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2022-04-16 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: April 15th, 2022
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Direct Translation via Google Translation. Edited.
[Korrespondent] 23:03 In the Donetsk and Lugansk directions over the past day, the forces of the Joint Forces Forces successfully repulsed ten attacks of the enemy. The Ukrainian defenders destroyed three tanks, three artillery systems, one unit of special equipment, two units of vehicles and one enemy armored personnel carrier (another one was captured).
Air defense units in the sky of the Ukrainian Donbas shot down six unmanned aerial vehicles of the Orlan-10 type.
22:42 The prosecutor's office of the Kharkiv region reported ten dead and 35 wounded as a result of shelling by the Russians of the Industrial District of Kharkov on Friday, April 15, around 16:30. The shelling was carried out by Uragan multiple launch rocket systems.
22:36 Italian Ambassador Pier Francesco Zazzo returned to Kiev, from Monday, April 18, the embassy will fully resume work.
22:33 Bolshaya Rogan, Kharkiv region, has been liberated from invaders and is coming back to life, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said. According to him, about 50% of the buildings were left practically without roofs, 70% - without windows. Burned to the ground from direct hits of shells - 27. Many mutilated residential buildings in the village of Dokuchaevskoye.
22:27 Ukroboronprom confirmed that last night Russia hit a plant that manufactured components for Neptune rockets. We are talking about the State Enterprise Zhulyansky Machine-Building Plant Vizar.
22:00 The first external default of the Russian Federation in the last century looks almost inevitable, Western economists say. What will be the consequences? In detail about this - in the material Around they talk about the default of Russia - what does it mean .
21:46 German meteorologist Jörg Kachelmann said on his Twitter that the cruiser Moskva "definitely did not drown because of the storm, because there was no storm."
"This Russian ship Moskva has been sailing for almost 40 years. And now it suddenly sank in a storm - just when Ukraine is shelling it?" he wrote.
21:37 The Russian Defense Ministry announced that Ukraine is preparing a provocation, "similar to the one at the railway station in Kramatorsk." Moscow warns that in the near future Tochka-U will hit a crowd of refugees at the train station in the village of Lozovaya.
21:25 The United States acknowledged that the Russian cruiser Moskva was hit by two Ukrainian missiles, writes CNN, citing a senior Pentagon official.
21:19 The war in Ukraine has changed the security situation in Europe. Today, Finland and Sweden are seriously thinking about the prospect of NATO membership. Details - in the material What awaits the Russian Federation in the event of Finland and Sweden joining NATO .
21:15 The first train with humanitarian aid arrived in Chernihiv, the head of the Chernihiv OVA Vyacheslav Chaus said.
21:13 The mayor of Kupyansk, Kharkiv region, Gennady Matsegora, fled to Russia after the surrender of the city to the Russian invaders, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said in an interview with RBC-Ukraine.
21:04 The Russians fired at the outskirts of the Krivoy Rog region from the Kherson region from multiple launch rocket systems, said the head of the military administration of Krivoy Rog Alexander Vilkul. There are no casualties, he said.
20:52 According to The Washington Post, Zelensky asked Biden to add Russia to the American list of countries sponsoring terrorism. Biden, in turn, did not make any commitments, but said that he was ready to explore a whole range of proposals to increase pressure on Moscow.
20:26 It took Germany 50 days of Russia's war crimes in Ukraine to move from the position "German weapons will not kill Russians" to the ruling coalition agreeing on the supply of heavy weapons to the Ukrainian army. Read more in the material Heavy weapons for Ukraine: Germany is changing its position .
20:03 SBU reported that since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, it has identified almost 100 DRGs and detained more than 300 collaborators.
20:01 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that on the morning of April 15, "the attempt of the Kiev nationalist regime to defeat the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station with a missile strike was prevented."
19:52 The Russian army suffered more losses in Ukraine than in the two Chechen wars, and than the USSR in 10 years in Afghanistan, and the US in 20 years in Iraq. Read more in the material Monstrous losses of the Russian Federation in the war .
19:49 The United States will continue military support for Ukraine, despite Moscow's demands to stop arming Ukraine, State Department spokesman Ned Price said: "The Russians have said some things in private, some things they have said publicly, but nothing can dissuade us from a strategy that we started."
19:45 The Office of the Prosecutor General will demand a change in the measure of restraint for Medvedchuk from house arrest to arrest without bail, Prosecutor General Venediktova said. She also allowed the possibility of exchanging Medvedchuk for Ukrainian prisoners before the trial.
19:23 Demining the entire de-occupied territory of the Kiev region may take up to a year, said the head of the Kiev Regional State Administration Oleksandr Pavlyuk. At the same time, he clarified that the main activities on settlements and roads are planned to be completed by the end of May.
19:19 Ukraine meets all the political criteria for EU membership, said Olga Stefanishyna, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration. According to her, this is the opinion of the European Union.
"We will go through certain bureaucratic processes, and in June at the EU summit, we hope, a decision will be made that Ukraine, by all criteria, can become part of the EU," she said.
The vice-premier also promised that the questionnaire for Ukraine to obtain the status of a candidate for joining the European Union would be published - this step was agreed with European partners.
19:17 Russia has declared 18 employees of the EU Delegation in Moscow persona non grata.
19:13 The Mariupol City Council announced another "innovation" of the occupiers: now residents can get food if they serve their labor service while clearing rubble. "Rashists are holding the whole of Mariupol hostage and are gradually turning it into one big labor camp," the report says.
19:09 The world must be prepared for the fact that Russia may resort to the use of nuclear weapons against Ukraine, Zelensky told CNN. According to him, he can resort to the use of nuclear or chemical weapons, because he does not value people's lives.
19:07 Yermak said that the International Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA), at the request of the National Depository of Ukraine, suspended the membership of Russia and Belarus. Now the supply of ISIN, CFI and FISN codes by the numbering agencies of Russia and Belarus will be stopped.
"In simple words, Russia will no longer be able to register new securities and financial instruments in the civilized world. And without these codes, securities do not exist for the world. It's like a person without a passport and a name," Yermak explained.
18:58 The upper part of the most famous skyscraper in the world, the Empire State Building in New York, will be illuminated every evening in the colors of the Ukrainian flag, according to the skyscraper's Twitter page.
18:50 As a result of the shelling of Kharkov, seven people were killed, including one child, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. Another 34 people were injured, including three children.
18:48 As a result of today's shelling of Nikolaev four persons were lost, 15 more are wounded, from which four in a serious condition, doctors fight for their life, the governor Vitaly Kim reported. According to him, the Russians fired at the residential quarter of the city with cluster munitions of the Smerch class.
18:40 The Cabinet of Ministers, together with the UN, launches a new payment program for IDPs. According to Shmygal, internally displaced persons who need additional protection will receive 2,200 hryvnias every month for each family member. The UN World Food Program will pay these funds within three months.
18:36 According to the UN, since the beginning of the war, 4.8 million citizens of the country and about 215,000 foreigners have left Ukraine. 2.7 million Ukrainians left for Poland, almost 727,000 - for Romania, 447,000 - for Hungary, 419,000 - for Moldova, 329,000 - for Slovakia. There is no exact data on their further movement in Europe due to the lack of border control between countries.
18:27 Scholz wants to allocate an additional two billion euros for military assistance to Ukraine, including the purchase of military equipment, Reuters writes, citing its sources. It is assumed that 400 million euros will go to the European Peace Fund, which buys weapons for Ukraine, the rest of the funds will be directed to bilateral military contracts with Kiev.
18:25 The Center for Counteracting Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council reports that Russian propaganda is starting a new stage of "biological warfare" and recording an "intermediate victory", talking about the destruction of biological laboratories in Ukraine.
After an almost two-week lull on this topic, propaganda reported: “biological warfare continues,” and the United States and Germany, after Russia launched a “special operation” in Ukraine, are actively exploring Mongolia to conduct their biological research on cholera, malaria and encephalitis viruses.
18:18 Finnish Minister for European Affairs Tytti Tyuppurainen called the country's accession to NATO "very likely".
18:02 The head of the Donetsk OVA, Pavel Kirilenko, told CNN on air that the weather in the region impedes the movement of heavy enemy equipment, but this will not last long. According to him, the Russians are ready to go on the offensive in the east, and the Armed Forces of Ukraine are ready to fight back.
17:59 The State Department said that they do not plan to return diplomats to Ukraine for security reasons. Biden's visit to Kyiv is also not planned.
17:55 According to the OP, on April 15, 2864 people were evacuated. 2,494 people traveled to Zaporizhia via humanitarian corridors from Mariupol and Berdyansk on their own vehicles, 363 of them from Mariupol.
From Lisichansk, Severodonetsk, Rubezhnoye, Kremennaya, Popasnaya and with. Mountain Luhansk region, despite the constant shelling, left 370 people.
17:52 For the first time since the beginning of the war, Russian aviation bombed with Tu-22M3 long-range bombers. The Russians hit Mariupol with them, said Alexander Motuzyanyk, spokesman for the Ministry of Defense.
According to him, the enemy continues to focus on preparing for an offensive in eastern Ukraine, establishing control over the Donetsk and Lugansk regions.
17:49 The Russians launched three missile attacks today on objects in the Kiev region, said the head of the OVA Alexander Pavlyuk. He did not rule out the possibility of repeated strikes "on any targets, and we must be prepared for this."
Pavlyuk stressed that "the danger of the return of the strike force in the direction of Kyiv, for which we are preparing, the danger of mined territories in the de-occupied territories, the possibility of enemy missile strikes both in Kyiv and throughout Ukraine" remains. In this regard, he urged the return to Kyiv "leave for more peaceful times."
17:42 Gerashchenko reports, with reference to data from Sevastopol, that as a result of a fire and an explosion of ammunition, the crew of the cruiser Moskva died in full force. The explosion was so strong that the ship sank in a matter of minutes.
Probably, as a result of the fire, the warheads of the P-1000 Vulkan large cruise missile, of which there were 16 on board, detonated.
17:27 In Mariupol, there are active battles in the area of the metallurgical plant named after. Ilyich and in the port area, said the speaker of the Ministry of Defense Alexander Motuzyanyk. He described the situation in the city as difficult.
17:20 After the defeat of the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet cruiser Moskva by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, enemy attacks may intensify, but the security and defense forces of southern Ukraine are ready for them, assured the head of the joint coordination press center of the security and defense forces of southern Ukraine, captain 1st rank Natalya Gumenyuk .
17:16 The FSB asked the government of the Russian Federation to increase by 17 percent allocations for burials and tombstones for the military, reports the Air Force. The FSB explained its request by the fact that these expenses were not included in the list of annually indexed social payments.
17:11 Ukrainian intelligence and foreign partners do not yet see signs that Russia can use nuclear weapons against Ukraine, Defense Ministry spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanyk said: "Nuclear weapons are the so-called last trump card of the Russian Federation. So far, we do not see signs that Russia can use this weapon. There is no such information in our intelligence."
He added that Ukraine's foreign partners and foreign intelligence services, with which Kyiv cooperates and exchanges information, also do not yet confirm such intentions of Moscow.
17:09 Anti-tank "hedgehogs" and barricades are being removed from the streets of Odessa. As the deputy of the district council Natalya Bogachenko told, they will be sent to the Nikolaev-Kherson direction.
17:07 In the Russian Federation, the production of new tanks is stopped due to financial problems and the lack of imported components. So, according to Ukrainian intelligence, Uralvagonzavod, where the main tank of the Russian Federation T-72 is produced, has faced numerous problems since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, which greatly complicated the production of most types of military equipment.
The plant is forced to look for a solution to financial problems, including requiring 100% prepayment under government contracts. The production of new equipment is being stopped, including the T-90 and T-14 (Armata) tanks. The created "operational headquarters" determined the repair of military equipment damaged in the war with Ukraine as the main direction of work.
16:59 The "LPR" said that Ukrainian troops on Saturday, April 16, could hit Luhansk with Tochka-U - supposedly Kiev calls on citizens to gather for a rally, after which a blow will be struck.
16:56 The war of Russia against Ukraine gave a chance for complete reconciliation between Kiev and Warsaw in historical matters, said Polish Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Culture and National Heritage Piotr Glinsky. According to him, the "difficult moments" that exist in the common history of the two countries "should be closed - and we will definitely return to them in our relations with a free and independent Ukraine - after the war."
