Zelensky urges world to pressure Russia on prisoner exchange
Volodymyr Zelensky is convinced that the exchange of Ukrainians held in Russian captivity depends on the support of many states and calls on foreign partners to put pressure on Russia.
24 May 2022
Volodymyr Zelensky is convinced that the exchange of Ukrainians held in Russian captivity depends on the support of many states and calls on foreign partners to put pressure on Russia.
23 May 2022
The British Ministry of Defense has released a new map of hostilities in Ukraine as of Monday, May 23.
Russia is using a scorched-earth policy in eastern Ukraine, destroying the areas with aviation and artillery before Russian troops are entering them, but the Armed Forces of Ukraine are successfully repulsing enemy attacks.
Any information on the number and personal data of Ukrainian service members who left the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, which the International Committee of the Red Cross has or will have at its disposal, will remain confidential and will not be made public.
Russian invaders are planning to Russify the educational process in Mariupol in the new school year, introducing their own standards.
22 May 2022
Five civilians have been killed and 11 injured in Russia’s shelling of Donetsk Region over the past day.
The enemy now amasses all its forces to assault Sievierodonetsk. The town is being transformed into a new Mariupol.
After Borodianka and Mariupol, the world must not renew relations with Russia as if nothing had happened.
21 May 2022
In Donetsk region on Saturday, May 21, Russian troops killed seven civilians, injuring ten.
Film “Mariupol Fortress. Last Day at Azovstal” by Dmytro Kozatsky, an Azov Regiment fighter, the regiment's press secretary who spent 84 days at the steelworks next to his comrades, has been released.
Film “Mariupol Fortress. Last Day at Azovstal” by Dmytro Kozatsky, an Azov Regiment fighter, the regiment's press secretary who spent 84 days at the steelworks next to his comrades, has been released.
Almost 4,000 men from Mariupol are held in "filtration camps" in Bezimenne and Kozatske, Novoazovsk district, Donetsk region.
Russia has deported to its territory more than 1.3 million Ukrainians, including 17,306 people, in the last 24 hours alone.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine believes that top level negotiations between Ukraine and Russia will eventually take place, but the purpose of his meeting with Putin will depend on when such talks are held.
Leaders of France, Turkey, Israel, and Switzerland were involved in negotiations to withdraw Ukrainian defenders from the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol.
Advisor to Mariupol Mayor Petro Andriushchenko has shared a video depicting the so-called ‘evacuation’ (in fact, deportation) of Mariupol residents by Russian invaders. Local residents are told they are taken to Russia after boarding the buses only.
Russian troops do not stop trying to carry out the offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone in order to establish full control over the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions and maintain the land corridor with the temporarily occupied Crimea.
20 May 2022
Ukraine invites partner countries to sign a multilateral agreement and create a mechanism through which everyone who has suffered from Russia's actions will be able to receive compensation for all losses.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he believes that the evacuation of Ukrainian defenders from the Azovstal steel plant will be completed in the near future.
In Mariupol, the invaders will conduct a census of men aged 18 to 50 under the guise of forming a "labor reserve to clear the rubble," while these men are most likely to be later drafted into the army to fight against Ukraine’s forces.
The Russian government fears the freedom of Ukrainians, which is why journalists and the media are one of Putin's main targets.
Dmytro Kozatskyi, a Ukrainian fighter from the Azov Regiment, using the call sign ‘Orest’, has shared the photographs of Mariupol defenders, who were fighting against Russian invaders within the Mariupol-based Azovstal plant.
I personally witnessed haunting images of massive destruction in Irpin, Bucha, Borodyanka
Due to high pressure to achieve gains on the battlefield, Russian commanders are likely to redistribute their forces from Mariupol to other directions without proper preparation.
The results of Russia's "liberation" of Mariupol: the city is on verge of environmental disaster
Together we must ensure that there is no success for Russia in its aggression against Ukraine, either military, or economic, or any other.
19 May 2022
Deputy Commander of the Azov Regiment, Captain Sviatoslav Palamar (call sign Kalyna) recorded a video in which he denies the information that he left the territory of the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol and surrendered to Russian invaders.
Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, stressed during the NATO Military Committee in Chiefs of Defence meeting that Russian missile strikes pose a threat not only to Ukraine but NATO member states as well.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a phone call on Thursday agreed to step up work with allies to define the longer-term security architecture for Ukraine.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) started to register Ukrainian service members, including the wounded, who are being evacuated from the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol.