Rome, April 18, 2022 On April 54 War of Russia in Ukraine the repositioning in southeastern Ukraine will continue of the Moscow Armed Forces, covered by the bombing raids. The Pentagon claims that the Kremlin is moving “heavy artillery and aircraft” and notes that from their analyzes “it appears that Moscow has learned its lesson from the failures in northern Ukraine,” noting that it has is still “pioneer” for an offensive. On the contrary, Moscow has announced this grouping complete troops in view of the offensive. The Russian Ministry of Defense: “Moving additional troops will strengthen the offensive group. The most intense fighting is taking place in the Slobozhansky and Donetsk regions.”
This conflict is also a “genocide”, as the President Zelenskyy of a broken country repeats. According to the Kiev government, the Russians want to level Mariupol “at any cost.” The city “continues to fight”, but after more than a month of siege “doesn’t exist anymore‘ said Minister Kuleba. One hundred and fifty children According to an NGO, they were forcibly removed from the city while they were for Zelenskyj 5,000 children were “deported” from the Mariupol region of Russia since the beginning of the invasion “because they didn’t allow him to go to the Ukrainian side. These” children. Where am I? Nobody knows,” said Zelenskyy.
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The bombs and the fighting
But he is not alone Mariupol the goal of the Russians: four missiles hit the region of Lviv, near the border of Ukraine with Poland. To have claimed Moscow with this bomb attack destroyed a significant amount of weapons just arrived from the west. At least it is 6 dead including a child and 8 injured the budget of the bombing while four civilians who tried to escape this morning KreminnaCity in the Lugansk region of today under the control of Moscow, were killed by Russian soldiers. In Bucha, however, the mayor estimates that “it was killed one in five residents of those who remained in the city during the occupation by the Russian army”.
On the other hand, Moscow claims to have struck 315 military facilities during last night’s bombing of Ukraine and after he shot down three Ukrainian planes: two Mig29s and one Su25. Among the targets bombed, Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said, were 18 command centers, 22 artillery batteries, a missile system and 275 troop concentration points. Bombings using Iskander missiles also “cleared four weapons depots”.
The desperation of the Ukrainian population (Ansa)
British prisoners on Russian TV
Two British Citizens who fought with Ukrainian troops and were captured by the Russians appeared on Moscow television and they appealed to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, asking for his release in an exchange with Viktor Medvedchuk, the oligarch and MP of the Ukrainian opposition who was arrested by the Kiev secret service in recent days. The two Brits, Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner, have been defined by the Russian authorities as “Mercenaries” captured during the fighting in Ukraine. “Mr Boris Johnson says Pinner in a video broadcast by the 60 Minutes program of the state television channel Rossiya 1 I ask that I and Aiden Aslin be exchanged for Mr Medvedchuk. Of course, I would greatly appreciate your help in this matter estimate.” Almost simultaneously, Ukrainian television broadcast a video of less than 30 seconds in which Medvedchuk appealed to Putin and Zelenskyy, proposing to be released in exchange for safe conduct so that Ukrainian forces besieged in Mariupol and residents could leave the city.
Appointment Zelenskyj
The Russians want to destroy the Donbass, to destroy the former industrial powerhouses Donetsk and Luhansk. And for this Ukraine needs more guns as Zelensky said in his speech broadcast that night. “Russian troops are preparing for an offensive operation in the east of our country. It will begin shortly. They want to literally destroy Donbass,” said Zelenskyy. “They want to destroy everything that once gave glory to this industrial region. Just as Russian troops are destroying Mariupol, they want to wipe out other cities and towns in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions,” the Ukrainian president said. Zelenskyy reiterated his call for new weapons to be sent to Ukraine, saying the fate of the upcoming battle depended on “those who have the weapons and ammunition we need and hold back” from delivering them to Kyiv.