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21 April 2022
Over the past two days, the Azov Regiment has destroyed three enemy tanks, two infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) and one armored personnel carrier (APC) in the besieged city of Mariupol.
On Wednesday, April 20, four evacuation buses departed from Mariupol through the humanitarian corridor. The evacuation is expected to continue on Thursday, April 21.
Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal discussed with the Prime Minister of Ireland, Micheál Martin, pressing issues and challenges facing Ukraine and Europe. The meeting took place on April 20 in Shannon (Republic of Ireland).
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov reportedly received a plan to assassinate Ukraine’s top leaders on February 3 during his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Russia has rejected a proposal by UN Secretary-General António Guterres to declare a four-day humanitarian ceasefire during the Easter holidays to take civilians out of Mariupol and deliver humanitarian aid to war-torn areas.
David Arakhamia, the head of the Ukrainian negotiating delegation, says he and Mykhailo Podoliak, an adviser to the head of the President's Office and a member of the delegation, are ready to leave for Mariupol for talks as soon as they receive confirmation from Russia.
Five civilians were injured in Russian shelling of Donetsk region on Wednesday, April 20.
20 April 2022
Mariupol defenders consider Russia’s proposal to disarm and surrender unacceptable. Against the guarantees of the third party, they are ready to evacuate with small arms, taking the wounded and the bodies of the fallen with them.
The humanitarian corridor from the besieged city of Mariupol has failed to work as planned today.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he is not sure when the besieged port city of Mariupol will be unblocked, but Ukraine is ready for any exchange format.
NATO could be involved in evacuation of civilians from Mariupol - Nuland
NATO allies could be involved in the safe passage of civilians and the wounded from the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol.
About 120,000 people remain trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol, Donetsk region.
Russian invaders on April 19 declared a "ceasefire regime" in Mariupol to ensure the safe evacuation of civilians from shelters at the Azovstal steel works, but they began shelling the area of the plant.
Ihor Halushka, a member of the Ukrainian Invictus Games team, climbed the podium to receive a gold medal and unfurled the Ukrainian flag reading "Save Mariupol".
Russians could drop phosphorus bombs on Mariupol. The use of chemical weapons is not ruled out.
On April 20, 2022, a humanitarian corridor was approved to evacuate women, children and the elderly from the besieged city of Mariupol.
The Russian military continues to face environmental, logistical and technical challenges during their assault on Ukraine's eastern Donbas region, with the Ukrainian Armed Forces repulsing their attacks.
Russian troops are regrouping in order to continue their offensive toward the town of Lyman in the Donetsk region.
Russian invaders continue to forcibly deport Ukrainians from temporarily occupied territories to Russia, as Nazi Germany once did.
The Azov Regiment has stated that the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol was destroyed by heavy bombs and many people were trapped under its rubble.
19 April 2022
Since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has recorded 4,890 civilian casualties in the country: 2,104 killed and 2,862 wounded.
The playbook applied by Russian President Vladimir Putin has not changed. Russia earlier tortured and executed civilians in concentration camps in Chechnya.
The Russian armed forces intensified offensive operations in eastern Ukraine.
Ukraine and Russia have exchanged prisoners of war for the fifth time since start of the Russian invasion, with a total of 76 Ukrainians returning home.
The Security Service of Ukraine released an interception of a phone call in which a Russian serviceman talks about the leadership’s order to raze Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol to the ground.
In Donetsk and Luhansk regions, Ukraine's defenders repulsed seven enemy attacks, destroying ten main battle tanks, eighteen armored units, and eight vehicles, an artillery system, and a mortar.
The US Department of State says recent Russian missile strikes on Lviv, the suburbs of Kyiv and other cities illustrate that Putin's forces are undertaking a campaign of terror and "despicable aggression" against the civilian population in Ukraine.
It is only a matter of time when the entire territory of the Ukrainian state will be liberated.
The commander of the Azov Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Denys Prokopenko, has called on world leaders to organize a humanitarian corridor in order to evacuate civilians and the wounded who stay at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol.