[Korrespondent] 23:20 The death toll as a result of the shelling of the station in Kramatorsk has increased to 52 people, the wounded - up to 109 , said the head of the Donetsk OVA Pavel Kirilenko.
22:59 The Pentagon considers "unconvincing" Russian claims that its forces were not involved in the attack on Kramatorsk train station, spokesman John Kirby said. According to Washington, it was a Russian strike, and they used a short-range ballistic missile to deliver it.
22:56 Vereshchuk said that 6,665 people have been evacuated today. In particular, 5,158 people arrived in Zaporozhye from Mariupol and Berdyansk on their own vehicles and buses.
In Melitopol, the invaders have been holding eight buses for evacuation for 24 hours, the Ukrainian authorities are negotiating. The column of buses, which was sent from Zaporozhye to Berdyansk in the morning, continues along the route. 1,507 people were evacuated from Lisichansk, Severodonetsk, Rubizhne, Kremennaya and the village of Gornoe in the Luhansk region.
22:55 According to Pentagon estimates, more than 40 Russian battalion tactical groups are located in the Donbass region or near it, according to ABC News.
22:53 Zelensky: “Like the massacres in Bucha, like many other Russian war crimes, the missile attack on Kramatorsk should be one of the charges at the tribunal, which will definitely take place. All the forces of the world will be directed to establish minute by minute who what was done, who gave what orders, where did the missile come from, who transported it, who gave the command, and how this strike was coordinated. Responsibility is inevitable."
22:51 It will take at least four years to restore Chernihiv destroyed by Russian troops, the mayor of the city, Vladislav Atroshenko, said.
22:48 Canada begins to investigate war crimes of the Russian military in Ukraine. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is the only law enforcement agency in Canada with a mandate to investigate such crimes.
22:46 Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said that at the moment, Russian troops in Ukraine are changing tactics and preparing for the next attack. According to her, the threat of an offensive, despite the withdrawal of Russian troops from the Kiev, Chernihiv and Sumy regions, remains, and throughout Ukraine. Malyar stressed that Moscow has not abandoned its plans to seize Ukraine, but is forced to change its offensive plan.
22:44 In German Lower Saxony, the rules for holding pro-Russian actions have been tightened: now they will be banned from the flags of the USSR and St. George ribbons - such a decree was signed by the regional Minister of the Interior Boris Pistorius.
22:43 Zelensky at a briefing with Ursula von der Leyen and Borrell said he was grateful for the new sanctions, "but this is not enough." The President stressed that he "has many questions for Ursula von der Leyen, but the atmosphere of dialogue and relations we have now is the best in many years."
Ursula von der Leyen, in turn, told how the sanctions are hitting Russia: "Exports fell by 71%, inflation rose by 20%, 700 companies left Russia, 225 billion euros of personal assets in the EU are frozen."
22:39 France is ready to ban the import of Russian oil, said Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire.
22:36 The head of the Luhansk OVA, Sergei Gaidai, says that after each attack or attempt to break through, the invaders lose from 20 to 40 freshly mobilized soldiers, whom the Russian Federation uses as cannon fodder.
22:31 Estonians have created an online map with the addresses of the Russian military of the Russian Federation, who killed and looted in Bucha. A map called Where do orcs come from? created using Google Maps.
Its authors used open data from Ukrainian intelligence about the place where military passports were issued based on information from the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine about servicemen of the 64th separate motorized rifle brigade of the 35th Army.
22:28 The Pentagon has found out that Russia is going to recruit "more than 60 thousand military personnel" from among the recruits and mobilize reservists to strengthen the invasion force, reports CNN.
22:26 The Russian military actually does not have a modern communication system that allows them to effectively coordinate the actions of their units. Therefore, the Ukrainians not only listen to the radio broadcasts of the invaders, but also jam their communications by broadcasting heavy metal music right during the battle, writes The Economist.
22:25 The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that Ukrainian "neo-Nazis" had mined storage facilities with chemicals at a plant in Avdiivka, they plan to blow them up when approaching the city of "DPR" formations.
22:19 The EU has published the fifth package of sanctions against Russia , which has already entered into force. The sanctions list includes: the Kalashnikov concern, the official representative of the Ministry of Defense Konashenkov, the head of Sberbank German Gref, the oligarchs Oleg Deripaska, Boris and Igor Rotenberg. Also on the list are Putin's daughters Ekaterina Tikhonova and Maria Vorontsova.
Sanctions have been imposed against TASS CEO Sergei Mikhailov, VGTRK CEO Oleg Dobrodeev, editor-in-chief and owner of the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets Pavel Gusev, editor-in-chief and CEO of Komsomolskaya Pravda Vladimir Sungorkin, president of the Krasnaya Zvezda media holding Alexei Pimanov.
In total, sanctions were imposed against 217 individuals and 18 legal entities.
22:13 Ursula von der Leyen said following her visit to Bucha: "It was important to start the visit to Bucha. Because in Bucha our humanity was collapsing. My message to the Ukrainian people: those responsible for the atrocities will be held accountable. Your fight is our fight. I today in Kiev to tell you that Europe is on your side."
