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2023-04-13 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: April 12th, 2023
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Korrespondent] 22:24 Zelensky said in an evening video message that he took part in a meeting of a special format of support for Ukraine - financial: "The event is held in Washington and brings together the finance ministers of strong democracies - our partners, the European Commission, the heads of international financial institutions: the IMF, the World Bank, the European Bank reconstruction and development. The topic is, first of all, the restoration of Ukraine after hostilities... There will be no ruins in Ukraine. This is our goal. And this will be quite concrete proof of the complete defeat of the terrorist state."
"Russian assets should go to renewal after the aggression. The war should turn out to be the most expensive - just for the aggressor," the president stressed.
21:45 Czech President Petr Pavel said that if the fact of the execution of a Ukrainian prisoner of war by the Russians is confirmed, then "this will put Russian soldiers next to the Islamic State, which we must all condemn."
21:29 Representatives of the United States and Latvia confirmed that their military personnel are in Ukraine, but stressed that they are not participating in hostilities. For example, John Kirby, coordinator for strategic communications at the White House National Security Council, said that the US embassy in Ukraine has "a small US military contingent working together with the defense attaché's office." At the same time, he stressed that the US military in the embassy does not participate in the war.
The Latvian Ministry of Defense said it sent troops to Ukraine to perform certain support functions, including guarding the embassy and cargo, but they also do not participate in hostilities.
21:23 Rumors about the impending counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been circulating for a long time. This stimulates strong pressure from Ukrainian society to start the operation. Recently, however, there have been speculations that Ukraine has postponed the offensive. About why this happened - in the material Many reasons .
20:54 The World Bank will provide Ukraine with a $200 million grant to help restore energy infrastructure. The partners will also provide another $300 million in additional funding as the project expands, Reuters writes.
20:19 The Ukrainian military was beheaded by Wagner mercenaries - the voices of their former colleagues were identified by ex-PMC fighter Andrei Medvedev, who fled to Norway, said human rights activist Vladimir Osechkin. "He unambiguously identifies his colleagues there, PMC Wagner fighters, by their characteristic call signs, by the way they talk, by what they voice over the radio," Osechkin says. He promised a reward of 3,000 euros for any information about a person in the frame who wields a knife, and a video operator who comments, approves and directs the actions of the executioner.
According to Osechkin, the decapitation of prisoners by PMC Wagner fighters is not the first time. He recalled the videos from Syria, in which the Wagnerites not only beat a man with a sledgehammer, but also pose with a severed head. The beheading video was created by order of the security services to intimidate the enemy, the human rights activist believes.
20:06 Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said that he received Belarusian Foreign Minister Sergei Aleinik because Budapest is committed to peace in Ukraine and wants to avoid the expansion of the war. In turn, Aleinik during the visit called for an immediate truce in Ukraine and the start of peace talks. He added that Minsk "has taken and will continue to make every possible effort to de-escalate the conflict in Ukraine."
19:54 Zelensky announced that he had met with a bipartisan delegation of the US Senate of the US Congress consisting of Joseph Manchin, Lisa Murkowski and Mark Kelly: "I informed about the situation on the front line and shared assessments of the prospects for its development. We discussed in detail the further directions of American assistance and the role of Congress in this process.”
19:27 Russians today fired twice at the village of Dvurechnaya, Kupyansky district, Kharkiv region: two people were killed, one was injured, the prosecutor's office said.
18:53 The Russians are preparing for the deportation of more than 2.7 thousand children from the Lugansk region , the OVA reported. In particular, medical examinations of children continue in the so-called "LPR", after which a certain number of them disappear. Doctors from the Russian Federation have already examined more than 94,000 children, as the occupiers themselves stated. “Pathology” of varying degrees was allegedly “discovered” in 69.6% of them, which already gives rise to deportation. Referrals for hospitalization, usually to medical institutions on the territory of the Russian Federation, were issued to 2,726 children.
18:37 Shmygal, during a trip to the United States, met with Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin, thanked him for his leadership in defense support and called for more weapons, including fighter jets, to be provided to Ukraine. He stressed that the Armed Forces of Ukraine need more anti-aircraft systems, as well as artillery and ammunition. In addition, the prime minister called on the United States to reconsider the possibility of providing Ukraine with longer-range missile systems.
18:14 The United States has imposed new sanctions against dozens of individuals and entities associated with Russia. The sanctions lists include Megafon, Metalloinvest, Deputy Prime Minister Khusnullin, Yunarmiya, and 19 merchant ships.
In addition, citizens of Hungary, Cyprus and Uzbekistan, as well as the International Investment Bank, headquartered in Budapest, fell under the new anti-Russian sanctions. Rusatom Overseas, the Rosatom company responsible for building nuclear science and technology centers abroad, also came under restrictions. The US Treasury also announced that, together with Britain, it is imposing sanctions against structures controlled by Alisher Usmanov.
18:08 Ukraine sent Brazil at least two requests with a list of weapons that it would like to receive or purchase, but these requests were ignored there, writes The New York Times. The lists included armored vehicles, aircraft, air defense systems, mortar shells, ammunition, and small arms. Germany also made a similar request. Brazil once bought German Gepard anti-aircraft guns, and Berlin wanted to buy shells for them, but Brazil was against their delivery to Ukraine.
17:39 Zelensky received the highest state awards from the government of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in exile - the Order of the Honor of the Nation (Qoman Sij) and the Order named after Dzhokhar Dudayev. The head of state was honored for outstanding services and selfless actions in the name of freedom and democracy throughout the world and for personal services to the Chechen people. The awards were personally handed over by the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Kirill Budanov.
17:13 Spain will send six Leopard 2A4 tanks to Ukraine in the coming days, Defense Minister Margarita Robles said. They should arrive before the end of April. Four more tanks are under repair.
16:57 Reznikov denied media reports with reference to "secret documents" of the Pentagon about the alleged presence of NATO military in Ukraine: "The presence of NATO military is not true. Unless we consider that there is an official representative of the armed forces in every embassy."
The minister also said that the leak of "secret documents" is a mixture of true and false information. In addition, according to him, any information contained in the documents is no longer relevant. Reznikov believes that these leaks are beneficial to Russia and its allies.
16:53 The court in Cherkassy chose a preventive measure for Metropolitan of Cherkasy and Kanev UOC-MP Theodosius - he was sent under house arrest for 60 days. The metropolitan is suspected of inciting interfaith hatred and justifying, recognizing as legitimate, denying Russia's armed aggression against Ukraine, glorifying its participants.
16:38 Pakistan is going to send 230 containers of military equipment to Ukraine in April. Two ships MV Bokram and MV Kherson with military assistance will leave the port of Karachi, writes The Economic Times. Vessels carrying weapons from Pakistan to Ukraine are increasingly flying American and European flags, sources said. Ports in Poland and Germany are key to the transfer of weapons from Pakistan, including tanks and missiles.
16:15 Ukrainian human rights activists have set up one hundred places in the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine and in Russia, where 948 civilian Ukrainians are being held, representatives of the Media Initiative for Human Rights and NGO Civil Captives said . According to experts, work on the map lasted a year. In particular, social networks and websites were monitored to identify people who disappeared during the period of occupation.
At the same time, human rights activists add that new prisons are discovered almost every day, so their total number may be several hundred, and hostages - up to 15,000.
15:24 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine called on the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to immediately pay attention to another atrocity of the Russian military in the context of the investigation of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by citizens of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine.
The department emphasizes that the murder of a Ukrainian prisoner, recorded on video, is a serious violation of the Geneva Conventions and a war crime in accordance with the provisions of the Criminal Code of Ukraine and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Under the Rome Statute, such acts can also be qualified as crimes against humanity.
15:20 The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights called shocking videos with beheadings, as well as mutilated bodies of two Ukrainian soldiers. At the same time, they added that such cases are not isolated - the UN documented 15 executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war in a year.
In turn, the representative of the EU foreign service, Nabila Massrali, called the video with the beheading of the Ukrainian military "another reminder of the inhumanity of Russian aggression." According to her, Russia has once again demonstrated a complete disregard for international law.
15:11 The Russians hit residential buildings in Nikopol, Dnepropetrovsk region, four people were injured. 13 private houses were damaged, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Lysak.
15:07 The United States is leasing 500,000 155 mm artillery shells from South Korea, which will allow Washington to increase the supply of shells to Ukraine from its own stocks after they are replenished at the expense of South Korean ones, the DongA Ilbo newspaper writes. According to government sources, South Korea has decided not to sell the munitions, but to borrow them to minimize the likelihood of these shells being used in the war in Ukraine.
The US purchased 100,000 of these munitions last year and asked for the same in February, but the South Korean government decided to use the loan method, adhering to the principle of not providing lethal weapons to Ukraine.
14:59 The Russians fired on the village of Dvurechnaya, Kupyansky district, Kharkiv region. According to preliminary information, two people were wounded, both in serious condition, Oleg Sinegubov, the head of the OVA, said.
14:55 The Washington Post writes that Ukraine allegedly postponed the counteroffensive due to weather, slow supplies of equipment and a shortage of ammunition, as well as leaks of American intelligence documents.
14:29 France is blocking the implementation of the approved EU plan for the joint purchase of ammunition, including for shipment to Ukraine, the Polish edition of PAP reports, citing sources. In particular, Paris wants refunds to be possible not only for ammunition, but also for missiles, even in a situation where Ukraine does not ask for such missiles. Some EU countries, including Poland, are protesting against this.
According to some diplomats, lobbying by defense companies may be behind the French position. We are talking about creating a mechanism for the forced order of specific equipment that the Ukrainian side may not need.
14:07 Serbian Defense Minister Milos Vucevic denied media reports about arms supplies to Ukraine. He stressed that Serbia has not sold and will not sell weapons to either the Ukrainian or Russian side.
13:43 The US Defense Intelligence Agency considered four "wild" scenarios for the development of the war in Ukraine, NYT writes with reference to a secret document. In particular, hypothetical scenarios include the death of Putin, Zelensky, a change in the leadership of the Russian army, and a Ukrainian attack on the Kremlin. At the same time, the Biden administration is allegedly particularly concerned about a possible strike on Moscow, since this could lead to a sharp escalation from Russia, including a full-scale mobilization or the use of tactical nuclear weapons.
13:32 Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar urged to stop the distribution of a video of the execution of a Ukrainian prisoner, as well as any similar video footage. "Now that everyone has already seen it, prosecutors and the International Court of Justice should watch it," she stressed.
Malyar assured that the competent Ukrainian services are carefully studying the video frame by frame in order to identify war criminals and identify the deceased. She added that identifying a person from a video, and even more so a person in such circumstances, is an extremely difficult task, and called for refraining from publicly voicing any versions before official conclusions.
13:18 Peskov called the footage of the murder of a Ukrainian prisoner of war "terrible", but urged to first check the authenticity - "whether this took place, and if so, where and from whom."
12:57 Pentagon after the leak of classified documents reduces the number of employees with access to such data, according to CBS.
12:24 The purpose of the video with the execution of the Ukrainian military is to intimidate the Ukrainians and discourage the Russians from surrendering, said Andrei Yusov, spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense. At the same time, he assured that, despite such videos, Ukraine continues to adhere to the Geneva Conventions and takes Russians prisoner without such reprisals.
12:01 Yermak and Kuleba called Russia's UN presidency absurd after the video of the execution of a Ukrainian prisoner was made public. They called for the expulsion of Russian terrorists from the UN and bringing them to justice.
11:49 British intelligence reports that over the past weeks, Russia has been rebuilding the linear defense in the Zaporozhye region, creating three levels of defense zones for about 120 km. Defensive fortifications consist of a front line of advanced combat positions, and then two zones of almost continuous, more complex defense. Each zone is about 10-20 km behind the front.
Analysts suggest that the Southern Group of Russian Forces is responsible for this territory. Probably, in this way the Russians are preparing for the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Melitopol. Intelligence notes that the effectiveness of such protection will depend on the support of a sufficient amount of artillery and personnel. It remains unclear whether the Southern Group of Forces is now able to collect these resources.
11:36 Great Britain expanded the sanctions list against Russia. It includes the USM holding, Medvedchuk's wife Oksana Marchenko, as well as family members of several Russian businessmen.
11:13 The published video of the execution of a Ukrainian prisoner by Russian war criminals is a video of Russia as it is, Zelensky said: "There is something that cannot be ignored by anyone in the world: how easily these animals kill. This is a video of the execution of a Ukrainian prisoner... World must see. This is a video of Russia as it is... This is a video of Russia that is trying to make this the new normal - this habit of destroying life. This is not an accident. This is not an episode. It happened before. It happened in Bucha. Thousands of times" .
"We are not going to forget anything. And forgive the killers. Legal responsibility will be for everything. We need to lose terror," the president stressed.
10:44 US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said that he spoke by phone with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmitry Kuleba, discussed the strengthening of Ukrainian air defense and the possibilities for the upcoming counteroffensive. Kuleba indicated that the United States has no doubts about Ukraine's ability to win on the battlefield.
10:32 The SBU launched a pre-trial investigation into a war crime - brutal torture and murder by Russian occupiers of a Ukrainian prisoner whose head was cut off.
09:35 CNN journalists found another video of the beheading of Ukrainian soldiers by PMC Wagner mercenaries. The weather conditions in the frame indicate that the execution took place recently. CNN does not publish footage of the murder, but the description indicates that two soldiers had their heads and hands cut off.
09:28 In the Donetsk region, as a result of Russian shelling over the past day, one person was killed (in Vugledar), eight more people were injured. In the Kherson region, one person died, in the Kharkiv region - one was injured, according to the OVA.
09:14 The head of the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin, said that the United States will "turn over every stone" to find the source of the leak of secret documents. He became the first US senior official to comment on the leak.
09:05 The "authorities" of the occupied Crimea and Sevastopol decided not to hold parades and marches of the "immortal regiment" on May 9 "for security reasons," Aksyonov said.
08:59 One of the leaked "secret documents" of the Pentagon claims that Serbia has agreed to supply weapons to Ukraine or has already sent them, writes Reuters. At the same time, Serbia refused to train the Ukrainian military. The document also states that Serbia has the political will and military capability to provide weapons to Ukraine in the future.
08:55 In one of the leaked "secret documents" of the Pentagon, it is mentioned that special forces of several countries are operating in Ukraine, which formally do not participate in the war. The Guardian writes that between February and March, up to 50 British special forces could be in Ukraine.
The document, dated March 23, says that the UK (50 people), Latvia (17), France (15), the USA (14) and the Netherlands (1) have the largest contingent of special forces in Ukraine. The document does not indicate exactly where they were and what tasks they could perform.
08:41 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of April 12.
- personnel - about 180,050 (+730) people liquidated,
- tanks - 3646 (+2),
- armored combat vehicles - 7043 (+5),
- artillery systems - 2770 (+5),
- MLRS - 535 (+0),
- air defense systems - 282 (+0),
- aircraft - 307 (+0),
- helicopters - 293 (+0),
- UAV operational-tactical level - 2334 (+2),
- cruise missiles - 911 (+0),
- ships/boats - 18 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tankers - 5630 (+10),
- special equipment - 319 (+3).
08:24 The Russian army continues to focus its main efforts on conducting offensive operations in the Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky and Maryinsky directions. Over the past day, 72 enemy attacks were repulsed in the indicated directions, the General Staff reported in the morning summary .
06:32 The UN confirmed the death of 8490 Ukrainian civilians due to the Russian invasion. Another 14,244 were injured, according to the organization. At the same time, the UN emphasizes that these data are not final, and the real number of those killed due to hostilities in Ukraine may be much higher.
05:47 Russian publics are spreading a video of the brutal murder of a Ukrainian prisoner. It shows how a masked Russian soldier cuts off the head of a Ukrainian defender with a knife, who was still alive at that time. The Russians demonstrate the severed head to the camera and say that it should be sent to the commander of the victim. Also, the Russian military demonstrates to the camera the bulletproof vest of the executed Ukrainian military. You can also see green leaves in the video, so it's probably from last year.
04:01 Ukraine can succeed in the offensive on the front, said US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin: "The Armed Forces of Ukraine have every opportunity to succeed. We have trained, trained a huge number of personnel and provided a large number of platforms. I think they are in are sufficiently prepared to continue offensive actions and operations... I am sure that the leadership of Ukraine will continue to fight the enemy. They have a plan, but only the President of Ukraine and the leadership of the country know the details of these plans."
00:46 Another one has joined the assault brigades of the Offensive Guard - the Kharkov Charter, said Deputy Interior Minister Kateryna Pavlichenko. According to her, due to the large number of requests, it was decided to create a new brigade. She will be the ninth in the Offensive Guard, recruitment has already begun.
00:22 Shmygal, on the eve of his visit to Washington, said in an interview with The Hill that Western partners do not put pressure on Ukraine on the issue of a future counteroffensive, and the strongest pressure is felt from within the country. According to the prime minister, the counteroffensive could begin this summer.
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