War in Ukraine. Latest information on May 12 [papildināts 20:56]

Live text – short and concise on the highlights of Russia’s war in Ukraine on May 12. For the third month in a row, Ukraine has been heroically defending its land against the aggressor’s invasion

22.34. Azovs, in spite of everything, continue to knock out the occupiers, reports pravda.com.ua.

21:25. The Ukrainian population continues to evacuate from the east of Ukraine, especially from the Donetsk region. Sometimes people are reluctant to leave the war-torn region without wanting to leave their homes and everything they own. However, as a result of the constant firing and bombing, everything that was dear to them was lost. Therefore, residents are rushing to evacuate the Donetsk region with the help of volunteers.

20:56. The UN Human Rights Council supported by a large majority a resolution launching an investigation into alleged war crimes committed by Russian troops in Ukraine. These are crimes allegedly committed at the beginning of the war. Ukraine has endured “ten weeks of complete horror”, Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister Emine Japarova told the council. Thousands of corpses have been found in recent weeks north of Kiev, and many of these people have been sentenced to death, according to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michel Bacelet. The resolution was supported by 33 countries, with 12 abstentions. Only China and Eritrea voted against the resolution tabled by Ukraine.

20:26. The European Commission (EC) today unveiled a package of measures that will help Ukraine to export agricultural products, LETA was informed by the EC Representation in Latvia. The EC Action Plan provides for the establishment of solidarity zones to ensure that Ukraine can export grain as well as the goods it needs, from humanitarian aid to animal feed and fertilizers. EU Transport Commissioner Adina Veleana explains that in less than three months, 20 million tonnes of grain will have to be exported from Ukraine via the EU’s infrastructure. “This is a huge problem, so it is important to coordinate and optimize logistics chains, introduce new routes and avoid congestion as much as possible,” she said.

19:43. Ukraine is in difficult talks with Russia over the withdrawal of 38 seriously injured soldiers from the territory of the Mariupol plant “Azovstal” surrounded by Russian troops, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk said on Thursday. “We are in very difficult negotiations to evacuate seriously wounded soldiers from Azovstal in exchange for the captured Russians,” the deputy prime minister said in a statement on social media. There are still more than 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers in the Azovstall tunnels, Vereshchuk said in an interview this week. Several hundred have been injured and Ukraine is in talks with Turkey to support the organization of the evacuation.

19:09. Lithuania has officially recalled its ambassador to Moscow, Eitvide Bajaruna, with effect from 1 June, according to a draft government decision registered on Thursday. In fact, Bajarun returned to Lithuania in early April after the government’s decision to reduce diplomatic representation in relations with Russia. The government also plans to liquidate the Lithuanian Consulate General in St. Petersburg from June 7, which Moscow closed after Lithuania’s decision to expel the Russian ambassador Alexei Isakov and the consulate in Klaipeda.

18:11. Russia is not able to fully restore the combat capabilities of the troops withdrawn from Ukraine, the Main Intelligence Department of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine said. During the war, Ukraine lost a significant part of its military and technical potential, and the Russians were forced to supply equipment and weapons manufactured 50-60 years ago in units that had suffered irreparable damage, the intelligence service said. “However, this situation does not confuse the Kremlin’s leadership, it does not care how much” cannon fodder “is sent in the battle for the” Russian world. ” It is not even possible to transport the equipment from the long-term storage depots to the army units, but the soldiers are forced to accept it and report to the command that the army units are fully equipped and secured, the intelligence website said in a statement.

17.19. The US TV channel CNN has published a surveillance camera recording from the vicinity of Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, showing Russian soldiers killing two unarmed civilians with shots in the back.

Ukrainian prosecutors are investigating the case as a war crime committed by Russia.

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13.50. In connection with the Russian invasion of the territory of Ukraine, the US has developed guidelines for the exchange of intelligence with Kiev, which stipulates that part of the information about Russia should not be provided to the Ukrainian side, The Washington Post reports. In order not to increase tensions with Russia, the internal instructions of US intelligence officers include two restrictions on the information to be provided to Ukraine.

12.31. Three people were killed and 14 injured in an airstrike in the Novhorod-Siverska Chernihiv region in northern Ukraine, a local government said on Thursday. The head of the municipality, Lyudmila Tkachenko, said that the condition of one victim was so serious that she could not be transferred to another hospital. Some of the victims have been taken to other medical facilities, while those with minor injuries are being treated at a local hospital.