21:47 The governor of the Luhansk region, Serhiy Gaidai, said that fighting continues in Rubizhne and Popasna. In particular, from Gorny to Popasnaya, the entire section is shelled from morning to night. Today, 640 people have been evacuated from this region.
21:46 Head of the Georgian Parliament Shalva Papuashvili refused to visit Bucha. He explained this by disagreements between Tbilisi and the government of Ukraine.
21:45 Enemy troops fired at the territory near Odessa in the evening. There were no casualties as a result of the strike, said the head of the Odesa OVA Maxim Marchenko.
21:42 The European Parliament has a Twitter account in Ukrainian, the first tweet in it appeared on the evening of April 8: "Together we will succeed: welcome to the new European Parliament Twitter page in Ukrainian! Here you will find the latest news on how the EU supports Ukraine in its struggle."
21:40 Austrian Chancellor Karl Negammer will meet with Zelensky in Kiev on Saturday, after which he will go to Bucha, Austrian media report.
21:38 According to information from various sources, more than 121 thousand children have already been forcibly taken to Russia - both orphans and those who have parents, Ombudswoman Denisova said. It is known that some of the children were taken by the invaders from Mariupol to Donetsk and in the direction of Taganrog.
According to her, Russia is repeating the scenario of 2014, when it took Ukrainian children out of the occupied Crimea on the so-called "train of hope" for their adoption.
21:25 Arestovich says that Putin wants to end the war, and there are several signs of this. In particular, this is Peskov's statement about the significant losses of the Russian army. According to the adviser to the head of the OP, Russia strategically lost on the eighth day of the war. Moscow's main task now is for Putin to come to the meeting with Zelensky "at least with some kind of power position - at least take something."
21:18 Russia has reorganized the command of the war in Ukraine - the invasion is led by the commander of the Southern Military District, General Alexander Dvornikov, who has extensive experience in Russian operations in Syria, writes Air Force.
21:10 Russian invaders forcibly took 31 thousand people out of Mariupol , said the mayor of the city Vadim Boychenko. "They go through various humiliations. We know that they take their fingerprints, force them to sign various documents and are very tough on employees of the municipal sector or other government agencies. That is, people sit for weeks and wait for this so-called filtration. People are brought to the very outback Russia - Tomsk, Tambov, Astrakhan and other regions," Boychenko said.
20:55 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that the operational-tactical aviation of the Aerospace Forces hit 54 military facilities of Ukraine in a day. In particular, "high-precision missiles destroyed a large warehouse of rocket and artillery weapons in the area of the settlement of Nimirovskoye, Odessa region."
The Russian ministry also warned that "the threat of Kyiv's provocations and missile attacks on civilians remains high" because the Ukrainian armed forces "still have a significant arsenal of Tochka-U missiles."
20:44 Western countries continue to supply the Armed Forces of Ukraine with weapons to deter the Russian full-scale invasion. For more information about partner assistance, see From S-300 to Bushmaster: New Weapons for Ukraine .
20:25 Biden called the strike on Kramatorsk "another terrible atrocity committed by Russia." He vowed to continue to provide aid to Ukraine and support efforts to investigate the attack by documenting Russia's actions and bringing those responsible to justice.
20:22 Macron called the missile attack on the Kramatorsk railway station "an abomination" and promised to support the investigation throughout Ukraine to ensure justice.
20:19 The Russian delivery service CDEK, through which the Russian military transported property stolen in Ukraine, refused to accept parcels with goods if the sender could not confirm ownership of them, writes UP.
20:17 Russians tomorrow will try to appoint their occupying "authority" in the city of Oleshki, Kherson region, the mayor Evgeny Ryshchuk warned.
19:59 European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen officially handed Zelensky a questionnaire , the completion of which is a necessary step to grant Ukraine the status of an EU candidate.
"We will be ready with answers in a week," Zelensky replied.
19:56 The rescue ship Sapfir, captured by the Russians, has returned under the control of Ukraine, the Ministry of Infrastructure reports. All 19 crew members were released from Russian captivity on March 25 as part of a prisoner exchange.
19:53 Johnson and Scholz, after the talks, said they were ready for unprecedented steps to rid Europe of dependence on Russian gas and help Ukraine repel Russian aggression. They also promised to help bring the leadership of the Russian Federation to justice for war crimes.
19:47 FSB General, head of the Fifth Service Sergei Beseda, who provided Putin with information about the political situation in Ukraine, was transferred from house arrest to the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center, writes journalist Andrey Soldatov, who covers the work of special services.
According to the journalist, the Conversation case is being investigated by the Military Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee. Beseda is also accused of embezzling funds allocated for subversive and undercover work in Ukraine.
19:45 The Center for Counteracting Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council reports that Russia is preparing another manipulation about "bad" Ukrainians in order to deliberately demonize Ukraine in the world. So, stuffing appears that Ukrainian refugees, when evicted from an apartment, paint walls, organize pogroms in shops, etc.
19:36 Hungary will violate EU sanctions if it fulfills its promise to pay for Russian energy in rubles, said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
19:32 The military leadership has decided to restrict entry to the Kiev Puscha-Voditsa due to "a huge number of objective factors," said the head of the Obolon Regional State Administration Kirill Fesik. There is no exact date for the ban yet, specialists are waiting for a large front of work, he added.
19:23 Twitter has blocked the account of the propaganda TV channel Russia Today.
19:19 The European Council will hold a special meeting on May 30-31, during which it will discuss defense, energy and the situation in Ukraine.
19:16 According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, more than 80 percent of the personnel of some Russian units involved in the war against Ukraine do not want to participate in further hostilities. The commanders of the military units of the invaders banned the dismissal of servicemen whose contracts have expired until the end of the "special operation".
The General Staff also reports that the occupying "authorities" in the occupied territory of Donbass received instructions from Russian curators about the return of people who left for Russia during January-February 2022. Citizens must return to the settlements at the place of registration or residence after two months of stay in the Russian Federation.
19:07 Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin transferred 1,500 ETH (approximately $4.7 million) to help Ukraine.
19:05 The EU introduces free roaming for Ukrainian refugees. According to the Ministry of Digital Development, 24 EU mobile operators and three Ukrainian mobile operators signed a joint statement on coordination of efforts to ensure affordable and free roaming for international calls from the EU to Ukraine.
19:03 In Kiev, the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, handed over a questionnaire on EU membership to the Ukrainian authorities, Radio Liberty reports.
19:00 Zelensky began a meeting with Ursula von der Leyen and Josep Borrell. Talks are planned in a narrow circle, after which the President and EU representatives will make statements for Ukrainian and foreign media and answer their questions.
18:57 Podolyak: "It's time to think about a new European "currency of exchange". One barrel of Russian oil = one liter of blood of a torn Ukrainian citizen. And 140 European companies that remain to work in Russia is one Buchanskaya massacre. Add your original ones further" blood business ideas.
18:43 In France, on April 10, the first round of presidential elections will take place. The favorite is the incumbent President Emmanuel Macron. However, the main event of the election campaign was the war in Ukraine, which has already corrected the presidential race. More details - in the material Ukraine will decide the fate of Macron .
18:38 Ursula von der Leyen said that they plan to prepare a conclusion on Ukraine's membership in the EU this summer. Then the Ukrainian application for membership will be submitted to the European Council. She stressed that "it usually takes years before the EU Council accepts an application for membership, but Ukraine did it in a week or two."
18:37 The UK will send a new shipment of $130 million worth of weapons to Ukraine, including Starstreak MANPADS, Johnson said.
18:35 Venediktova reported that there were approximately 67 bodies in a mass grave in Bucha. Each of them is examined by forensic experts, criminologists, investigators and prosecutors. Most of the people received gunshot and shrapnel wounds from explosions, some of them only fragments remained. Some of the dead were with documents, the rest will have to be recognized by relatives by clothing or other signs and identified by DNA.
18:32 In Madrid, the street near the Russian embassy will be renamed Bucha or Irpin, and the streets Russia and St. Petersburg will be renamed Kiev and Mariupol, the Ukrainian embassy in Spain reported.
18:28 Medvedev said that Western sanctions against the Russian Federation can be qualified as "an act of aggression against the country," therefore Moscow "has the right to individual and collective defense."
"Unlawful sanctions under certain circumstances can be qualified as an act of international aggression on the part of individual states or their unions. First of all, when their application is aimed at undermining its economic independence, and therefore state sovereignty, and threatens the very existence of the state. In fact, "as our opponents say, this is a declaration of economic war. Taking into account the totality of legal and political circumstances, we can conclude that sanctions in the current situation can be qualified as an act of aggression against the Russian Federation, as one of the forms of hybrid war," Medvedev wrote. .
He had previously stated that Russia could use nuclear weapons in the event of a "threat to the existence of the state."
18:23 The NBU turned to the Cabinet of Ministers with a proposal to withdraw the financial assets of MR Bank (Sberbank) and Prominvestbank, which were withdrawn from the market at the beginning of the war, subsidiaries of Sberbank of Russia and VEB. About 26 billion hryvnias can be directed to the state income.
18:07 European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, EU High Representative Josep Borrell and Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Geger visited Bucha , where bodies were exhumed from a mass grave today.
17:59 A unit of Russian special forces, who have experience of military operations in Syria, in full force refused to participate in further attempts to storm Mariupol, according to Ukrainian intelligence. In the battles against the Armed Forces of Ukraine from April 2 to April 4, this unit lost about 30 servicemen.
The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense also reports that the latest data on the selection for military service in Russia indicate a low level of interest of Russians in contract service. According to a report on the results of recruiting in Yekaterinburg, less than 1% of citizens from the reserve agreed to even talk about the possibility of signing a contract. Of the 397 candidates, only two agreed to be interviewed. 52 refused, 203 did not get in touch, work on 140 candidates is underway.
And on March 7, two PAZ buses with wounded Russian servicemen were sent from the Novoaydar polyclinic in the direction of Luhansk. Most of them had leg injuries, the most likely cause of which, according to the conclusions of the doctors, was self-mutilation in order to avoid returning to the combat zone.
17:57 The UK will send armored vehicles to Ukraine, including Mastiff armored vehicles, said Defense Minister Ben Wallace.
17:52 In Odessa, the curfew will last from 21:00 Saturday, April 9, until 6:00 Monday, April 11. This decision is connected with the missile attack on Kramatorsk. Odessa authorities report that the city is also at risk of rocket attacks.
17:50 According to the results of March, consumer prices in Ukraine increased by 4.5 percent. Inflation for the year reached almost 14 percent, the State Statistics Service reported.
17:43 Because of the Russian invasion, the transit of gas through the Sokhranivka gas metering station is under threat, the GTS Operator of Ukraine says. He reported on "gross interference" by Russians in the process of transporting gas through the Novopskov compressor station in the Luhansk region. Almost a third of the transit of blue fuel to Europe from the Sokhranovka gas measuring station passes through this station.
17:34 The SBI found collaborators among the assistants to people's deputies from the Opposition Platform for Life. In particular, an assistant-consultant on a voluntary basis to a People's Deputy of the IX convocation from the Opposition Platform for Life, one of the top managers of the 112 Ukraine TV channel, co-founder of the youth wing of the political party Opposition Platform for Life, was convicted of anti-Ukrainian activities. According to media reports, we are talking about Artem Marchevsky.
Together with him, this activity is carried out by a personal lawyer, Medvedchuk's confidant. The media note that this is probably Alexander Mamenko.
17:23 One day of war with Russia costs Ukraine up to four billion dollars, Shmyhal said. According to him, the daily expenses from the state budget associated with the Russian invasion amount to about two billion hryvnias. At the same time, the total losses of the state associated with the destruction of infrastructure and the loss of economic potential amount to four billion dollars a day.
17:16 The European Commission has provided Ukraine with a grant of 120 million euros as part of the overall package of emergency financial assistance to Ukraine. The funds will be directed to the general fund of the state budget to finance the most urgent state expenditures.
17:13 The head of the Donetsk OVA, Pavel Kirilenko, said that the death toll as a result of a missile attack on the railway station in Kramatorsk had risen to 50 people. According to him, 38 people died on the spot, 12 more died in the hospital. In total, 98 people have already been hospitalized, including 16 children.
17:06 All Russian invaders who were in the Exclusion Zone received large doses of radiation, their military equipment is also infected, said the head of the Ministry of Energy German Galushchenko. According to him, Russian soldiers "dug with their bare hands soils contaminated with radiation, collected radioactive sand in bags for fortifications, breathed this dust. After a month of such exposure, they had a maximum of a year of life left. More precisely, not life, but a slow death from diseases."
Galushchenko stressed that not only the entire personnel of the invaders and "trophies" were infected, but also all military equipment that passed through Chernobyl - and this is about ten thousand units.
16:59 According to the VTsIOM poll, 74 percent of Russians support the decision to invade Ukraine, 17 percent do not. At the same time, 89 percent of the respondents trust the Russian army, while 8 percent rather distrust the army.
16:47 Ukraine is rapidly moving towards unification with the EU, Shmyhal said. According to the prime minister, the government is now actively working on a joint energy market, customs, transit traffic, and the ACAA agreement. Kyiv is also waiting for a questionnaire from the European Commission, which will allow it to obtain the status of a candidate for EU membership.
16:46 Russia has decided to expel 45 Polish diplomats, the Polish Foreign Ministry said. This decision was made in response to similar actions by Warsaw.
16:44 In Ukraine, for the duration of martial law, customs clearance of cars was officially made free, the State Customs Service reports. Thus, the import of vehicles is exempt from import duty, VAT and excise tax.
16:38 Montenegro has finally joined the European sanctions against Russia, said acting. Deputy Prime Minister Dritan Abazovich. The internal political situation and difficulties with the creation of a legitimate government prevented Montenegro from accepting restrictions against Moscow.
16:26 The Office of the President and the Cabinet of Ministers have launched a project that should tell the whole world about how brave the people of Ukraine are. On the site https://brave.ua you can download posters, stickers and merch layouts designed to spread the idea of Ukrainian courage.
"We want the whole world to know: Ukraine is a country where brave people live, bold ideas, bold businesses in which you can safely invest," the project description says. All Ukrainians are encouraged to join the flash mob #BRAVEUKRAINE - upload photos and videos where you can see all the courage of the Ukrainian people.
16:24 In Makarov, Kiev region, 132 shot bodies were found, the village was destroyed by 40 percent, the village head Vadim Tokar said.
