“We know about the people who were killed, there are confirmations, photos and videos, but we still can’t find them. When the connection was re-established, eyewitnesses were able to tell us this information, but we still cannot find the missing, “said Taras Dumenko, head of Hostomel’s military administration. in conversation with the radio station Hromadske Radio. Dumenko estimates that about five thousand people have remained in the village so far. His claim could not be independently verified.
According to a local government official, the missing is, for example, the commander of the fire brigade from the airport in Hostomel, which was the subject of fierce fighting, or the family of a local doctor. Russian troops withdrew from the area on April 2, when all Russian forces switched to a new official goal, which is to take control of the entire Donbas.
According to Dumenko, outgoing Russian soldiers “clean up the evidence after their atrocities.” He mentions a case where cars with bodies were shot down by the road, but they later disappeared. “My hypothesis is that the calmer the occupiers felt in an area, the farther they were from the front line, the more carefully they covered the tracks,” said the village’s chief of staff.
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Oil tank intervention in the Dnipropetrovsk region
Explosions and sirens sounding warning again in Ukrainian cities. In the Dnipropetrovsk region in the east of the country, eyewitnesses reported explosions in Novomoskovsk, said the website Ukrainian Truth. Russian rockets in the area destroyed an oil depot and set fire to a factory, the fire is on fire, according to the website, regional authorities said.
The shelling also continued in the Kharkov, Luhansk and Donetsk regions. In Donbass, the authorities report several deaths, according to Ukrainian Pravda. Tough fighting does not stop in the Kherson region, where most municipalities are on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe, the newspaper also writes. Novoje Vremja states that the Ukrainian army has liberated the villages of Dobryanka, Novovoznesenskoye and Trudolyubovka in the Kherson region.
Late Tuesday night, explosions were heard in the city of Radechiv in the west of the country, about seventy kilometers from Lviv. According to the AFP agency, this was stated by the governor of the Lviv region, Maksym Kozyckyj. Authorities later announced that parts of the shot down Russian missiles had fallen into the area, but did not injure anyone, writes the website of the weekly Novoy Vremya.
The governor of the Kursk region in Russia, Roman Starovojt, claims that the local border guard has become the target of shelling. The Kursk region borders the Ukrainian Sumy region. Starovojt added that the authorities did not record any casualties or damage. Last week, Moscow accused Ukraine of an air strike on a fuel depot in the Russian city of Belgorod. Ukrainian officials later denied the responsibility.
Fifteen hundred people evacuated from Mariupol on Tuesday
On Tuesday, 3,846 people were evacuated from the fighting areas, said Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereščuková on Facebook. Almost fifteen hundred of them come from Mariupol, which has been besieged by Russian troops, where the catastrophic humanitarian situation prevails.
The convoy of seven evacuation buses from Mariupol, accompanied by the International Committee of the Red Cross, had to stop due to the blockade. In the near future, another four hundred people should arrive in Zaporizhia from a detained convoy of buses, which is accompanied by about forty cars, said Vereščuková.
Moscow says more than 18,000 people have been evacuated from the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, which Russia calls “dangerous,” in the past 24 hours. According to the Ukrainian side, however, the occupying forces cannot talk about a humanitarian evacuation, but about the forced export of people to Russia. According to the Russian agency TASS, there has also been an increased shelling of a section of the humanitarian corridor belonging to Mariupol.
In Mariupol, which had a population of over four hundred thousand before the war, there are still around 160,000 people in very difficult conditions. According to local authorities, five thousand people have already lost their lives. Heavy fighting continues in the city and Russian shelling continues, the humanitarian situation is constantly deteriorating, people have no medicine or water, states British Ministry of Defense.
Kyiv warns of an offensive in the Donbas and attacks from Transnistria
The main effort of the Russian army is now focused on preparing an offensive aimed at gaining full control over the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, he writes. in his morning report Ukrainian Army General Staff. The information is in line with previous statements by Kiev, NATO and Moscow, which indicate that Russia is now likely to focus on eastern Ukraine.
The Ukrainian army also warned again that Russian forces could start new attacks on the southern and southwestern part of the country from Transnistria. The Ukrainian staff noted that at the airport in Tiraspol, the capital of unrecognized Transnistria, registered preparations for the landing of aircraft.
Kiev previously statedthat the Russians are mobilizing their troops there, Transnistria officials have denied it. Transnistria broke away from Moldova in the 1990s, when separatists there were actively supported by Russian troops. Moscow has had troops in the area since then, but it does not recognize the independence of Transnistria.
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