After the evacuation of around 260 Ukrainian soldiers from the Asow-Stahlwerk in Mariupol, the location of the city’s remaining defenders in the huge industrial complex remains unclear. President Volodymyr Zelenskyj said on Wednesday night that influential international mediators were involved in the efforts to rescue them.
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Im east of Ukraine fighting continues, in other regions there are Russian airstrikes.
The situation at a glance:
- the good 260 soldiers that the Azovstal plant left on the night of Tuesday, went there in Russian captivity. Kyiv hopes for a slater exchange for Russian prisoners of war, Russia’s military initially left such a step open. Moscow released a video purporting to show the Ukrainians being arrested, receiving medical treatment and the evacuation of the injured. A good 50 of the soldiers are said to be seriously wounded.
- Russia is determined that boccupied Kherson region in southern Ukraine to bind to oneself. The region around the port city will become one “worthy place in our Russian family” Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Marat Chusnullin said during a visit to Kherson on Tuesday. The Russian state agency Ria Novosti quoted him as saying that people will live and work together in the future.
- Russia was already leading in the region as of May 1st Russian ruble as official tender a. A few days ago, the deputy chief of the pro-Russian administration in Cherson, Kirill Stremoussov, brought up a formal application for Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin to join the conversation. The Abandonment of a previously considered referendum he justified the fact that such a referendum on the Crimean Peninsula, annexed by Russia in 2014, was not internationally recognized. The Ukrainian government, on the other hand, is convinced that a Russification of the Cherson region will fail.
- In the between Russian and Ukrainian troops contested Donetsk region are on Tuesday according to authorities seven civilians killed been. Six others were injured, Ukrainian military governor Pavlo Kyrylenko told the Telegram news service. He accused Russian troops of killing the people. Zelenskyy counted Rocket attacks and bombings in Lviv, Sumy, Chernihiv and Luhansk regions on. The Russian military wants to compensate for the failures in the east and south.
- According to Ukrainian information, a disused gypsum factory of the German company Knauf by the Russian Air Force bombed. “The air strikes damaged business premises and a fire broke out,” military governor of Donetsk region Pavlo Kyrylenko wrote in the Telegram news service. Nobody was injured. Knauf shut down the plant shortly after the Russian invasion. The company confirmed on Tuesday evening that the plant in Soledor in the Donbass was hit by a rocket and set on fire.
- In view of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine, the United States a conflict observatory started. The new Conflict Observatory should ensure “that crimes committed by Russia’s troops will be documented and the perpetrators held accountable”, said a spokesman for the State Department. Among other things, the program will collect, analyze and publish information and evidence of “atrocities, human rights violations and damage to civilian infrastructure”. Reports would henceforth be on the website ConflictObservatory.org posted.
- After tensions in the relationship between Kyiv and Berlin Selenskyj his phone call with Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) on Tuesday as “quite productive” designated. Among other things, military support for Ukraine was discussed, Zelenskyy said in his daily video address. He informed Scholz about the current military situation and its possible future development.
- Selenskyj chose slightly different words to be Conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron to describe. This entertainment is “substantial and long” been, he said. Among other things, it was about the next round of European sanctions against Russia and Ukraine’s plans for rapid accession to the European Union. According to the Élysée Palace, Macron promised that the Arms shipments from France would continue and intensify. He also confirmed that about the discussed Ukraine’s EU accession in June should be.
- Of the Ukrainian President announced last night via video link to the guests of the Cannes Film Festivals fluent. In a speech during the opening ceremony, he drew a comparison to Charlie Chaplin’s film “The Great Dictator”to call on cinema not to be “silent” in the face of the Russian attack on Ukraine. “Hundreds of people die every day,” he said Selenskyj. “They won’t get up after the final applause.” He asked, “Will the cinema be silent or talk about it? If there is a dictator, if there is a war of freedom, everything again depends on our cohesion. (…) We need a new Chaplin who proves that cinema is not silent these days.”
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