16:21 More than 110,000 Ukrainians joined the Territorial Defense Forces, more than 450 volunteer formations of territorial communities have been created, more than 100 territorial defense fighters have already received state awards, Brigadier General Yuriy Galushkin, commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said. He stressed that the day before the invasion in Ukraine, there were only six thousand professional soldiers and reservists.
16:17 Belarus published a list of 40 "unfriendly states" - Ukraine was not included in it. The list was formed "in order to ensure the protection of the national interests of the Republic of Belarus." In particular, it included all EU countries, Canada, New Zealand and Australia, Great Britain, USA, Montenegro, Switzerland and others.
16:13 Yermak said that Russian banks are trying to circumvent sanctions through their European brokers. In particular, Sberbank, VTB, Alfa-Bank and Otkritie transfer foreign assets of their clients to BCS and ATON brokers. Ukraine is in favor of imposing sanctions against BCS and ATON.
16:08 British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss called the Russian missile attack on Kramatorsk a war crime and promised to bring "Russia and Putin" to justice.
16:01 During the Russian invasion in Chernigov, about 700 people were killed , the mayor of the city Vladislav Atroshenko said. He clarified that this includes both military and civilians.
15:54 All the details about today's Russian strike on the railway station in Kramatorsk are in the material Another crime of the Russian Federation.
15:40 Finland said that the Russian government aircraft Il-96-300 probably violated the country's airspace on the morning of April 8. The plane entered the country's airspace over the Gulf of Finland in the Porvoo area and stayed in it for about three minutes. This is the first such violation in two years.
15:29 Moscow suggested to Kiev that Belarus be among the countries guarantors of Ukraine's security, Lavrov said.
15:20 Lithuanian media write that after the imposition of sanctions against the well-known Russian propagandist Artem Sheinin, a large family of refugees from Mariupol was settled in his apartment. In response to such actions, Sheinin asks Putin for retaliatory measures, among which may be the arrest of Gerard Depardieu's apartment in Russian Saransk.
15:13 Propaganda RIA Novosti reported an explosion in Kramatorsk at 10:25, although the first chat messages appeared at about 10:30, which is confirmed by most people. On Twitter, the message was posted via TweetDeck, a service used to send delayed posts. That is, the message was written in advance, writes Gerashchenko.
15:11 Mayor of Kramatorsk Alexander Goncharenko announced that an emergency evacuation of residents of the Donetsk region to safe places is starting from the city: “Today we are starting an emergency evacuation of people by all public transport, all private transport, we are looking for drivers. About 30-40 drivers are needed as for today".
15:06 Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the governments of the EU countries have frozen 29.5 billion euros of assets associated with sanctioned persons. At the same time, only half of the EU countries submitted information, writes Reuters.
15:03 In Lvov, people brought "trophies of Russian servicemen" to the Russian embassy: washing machines, children's toys, frying pans and even a dog house. All this is covered with red paint. A similar action took place in London.
15:01 Arestovich is convinced that Ukraine will face two to three more clashes with Russia until 2032-2035, regardless of who will be in power in the Russian Federation. However, in his opinion, "this will be an operation on a smaller scale than now, dedicated, for example, to cutting off us completely from the Sea of Azov, or capturing Kharkov, or reaching the borders of the so-called" LDNR "in administrative projections, which they recognized on the eve of the war" .
14:55 SBU speaker Artem Dekhtyarenko said that as a result of a missile attack on the Kramatorsk railway station, 39 people were killed , including four children. The Donetsk OVA specified that 87 people were injured.
14:51 The Prime Minister of Slovakia confirmed the transfer of S-300 air defense systems to Ukraine.
14:47 Zelensky spoke in the Finnish Parliament and called on Europe to stop payments for oil from Russia, accumulating money in special accounts, to which Moscow will not have access. He also said that Ukraine "needs the weapons that Finland's partners in the European Union have."
14:22 Russian occupiers tonight in the Mariupol commercial port fired at the icebreaker Kapitan Belousov, on which there was a civilian crew. As a result of the shelling, one person was killed and several others were injured, the Azov regiment said.
14:19 Podolyak said that Kiev, in negotiations with Russia, could agree to put the issue of the occupied Crimea "out of the brackets" for the sake of signing a real peace treaty. However, issues of territorial integrity will be determined exclusively by Zelensky, the adviser to the head of the Presidential Office added.
14:07 About 5,000 Ukrainians for three days registered as volunteer rescuers to participate in the aftermath of Russian aggression. In particular, these are works to clear rubble, rescue people, provide assistance to the victims, unload humanitarian cargo, etc., the State Emergency Service said.
14:05 In Bucha, on the territory of the church of St. Andrew the First-Called, the exhumation of bodies from a mass grave began to identify people and establish the circumstances of their death.
14:03 A total of 46 UNESCO member countries will boycott the meeting of the World Heritage Committee while it is headed by Russia. The 45th session of the Committee was to be held in Kazan.
13:57 The basic indicator of world food prices rose in March by 12.6 percent - up to 159.3 points, according to the FAO. This growth was influenced by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, since both countries are large exporters of wheat, corn, barley and sunflower oil.
