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18 April 2022
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has recorded 4,890 civilian casualties in Ukraine since the Russian invasion started, including 2,072 killed and 2,818 injured.
In Russia’s Rostov region, the invaders continue to form additional units and plan to complete them by April 24. Meanwhile, helipads are rolled out in Belgorod region.
Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Liudmyla Denisova informed about the facts of the illegal deportation of 13 Ukrainian orphans by the Russian military from Mariupol to Russia.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has informed President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda about the heroic defense of Mariupol, Donetsk region, from Russian invaders.
Vladimir Putin’s crony Viktor Medvedchuk, earlier arrested by the SBU while trying to flee the country, has addressed the Ukrainian and Russian presidents with a proposal to exchange him for defenders and residents of Mariupol.
Vladimir Putin’s crony Viktor Medvedchuk, earlier arrested by the SBU while trying to flee the country, has addressed the Ukrainian and Russian presidents with a proposal to exchange him for defenders and residents of Mariupol.
Medvedchuk appeals to Zelensky, Putin to swap him for besieged Mariupol residents, defenders
The invaders are believed to be forcibly holding more than 20,000 people in filtration camps along the Mangush-Nikolske-Yalta line.
Russians holding up to 27,000 people in “filtration camps” near Mariupol
In Luhansk region, due to Russian invaders failing to penetrate the cities, they keep pummeling them from afar.
Shelling populated areas within Mariupol, Russian troops are using the same tactics that were previously used in Chechnya and Syria.
Russian invaders have failed to expand a bridgehead on the left bank of the Siverskyi Donets and create conditions for the rapid deployment of troops.
Ukraine has neither technical nor arms advantage over the enemy and, thus, needs much greater assistance than what it receives now.
On Sunday, April 17, two people were killed and four more were injured in the enemy shelling of Donetsk region.
A large number of civilians – women, the elderly, children, including an infant, are hiding in the territory of the Azovstal iron and steelworks in Mariupol.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky spoke with journalists of Ukrinform, Ukrayinska Pravda, LB.ua, LIGA.net, RBC-Ukraine and Obozrevatel.
Russian military has forcibly taken about 150 children out of Mariupol, including about 100 sick and wounded children from hospital.
17 April 2022
Ukraine is not willing to give up territory in the eastern part of the country to end the war with Russia, and Ukraine's military is prepared to fight Moscow's military in the Donbas region in a battle he says could influence the course of the entire war.
The Russian forces are erasing the letter Z from their military hardware, setting up Ukrainian flags, in an apparent preparation for provocations in Zaporizhia region.
In the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, residents are beginning to lose any illusions they might have had about Russia.
After President Volodymyr Zelensky's interview with the BBC, Russian propaganda scrambled to "deny" the use of mobile crematoria by invaders in Ukraine.
A total of 808,000 Ukrainians have been taken from Ukraine to the Russian Federation, including 153,000 children.
Russia will be responsible for everything it has done in Ukraine, for everything it has done against Ukrainians.
Information on possible preparations by Russia for a naval landing operation in Mariupol is being checked.
Russia continues to move its army units to the territory of Ukraine from Kursk, Bryansk and Voronezh regions, according to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Ukrainian authorities do not forget about the towns and villages, temporarily occupied by Russian invaders.
Due to the deliberate actions of the Russian military, the situation in Mariupol remains as dire as possible.
Russia's Defense Ministry is circulating a fake report, claiming their army has cleansed Mariupol of Azov Regiment fighters.
16 April 2022
Reuters journalists have visited the besieged city of Mariupol, namely the area of Illich Steel and Iron Works, one of two metals plants, where Ukrainian defenders were holding out in underground tunnels and bunkers.
Military commissariats of the Central Military District of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are encouraging conscripts, who are in reserve, to sign short-term contracts for a period of three months to one year.