War in Ukraine. Latest information on April 24 [papildināts 23:07]

Live text – short and concise on the highlights of Russia’s war in Ukraine on April 24. Exactly two months ago, on February 24, the Russian army invaded Ukraine.

23.12. ASV President Joe Biden promises that America will continue to support the Ukrainian people in the fight against the Russian aggressor. Today, high-ranking US officials have paid a visit to Ukraine.

23.07. The Russian army today carried out nine missile strikes on critical infrastructure in the Poltava region, reports pravda.com.ua.

22.38. Kiev has offered Moscow extraordinary peace talks as Azovstal, which has also sheltered civilians, is still being bombed. Arestovich, an adviser to the Ukrainian president’s office, revealed that Kiev had offered to exchange all Russian soldiers captive in Ukraine for those besieged in Azovstal territory. Moscow has not even responded.

21.30. Russia fired five rockets at infrastructure in Ukraine’s Poltava region on Sunday, Dmitro Lunin, head of the region’s military administration, said.

21.10. Wikipedia has created a new entry – racism (Russian: Racism) in several languages. Wikipedia explains that this is a form of fascism that originated in Russia, characterized by traditionalism, xenophobia, imaginary Russian elections, imperialism, totalitarianism, Russification, the idea of ​​Moscow as a third Rome, and so on.

20.01. Russia lacks the strength and equipment to fight forest fires in Siberia this spring, as soldiers usually involved in fighting them were sent to Ukraine to fight, the British newspaper Independent reported.

19.09. Russia refused to allow a ceasefire on Sunday for Orthodox First Easter to allow the evacuation of people from Mariupol, said Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk, the minister responsible for reintegrating the temporarily occupied territories.

18.00. Switzerland has barred Germany from delivering ammunition for Marder fighter jets manufactured by the Swiss company to Ukraine, the Sonntags Zeitung reported.

The Marder fighting machines manufactured by the German concern Rheinmetall use ammunition made in Switzerland, but Bern has refused to allow its re-export, citing its neutrality.

17.21. This year, Europe Day will be celebrated on May 9, commemorating the victims of war crimes in Ukraine who have died fighting for the democratic, free and European future of the country, said Andris Gobiņš, President of the European Movement in Latvia.

16.06. In the occupied territories of Kharkiv region, Russia has begun to install communications equipment for its mobile operator “Megafon” and introduce payments in rubles, as well as invite people to go shopping in Russia to buy food and medicine, said the Central Intelligence Agency of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.

According to the Telegram website, Russian military personnel and Federal Security Service (FSB) personnel are trying to demoralize the local community by spreading information that Ukraine has been cut off from the electricity supply to the settlements and that Kharkiv has been almost completely occupied by Russian forces. At the same time, the aggressor is tightening control over telephone networks and the Internet, the intelligence service said.

15.37. Mikhail Podolak, an adviser to the head of the Ukrainian president’s office, on Sunday called on Moscow to hold a special round of talks on the situation in Mariupol and the Russian-fired metallurgical plant “Azovstal”, where hundreds of civilians and Ukrainian defenders are still underground.

14.09. Dace Melbārde, Member of the European Parliament, emphasized in an interview with LETA that the European Commission (EC) has already provided more than 500 million euros in financial support to provide humanitarian aid to Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

13.35. Lithuania proposes to the European Union (EU) to impose sanctions on the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Kirill, who supports the Kremlin’s aggression in Ukraine, Foreign Minister Gabriel Landsberg confirmed in an interview with the portal “15min.lt”.

12.20. Ukraine’s armed forces have regained control of eight settlements in the Kherson region, the Ukrainian army’s operational commander South said on Facebook on Sunday. It is noted that aggressive forces in the Kherson region have tried to activate before the pseudo-referendum on the establishment of the “Kherson People’s Republic” scheduled for April 27, but the Ukrainians have successfully repelled several attacks and the enemy has suffered loss of life force and equipment.

11.19. Russian forces have continuously fired on the territory of the metallurgical plant “Azovstal” in Mariupol on Saturday, despite the announcement by President Vladimir Putin that no attempt will be made to occupy the company, Adviser to the Interior Minister of Ukraine Vadim Denisenko said on Sunday.

10.54. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky congratulated Orthodox on Easter on Sunday, stressing that “Ukraine is right, people and God.”

10.00. UN Secretary General Antoniu Gutherrez will arrive in Ankara ahead of next week’s visits to Moscow and Kiev, the UN press service said on Saturday. In the Turkish capital, Gutherrez will meet with President Regep Tajip Erdogan, a press service said in a statement.

09. 01. Six people have been killed in a shooting by Russian troops on Saturday in Hirske, Luhansk region, in eastern Ukraine, the district’s chief of staff said. Hirske heavily shot all day, Hyder recorded on Telegram

06.31. Turkey has closed its airspace to Russian planes carrying troops to Syria, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlit Chavushoglu said on Saturday.

04.39. Ukraine is not the place for the leaders of the countries tragic self-portrait, but from officials of other countries coming to visit, Ukraine wants help, especially – weapons, announced on Saturday the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky.

01.10. On Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky criticized UN Secretary-General Antoni Gutherrez’s decision to visit Moscow first next week and then Kiev.

00.45. The Prime Minister of Ukraine Dennis Shihal has presented a particularly emotional gift to Valdis Dombrovskis, Vice-President of the European Commission. Box of remnants of weapons found in a special place for Ukraine – Hostomel, Kiev region. More here.

00.31. Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich arrived in Kiev, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed at a press conference on Saturday, reports Nexta.

00.10. “What I can tell you is that Putin is interested in ending this war,” said former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. “But it’s not easy. There are some points that need to be clarified,” Schroeder said in a meeting with Putin in Moscow in mid-March, announcing his intention to end the war in Ukraine.

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