13:55 New mail from tomorrow suspends work in the Donetsk region.
13:54 Residents of Lisichansk are being urged to evacuate. According to the head of the Lisichansk city military-civilian administration Alexander Zaika, the shelling is becoming more intense, it is dangerous to stay in the city.
13:49 President of the European Council Charles Michel, in response to Russia's strike on Kramatorsk, announced the need for greater sanctions against Moscow and more weapons for Ukraine.
13:47 Great Britain, following the US and the EU, imposed sanctions against the daughters of Putin and Lavrov.
13:45 Six weeks after the start of the war in Ukraine, the EU Delegation will resume work in Kiev, Borrell said.
13:39 The mayor of Kramatorsk Alexander Goncharenko said that the wounded from the station continue to arrive, doctors from neighboring settlements come to the city. According to him, many are seriously injured, have lost their arms and legs, they are undergoing complex operations. The explosion was very powerful, fragments of the rocket were found 40 meters from the epicenter.
Goncharenko said that the RF Armed Forces deliberately fired at the station: "Trains depart from 10:00, and the occupiers deliberately hit at the moment when about four thousand people were standing on the square."
13:22 Japan expels eight Russian diplomats and expands sanctions against the Russian Federation.
13:06 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that "the Russian armed forces did not have any fire missions on April 8 in the city of Kramatorsk and were not planned." Moscow assures that Tochki-U "are used only by the Ukrainian armed forces," and everything that happened is a "provocation" of the Ukrainian side.
13:04 Telegram channel Typical Donetsk at 10:25 published a recording of the launch of two rockets at the station in Kramatorsk. According to the public, they were launched from Shakhtyorsk - that is, from the territory controlled by the "DPR".
The first message about the strike on the Kramatorsk railway station appeared at 10:45 - it was published by the head of Ukrzaliznytsia.
13:02 German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier called for the creation of a tribunal over Putin and Lavrov: "Anyone who is responsible for these crimes will have to explain himself."
12:55 A group of hackers Armageddon is attacking the state bodies of Ukraine, according to the State Service for Special Communications. In particular, emails with the subject "No. 1275 dated 04/07/2022" are received. They contain an HTML file, the opening of which will lead to the creation on a computer of an archive with a file called "On the facts of persecution and murder of employees of the Prosecutor's Office by the Russian military in the temporarily occupied territories.lnk". After opening it, hackers gain complete control over the computer.
12:47 Kramatorsk station was closed to receive trains after the Russian attack, Ukrzaliznytsia reports. Train No. 45 will depart from Sloviansk on an evacuation flight to Uzhgorod today, flights No. 274, No. 276, No. 278 and No. 92 are expected to depart to Lviv, Chernivtsi, Ternopil and Odessa, respectively.
12:45 In social networks, photos and videos are published showing a Russian rocket that fell on the territory of the Kramatorsk railway station. On it is written "For the children":
12:32 The head of the Kiev Metro turned to Klitschko with a proposal to change the names of five metro stations - Friendship of Peoples, Lev Tolstoy Square, Beresteyskaya, Minskaya, Heroes of the Dnieper.
"Our people take refuge in the Friendship of Peoples while this so-called "friendship of peoples" kills their relatives and destroys our country. This cannot be," he stressed.
12:29 In March, the number of Ukrainians who believe that the resumption of friendly relations with the Russians after the current war is impossible at all has increased significantly - from 42% to 64%. At the same time, according to the Rating group, 22% believe that this can happen in at least 20-30 years.
12:27 For the second day, Russia claims that it controls the center of Mariupol, but this is not so: the occupiers have advanced one block and "relatively control" the territory in the area of the destroyed Drama Theatre, Mayor's adviser Petr Andryushchenko said.
According to him, Primorsky district, part of Levoberezhny near Azovstal, the coast from Azovstal to the port, the port itself and the territories of factories remain under Ukrainian control. By area, this is a large part of the city.
12:23 The EU has adopted the fifth block of sanctions against Russia, the Council of Europe reports. Among the main measures are a ban on Russian ships entering European ports; an embargo on the supply of Russian coal, which will come into force in August; a ban on transportation across the EU territory by road transport operators from the Russian Federation and Belarus, excluding medical and food products.
12:15 The Defense Ministers of Turkey, Great Britain and Italy will discuss the situation in Ukraine today in Istanbul, Ankara reported.
12:13 The "DPR" stated that Ukraine struck Tochka-U at Kramatorsk: "This obsolete Soviet missile system is not in service with the DPR, LPR and the Russian Federation and is actively used by Ukrainian militants."
Eyewitnesses previously reported that a column of Russian vehicles with V marks was moving in Belarus from Rechitsa towards Gomel along the M10 highway. It contained at least eight Tochka-Us, several BTR-82s, about nine KamAZ trucks, some of which carry Tochka-U missiles, as well as a communications vehicle and a crane.
