War in Ukraine. Latest information on April 3 [papildināts 23:05]

Live text – short and concise on the highlights of Russia’s war in Ukraine on April 3. For the second month in a row, Ukraine is heroically defending its land.

23.30. The Ukrainian army hit seven Russian attacks in the Donbass on Sunday, according to the operative tactical group East.

23.05. Ukraine last week asked Germany for 100 infantry fighting vehicles “Marder”, but, according to German media, Berlin has so far refused to send them to Kiev.

22.17. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said the United States does not agree to provide security guarantees in the form that Ukraine wants.

21.20. In the Sumy region of Ukraine, Russian soldiers tortured and killed a marathon runner, and Ukrainian record holder Serhiy Pronevich, Lana Vetrova, head of the National Record Register, told Facebook on Sunday. More here.

20.05. Members of the European Parliament (EP) will discuss with the Council of the European Union (EU) and the European Commission (EC) how to protect children fleeing the war in Ukraine, especially from human trafficking and exploitation, on Tuesday 5 April, LETA told EP press Secretary in Latvia Jānis Krastiņš. He noted that on March 3, the temporary protection status of Ukrainian refugees was activated, giving them the right of temporary residence and access to education and the labor market in the EU.

19.57. In the Kiev region, the bodies of 410 civilians killed have been taken out of areas liberated from Russian troops, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova told Facebook. From April 1 to April 3, 140 of these corpses have already been examined by prosecutors and other specialists, Venediktova revealed.

19.18. Russia’s military equipment is being concentrated in the Gomel region of Belarus, which is on the border with Ukraine, Belarusian photographer and blogger Anton Motolko said on Twitter.

19.00. Despite suffering itself from Russian aggression, Tbilisi categorically refuses to reverse its decision not to join sanctions against Russia, Georgian Prime Minister Heraklion Garibashvili was quoted as saying by Interfax-Ukraine on Sunday.

18.42.11 Ukrainian regional politicians are being held captive in Russia, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk said on Sunday. Local politicians from Kiev, Kharkiv, Mykolaiv and Donetsk have disappeared. The exchange of prisoners is underway, Vereshchuk revealed.

18.23. Mikhail Podolak, an adviser to the head of the Ukrainian president’s office, sharply criticized the West on Sunday for not wanting to provoke Russia, which is meanwhile sacking the peaceful population in Ukraine.

18.01. Western politicians on Sunday strongly condemned the massacre of Russian invaders on the outskirts of Kiev. Some of the bodies were not buried or were partially buried, an AFP journalist observed.

17.45. Russia will sooner or later be prosecuted for the war crimes committed by its army in Ukraine, according to a post on the microblogging site in connection with the killings of Ukrainian civilians by the Russian army in Bucca, President Egils Levits said.

17.27. Russia’s federal communications, information technology and mass communications monitoring service “Roskomnadzor” has blocked Russian Internet users from accessing the Latvian website “rus.delfi.lv”, the portal “delfi.lv” reports.

17.10. In Daugavpils on Friday, the march “Latvia supports Ukraine” took place in a positive and uplifting atmosphere, without incidents, the agency LETA observed.

16.25. Over the next three weeks, Ukraine has the opportunity to sleep with Russia and its partners must help Ukraine move forward and turn its back on Russia, says former U.S. Army commander General, retired General Ben Hodges, who urges Ukraine to deliver everything it urgently needs.

15.47. In Maypina in the Kiev region, which was released from the Russian occupiers on February 28, Russian soldiers have killed the population with extreme cruelty, the city mayor Oleksandr Markushin said. Many people were killed by mines. Many died in the shootings or were shot. In the streets of Pushkin and Lermontov, Russian soldiers shot down girls and women and crossed them with tanks, Markushin says.

14.32. The retreat of Russian troops continues in some directions, the Ukrainian Army General Staff reported on Sunday.

14.20. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitro Kuleb has demanded that the G7 immediately impose new, devastating sanctions on Russia following the Bush massacre. “The massacre in Bucha was deliberate. The Russians are trying to exterminate as many Ukrainians as possible. We must stop and expel them. I demand immediate destructive new G7 sanctions,” Kuleba said. Kuleba has called on the G7 to impose an embargo on Russian oil, gas and coal and to close all ports on Russian ships and goods, as well as disconnect all Russian banks from SWIFT.

