War in Ukraine. Latest information on May 4th [papildināts 21.41]

Live text – short and concise on the highlights of Russia’s war in Ukraine on May 4. For the third month in a row, Ukraine has been heroically defending its land against the aggressor’s invasion.

21.41. Russian troops fired on a railway facility in the Dnipro on Wednesday, said Oleksandr Kamishin, head of the Ukrainian state railway company Ukrzaliznicija. Kamishin has reported on social networks that there has been another attack on the Dnipro railway infrastructure, but there are no casualties among railway workers. The extent of the damage will be clear once the air alarm has been lifted.

20.01. Russia is trying to impoverish Ukraine’s armed forces to prevent them from stockpiling Western weapons and must prepare for a long and bloody conflict, Oleksiy Arestovich, an adviser to the head of Ukraine’s office, warned on Wednesday..

18.54. A total of 3,238 civilians have been killed and 3,397 more injured in Ukraine since Russia’s repeated invasion on February 24, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said on Wednesday.

17.40. The Czech Republic is demanding a derogation from the European Commission’s (EC) proposed embargo on Russian oil, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said on Wednesday after the government meeting. The Czech Republic supports sanctions against Russia, but it should not suffer more than Russia, the prime minister said.

Anonymous sources told the EC that only Hungary and Slovakia, which are heavily dependent on Russian oil supplies, are planning extensive exemptions from the EU’s ban on buying Russian oil. As both countries do not have access to the sea, they cannot find alternative sources of supply as quickly as other countries.

16.41. Mariupol mayor Vadim Boychenko said in a televised television interview that the Mariupol defenders at the metallurgical company Azovstal have lost contact and it is unknown what is happening in Russia’s heavily fired complex.

Asked if a breakthrough is possible for “Azovstal”, Boichenko said that “unfortunately, today we have lost contact with the guys. There is no communication to understand what is happening. Are they safe or not.”

The mayor of Mariupol acknowledged that in any case one should be grateful to the heroic defenders of Mariupol, who detained the opponent and allowed the Ukrainian forces to prepare. “Our Mariupol defenders are real, masculine and heroic. Thank them for that,” Boichenko said.

15.52. Ukraine will not allow a “diplomatic swamp” like the frozen conflict in the country, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the Wall Street Journal.

“We will not allow a frozen conflict. I became president when there were ‘Minsk-1’, ‘Minsk-2’, there were relevant documents that were considered, so I can say that they were not serious documents. There was an agreement on paper, it was “I am against, we will definitely not have such a document,” Zelensky said of the Minsk format agreement reached after 2014 to settle relations between Ukraine and Russia.

14.29. The European Union (EU) is stepping up military aid to Moldova, European Council President Charles Michel said during a visit to Chisinau on Wednesday.

There have been incidents in the internationally unrecognized Republic of Transnistria (PMR) “caused by pro-war forces”. Concerns over a military escalation in the region have risen after Acting Commander of Russia’s Central Military District, Major General Rustam Minnikayev, said Russia’s 24 August invasion of Ukraine was aimed at establishing a corridor through southern Ukraine to Transnistria.

12.41. Belarus has launched military exercises on Wednesday to test the army’s reactive capabilities, the Belarusian Ministry of Defense said. Ukraine will follow the training closely. Kiev has repeatedly accused Belarus of plans to send troops to help the Russian army in Ukraine.

11.58. The European Union (EU) plans to impose a gradual ban on Russian oil imports in a latest sanctions package against Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, and three broadcasters, European Commission President Urzula von der Leiena said on Wednesday.

11.00. The loss of life force of Russian troops in Ukraine has reached about 24,500 soldiers by Wednesday morning, the Ukrainian Army General Staff reports.

Since the beginning of the invasion, the Russians have lost 1,077 tanks, 2,610 armored personnel carriers, 491 cannons, 163 multi-barrel jet launchers, 80 anti-aircraft artillery equipment, 194 aircraft, 155 helicopters, 1,867 cars and tankers, ten ships and speedboats, 303 unmanned aerial vehicles, 303 unmanned aerial vehicles. rockets.

The amount of Russia’s losses is being clarified, as the acquisition of information is being hampered by hostilities.

09.59. In order to destroy Ukraine’s infrastructure, Russia carried out missile strikes in eight areas of the country last day, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said on Wednesday.

Russian forces carried out rocket strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure in Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovohrad, Lviv, Vinnytsia, Kiev, Transcarpathia, Odessa and Donetsk, the general staff said on Facebook, describing the situation until Wednesday at 6 p.m.

08.30. Russian troops have exported about 400,000 tons of grain from four of Ukraine’s occupied territories, a third of all grain reserves in those areas, said Taras Visocki, Ukraine’s first deputy minister of agrarian policy and food.

07.00. Russian troops fired more than 20 missiles into various parts of Ukraine on Tuesday night, most of them from the Caspian region, Yuri Ihnat, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force, said.

05.15. The European Commission (EC) has proposed new sanctions on Russian oil exports in connection with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, EC officials confirmed to the German news agency DPA on Tuesday.

02.03. Russia is trying to quench its anger over its weakness with Ukraine’s rocket strikes on Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his night address.

00.17. Russian troops fired six railway stations in central and western Ukraine on Tuesday, Oleksandr Kamishin, chairman of the Ukrzaliznicja railway company, told Telegram.

00.10. The Russian army has fired on the Transcarpathians. Until now, the projectiles in this place had not fallen, reports pravda.com.ua.

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