by Lorenzo Cremonesi, Giusi Fasano, Andrea Nicastro, Marta Serafini
The news of Tuesday April 5th about the war, minute by minute. The New York Times published satellite images that would refute the Russian version of the atrocities committed in Bucha. Biden: Putin in court. Zelenskyj is speaking at the UN today
• The war in Ukraine on the 41st day.
• While Moscow continues to deny responsibility for the Bucha massacre, the New York Times, using satellite imagery, has reconstructed that the bodies had been lying on the streets for weeks that is, before Russian troops left.
• Prime Minister of Ukraine Zelenskyy will address the United Nations today. Yesterday he visited the city of Bucha, called the Russian soldiers to butchers and warned of the images that will emerge from other villages previously occupied by the Russians.
• US President Joe Biden has called for a war crimes trial against Vladimir Putin.
• France and Germany expelled Russian diplomats. Moscow replied that they will respond harshly. EU High Representative Borrell: The European Union will urgently push for new sanctions against Russia.
• The Ukrainian authorities denounced the discovery of five bodies of civilians with their hands tied behind their backs in a village west of Kyiv, including Mayor Olga Sucheko, her husband and son.
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7.01 Moscow’s goals
For days, the Russian Defense Ministry has announced that it will focus military operations on the Donbass in order to liberate it from the Nazis. Now it is made clear to the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense that the reorganization of Russian troops concentrated in the east of the country is aimed at nothing other than gaining complete control over the territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions: an occupation, therefore, for a long time.
In the last few hours, an editorial published by Russia’s Ria Novosti agency explained what was meant by denazification an effort that will last a generation, will involve the physical elimination of opponents through war, and consider the possibility of forced labor and reintegration . Educational camps, in addition to the disappearance of the name Ukraine.
6:48 am MoD, Russian military demoralized, more deserters
The occupying forces continue to suffer casualties. They have big problems with the personnel of combat units and support units. Demoralized enemy personnel, which led to an increase in desertions and the refusal of the military of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation to take part in the war on the territory of Ukraine. Let’s win together! Glory to Ukraine!. According to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine in a post on social media.
6.35 am Army, Russian group attack in east
Ukraine’s military released its daily operational report, claiming that Russia was redeploying troops for an aggressive attack in the east of the country. Ukrinform reports this. According to the report, the enemy is regrouping its troops and focusing its efforts on preparing an aggressive operation in the east of our state. The goal is to gain full control over the territory of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. And it replenishes stocks of food, fuel, lubricants and ammunition. Russian forces continue to blockad the city of Kharkiv and attempt to take full control of Mariupol, with continued artillery bombardments destroying residential areas and city infrastructure, the report added.
5.03 a.m. Alarm sirens in large parts of Ukraine
Alarm sirens for possible airstrikes are sounding again this morning across most of Ukraine. Local media reports. From Kyiv to Odessa, from Kharkiv to Lviv, from Mykolaiv to Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia.
4:41 am Anonymous publishes the names of 120,000 Russian soldiers
The hacking collective Anonymous announced on Twitter that it had hacked and released the personal data of 120,000 Russian soldiers involved in the invasion of Ukraine. Everyone should be brought before a war crimes tribunal, Anonymous said. The material concerns dates of birth, addresses, passport numbers and the military reference units. The collective, which declared cyberwar on the Russian government days after the invasion began, promises to continue its fight until Russia ends its aggression.
4.26 Treasury closes Russian reserves in US banks
The US Treasury Department has suspended dollar payments of Russian government debt from Moscow government accounts in US banks. This was reported by the Bloomberg agency, which spoke to a spokesman for the department. The move aims to increase pressure on Moscow to abandon the invasion of Ukraine. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control will no longer allow dollar payments from Russian government accounts with US banks. The goal is to force Russia to choose between emptying the dollar reserves it holds in its country, spending the new revenue it is raking in, or defaulting.
11:19 p.m. The mayor of a village west of Kyiv is found dead with her hands tied along with her son and husband
Ukrainian authorities have reported the discovery of five bodies of civilians with their hands tied behind their backs in a village west of Kyiv, including those of the mayor, her husband and her son. Police showed reporters from France Press four bodies, including that of the mayor, halfburied in a pine forest near his home in Motyzhyn. A fifth body was found in a small well in the garden. Two other men who were found dead were not members of the mayor’s family and the bodies had their hands tied behind their backs. Mayor Olga Sucheko, 50, her husband and son were kidnapped by Russian troops on March 24, according to police. According to some residents, they had refused to cooperate with Russian forces.
April 5, 2022 (Modification April 5, 2022 | 07:07)
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