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2022-05-01 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: April 30th, 2022

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[Korrespondent] 23:23 The Armed Forces of Ukraine eliminated nine enemy air targets in a day: two Su-25 attack aircraft and seven drones were destroyed.

23:21 Zelensky: "There is still a lot of work ahead. The occupiers are still on our land, still do not recognize the obvious failure of their so-called "operation". We still need to fight and send all our forces to expel the occupiers. And we will do it .Ukraine will be free."

23:08 Ukraine is switching to NATO weapons , Zaluzhny said following a conversation with the head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley: "We discussed with my American colleague a promising model of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Obviously, we are forced to abandon Soviet weapons and equipment and switch to NATO samples. And the sooner we start this process, the sooner we will complete it."

23:03 Russian saboteurs can get into the rear of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on stolen cars, masquerading as volunteers, warns the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, for such provocations, in particular, a bus with the inscription School , which disappeared the day before on the way to Popasnaya, can be used.

22:42 Russian military aircraft An-30 violated the airspace of Sweden and after a short period of time left it, Defense Minister Peter Gultkvist said. He called such actions "unacceptable" and said that Sweden "will respond through diplomacy."

22:40 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that 18,849 people, including 2,359 children, were "evacuated" to Russia from "dangerous regions of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, Ukraine" in a day. In total, since the beginning of the "special operation", according to the Kremlin, 1,062,692 people have been "evacuated", including 192,688 children.

22:36 The leader of the Belarusian opposition Svetlana Tikhanovskaya said in an interview with the Voice of America that she had handed over to the United States evidence of the participation of the Lukashenka regime in the war against Ukraine. According to her, this is "massive evidence of missile launches from our territory, the movement of Russian equipment on the territory of Belarus." In addition, Tikhanovskaya handed over "a list of companies and countries that helped to circumvent sanctions."

22:24 Arestovich said that for the past four days "there is no movement of Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine." According to him, troops are not being transferred to Izyum at all, but the wounded, broken equipment and the dead go back.

"A lot of people were killed. Attacks on the headquarters of the Airborne Forces, strikes on the headquarters of the 2nd Army Army - these are about 600 corpses according to the most optimistic forecasts for them. These are senior officers. They began to lose combat readiness, there are no supplies," the adviser to the head of the OP said.

22:12 In the Kherson region, the cellular communication of all Ukrainian operators has disappeared. The same applies to mobile Internet, reports Suspіlne. The company Vodafone told the publication that "it's definitely not a breakdown."

21:37 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation declares that in Nikolaev "militants" conduct "punitive raids", checking residents "for signs of pro-Russian views they have." All suspects are allegedly "detained and subjected to torture, threatened with transfer to the SBU, as well as physical violence against relatives."

Moscow also claims that the Armed Forces of Ukraine mined the dam of the Nikolaevsky reservoir in the city of Marganets, Dnepropetrovsk region, "which they themselves plan to blow up," blaming Russian troops for this.

20:53 Kuleba, in an interview with Xinhua, said that Kiev offered Beijing to become one of the guarantors of Ukraine's security. According to him, this decision demonstrates our country's respect and trust in China. He also expressed hope that China would call Russia for a ceasefire.

20:50 The evacuation from the Popasnaya Luhansk region was suspended, the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai said: "Until there is complete information about yesterday's incident with the shelling of our evacuation transport by an enemy DRG, the evacuation from Popasnaya will be suspended."

20:37 From under the rubble at Azovstal, they managed to extract 20 civilians - mostly women and children - who were handed over for evacuation. As the deputy commander of the Azov regiment, captain Svyatoslav Palamar (Kalina), said, the rescue operation is currently ongoing, civilians are being pulled out from under the rubble with cables. According to the agreements, they should be taken to Zaporozhye.

According to Kalina, the silence regime, which was supposed to start at 06:00, began only at 11:00, but as of now, both sides adhere to it. The evacuation convoy, which was supposed to arrive at six in the morning, arrived only at 18:25. "As of 19:40, we transferred 20 civilians to the agreed place, who were released from the rubble," Palamar said.

He also stressed that for unknown reasons, the wounded who urgently need help are not being evacuated. Palamar urged to resolve this issue as soon as possible.