16:45 The United States confirms a Ukrainian missile attack on the cruiser Moskva, but does not name the type of weapon that was struck, writes The Washington Post, citing a high-ranking American official.
16:33 It's time for Ukraine to prepare for the mass arrests of Russians who openly call for violence against Ukrainians, Podolyak said: "In Russia, various actors who are lost in time are now offering to bomb the center of Kiev as brutally as possible and be sure to destroy civilians. Mass destruction. With maximum destruction. Including President Zelensky. And these are quite specific criminal proceedings."
The adviser to the head of the Presidential Office named, in particular, Medvedev ("always drunk"), Volodin ("the speaker of the parliament that does not exist"), Mironov, Konstantinov ("banal Crimean thief"), and dozens of other politicians and officials - not counting the "traditionally perverse " propagandists.
“It’s enough to put “red” wanted cards on these subjects. For a start. More to come. It’s time for us to really prepare for mass arrests of subjects who every day more and more frankly demand the mass deaths of Ukrainians,” Podolyak said.
16:26 The operational command of Pivden also reports that the Russian military throughout the day randomly fire at residential areas, cultural sites and private enterprises of Nikolaev. Once again, the Russians have used banned cluster munitions, and multiple rocket launchers are firing at the city. There are dead and wounded among the civilian population.
16:20 In Buryatia - the most dead as a result of the war unleashed by Russia in Ukraine. At least, it is in Buryatia that the most obituaries are published. The Democratic Initiatives Foundation collected a thousand obituaries and compared them with the population in the regions of Russia.
16:09 Three railway stations have been renamed in the capital:
- Kyiv-Oktyabrsky station - in Grushki;
- Kyiv-Moskovsky station - to Kyiv-Demeevsky;
- Kyiv-Petrovka station - to Pochaynaya.
16:06 In Kiev, near the Main Post Office, a queue of people who want to buy a postage stamp with the image of a "Russian warship" has lined up.
16:04 Peskov said that the main task of the "special operation" in Ukraine is the destruction of "nationalist battalions."
16:00 Rogozin believes that the cargo ship Progress, which is due to fly to the ISS in June, should be called Donbass.
15:50 The Vizar military plant near Kiev was partially destroyed as a result of Russian night strikes, an AFP correspondent reported from the scene. The publication notes that this plant produced Neptune missiles, which probably hit the cruiser Moscow.
15:48 A plan for the forced mobilization of 26,000 "reservists" into the Russian ground forces has been thwarted in ORDLO. According to Ukrainian intelligence, men of military age (18-65 years old) avoid conscription in every possible way. According to preliminary plans, at the expense of the mobilized, 17 rifle regiments were to be completed as part of the combined arms armies of the Southern and Western Military Districts of the Russian Federation. This task has not been completed.
With the personnel, which nevertheless managed to attract, no training or briefing is carried out. They are also supplied with unusable ammunition and weapons.
Representatives of the Russian army, who conduct recruiting, promise to involve "recruits" in the tasks of ensuring control over the occupied territories, guarding roads and military facilities, and improving defense positions. But, as practice shows, those mobilized from ORDLO constitute the nearest reserve to replenish the losses of units directly involved in hostilities against Ukraine. Also, it is their least valuable "resource" that is used to conduct "reconnaissance in force" to identify the positions of Ukrainian defenders.
15:37 US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken told European allies that the war in Ukraine could continue until the end of 2022. Two other European officials said they believe fighting in eastern Ukraine could last four to six months before reaching a stalemate, CNN reports.
15:35 40-50,000 people return to Kiev every day, said the first deputy head of the Kyiv City State Administration Nikolai Povoroznik. According to him, in connection with this, some transport problems arise, since the city was intensively preparing for defense and erected fortifications and checkpoints, which now complicate the movement.
15:26 The border guards reported about the repeated shelling of their positions in the Chernihiv region - in the afternoon there were 12 more mortar attacks. There were no casualties among the border guards and the local population.
15:24 As of April 15, law enforcement officers found the bodies of 900 civilians killed by Russian invaders in the Kiev region , said the head of the regional police Andrey Nebitov.
In Borodianka, the bodies of ten people have been found today, and in total since the beginning of work - 40 dead.
Also, information was received from the National Police that near the village. Nalivaykovka, Buchansky district, two employees of the Fastovsky Distribution Zone, who were driving a car, were blown up, they were hospitalized.
15:13 A "rail war" is unfolding in Russia: successful sabotage of Russian Railways has already taken place in four regions, according to @belzhd_live. Thus, over the past two weeks, on the Moscow Railway, rail guerrillas have carried out successful actions to render the railways in the Bryansk, Oryol, Smolensk and Kursk regions unusable.
For this, in particular, special devices are installed in the relay cabinets of the signaling system, which are triggered by a timer and completely burn out the internal equipment of the relay cabinet. Responsibility for some partisan actions on the infrastructure of Russian Railways was assumed by Busly lyatsiats .
15:08 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the destruction of 30 Polish volunteers fighting in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Polish Foreign Ministry spokesman Lukasz Yasina denied this information: "We know nothing about the existence of any "Polish volunteer unit" or about the death of Poles in Ukraine."
15:06 The Russian troops fired at one of the districts of Nikolaev, the head of the regional council on humanitarian issues Anna Zamazeeva reported. According to her, there are victims.
The Nikolaev mass-media report also that in the city the third day there is no water. Probably the damage was caused by enemy shelling.
15:00 Justice after the war in Ukraine can be difficult to ensure, given that Russia has withdrawn its signature on the statute of the International Criminal Court, ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan told CNN. At the same time, he called for all procedures necessary for justice to be carried out: "Collect evidence, save it, analyze it and draw conclusions based on what they show. And these conclusions can be verified by judges."
14:58 The Czech Republic has supplied Ukraine with at least 20 RM-70 Vampire multiple launch rocket systems, the military resource 19fortyfive reports. They are based on the Soviet BM-21 Grad system.
14:54 Medvedchuk's wife Oksana Marchenko held a press conference in Moscow and stated that her husband's whereabouts are unknown and that the SBU is brutally torturing him. She demanded that his French lawyer be allowed to see her husband and that Medvedchuk's whereabouts be revealed.
14:51 The United States, as part of a new military assistance package, will transfer Mi-17 helicopters to Ukraine, which were previously intended for the Afghan government of Ghani, but they were not delivered in time, because the Taliban overthrew this government. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Washington had previously handed over five helicopters to Kiev.
14:45 Klitschko said that until May 31, tariffs for hot water and thermal energy for heating it will be applied in the capital at the level of the previous heating season, that is, these tariffs will not rise yet. In the future, their cost will depend on the price of gas.
14:36 Last night, Russian troops tried to capture an observation post in the Nikolaev region and conduct reconnaissance of Ukrainian positions in Kherson. The attack on the post was repulsed, and the reconnaissance group was destroyed, OK Pivden reported.
14:34 Resistance guerrillas are participating in the liberation of Ukraine from Russian invaders. Their activities were reported in the intelligence of the Ministry of Defense .
14:23 Well-known Russian oppositionist, former State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev reported, citing his sources, that 58 out of 510 sailors from the cruiser Moscow were caught alive.
14:14 The city council renamed the former square of Friendship of Kiev and Moscow in the Goloseevsky district into the square of the Heroes of Mariupol, Klitschko said.
He also stated that there are still "dozens of streets and objects with names associated with the aggressor" in Kyiv, and their renaming remains relevant. “Therefore, we are developing new names that will be worn by streets, avenues, metro stations and other objects. We have allocated time for these procedures until May 9,” Klitschko said.
14:12 Lithuania and Latvia called on their citizens to refrain from traveling to Belarus, despite the fact that Minsk introduced a visa-free regime for them.
14:07 Posts of six countries have already stopped communication with Russia and Belarus in support of Ukraine. According to the press service of Ukrposhta, these are Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Australia and Latvia.
14:04 Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, almost 2.76 million people have left Ukraine for Poland, Polish border guards said.