After the attack on Kramatorsk, messages were published in pro-Russian telegram channels, according to which they "worked on the accumulation of militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine." Soon they were removed or changed.
12:10 Zelensky said that the Russians hit the station in Kramatorsk with Tochka-U.
12:06 A prolonged war is fraught with complex consequences for the Ukrainian economy, but hyperinflation is not expected in the country, Shmygal said: "We did not print money, we are not worried about hyperinflation. We have war bonds. Today, business is buying these papers. Today more than 40 billion were attracted to the budget thanks to this instrument, it gives us the funds to compensate for the budget deficit that arises due to the war."
The prime minister also recalled that Ukraine is going to nationalize all Russian property in Russia in order to compensate for losses from the invasion. Kyiv also expects to receive funds from assets of the Russian Federation frozen in the West.
12:03 The emotional background of the negotiations between Ukraine and Russia has changed after the events in Bucha, but the negotiations themselves are ongoing, Podolyak said. At the same time, he could not name the date of the next face-to-face meeting of the delegations - this will depend on many factors, including the state of affairs at the front.
12:00 Podolyak said that agreements without real preventive mechanisms to prevent war will not work, so Ukraine will not go for Minsk-3 or Budapest-2.
"In a historical perspective, even short-term, all these Minsks lead to grandiose tragedies," he explained.
11:57 Arestovich said that as a result of the strike on Kramatorsk, more than 30 people were killed and more than 100 were injured.
"You need to understand that such strikes are preceded by a thorough additional reconnaissance of the target, at least an UAV, gunners on the ground - a missile is too expensive and it is too difficult and risky to organize such strikes. They perfectly saw that they were hitting civilians, early in the morning, that at the station at that time there were thousands of people trying to evacuate, families, children, old people," he wrote.
11:55 Italy is ready to act as a guarantor of Ukraine's security , said Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio. He stressed that Moscow has crossed red lines, so Europe needs to rethink its approach to collective security.
11:52 As a result of the shelling of the Kramatorsk railway station by the Russians with a cassette Iskander, 27 people were killed, at least 30 were injured , Pavel Kirilenko, head of the Donetsk OVA, said. According to him, at that moment there were thousands of people at the station, as the residents of Donbass are being evacuated. Two children were among the dead.
11:47 US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin believes that Putin "probably abandoned" the attempt to capture Kiev, as Russia has shifted its attention to the east and south of Ukraine. The Pentagon, in turn, is focusing on continuing to arm Ukrainian forces as the war enters its next phase, he said.
11:28 In Kiev, services for the rental of bicycles and electric scooters have resumed. According to the Kyiv City State Administration, Bolt, Bike NOW and veliki.ua services are available for rental today. Residents of Kiev are asked to remember the safety rules and follow the rules of the road.
11:17 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of April 8:
- personnel - about 19 thousand people,
- tanks - 700,
- armored fighting vehicles - 1891,
- artillery systems - 333,
- MLRS - 108,
- air defense systems - 55,
- aircraft - 150,
- helicopters - 135,
- automotive equipment - 1361,
- ships/boats - 7,
- tanks with fuel and lubricants - 76,
- UAV operational-tactical level - 112,
- special equipment - 25,
- launchers OTRK / TRK - 4.
11:13 About 12,000 Ukrainians "urgently" received Russian passports, said Oleg Kadochnikov, deputy head of the Main Directorate for Migration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. According to him, some of the "displaced persons" are in more than 800 temporary accommodation centers, where about 25 thousand people live, including 10.5 thousand children.
11:08 Two rockets hit the railway station of Kramatorsk, there are victims, Ukrzaliznytsia reported.
10:58 The Russians who robbed the Ukrainians, among other things, took a large number of cars to Belarus. Their significant concentration is in Mozyr, Gomel, Rechitsa, Narovlya, Khoiniki and Elsk. In addition, the Russians buy gold with stolen money and have fun in Belarusian establishments, writes Belaruski Gayun.
10:49 The UN has confirmed 1,611 civilian deaths during the Russian invasion, including 131 children. 2227 people were injured.
10:32 Almost the entire convoy of buses traveling to Melitopol with humanitarian aid for further evacuation of people was taken away by the Russian military, said the head of the Zaporozhye regional administration Alexander Starukh. According to him, the drivers were ordered to transfer to one bus and go back. The rest of the buses were confiscated by the invaders.
10:19 The Government of Canada has submitted a new budget for 2022-23 to Parliament, which provides funding for the purchase of weapons and new loans for Ukraine for a billion Canadian dollars.
10:15 Australia has imposed sanctions against 67 Russian citizens, said Foreign Minister Maryse Payne. According to her, all these people are from Putin's inner circle.
10:09 In the Donetsk region, the Russians attacked Vuhledar from a helicopter, as well as a missile attack on Slavyansk. As the governor of the region Pavel Kirilenko said, in both cities there are wounded civilians and a lot of destruction.
Also this morning, Avdievka was hit, as a result of which at least one person died, one was injured, and five houses were damaged.