Earlier, information appeared in local public pages that buses with UN symbols were seen in Mariupol.

20:29 In Zaporozhye, where refugees from Donbass gather, the police began "filtration measures," said Anatoly Kurtev, secretary of the City Council. According to him, law enforcement officers will go from apartment to apartment to check the IDPs. The police can "check documents, ask various questions, conduct a superficial check or inspection", as well as check the presence of temporarily displaced persons in the apartments.

20:25 Zelensky said that he talked with Johnson, discussed the situation at the front and in Mariupol, defense support for Ukraine and the necessary diplomatic steps to achieve peace.

20:01 Residents of the occupied village of Rozovka, Zaporozhye region, told Babel that the Russian invaders are recruiting people to clean up Mariupol. They promise to "pay" for this: 10,000 rubles for removing rubble, 30,000 for collecting corpses. When people clarified how they would pay, they were told that a dry ration equivalent to these thousands.

The locals are also given Phoenix (DPR) mobile communication cards. Houses closer to the highway are occupied by unknown people.

Earlier today it was reported that in Mariupol houses that local residents were forced to leave are occupied by unknown people.

19:58 Russian troops hit the strip of the Odessa airport from the Crimea, said the head of the OVA Maxim Marchenko. They fired from the Bastion missile system. No one was hurt by the missile strikes.

19:39 The British newspaper The Times published an article about the Ukrainian pilot Stepan Tarabalka, whom they called the "ghost of Kiev." However, the Air Force command stated that Tarabalka was not a "ghost" and did not shoot down 40 aircraft. Major Stepan Taralka died on March 13, 2022 in an air battle.

The Air Force emphasizes: "The ghost of Kyiv is a legendary superhero whose figure was created by the Ukrainians. It is rather a collective image of the pilots of the 40th tactical aviation brigade of the Air Force protecting the sky of the capital."

19:14 Employees of the port of Amsterdam refuse to unload a tanker with Russian diesel fuel, which port workers in Sweden had previously refused, reports the Dutch TV channel NOS.

19:11 Podolyak responded to Lavrov’s statement that, as part of the negotiations, Kiev and Moscow are discussing, among other things, the lifting of sanctions against the Russian Federation: “Russian Minister Lavrov has a strange habit of commenting on things in which he is not personally involved. So, at the negotiations sanctions are not discussed. Because the world imposed them for the occupation and violation of the territorial integrity of Ukraine. The reasons have not been eliminated. Consequently, the sanctions will only increase. But the Russians forever inscribed "denazification and the Russian language" in world history with the blood of peaceful Ukrainians from Bucha, Gostomel, Kharkov, Mariupol and other cities. Now they are synonymous with Russian war crimes. It's time for them to face the truth."

19:05 In the Donetsk direction, the enemy is actively fighting along almost the entire line of collision. The main efforts of the enemy are concentrated on the Limansky, Severodonetsky, Popasnyansky and Kurakhovsky directions in order to take complete control of the settlements of Rubizhnoye, Popasnaya and, probably, a further offensive on Liman, Slavyansk and Barvenkovo, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.

19:01 In the Kharkiv region, as a result of the offensive by units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine, control over the settlements of Verkhnyaya Rohanka, Russian Lozovaya, Slobodskoye and Prilesnoye was resumed , the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.

18:55 The occupiers are attempting an offensive in the directions of Izyum - Barvenkovo and Izyum - Slavyansk, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports. The enemy continues to concentrate forces and means both in the occupied territories of the Kharkov region and in the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation. Thus, the invaders moved several units to the area of the settlement Volokhov Yar and the city of Izyum. The enemy is also building up the air defense system, conducting aerial reconnaissance of the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine using drones.

In the Kharkov region, the occupiers forcibly take the population to the territory of Russia and spread disinformation about the seizures of Kharkov, Kyiv and Zaporozhye.

18:38 As a result of a rocket attack on the Odessa region, the runway of the Odessa airport was damaged, its further use is impossible , said the head of the press center of the Security and Defense Forces of the South, Natalya Gumenyuk.

18:00 Russia has concentrated about 20 Caliber missiles in the Black Sea, Ukrainian Defense Ministry spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanyk said.

17:57 Vereshchuk announced another exchange of prisoners: seven soldiers and seven civilians returned home. One of the soldiers is a woman in her fifth month of pregnancy.