13:55 North Macedonia has declared six Russian diplomats persona non grata. Earlier, on March 28, the republic had already expelled five Russian diplomats.
13:47 There are enough forces in the Kharkiv region to knock out the Russian occupiers from the region, but this will happen with the possibility of a total counteroffensive, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the Kharkiv OVA, said in an interview with RBC-Ukraine.
13:33 The consequences of the war between Russia and Ukraine affect the economy of 143 countries, which account for 86% of world GDP, the IMF said.
13:21 Ukrzaliznytsia announced the resumption of railway communication between Chernihiv and Kiev from April 16. It has been blocked for over a month. So far, one train has been scheduled.
13:09 The Russian military fired on evacuation buses near the village of Borovaya, Kharkiv region. According to Interfax-Ukraine in the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor's Office, according to preliminary data, up to ten people were killed, and up to 30 were injured.
12:58 Churches in Ukraine will not work during Easter curfew, Ukrainian News reports citing the National Police, the OCU and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. According to the publication, Easter baskets will be consecrated in churches and in the territories adjacent to them, taking into account the curfew in a particular region. Divine services will not be held during the curfew.
12:47 The scriptwriter of the cult series House of Cards Beau Willimon plans to make a documentary film about the war crimes of Russian troops in Bucha. As they said in the Buchansk City Council, Villimon is now in Ukraine and collects evidence of the atrocities of the Russians.
12:31 In the Donetsk region, 238 civilians have been killed since the beginning of a full-scale war. These figures do not include casualties in Mariupol, said Pavel Kirilenko, head of the Donetsk OVA.
12:23 Ireland has allocated an additional three million euros for the work of the International Criminal Court, said the country's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defense Simon Coveney.
12:18 Gerashchenko said that during the explosion and fire on board the cruiser Moscow, Captain 1st Rank, commander of the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet Anton Kuprin was killed.
12:13 Moody's reported that if Russia does not pay its foreign debts in the required currency by May 4, this will mean the issuer's default.
12:09 In Kakhovka, Kherson region, two people were killed, three were injured after they went outside to look at a rocket shot down in the sky. As reported by the territorial community, among the wounded, one is in serious condition in intensive care, two are of moderate severity. All have shrapnel wounds. Ukrainians are asked not to go outside and not to approach the windows when explosions or shots are heard.
12:03 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced the approximate losses of the enemy on April 15:
- personnel - about 20,000 people,
- tanks - 756,
- armored combat vehicles - 1976,
- artillery systems - 366,
- MLRS - 122,
- air defense systems - 66,
- aircraft - 163,
- helicopters - 144,
- automotive equipment - 1443,
- ships/boats - 8,
- tanks with fuel and lubricants - 76,
- UAV operational-tactical level - 135,
- special equipment - 25,
- launchers OTRK / TRK - 4.
11:54 In Uzhgorod, 58 streets will be renamed, the names of which are associated with Russia, the City Council announced. When determining new names, preference will be given to worthy local figures, and where possible and appropriate, historical names that existed before the Soviet period will be returned. Also, after the victory of Ukraine, names will appear in honor of the heroes of the current war.
11:52 The Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation announced that major international carriers refuse to deal with Russian goods and supply them. They also say that European insurance companies refuse to cover dangers for cars from the EU in Russia.
11:44 The State Border Service reported that this morning the Russians fired mortars at the area near the village of Senkovka, adjacent to the state border of Ukraine. 13 shots were fired from enemy territory, there were no injured border guards or the local population. An enemy drone is constantly circling over the area.
11:42 Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo visited Kiev and held a meeting with Klitschko. The capital's mayor said that they signed an agreement on the establishment of friendly relations between Kiev and Paris.
11:38 The "special military operation" in Ukraine "will end pretty soon, the Russian Federation is not going to deliberately stretch it out," said Andrey Klimov, senator, deputy head of the United Russia Commission on International Cooperation.
11:33 The defenders of Mariupol declare a critical situation in the city and call for a de-blockade as soon as possible. As the commander of the 36th Separate Marine Brigade, Major Sergei Volyn, said, Mariupol can be saved either by an urgent military operation or by a political decision.
