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- Vladimir Putin estimated on Thursday that his troops had taken control Mariupol and ordered them to besiege the remaining Ukrainian fighters instead of storming the Azovstal industrial compound where they are entrenched. A claim branded “questionable” by Joe Biden, for whom “there is still no proof that Mariupol is completely lost.” In addition to around 2,000 Ukrainian soldiers who are refusing to surrender and demanding “security guarantees” from the international community, “about 1,000 civilians, women and children and hundreds of wounded” are also said to have taken refuge in this factory, according to Zelensky.
- Joe Biden announced on Thursday a new military aid $800 million for Ukraine, including “heavy artillery, dozens of howitzers, 144,000 rounds of ammunition, and drones.” Washington also intends to provide $500 million in additional economic aid to keep Ukraine’s government afloat. For his part, Justin Trudeau on Tuesday, April 19, announced the delivery of heavy weapons to the Ukrainians, but without specifying where the weapons would come from, how big, or when they would arrive.
- financial help Ukraine must be given “as much as possible” in the form of donations, not loans, to prevent Kyiv from piling up significant debt that would complicate post-war recovery, stressed on Thursday Kristalina Georgieva, director general of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has estimated that his country needs $7 billion a month to offset the economic losses caused by the war.
- Mr Zelenskyy accuses Russia of wanting to organize itself fake independence referendums in the Kherson and Zaporijia regions, which it occupies in the south of the country.
- More than 1,000 civilians are in morgues in the Kyiv region, a Ukrainian official said on Thursday.
- Three busesevacuation of civilians from the port of Mariupol arrived in Zaporizhia on Thursday. The Russian invasion has already advanced to Ukraine’s neighboring countries – starting with Poland – more than five million Ukrainiansunheard of since World War II.
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