The antiaircraft warning sirens sound at night in almost all regions of the countryUkraineOpening of the 25th day of the war unleashed Russia on the edge ofEU and from Born. Before a Kyiv and Lviv, then the alarm was also raised in Odessa, Kharkiv, Zaporizhia, Sumy, Mykolaiv, Ternopil, Poltava, Kirovograd, IvanoFrankivsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Rivne, Volinie, Cherkasy, Zhytomyr and Vinnytsia oblasts. In a new nightly video address to the nation, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy He said his people “prove they can fight more professionally than an army.” And he attacked “the Russian army and its commanders,” who “showed themselves exactly as they are: incompetent, capable of simply driving their people to slaughter.” Zelenskyy, who returned yesterday to ask for a facetoface meeting with the Russian President Wladimir Putintoday he will speak to Israel via video.
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Out of town Mariupol The mayor is under siege Vadim Boichenko Last night he spoke of thousands of residents being “deported” to remote cities in Russia “like the Nazis did during World War II.” And Russian troops would block a convoy of buses heading to Mariupol tonight to evacuate residents. “To do to a peaceful city what the occupiers did is a terrible thing that will be remembered for centuries,” Zelenskyy said.
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9.20 a.m. The Russian Defense Ministry announced today that more than 100 Ukrainian soldiers and “foreign mercenaries” were killed in an attack on a Ukrainian special forces training center in the Yitomir region in the north of the country. “Highprecision airlaunched missiles hit a training center of the Ukrainian special operations forces where foreign mercenaries were stationed near Ovruch,” said military spokesman Igor Konashenkov. The town of Ovruch is located less than ten kilometers from the border with Belarus and about 150 kilometers from Kyiv. “More than 100 units of foreign military and mercenary special forces died,” the spokesman said in statements collected by the Tass agency.
9.00 a.m. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has announced that the activities of 11 Ukrainian political parties, some of which have direct ties to Moscow, will be restricted and brought under control. It can be read on various media including BBC. That’s what Zelensky says in the video posted overnight, where he lists them by name. Among them the opposition platform For Life, one of the major proRussian parties represented in the Kiev parliament. Zelenskyi said the Justice Ministry will immediately implement the restrictions, which will remain in place as long as martial law lasts.
8.50 a.m. For the second day in a row, Moscow claims it has used a hypersonic missile system against Ukrainian military targets. Interfax reports it.
8.20 a.m. Russia attacked a school in Mariupol where about 400 people had taken refuge. The BBC and Sky News write it, citing a post on Telegram from the Mariupol Municipality. The bomb attack would have taken place last night, the building would have been destroyed and women, children and old people would have remained under the rubble, the Post reports on Telegram. For its part, the BBC states that the information has not been independently verified.
7.45 a.m. After nearly two weeks in a bunker, 71 orphans were evacuated from Sumy and taken to safer areas. This was reported by the governor of the region, quoted by the Kyiv Independent. “We hid these children in a bunker for two weeks,” governor Dmytro Zhyvytskyi wrote in a post on Facebook, “people were quickly found who could safely host them in another country. And at the first opportunity we evacuated them through the humanitarian corridor. These are children who, for various reasons, do not have parents, and most of them constantly need medical help ».
7.35 a.m. Residents of the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol are being forced by the thousands to move to Russia, according to the Kyiv Independent, which cites Mariupol Municipality as a source. “Civilians would be taken to camps where Russians would check their cellphones and their documents and then deport them to remote cities in Russia,” the Ukrainian newspaper wrote in a tweet.
6.45 a.m. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said today that “time will tell that China’s position is on the right side of history” on the war in Ukraine. “China will continue to make independent judgments based on the merits and with an objective and fair stance. We will never accept external coercion and pressure, and we also stand up against baseless accusations and suspicions against our country,” Wang Yi told reporters, according to a statement from China’s foreign ministry, which was reported by international media. Wang said that “the longterm solution is to abandon the Cold War mentality, not engage in group confrontations, and truly form a balanced, effective and sustainable regional security architecture. This is the only way to achieve longterm stability on the European continent”.
5.45 a.m. In a new video posted to Facebook, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the siege of Mariupol will go down in history as a “war crime” by the Russian army. “Doing to a peaceful city what the occupiers did is a terrible thing that will be remembered for centuries to come,” Zelensky said in his nightly video address to the nation, reported by international media.
5.30 According to Kyiv Independent reports, antiaircraft warning sirens have been activated in almost all regions of Ukraine. In addition to Kyiv and Lviv, there is a threat of airstrikes in Odessa, Kharkiv, Zaporizhia, Sumy, Mykolaiv, Ternopil, Poltava, Kirovograd, IvanoFrankivsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Rivne, Volinie, Cherkasy, Zhytomyr and Vinnytsia oblasts.
5.35 a.m. Russian troops are said to have stopped a convoy of buses heading to Mariupol to evacuate residents, the Kyiv Independent reports. According to the Berdyansk city council, the convoy was on its way from Zaporizhia to the city to pick up fleeing residents of Mariupol, but was stopped by occupying Russian forces near the village of Azovske, three kilometers from Berdyansk. The convoy was not allowed to enter the city limits and drivers were not allowed to stay overnight.
4.10 a.m. The Russian military has delivered more than 75 tons of humanitarian aid to Kherson, according to the Russian Defense Ministry, quoted by the ItarTass agency. “Another shipment of humanitarian aid from Russia was delivered to the Ukrainian city of Kherson for local residents. The trucks, accompanied by Russian military personnel, brought more than 75 tons of relief supplies to the residents of the city and neighboring settlements to the capital of the region,” the ministry said, specifying that the Russian army provided food packages to all those in need. including essential products: grains, pasta, sugar, preserves, potatoes, fruit and other foodstuffs.
3.35 a.m. The Australian government has banned the export of alumina, aluminum ores and bauxite to Russia. This was announced today by Australian Foreign Secretary and Senator for Trade Marise Payne. “The government imposed an overnight immediate export ban on Australian alumina, aluminum ores and bauxite to Russia, which will limit its ability to produce aluminum, a key export for Russia,” said Payne, also of Russia’s ItarTass agency. The minister stressed that the export ban on Australian raw materials for aluminum production “will have a major impact on the Russian defense industry, which depends on Australia for almost 20% of its aluminum needs”.