“I am ready to talk to Putin, but the Russians must leave. Crimea will never be Russian, but now let’s leave it aside.” Zelensky speaks to Porta a Portain the first interview with an Italian TV. Draghi, after meeting Biden, reports to the Council of Ministers: “Peace is what the Ukrainians will want,” he says. Finland (so like Sweden) sent to NATO provokes the reaction of Russia which threatens to block gas supplies already today and shakes the specter of a nuclear war. For Moscow, “the West is ready to do anything to strangle Russia”. While the diplomatic route is being sought, the attacks continue. Cluster and phosphorus bombs on the Ukrainian president’s hometown, blocked the exits from Azovstal, where the Russian armed forces continue to strike with artillery and bombing. Cruise missiles were launched over Zaporizhzhia. The battle continues on all strategic fronts, from Kharkiv to Donbass: the Ukrainian forces claim the braking of the enemy advance. Explosions last night in Mykolaiv. Kiev accuses: soldiers shot civilians from tanks in Kharkiv, the second confirmed episode.
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06.45 Gas: Gazprom depot empty, Austria threatens confiscation
If Gazprom fails to fill the Salzburg storage facility with gas, Austria is ready to confiscate it and make it available to other suppliers. Ukrainska Pravda writes it, quoting the Austrian Chancellor Karl Negammer in an interview with the Kronen Zeitung taken up by European Truth. “We will make sure that if Russian Gazprom does not fill our largest warehouse, we will take it from them and deliver it to other suppliers!” He said. Kronen Zeitung clarifies that this is the Haidach depot near Salzburg, the largest in Austria and the second in Central Europe.
06.22 Michel in Hiroshima: “Moscow’s nuclear threats unacceptable”
“Right now, global security is threatened. Russia, a nuclear-armed state and permanent member of the UN Security Council, is attacking the sovereign nation of Ukraine, making shameful and unacceptable references to the use of weapons. nuclear “. This was stated by the president of the European Council, Charles Michel, at the end of his visit to Hiroshima. “This is not only shaking Europe’s security, it is dangerously raising the stakes for the whole world,” he added.
05.33 Kiev, Russians shot civilians from a tank in Kharkiv
Ukraine’s First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Yevhen Yenin said that the Russian army shot civilians from a tank in the Kharkiv region. “In one of the villages in the Kharkiv region, the police ascertained that the Russian military opened fire on civilians from a tank. That is why we must not talk about any moral restraint of the Russian army.” According to the deputy minister, this is the second alleged war crime case sent to a court.
A chilling video obtained by CNN, in fact, nails Russian soldiers for the killing of two unarmed civilians in a looted vehicle dealership near Kiev. The double murder, which took place on March 16, was immortalized by the surveillance cameras of the facility, and now it is in the records of the Ukrainian prosecutor who is collecting evidence of all war crimes committed by Kremlin troops. The video shows the owner of the dealership and the elderly overseer who, after talking peacefully with the soldiers of the invading army, are killed with a barrage in the back for no apparent reason as they walk away.
05.00 Ukraine, 8.3 billion dollars in military spending
According to Ukrainian finance minister Serhiy Marchenko, Ukraine has been forced to spend the equivalent of approximately $ 8.3 billion on the war. Funds subtracted from investments for the development of the country. This was reported by Reuters, quoted by Kiev Indipendent. The government collected only 60 percent of its expected tax revenue for April, Marchenko told Reuters, pointing out that Ukraine still needs further foreign support.
04.20 Kiev: Russian positions hit in the south
The operational command of the Ukrainian forces engaged in the south reported that they carried out dozens of attacks on Russian military posts: 57 Russian soldiers were killed and 60 units of equipment destroyed.
03.15 Moscow attacks “Anti-Russian hysteria”
The UN Human Rights Council approved with 33 votes in favor of two the draft resolution presented by Ukraine to launch an investigation into the alleged violations committed by the Russian army in the regions of Kiev, Chernihiv, Kharkiv and Sumy between the end of February and March. For Russia, “the anti-Russian hysteria, unleashed by Westerners, has nothing to do with a genuine concern for the fate of Ukraine itself and its people”. “In their maniacal desire to strangle Russia, they are ready for anything, to the point of reviving Nazism in its ugliest manifestations,” reads a statement from Moscow diplomats, who called the decision “another use by the Council for human rights in the interest of a small group of states “.
02.51 Moscow: West ready to do anything to strangle Russia
“In their desire to strangle Russia, the Western powers are ready for anything, including resurrecting Nazism,” said the permanent representation of the Russian Federation at the United Nations in Geneva in a statement reported by TASS. Yesterday the UN human rights council voted with a large majority in favor of opening an investigation into the alleged serious violations committed by Russian forces in Ukraine, thus helping to strengthen diplomatic pressure on Moscow.
00.40 Russia, waiting for the gas moves
The gas war between Europe and Russia has come to a head. After the stop to flows at the entry point of Sokhranivka, in Ukraine, Gazprom announced the cessation of use of the Yamal-Europe gas pipeline, which carries supplies from Russia to the Old Continent via Poland. And in the next few hours, as a retaliation for its now certain accession to NATO, Finland could see the gas flows from Moscow canceled. The vice tightens and prices, on the stock market, have skyrocketed. The reference contract, traded in Amsterdam, recorded a jump of 9%, to 102.50 euros.
00.33 Zelensky, destroyed 570 health facilities
Russia has destroyed 570 health facilities and 101 hospitals since the start of the attack on Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said this in his message to the nation in the evening. Zelenzky added that Russian forces also hit some schools yesterday.
00.10 US denunciation: thousands transferred “by force” to Russia
The United States has accused the Russian army of having “forcibly” transferred several thousand Ukrainians to Russia since the start of the war, often by passing them through “camps” where they have had to undergo “brutal” treatment. According to Kiev, 1.2 million people are deported to Russia. Their phones and passports would have been confiscated; their social media activities sifted through for clues of their opposition to the Russian war.
00.01 Mayor Mykolaiv: hear explosions, stay in the shelters’
Several explosions were warned in the evening in Mykolaiv, in southern Ukraine, where the air alarm sounded. This was reported by the mayor of the city, Oleksandr Senkevych, who called on all citizens “to stay in shelters”. The Ukrainian media reported it.
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