11:29 Washington received an official diplomatic note from Moscow, in which the Kremlin demands to stop arming Ukraine, threatening "unpredictable consequences" otherwise, reports The Washington Post.
According to the publication, the note came after Biden approved a sharp expansion of the range of weapons provided to the government of Ukraine. The note says that US and NATO deliveries of the "most sensitive" weapons systems to Ukraine "add fuel" to the conflict and can lead to "unpredictable consequences."
"What the Russians are telling us privately is the same thing we've been telling the world publicly - that the massive amount of assistance we're giving our Ukrainian partners is proving to be extremely effective," a senior White House official told the publication.
11:11 The IMF is preparing to restore Ukraine after the war with Russia, said Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva. The fund has already provided Ukraine with $1.4 billion in emergency funding, she said, as well as opening a special account that will provide a safe way to continue funding the country.
"And together with international partners, we are preparing for the massive recovery effort that will be required," Georgieva added.
11:06 In Switzerland, they began to produce vodka called Vodka Zelensky. It is already on sale in Switzerland, UK and EU countries. As stated on the brand's website, all profits from sales go to help Ukrainians.
11:02 New South Korean President Yoon Seok-yeol expressed his readiness to support the world in putting pressure on Russia: "When the international community calls on us to be more involved, we must clearly demonstrate our position, which is respect for the world order."
He also recalled that South Korea has allocated $10 million to Ukraine and intends to provide even more humanitarian assistance, as it is limited in its ability to supply weapons.
10:59 The United States is ready to lift some of the sanctions from Russia, provided that Moscow begins to behave adequately in peace negotiations with Kiev and the Ukrainian authorities give their consent to this, Biden's national security aide Jake Sullivan said.
10:55 The US Department of Justice recognized several Russians as foreign agents. We are talking about Deputy Head of the State Duma Alexander Babakov, as well as his assistants Alexander Vorobyov and Mikhail Plisyuk. They planned a covert propaganda campaign "to carry out Russia's hostile political designs against Ukraine and other countries, including the US," prosecutor Damian Williams said.
10:47 The nuclear attack, with which Moscow again began to scare Ukraine, is an element of information warfare, adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs Vadim Denisenko is convinced. According to him, the logic of all Russian information wars of recent years boils down to two key elements: to sow panic or make the enemy quarrel with each other. At the same time, he reminded that "so far the Russians have not succeeded in any information attack on the territory of Ukraine."
10:31 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that the Russian S-400 complex shot down a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter, which allegedly attacked the village of Klimovo in the Bryansk region the day before.
It is also reported that "the metallurgical plant named after Ilyich in Mariupol has been completely liberated from Ukrainian nationalists."
Meanwhile, residents of Belgorod reported two explosions that were heard in the city center. Eyewitnesses suggest that the air defense system worked.
10:28 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that the RF Armed Forces struck a Caliber strike at the Zhulyansky Machine-Building Plant on the outskirts of Kiev, the workshops for the production and repair of air defense systems were destroyed.
10:25 The RF Ministry of Defense stated that "the scale of missile strikes of the RF Armed Forces on targets in Kyiv will be increased in response to any attacks or sabotage on the territory of Russia."
10:18 The State Bureau of Investigation is investigating more than 230 cases of treason, two thirds of which are in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. Among the defendants are the heads of village councils, deputies of various levels, officials, judges, law enforcement officers, military personnel.
Most of the cases against traitors are investigated by the territorial department of the State Bureau of Investigation of Kramatorsk: 109 proceedings were opened for high treason, 74 for collaboration activities.
10:10 The European Union is finally preparing a gradual oil embargo against Russia, which may be approved after the second round of the French presidential election on April 24, writes The New York Times.
10:00 Russia itself shelled the village of Klimovo in the Bryansk region, although it blamed Ukraine for this. This is evidenced by recent intercepts of telephone conversations of the occupiers, which were presented by the SBU.
“These are our herats,” the Russian invader, who is in the Donetsk region and received this information from his commander, explains to his wife.
09:54 In Mariupol, the invaders are trying to cover up the traces of their crimes. According to the city council, Russian troops began the process of exhuming the bodies, which had previously been buried in the courtyards of residential buildings. At the same time, the occupiers forbid the burial of the people they killed, for this a "caretaker" was placed in each yard.
Earlier, Ukrainian intelligence recorded 13 mobile crematoria in Mariupol.
09:51 Polish President Andrzej Duda has signed a law imposing an embargo on Russian coal. The law also provides for the ability to freeze the assets of individuals who supported Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
09:49 In Skadovsk, Kherson region, this morning the Russian military removed the flags of Ukraine from the building of the City Council and the flagpole and hung up their tricolors, Mayor Alexander Yakovlev said. He stressed that the city council will not cooperate with the occupiers, "so from today not a single employee of the executive committee will work in the building under the enemy flag."
09:44 Nine humanitarian corridors agreed on April 15:
Mariupol, Berdyansk, Tokmak, Energodar - Zaporozhye (by own transport)
Severodonetsk, Lisichansk, Popasnaya, with. Gornoe, Rubizhne - Bakhmut (subject to the cessation of shelling by the occupying troops)
09:41 US Senator Steve Danes and Rep. Victoria Spartz visited Kiev and its suburbs on April 14, becoming the first US officials to arrive since the start of the war, writes The New York Times.
09:33 Slovak Defense Minister Yaroslav Nagy called Putin "equal to Hitler" after his invasion of Ukraine. In an interview with The New York Times, he said that Putin must be stopped in Ukraine before he can move to the West. "Ukraine is literally fighting for our future," Nagy added.
09:25 Ukrainian officials who have gone abroad must return to the country before April 25. Otherwise, according to the decision of the Cabinet of Ministers, a disciplinary sanction will be applied to them - up to and including dismissal.
09:14 China will have to make a choice in the confrontation between Russia and Ukraine, as it affects the reputation of Beijing in the world, Blinken said.
09:00 British intelligence believes that after the loss of two key naval facilities in Ukraine, the Russian Federation may reconsider its position in the Black Sea. In London, they note that the cruiser Moscow, being the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, played the key role of both a command ship and an air defense unit.
This Soviet-era ship was one of three Slava-class cruisers in the Russian Navy. Initially commissioned in 1979, the cruiser Moskva underwent a massive overhaul and only returned to service in 2021.
08:52 Prime Minister of Saxony Michael Kretschmer said the day before that Germany should not supply Ukraine with heavy weapons so as not to "cross the line." Andriy Melnyk, the Ukrainian ambassador, replied: "Thank God you're not in the federal government. Foreign policy in Saxony has always been a disaster. But your outrageous friendliness to the war criminal Putin will forever be remembered in history."
08:36 Great Britain imposed sanctions against two Russian oligarchs - Yevgeny Tenenbaum and David Davidovich. The British government has frozen the assets of the two oligarchs, who are valued at around £10bn, in what the British Foreign Office called the biggest asset freeze in history.
08:29 Germans must start saving energy now to become more independent of Russian fossil fuels, Vice Chancellor and Economics Minister Robert Habeck said.
08:20 According to the UN, 30,000 people from those who left since the beginning of the war are returning to Ukraine every day. In total, since the beginning of the Russian invasion, 870,000 Ukrainian refugees who left the country have already returned.
07:51 In the Kherson region, an exchange of prisoners of war took place: in the area of \u200b\u200bthe village of Posad-Pokrovskoe, five Ukrainian soldiers returned home in exchange for four Russian ones, the operational command Pivden reported.
07:45 Japan organizes ten flights with humanitarian aid for Ukrainian refugees. The mission will last at least until the end of June, according to Japan Today.
07:29 Three NATO ships entered the Baltic Sea. The main task is to demonstrate the presence of allies in the Baltic Sea region and conduct joint exercises with the Estonian navy.
07:16 According to the State Headquarters, in the East of Ukraine, the enemy is focusing its main efforts on attempts to capture Popasna and Rubizhne, to no avail. On the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions over the past day, eight enemy attacks were repulsed, four tanks, six armored personnel carriers, four infantry fighting vehicles, and one enemy artillery system were destroyed.
03:55 The Azov Regiment reported that as of April 14, more than 2,000 Russian soldiers became victims of Ukrainian defenders in Mariupol.
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