17:55 The EU intends to propose a ban on Russian oil, which will come into force by the end of the year, and until then, restrictions will be introduced gradually, Bloomberg writes, citing officials.

17:51 The Russians killed the captured Azov fighter and sent a photo of his mother's body. The fighter recently appeared in a propaganda video in Russian publics - it showed five captured Ukrainian soldiers who allegedly voluntarily laid down their arms. The video emphasized that the preservation of the life of prisoners of war is guaranteed, as well as compliance with international laws for the treatment of prisoners of war.

17:48 Russian media write that 25 people left the territory of Azovstal.

17:43 The Financial Times writes about a new scheme by Russian oligarchs to circumvent sanctions - they offer to exchange their old British mansions or luxury London apartments for real estate in Dubai without bank transfers or financial verification of the transaction. Moreover, British objects are offered with tangible discounts.

Lawyers from the UAE do not believe too much in the success of such a scheme, since Britain is already quite meticulous about the execution of all documents, and with the start of the hunt for the assets of sanctioned Russians, its vigilance has only increased.

17:39 Podolyak on possible mobilization in the Russian Federation: "Many today are trying to comprehend the likelihood of mobilization in Russia from the point of view of military, economic and political logic. But you need to understand that the Russian state machine thinks in slightly different categories, namely, corruption logic. Mobilization in Russia is a national start-up, an opportunity to milk the last savings from the impoverished population. "Pay or die." The security forces are going to fund the conscripts, and the police leadership is already counting their percentage. The spiders in the bank are preparing to start eating each other."

17:17 In Mariupol, the invaders allowed movement between the Left Bank and other areas of the city on the right bank. Movement is open across the bridge to Mukhino. At the same time, checkpoints were set up to strengthen control, Andryushchenko said.

17:15 The governor of the Kursk region said that several mortar shells were fired at the Krupets checkpoint from the Ukrainian side. There are no casualties, injuries or damage.

17:13 The Azov Regiment showed a video of a Russian tank firing point-blank at a residential building in Mariupol. There were no Ukrainian soldiers in it; in the basement of this high-rise building, 16 civilians were hiding from Russian shells.

17:05 "There is hope" for the evacuation of civilians in Mariupol today , the city council said. And the mayor's adviser Pyotr Andryushchenko "not very officially" added that "there is a real restrained, but optimism that today it will finally be possible to start a large evacuation."

“Buses should be delivered to Port City by the Russian side, so you are aware that anything can happen. But. Ring all the bells and rails in order to be on time and not miss it. silence along the route? he wrote.

17:03 The representative of the Ministry of Defense Oleksandr Motuzyanyk said that Russian troops are gradually increasing the intensity of the offensive in eastern Ukraine simultaneously in all directions. The greatest activity is observed on Slobozhansky and Donetsk. There are signs that the aggressor is preparing for an even greater intensification of hostilities.

17:00 On the eve of the anniversary of the May 2 events in Odessa, law enforcement officers are cleaning up the city from enemy DRGs, the National Police reported. The Russian special services were going to arrange mass riots, protests and riots in the region, using controlled representatives of the underworld. During the searches, weapons, communist paraphernalia, advertising brochures with communist and other prohibited symbols, as well as grenades, cartridges, mobile phones and equipment were found on the suspects.

16:41 Putin signed a decree on the payment of 10 thousand rubles to veterans of the Great Patriotic War who live in the "DPR", "LPR" and "in the liberated territories of Ukraine."

16:39 Zelensky reported on his telephone conversation with Macron and thanked him for his help: "We talked about defense cooperation, interaction on Ukraine's path to EU membership. We are grateful for the humanitarian assistance, the readiness to treat our soldiers. We appreciate the decision to continue the work of the French mission of investigation crimes of the Russian Federation.

16:36 Georgian Foreign Minister Ilya Darchiashvili said that Arestovich's comments to the Georgian government harm relations between the two countries. Earlier, Arestovich said that the Georgian leadership is behaving "somehow strange," but the Georgian people will appreciate the position and statements of the authorities on Ukraine in the upcoming elections.

16:30 The Pechersky District Court of Kiev, on the proposal of the State Bureau of Investigation, seized 51 Belarusian tank cars that crossed the border in Chernihiv region on the eve of the Russian invasion.

