Apr 2, 2022 10:26 p.m
Guardian: ‘Ukrainian children are being used by Russians as human shields’
Witness reports from the recently liberated, battered city of Bucha reveal allegations against Russian soldiers who allegedly abused Ukrainian children as “human shields“About their means to protect their movements. The Guardian reports on it. Ukraine’s Attorney General is collecting a dossier containing allegations of Russians using local children to avoid being attacked during their withdrawal from the Ukrainian capital and other parts of the country. told witnesses stroller placed in front of the tanks in the village of Novyi Bykiv, near the encircled town of Chernihiv, 100 miles north of Kyiv. It was also reported that the children were taken hostage in a number of trouble spots across the country to ensure locals did not provide Ukrainian forces with the coordinates of the enemy’s movements. “Cases of using children as camouflage have been recorded in Sumy, Kyiv, Chernihiv and Zaporizhia oblasts,” said Lyudmila Denisova, Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman. Colonel Oleksandr Motuzyanyk, a spokesman for Ukraine’s Defense Ministry, said the reported cases were being investigated by the country’s Attorney General but could not provide further details. He said: “Enemies used Ukrainian children as human shields when moving their convoys. Russian soldiers used Ukrainian children as hostages and loaded them onto their trucks to protect their vehicles while driving.”
At least 412 children have been injured or killed since the invasion began in February, Ukraine’s prosecutor general said.
April 2, 2022 10:19 p.m
“The draft agreement between Russia and Ukraine is ready for presidential talks
The draft agreements between the Russians and the Ukrainians, which emerged from the talks in Istanbul over the past few days, are ready for discussion between the presidents. This was revealed by the head of the Ukrainian negotiating delegation, David Arakhamia, during a TV marathon: “Russia has given an official answer to all positions, that is, it accepts the Ukrainian position with the exception of the Crimean issue. Foreign Minister Kuleba said there was no official written confirmation, but verbally, yesterday via video conference, it turned out that the Russian side did not object to any position. According to Arakhamia, quoted by Interfax, “the Russians also confirmed their thesis that the draft documents are prepared in such a way that direct consultations can be carried out between the two leaders of the countries: our task is to prepare the final stage, not the document but the Topics to be addressed and to prepare the future meeting of Presidents.
Apr 2, 2022 10:02 p.m
President of Lithuania: “No more Russian gas from this month”
“From this month no more Russian gas in Lithuania. Years ago, my country made decisions that now allow us to painlessly sever energy links with the attacker. This is what the Lithuanian head of state Gitanas Nauseda writes on Twitter. “If we can do it, so can the rest of Europe,” he adds.
No more Russian gas in Lithuania from this month ????????.
Years ago, my country made choices that now allow us to painlessly sever energy links with the attacker.
If we make it, the rest of Europe ???????? can do that too!
Gitanas Nauseda (@GitanasNauseda) April 2, 2022
April 2, 2022 10:00 p.m
ZelenskyJohnson Call on sanctions and negotiations
“One more conversation with you Boris Johnson to help defend Ukraine, tighten antiRussian sanctions, and postwar security guarantees. I look forward to the donor conference for Ukraine. there Great Britain is our powerful ally. So on Twitter the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj after a phone call with the British Prime Minister.
Spoke with @BorisJohnson anew. The UK is our powerful ally. Discussed defensive support for ????????, intensifying antiRussian sanctions and postwar security guarantees. We look forward to the donor conference for Ukraine.
Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) April 2, 2022
April 2, 2022 21:58
Podolyak: “Our bargaining power depends on the army”
“Ukraine’s position is 90% it depends on our armed forces. The more effective their work, the more effective the damage for the Russians, the better we can position ourselves in the negotiations. If the help from our partners is significant, our armed forces will put us in the best position for negotiations. This is what the adviser to the Ukrainian Presidency said Mikhail Podoliak, one of the Kiev negotiators, in an interview with Ukrainian television. Even at the borders, Podolyak says, “we will be able to get more than we can get now. There are limits that were recognized in 1991 and we stay within those limits. Russian troops must leave our territory by February 23, and then the negotiating groups will start their work. Real negotiations cannot be conducted when the enemy is there. But we saw that on the 38th day of the war, the Ukrainian armed forces they work effectively. We will soon be able to get the best position.
April 2, 2022 21:34
The Red Cross in Mariupol, 765 evacuated
Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk announced this Saturday 765 inhabitants they managed to leave the besieged city of Mariupol in private vehicles. The refugees, says Wereshchuk, have arrived Zaporizhia, 226 km northwest. At the same time, the International Committee of Red Cross confirms that a team of three vehicles and nine people entered Mariupol to lead the evacuation operations, which could not take place on Monday they explain in the absence of assurances that the road was safe.
Apr 2, 2022 8:38 p.m
Peskov: “The goal of the operation is the independence of Donbass”
“One of the main goals of the operation is the effective rescue of the Donbass republics and the restoration of their statehood within the 2014 borders, i.e. within the borders established in the constitutions of both the Lugansk People’s Republic and the Donetsk People’s Republic”. He affirmed it Dmitry PeskovKremlin spokesman, in an interview with Belarus 1 TV channel.
April 2, 2022 8:29 p.m
NGO: “208 arrests among protesters against the war in Russia”
The independent organization OvdInfo, which monitors political arrests in Russia, says 208 people were arrested at demonstrations across the country on Saturday to protest the military operation in Ukraine. Presidia were held in 17 Russian cities, from Siberia to the west of the country. More than 70 people were arrested in Moscow and a similar number in St. Petersburg, the organization reports.
April 2, 2022 20:26
Fear of radiation among Russian soldiers returning from Chernobyl
Concerns among Russian soldiers visiting the Chernobyl area about the high doses of radiation they were exposed to. According to Energoatom (the Ukrainian military agency), residents of the border village of Brahin in Belarus have been advised to stay away from the return of the military from that area.