09:47 Arestovich is convinced that an attempt to take Kiev for the second time is "that crazy plan that cannot be carried out."
"The residents of the capital are not in much danger now - no more than in Vinnitsa or Ivano-Frankivsk," the adviser to the head of the Presidential Office believes.
09:36 The head of the Lugansk OVA, Sergei Gaidai, said that Russia had finished preparing for the battle for Donbass: “We feel the end of preparations for the great battle that we will have in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions. We have constant attempts by the enemy to break through the defense line in certain directions "Yesterday, there was a battle in Rubezhnoye from 4 o'clock in the morning. Everything ended well for our defenders: several tanks and armored personnel carriers were knocked out, and up to 50 enemies were killed."
09:35 Payments for Russian gas in rubles will be considered a circumvention of sanctions, said the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
09:33 Blinken said that the US is imposing sanctions on two Russian state-owned enterprises - Alrosa, the world's largest diamond mining company, and the United Shipbuilding Corporation, which develops and builds most of Russia's warships.
09:15 During the occupation of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the Russians destroyed documents and archives that specialists had been collecting for decades, said the head of the Public Council under the State Agency of Ukraine for the management of the exclusion zone Oleksandr Syrota.
09:08 The head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen went to Kiev - she announced this on Twitter. She will arrive in the Ukrainian capital as part of a delegation including Josep Borrell and Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger.
08:59 Ten humanitarian corridors agreed on April 8:
- Donetsk region: Mariupol - Zaporozhye (by own transport)
- Zaporozhye region: Berdyansk - Zaporozhye (by own transport and buses); Tokmak - Zaporozhye (by own transport and buses); Melitopol - Zaporozhye (by own transport); Energodar - Zaporozhye (by own transport)
- Lugansk region: Severodonetsk - Bakhmut; Lisichansk - Bakhmut; Popasnaya - Bakhmut; from. Mining - Bakhmut; Rubizhne - Bakhmut
08:54 Macron said in an interview with Le Parisien that France would become the guarantor of Ukraine's security. He explained that in Ukraine "at some point" a ceasefire will come and peace will have to be built, and this "cannot be done without a guarantor." At the same time, Macron believes that it is necessary to continue negotiations with Putin.
08:51 According to British intelligence, in the north of Ukraine, Russian troops have now been completely withdrawn to Belarus and the Russian Federation, at least part of these forces will be transferred to the Donbass. That being said, many of these forces will need significant reinforcements before they are ready to move further east, and any massive redeployment from the north is likely to take at least a week.
Intelligence also notes that the shelling of cities in eastern and southern Ukraine continues, and Russian troops have moved further south from the strategically important city of Izyum, which remains under their control.
08:46 According to the UN, more than seven million Ukrainians have become internally displaced since the beginning of the Russian invasion, half of them women. IDPs do not have enough money, medicines and medical care, the UN noted.
08:30 Serbia, which yesterday voted for the exclusion of the Russian Federation from the UN Human Rights Council, said that it was forced to do this by threatening sanctions. "The fate of Serbia is now being decided, whether we will be excluded from the oil sanctions package," President Vučić said.
08:12 In Bucha, 163 local residents were identified who were killed, Mayor Fedoruk said. According to him, about 320 bodies of Bucha residents have already been collected around the city.
07:50 Danilov warned that the men who managed to illegally leave Ukraine during the period of martial law would be detained upon their return "for explanations."
07:31 The Russians are repairing the railway from Kupyansk to Kharkov, Izyum and Svatovo, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports. Also, representatives of the "DPR" were seen in Izyum, who perform the functions of the "police", checking the documents of the local population.
07:23 The White House listed the American aid that the United States has already delivered to Ukraine or is preparing to deliver:
- more than 1400 Stinger anti-aircraft systems,
- more than 5,000 Javelin anti-tank systems,
- over 7000 other anti-tank systems,
- hundreds of Switchblade tactical unmanned aerial vehicles (of which only 100 have been transferred so far),
- more than 50 million rounds,
- 45 thousand sets of body armor and helmets,
- missile systems with laser guidance,
- puma unmanned aerial systems,
- night vision devices, thermal imaging systems and optics,
- satellite intelligence.
06:52 The EU will allocate another 500 million euros for the military needs of Ukraine, said the President of the European Council Charles Michel. He recalled that in total Europe has already spent one and a half billion euros for these purposes.
06:14 The head of the Sumy regional administration, Dmitry Zhivitsky, said that Russian troops had completely left the region. He warned local residents that if they hear explosions, this is the work of explosives technicians and rescuers.
00:29 For one Russian tank, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have 90 anti-tank systems from Western partners, said White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki. She also said that Ukraine reports what systems are needed for defense, and "we satisfy the vast majority of requests."
00:01 Arestovich believes that Russia deliberately launched a rumor about an attack on Kharkov in order to force Ukraine to keep troops under the city, and not to transfer them to Izyum. The adviser to the head of the OP does not believe in an attack on Kharkov.