After the invasion of the Russians, tank cars actually provided the logistics for the troops advancing in the direction of Chernihiv-Sumy. The tanks were filled with 3,000 tons of Belarusian and Russian diesel fuel. The products were allegedly intended for oil companies within Medvedchuk's sphere of influence.

16:26 Berdyansk, Zaporozhye region, is preparing to switch to paying pensions and salaries in Russian rubles, said "acting mayor" Alexander Saulenko. In addition, the "police" began to work in the city, law enforcement officers, together with the National Guard, patrol the streets.

16:25 Angelina Jolie was spotted in one of the cafes in Lviv. She did not announce her visit to Ukraine.

Could it have been someone else who looked somewhat like her?

16:23 Invaders in Melitopol confiscated ATB stores because the company is helping the Armed Forces of Ukraine and flatly refused to cooperate with the invaders, Anton Gerashchenko reports.

16:18 The press center of the JFO denied the information about the undermining of the bridge between Liman and Raygorodok in the Donbass by the Special Operations Forces. In fact, the bridge was destroyed as a result of a Russian air raid. It did indeed have empty boxcars on it to block the passage.

16:11 Macron, in a telephone conversation with Zelensky, promised to increase assistance to Ukraine, French television reported.

15:57 German Economics Minister Christian Lindner said that his country will not pay for gas in rubles: "Turning to Putin, I say very clearly: we will not allow ourselves to be blackmailed. We will continue to pay for Russian gas in rubles. Clearly one thing: we are doing everything possible to become independent from Russia as soon as possible."

15:32 The delegation of the Riga City Hall today handed over 11 modern passenger buses to Kiev as assistance, as well as humanitarian aid, the Kyiv City State Administration reported.

15:30 The defense of Ukraine will go down in military history, said US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin: "Ukrainian hospitals were bombed. Their citizens were executed. Their children were injured. And yet, despite all this, they did an excellent job of protecting their sovereignty. The valor and skill of Ukraine will go down in military history."

15:27 The Russians got a Ukrainian military uniform somewhere and can use it for provocations, warned the head of the Luhansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai: "We have 100% confirmed information that they found several containers with the clothes of our military. How will they use it , we cannot say what provocations they are ready to go to. What we just have not seen in the Luhansk region during the Russian aggression."

15:24 The Australian Olympic Committee will support Ukrainian athletes who want to get a visa to live and train in Australia, said AOC President John Coates.

15:22 The Ukrainian military for the first time told the details of the battle for the airport in Gostomel , which took place on the first day of the Russian invasion. The defenders arrived at the airport early and took up positions. According to their information, an Il-76 transport aircraft with troops was supposed to arrive. The task of the Ukrainian military was to prevent it from landing, or, in the event of its landing, to inflict maximum damage on the enemy. However, instead of the plane, many helicopters flew in, which came as a surprise.

15:20 The White House administration intends to lure leading Russian scientists to the United States , for which they plan to simplify visa requirements for the migration of valuable specialists, writes Bloomberg.

15:13 Russia is running out of stocks of high-precision weapons, writes the Financial Times, citing a source in Western government agencies: "We see that they have to move Caliber missiles from other strategic directions where they can be stored. This indicates that their stocks of precision-guided weapons are being reduced.

Russia's difficulty in resupplying guided weapons was due both to the quality of their industrial base and to Western sanctions that "limit their ability to build up capabilities at a time when they need to have an effect on the battlefield," the source said.

3:08 pm Guterres said lobbyists in the oil, gas and coal industries are "cynically using the war in Ukraine to try to lock in a high-carbon future."

"The transition to renewable energy is critical to restoring the disrupted global energy balance and brings hope to the millions of people who are affected by climate change today." - wrote the UN Secretary General.

15:03 In Chernihiv, a monument to Pushkin was dismantled, meanwhile, in Nova Kakhovka, the occupiers are erecting a monument to Lenin.

15:01 NATO expects further provocations in Transnistria and believes that their goal is to create problems for Ukraine, while there is no military threat to Moldova itself yet, Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoane said in an interview with the Romanian Digi24.