11.36. The Czech Republic is in talks with Germany to secure the supply of tanks so that the Soviet tanks it owns can be sent to Ukraine, Czech Defense Minister Jan Chernochov said. The Czech Republic could receive German Leopard tanks, she told Czech public television, assuming it would not be the most advanced version of German tanks.

11.14. Russia has withdrawn its army units from the Kharkiv region to reorganize and replenish itself after heavy fighting in the fighting, according to another daily review by the British Ministry of Defense about the situation on the Ukrainian front.

10.41. The loss of life force of Russian troops in Ukraine has reached about 26,650 soldiers by Thursday morning, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Army reports. Since the beginning of the invasion, the Russians have lost 1,195 tanks, 2,873 armored personnel carriers, 534 cannons, 191 multi-barrel jet launchers, 87 anti-aircraft artillery units, 199 aircraft, 161 helicopters, 2019 cars and tankers, 13 ships and high-speed boats, 398 unmanned aerial vehicles rockets.

10.12. One of the commanders of Mariupol’s defenders addressed the world’s richest man, Ilona Mask, and asked for help from the city’s defenders surrounded by Russian troops. During the three-month Russian war against Ukraine, the strategic port city has been destroyed, but the Ukrainians continue to resist the territory of the metallurgical company “Azovstal”.

09.48. German industrial giant Siemens announced on Thursday that it would leave the Russian market in the wake of Moscow’s attack on Ukraine. Siemens says the company has already begun suspending all of its industrial operations in Russia. The company had previously stopped starting a new business in Russia and making deliveries to that country.

09.06. Russian troops continue their offensive in eastern Ukraine to gain full control of the Donetsk, Luhansk and Kherson regions and to establish a ground corridor on the occupied Crimean peninsula, the Ukrainian army headquarters reported on Thursday.

08.39. In Ukraine, since the start of the repeated invasion on February 24, 88 groups of saboteurs have been detected and 750 people have been detained for participating in the sabotage, Oleksiy Serheev, head of the Ukrainian police information department, said. “Since the beginning of the war, 88 sabotage and intelligence groups have been detected, 750 people have been detained for sabotage. Of these, 676 have been handed over to the Security Service of Ukraine,” he told a news conference.

484 criminal cases of collaborationism have been initiated by the Ukrainian police, Serheyev said, adding that the status of the suspect has been determined for 72 persons.

07.53. The EU and Japan have agreed to work together to counter the threat posed by the aggressor Russia and China’s growing influence.

Russia, which has launched an aggressive war against Ukraine, is the “most immediate threat” to the international order during a visit to Tokyo, said European Commission President Urzula von der Leiena, while Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kisida said the parties had agreed to co-operate during a visit by senior EU officials. to take action against Russia, for example in the field of energy.

07.02. The Ukrainian army in the direction of Donetsk and Luhansk on Wednesday struck nine Russian attacks, destroyed 20 enemy units and shot down four unmanned aerial vehicles, reports the Joint Forces operative group “East”. Eight Russian tanks, six other types of armored vehicles, five cars and one anti-aircraft artillery were destroyed. An invasive ammunition depot and an observation post were also destroyed. The loss of Russian life force reaches about 250 people.

06.14. Demining in Ukraine could take 5 to 10 years, reports pravda.com.ua.

05.55. Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, it has been confirmed that at least 271 people have been abducted by Russian troops in the Zaporizhia-occupied territories, said Oleksandr Staruh, head of the Zaporozhye region’s military administration..

04. 40. Ukraine’s foreign ministry has warned other countries that grain batches sold by Russia may consist in part or in whole of grain stolen in Ukraine.

According to the Ukrainian government, the Russian occupiers have already stolen at least 400-500 thousand tons of grain worth more than 100 million USD. Virtually all ships leaving the sea from Sevastopol with grain carry stolen Ukrainian products.

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry confirmed that the criminal extradition, export and use of Ukrainian grain by Russia violates the basic principles of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) – guaranteeing food security and overcoming hunger.

02.14. Russian troops have committed at least 231 environmental crimes in Ukraine since the beginning of open military aggression, the Ukrainian Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources said.

00.10. The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine to Colonel Igor Bejay, Deputy Commander of the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

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