Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – The war between Russia and Ukraine is still going on. It’s been at least 53 days since the Kremlin’s army offensive took place in the neighboring country.
What are the latest facts? Here’s a summary CNBC Indonesia, from a number of sources:
1. Putin believes Russia will win
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer told NBC that Russian President Vladimir Putin believes he won the war in Ukraine. Nehammer is the first European leader to meet Putin face-to-face since the offensive began in Moscow on February 24.
He said he could not fully explain Putin’s reasons for the claim. But he stressed that Putin had “his own war logic”.
“(Putin) sent me a clear message of his concern and that he seems to have a full understanding of what is going on there,” he said in an interview with NBCSunday.
Nehammer said his discussions with Putin were not friendly ones. It was an honest and difficult conversation.
“I told him what I saw. I saw war crimes. I saw the massive loss of the Russian army,” he said.
2. Russia has full control of Mariupol?
Russia claims to have fully controlled Mariupol. Mariupol is an important port city in Ukraine, which is the scene of the heaviest war between the two countries and is believed to have suffered the worst humanitarian catastrophe.
The Kremlin said it had occupied a local steel mill, an area where Ukrainian forces are concentrated. If true, this would be the first major city in Ukraine that Russia was able to occupy after launching the February 24 attack.
“The entire urban area of Mariupol has been completely cleared … the remnants of the Ukrainian group are currently completely blockaded on the territory of the Azovstal metallurgical plant,” said Main Spokesman of the Russian Defense Ministry, Igor Konashenkov, as quoted by Al Jazeera, Sunday.
However, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal denied this. He said Ukrainian troops in the southeastern port city of Mariupol were still fighting and had not surrendered, according to
“The city (Mariupol) has not fallen yet. There are still our military forces, our soldiers so they will fight to the end and for now they are still in Mariupol,” Shmyhal said in an interview. ABC News.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said the “situation” in Mariupol “may be a red line” in negotiations with Russia. The situation there, he said, was dire.
“The situation in Mariupol is dire, militarily and heartbreaking,” Kuleba said in the interview CBS.
“The city no longer exists. The rest of the Ukrainian army and other large groups of civilians were basically surrounded by the Russian troops. They continued their fight, but it seems from the way the Russian soldiers behaved in Mariupol, they decided to tear down the city at any cost.”
3. Zelensky Says Ukraine Will Not Give Up
Yesterday, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine would not give up territory in the east of his country to end the war with Russia.
Russia has withdrawn most of its troops in central Ukraine since a few weeks ago. However, since last week, Kremlin troops have been increasingly pounding Eastern Ukraine, namely the Donbas, which is the center of the government’s rebels.
“This is why it is so important for us not to let them (Russia),” Zelensky said in an exclusive interview.
“(Giving up Donbass) will be able to affect the course of the whole war,” he stressed, adding that Russia may try to attack the capital Kyiv again.
4. Russian Troops Withdraw in Borivs’kyi . District
The village council of Borova said in a statement on Telegram on Sunday (17/4/2022) that Russian troops had “gradually withdrawn” in the district of Borivs’kyi. This region is in Kharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine.
“There is no mobile connection and no Internet, which is impossible to restore because the territory is occupied by Russia,” he said, adding that “some places were left without electricity and gas.”
5. Where Did the Fierce Battle Occur?
Meanwhile, fierce Russian fighting took place in the Luhansk region of Eastern Ukraine. The head of the military administration of the Luhansk region, Serhii Haidai, said Russian shelling hit a church in the city of Severodonetsk.
At that time many Ukrainians celebrated Palm Sunday on April 17 according to the Julian calendar. “Orcs (a derogatory Ukrainian term for Russian troops) opened fire on the church in Severodonetsk on Palm Sunday,” Haidai said.
Five people were also killed in the rocket attack in Kharkiv. Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s interior minister, said five people were killed and 13 injured in the new rocket attack on Kharkiv.
6. Body Found Again
Ukrainian rescue teams on Saturday again recovered the bodies of civilians in the Borodianka region of Kyiv. This was done while dismantling the rubble of two high-rise apartment buildings destroyed by Russian shelling.
7. Number of Dead and Injured
Citing the latest United Nations Human Rights Council (OHCHR) data, at least 1,982 civilians died in the wars between Russia and Ukraine and 2,651 people were injured. However, this number is believed to be increasing.
Of the total killed, 511 were men and 323 were Anita. While 34 are girls and 56 are boys.
“There are 72 children (who died) and 986 adults although the gender is not yet clear,” the report said.
Meanwhile, of the injured residents, 313 were men, 53 were women, and 56 were boys. They are mostly in the Luhansk region of Eastern Ukraine.
They also spread in other regions like Kyiv, Kharkiv, Kherson. There were also injured victims found in Odesa, Sumi, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk dan Zhytomyr.
(tfa/sef)
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