14:55 The FSB in Crimea is driving the Crimean Tatars to the congress in order to create the appearance of their support for the war against Ukraine, said the people's deputy and the head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Refat Chubarov.

Meanwhile, the Russian media are already writing that the Crimean Tatars are allegedly "ready to participate in the Russian special operation in Ukraine as volunteers."

14:47 A subsidiary of the Russian NOVATEK said that 500 of their railway cars in Poland, filled with liquefied petroleum gas, could explode. The cars were stopped as part of the sanctions.

14:40 On the night of April 30, the Russians fired on residential areas, a hospital and an industrial zone of the Nemyshlyansky district of Kharkov, the State Emergency Service reported. As a result of an enemy attack, the apartments of two residential nine-story buildings were on fire. A man was injured in one of the rooms. The building of one of the medical facilities in Kharkov was damaged.

14:26 On the territory of the Buchansky district, the police found a pit with the bodies of three men who were tortured by Russian soldiers and then brutally killed.

14:18 The head of the Lugansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai said that the Ukrainian military were able to get to the place where two evacuation buses disappeared near Popasna. One bus was shot, there are traces of blood in it, but there are no people there. The other bus disappeared, there is no communication with the driver either.

14:06 Podolyak says that the Russian side rejects all proposals to rescue people from Mariupol, because it is "symbolic" for the enemy to destroy the city and the Azov regiment protecting it.

13:59 Mayor of Vilnius Remigius Shimashius called on residents of the city and businesses to collect window glass and double-glazed windows for the needs of Ukraine, since many houses were left with broken windows after the shelling. The Lithuanian capital will provide delivery on its own.

13:48 The chief operator of the Mariupol television, Alexander Ratushny, filmed a ten-minute documentary film MARIUPOL 2022. During the blockade of the city, he lived with his family in the shelter of the Mariupol Lyceum, where he made a film about the people who also took refuge there.

13:10 Mayor of Mariupol Vadim Boychenko: "In two years, the Nazis killed 10 thousand civilians in Mariupol. And the Russian invaders killed more than 20 thousand Mariupol residents in two months. More than 40 thousand people were forcibly taken out. This is one of the worst genocides of the civilian population in modern history. The Russian army purposefully and ruthlessly destroys our city and its inhabitants. "

12:07 Ukraine received Mistral anti-aircraft missile systems from Norway, Minister of Defense Bjorn Aril Gramm said.

11:45 Russia tried to exchange Ukrainian civilians for Russian prisoners of war, which is prohibited by the Geneva Convention, Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk told the BBC. According to her, the Russian side initially planned to use the Ukrainians forcibly taken out for further exchange. However, Ukraine refused and demanded that Russia return the abducted civilians.

"We know that there are more than a thousand hostages, including almost 500 women. We know that they are in prisons and detention centers in Kursk, Bryansk, Ryazan, Rostov," she said.

In addition, according to Vereshchuk, Russia does not want to give up captured Ukrainian women. Now Kyiv refuses to conduct an exchange without women on the list. She also said that nine civilians were returned to Ukraine with severe injuries, including those with amputated limbs in Russia, and obvious signs of torture are visible.

11:36 Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar asks not to write about the liberated villages or cities until this information is published by the Ministry of Defense or the Armed Forces of Ukraine. She emphasizes that there have already been several cases when, after such disclosure, the enemy attacked these settlements ahead of time, which led to losses on the Ukrainian side.

11:28 During the two months of a full-scale war, law enforcement agencies received more than seven thousand statements about the disappearance of people, said Deputy Interior Minister Mary Hakobyan. About half of them were subsequently found. The status of unidentified received about two thousand bodies of the dead, of which 1282 were subsequently identified. Also, as part of criminal proceedings, 927 DNA examinations have been scheduled for today.

11:20 Medical examinations for "conscripts" have been canceled in ORDLO. According to Ukrainian intelligence, the Russians have practically exhausted the resource for forced mobilization in the "LDNR", therefore, since April 20, medical examinations of mobilized personnel have been suspended there. The official explanation: "due to the lack of specialists." Potential "conscripts" can no longer obtain documents confirming any health problems.

At the same time, those who have obvious health problems (injury, disability, severe acute illnesses) or managed to obtain the necessary documents earlier are still mobilized, but assigned to logistics units.

The only alternative to forced mobilization is a bribe at established rates (depending on age, specialty and state of health). In particular, in Gorlovka, the amount of a bribe for the purpose of evading service is from 5,000 rubles if paid directly at the place of detention, and upon delivery to the district departments of the "MVD" - from 75 thousand rubles.

10:36 China is in no hurry to buy Russian oil because of Western sanctions against the Russian Federation, even despite the big discounts, writes Oilprice. China's lack of interest in Russian oil is also affected by the costly transportation of Russian cargo due to sanctions, problems with payments and insurance of tankers, as well as long-term contracts between Chinese refiners and oil exporters from the Middle East. In addition, the risks are increasing due to the increasing readiness of the EU for an oil embargo and the likelihood of secondary sanctions.

10:15 Discussions have begun in the EU on banning the import of nuclear fuel from Russia for nuclear power plants in the bloc countries and projects involving a subsidiary of Rosatom, Politico writes, citing information from five European diplomats.

10:12 In the Donbas, military operations are in a stalemate, Janno Märk, head of the planning department of the General Staff of the Estonian Defense Union, said in an interview with the Estonian edition of ERR. According to him, the most critical situation is now in the Kharkov and Izyum directions - there the Russian army is conducting active operations in order to break through the defense. If they succeed, they will be able to surround the Ukrainian grouping of troops in the Donbass. Those troops that are located on the front line in 2014 can be taken into the boiler, and this will significantly help Russia take control of the administrative borders of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

"To a certain extent, a positional war is already going on there today. It can also be said that a stalemate has formed there today, where neither side in this conflict can achieve a significant advantage. It is difficult to say what will happen next, both sides are now developing new tactics," - said the expert.

10:07 The White House is working on a balanced approach to the G20 summit, to which Putin was invited. According to press secretary of the US presidential administration Jen Psaki, advisers are now actively discussing what the format of the country's participation in the November meeting in Indonesia will be. Washington insists that Russia should be excluded from the G20, but China objects to this. Thus, the US does not see an option to completely ignore the Indonesian summit, since then it will be dominated by China and Russia.

10:04 Odessa received new air defense systems, said the representative of the regional military administration, Sergei Bratchuk.

10:03 The General Staff named the estimated losses of the enemy on the morning of April 30:

personnel - about 23,200 (+200) people liquidated,

tanks - 1008 (+22),

armored fighting vehicles - 2445 (+27),

artillery systems - 436 (+1),

MLRS - 151 (+0),

air defense systems - 77 (+4),

aircraft - 190 (+1),

helicopters - 155 (+0),

automotive equipment - 1701 (+6),

ships/boats - 8 (+0),

tanks with fuel and lubricants - 76 (+0),

UAV operational-tactical level - 232 (+4),

special equipment - 32 (+1),

launchers OTRK / TRK - 4 (+0).

09:55 In the Kharkiv region in the Izyum direction, the National Guardsmen, together with the artillerymen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, attacked the location of the Russian troops, destroying more than 30 pieces of equipment of the Russian army, of which more than half were tanks, as well as armored personnel carriers, BMDs and MTLBs.

According to the National Guard, a group of NSU special forces, conducting reconnaissance in one of the Izyum directions, discovered a lot of equipment, a command post and a place of residence for enemy personnel. The intelligence data was promptly received by the fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who worked on Russian positions with artillery, and the guardsmen made adjustments to the fire.

09:33 German Finance Minister Christian Lindner proposes to stop funding the bureau of former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder because of his position in support of Russia, reports Funke. The minister called for a general review of the rules for granting offices and employees to former chancellors and federal presidents.

09:08 The Russians shot down two evacuation buses in Popasna, Lugansk region, communication with the drivers was lost, Nikolai Khanatov, head of the Popasnyansk city VGA, said: “Yesterday we evacuated 31 people from Popasna. There were much more people who wanted to, so we sent two more buses to the city. that they reached the settlement and came under fire from the enemy DRG. The buses were shot. There is no contact with the people who were in the vehicle and organized the evacuation."

09:07 The positions of Moldova and Transnistria have drawn closer against the backdrop of tensions related to the situation in Ukraine, said Nikolay Tsvyatkov, deputy director of the Moldovan Reintegration Bureau.

