Arestovych, Vladimir Putin’s army resumed aerial aggression and persists in its efforts to control the vast industrial complex that is the last stronghold of the Ukrainian resistance in the besieged port city.
The attacks denounced by Arestovych They would mark another change in Russia’s military tactics after President Putin canceled the attack on Azovstal on Thursday and instead ordered his troops to close the site.
This is quoted today by the TASS news agency Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos to confirm that Russia plans to deploy the first military unit armed with nuclear-capable Sarmat missiles by autumn at the latest in the country.
The unit will be based in Uzhur in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, some 3,000 km east of Moscow, he said, according to a publication by El Mundo newspaper.
the ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyyinsisted Russian invasion of your country is ‘just the beginning’ and that Moscow may seek to take over other nations once the operation is over.
“Russian authorities now say they are trying to seize control of southern Ukraine. This just confirms what I’ve said many times before: The Russian invasion of Ukraine is just the beginning. They want to conquer other countries.”said the President, adding: “We will fight back to stop Russian ambitions but the other nations who believe in the victory of life over death they must help us, for we are the first of many [países a invadir por Putin] What’s next?
Russian troops continue their offensive in the east of the country Donbass in an attempt to seize control of Ukraine’s industrial heartland, but counterattacks by soldiers from Kyiv slowed their advance, Ukrainian and British officials said.
Russia continues to fight for full control of the regions Donetsk and Luhanskthat make up the Donbass and strives to establish “a land route between these areas and the Crimea occupied,” which would involve ending the last pocket of resistance at a steel mill in the besieged port city of Mariupol, the Ukrainian general staff said.
In the last 24 hours, Ukrainian forces repelled eight Russian attacks in the two regions, destroying nine tanks, 18 armored units and 13 vehicles, one tanker and three artillery systems.added the military command.
“The units of the Russian occupying forces are regrouping. The enemy continues to launch missile and bomb attacks on military and civilian infrastructure,” the General Staff said on its Facebook page.
A new try evacuation of civilians from the southeastern Ukraine port city of Mariupol, which is largely controlled by the Russian army, is scheduled for today, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk reported.
”We try again to evacuate women, children and the elderlyhe said on his Facebook account, adding that civilians had gathered near a shopping mall in the city and that they expected to start evacuation around noon (9 GMT).
Zelenskyy called again last night, on the eve of the Orthodox Easter weekend “humanitarian truce” To evacuate civilians from Ukrainian cities besieged by the Russians, starting with Mariupol, which has been under attack by Russian troops since early March.
Prime Minister of Ukraine, Denis Schmyhal, claimed that the United States would “eventually” open its embassy in Kyiv, but could not say when that would happen. The head of state referred to this during a visit to the capital of the North American country.
“It will absolutely happen, but we will waitShmyhal told reporters when asked if he had received assurances from Washington that he would reopen his embassy, Al Jazeera reported.
Shmyhal’s statement comes after several countries announced the reopening of their embassies. As a matter of fact, Britain announced on Friday that it would reopen its diplomatic headquarters. next week, joining other European countries.
For its part, the United States felt that its diplomatic staff could not count on returning to the Ukrainian capital at this time.
The Ministry of IntelligenceThe UK, in its latest report, claimed that Russian troops “had made no significant progress in the last 24 hours”.‘ since, as they said, ‘Ukrainian counterattacks continue to hamper their efforts’.
According to the British bodythe Kremlin’s air and naval forces “have not gained control in any of the domains because the effectiveness of Ukraine’s air and sea defenses reduces their ability to make tangible advances.”
A man walks a bicycle on a shell-damaged street in Mariupol, UkraineEvgeniy Maloletka – AP
In this sense, the organization stated that “despite his declared capture of Mariupol [en el sur de Ucrania], heavy fighting continues thwarting Russian attempts to capture the city.” And they stressed that this was hampering desired progress [de Rusia]” in the eastern region of Donbass.
The statements of Russian Major General Rustam Minnekayev they raised dust. The Kremlin official noted that the Kremlin tries to gain “total control” in southern Ukraine and realized that achieving that goal would give him access to it Transnistria, a small breakaway state in Moldova.
The military chief’s statement, quoted by the TASS agency, was not overlooked. Volodymyr Zelenskyy she mentioned in one of his speeches to the Ukrainian people and gave her that as an example the Kremlin is trying to invade other countries.
In moldova, the reaction was not long in coming. That country’s foreign ministry said it had “taken note of the statements” and “expressed deep concern at the Russian official’s comments.”
In this regard, he asked the Ambassador of the Russian Federation in Moldova for clarifications. At a meeting with the diplomat, the Moldovan authorities stressed that the country is a “neutral state” and argued that this “principle must be respected by all international actorsincluding the Russian Federation”.
In a statement, the Moldovan ministry claimed that the official’s comments were “unfounded and contrary to the position of the Russian Federation to support the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Republic of Moldova within its internationally recognized borders”.
Later, the US think tank Institute for the Study of War argued that Russia’s testimony it was not read as a military offensive in that regionbut as an attempt to secure access to this area in a number of later phases.
While the Kremlin insists Ukrainian soldiers take shelter at the Azovstal plantfrom Mariupol, a new analysis by the American think tank Institute for the Study of War (Institute for the Study of War) has been published.
According to the North American institution, made up of retired soldiers and diplomats, Russia is planning force the Ukrainians resisting in Mariupol to a surrender Blocking the arrival of groceries on site. Earlier this Friday, Vladimir Putin indicated that Kyiv had refused to authorize soldiers to lay down their arms in the region.
The Azovstal Metallurgical Plant is seen on the outskirts of the city of Mariupol, Ukraine, on Thursday, February 24, 2022
The Institute for the Study of War also pointed out that the Russian troops did not seem ready to let gounder the current conditions, the few citizens still trapped in the cityone of the hardest hit in the war so far.
That President of the United Nations Organization (U.N), Anthony Guterreswill meet me next week Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, according to the CNN agency. The news comes after Moscow confirmed that Putin will also receive the UN chief in the following days.
FILE – Secretary-General António Guterres speaks during a session of the United Nations Security Council Tuesday, April 5, 2022, at the UN headquarters. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, file)
As reported, Guterres in Ukraine will also meet with him Foreign Minister Dmytro Kulebaand with UN agency staff to discuss expanding humanitarian assistance to Ukraine.
“We are absolutely certain that Ukraine will win this war and victory will be in a very short time,” Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal told CNN today after Britain’s Boris Johnson commented that there remains a realistic possibility that Russia could win.