09:00 British intelligence notes that despite the fact that Russia is trying to overcome the shortcomings of its army, it turns out that it is not very successful. The Russian Federation hopes to correct the problems that previously held back its invasion by geographically focusing combat power, shrinking supply lines and simplifying command and control.

But the Russian army still faces significant challenges. She was forced to unite and redeploy exhausted and scattered units in unsuccessful offensives in northeastern Ukraine. Many of these units are likely to suffer from weakened morale.

Shortcomings in Russian tactical coordination also remain. Lack of unit-level skills and intermittent air support prevented Russia from fully exploiting its combat mass despite localized improvements.

08:57 Military assistance to Ukraine, which is included in Biden's request to the US Congress for $33 billion, is designed to pay for military supplies five months in advance, the Pentagon said. First of all, the United States plans to provide those systems that do not require long and complex preparation and to which Ukrainians can switch in a week.

08:51 Lavrov, in an interview with Xinhua, said that negotiations with Ukraine are going on daily via video link. The agenda includes issues of "denazification", "recognition of new geopolitical realities", the status of the Russian language, and the lifting of sanctions.

As for security guarantees for Ukraine, according to the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, one of the possible options is "the creation of an institution of guarantor states, among which, first of all, permanent members of the UN Security Council, including Russia and China."

Lavrov stressed that the negotiations are "not easy" because "NATO is doing everything to prevent the completion of the "special operation" by reaching political agreements."

08:42 This morning, the occupiers fired on the neighborhood of Velyka Kostroma in the Krivoy Rog region - they hit the fields, none of the people were injured, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council Nikolai Lukashuk said. Also, one of the villages of the Sinelnikovsky district, bordering on the Zaporozhye and Donetsk regions, was fired upon. Information about the destruction and casualties is being specified.

08:23 In the Lugansk region, the enemy launched 16 massive artillery attacks over the past day, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai. According to him, the Russians are storming Rubizhne and Popasnaya until they are defeated. Near Popasna, the Russians fired on a car with volunteers, there were no casualties.

07:41 During the day on the territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, the Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled 14 enemy attacks. 11 tanks, seven artillery systems, 28 armored vehicles and 14 vehicles were destroyed, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports in the morning report .

05:56 Rosenergoatom - a division of the Russian state nuclear company Rosatom - sent a group of its nuclear specialists to the Zaporozhye NPP. They require daily reports from the plant management on confidential matters relating to the operation of the nuclear power plant, the IAEA said in a statement. The staff of the Zaporozhye NPP "works under incredible pressure," the Ukrainian side said.

05:10 Pope Francis appealed to Putin three times with a request to allow a vessel flying the flag of the Vatican to evacuate civilians from Azovstal, but all three times his request was rejected, according to the Italian newspaper Il Messaggero.

04:25 War criminals of the Russian Federation will receive the first sentences in at least a year and a half or two , said the Minister of Justice of Ukraine Denys Malyuska.

03:58 Russia is several days behind the schedule for a military offensive in eastern Ukraine, a senior Pentagon official said, The New York Times writes. According to the source, the Russian Federation is behind schedule for its offensive in Donbas due to stiff resistance and ongoing supply problems.

01:32 The United States began additional training of Ukrainian Armed Forces specialists at one of the military bases in Germany, Pentagon Speaker John Kirby said. He clarified that the bulk of the exercises in Germany are being conducted by the Florida National Guard, which already has extensive experience in interacting with the Ukrainian military. Moreover, according to a Pentagon representative, in addition to Germany, at least two more locations have been deployed in Europe outside of Ukraine, where the military of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is being trained to use foreign weapons.

01:01 The Upper House of the Parliament of Canada has supported the recognition of Russia's aggression against Ukraine as genocide, Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk said. According to him, the Senate adopted a resolution identical to the one that was recently supported by the House of Commons.

00:43 Zelensky in an interview with the Polish media called the formula for security guarantees for Ukraine, it sounds like this: "people are hours." The bottom line is that the countries - guarantors of security send their military as soon as possible: "No matter how cynical it may sound. The ability to save the number of people depends on the number of terms, weapons. In terms of blood and losses, these are people - hours ... We just we speak from our own experience, and many countries already agree with it. We say: “people are clocks.” We need security guarantees precisely “people are clocks”.

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