14.02. Humanitarian corridors for the evacuation of people from Mariupol to Zaporizhia are scheduled to open in Ukraine on Sunday, said Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk. “We are continuing to evacuate people from the humanitarian corridor from Mariupol to Zaporizhia. There are now 17 buses near Berdyansk, ten of which are for the evacuation of Mariupol residents and local Berdyansk residents,” Vereshchuk said.

13.41. The Ukrainian Armed Forces announced on Sunday that they had won a victory near the city of Pripyat in the Kiev region. The Ukrainian Armed Forces has managed to regain control of Pripyat and the border section with Belarus in the region.

13.28. European Council President Charles Michel has vowed to impose new sanctions on Moscow on Sunday in response to Russia’s war crimes on the outskirts of Kiev. Michel admitted on Twitter that he had been shocked by the massacre by Russian troops in Bucca.

13.08. Members of the European Parliament (EP) emphasize that significant funding will be needed to prevent the consequences of the war in Ukraine, said EP spokesman Jānis Krastiņš in Latvia. MEPs have prioritized recovery, health, youth and climate action, as well as war relief in Ukraine, as next year’s budget priorities.

12.18. Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister Kaczynski told the German newspaper Die Welt that Poland was open to accepting US nuclear weapons on its territory, but was awaiting an initiative from Washington on the issue.

12.07. Ukraine’s ambassador to Berlin, Andrius Melnik, has accused German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier of questionable political ties with Russia. “Steinmeier’s relations with Russia were and will remain something fundamental, even sacred, regardless of what is happening,” Melnik said in a publication in the German newspaper Tagesspiegel.

11.38. The loss of life force of Russian troops in Ukraine has reached about 18,000 soldiers by Sunday morning, the Ukrainian Army General Staff reports. The amount of Russia’s losses is being clarified, as the acquisition of information is being hampered by intense hostilities.

11.00. Russia’s State Duma is scheduled to submit a bill on Monday that will criminalize the implementation of foreign sanctions on Russian territory, according to MP Andrei Kichas, according to the Interfax news agency.

10.21. The level of chauvinism and incitement to war in Russia is unprecedented and the West must act accordingly, this time without making mistakes, says Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs (JV) in a post on the Twitter blog.

10.01. In an interview published on Sunday, Polish Deputy Prime Minister Jaroslav Kaczynski accused France and Germany of being too close to Russia and condemned Germany’s treatment of Russia before the war in Ukraine.

09.28. Russian troops have carried out air strikes on Odessa. This was announced by Sergei Bratchuk, spokesman for the South Operations Command and the Odessa Regional Military Operations Staff. “Odessa was attacked from the air. Fires have been recorded in some areas. Some missiles are being hit by air defense,” the South Operational Command said.

09.01. The retreat of Russian troops continues in some directions, reported on Sunday the General Staff of the Ukrainian Army.In addition, the opponent’s moral psychological condition and its level of motivation is still extremely low. In the 3rd Motorized Infantry Division of the 20th Army, commanders of various levels refuse to take part in hostilities. The military is retiring en masse. Also in the 58th Army, the personnel of two battalion tactical groups refused to take part in hostilities on the territory of Ukraine. It is planned to send these units back to their permanent locations.

08.15. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his army are trying to win at least some victory in Ukraine by May 9, according to several US officials, CNN reports.

06.42. The Kremenchuk oil refinery has been destroyed in a fire by Russian troops, said Dmitro Lunin, governor of the Poltava region.

05.15. More than 4,000 people were evacuated from settlements surrounded or occupied by Russian troops on humanitarian corridors during the day in Ukraine, said Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk.

04.45. Lithuanian film director Mants Kvedaravičs was killed on Saturday in Mariupol, besieged by Russian troops, the Lithuanian portal “15min” reports.

03.05. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has repeatedly criticized Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban for favoring Moscow over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, saying Orban is almost the only one in Europe to openly support Russian President Vladimir Putin.

00.52.The Ukrainian Armed Forces crashed two Russian military planes last day, Ukrainian air force said on Sunday. One helicopter, one unmanned aerial vehicle and four cruise missiles were also shot down, pravda.com.ua reports.

00.20. Before Russia invaded Ukraine, German Chancellor Scholz called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to give up Ukraine’s desire to join NATO to prevent war, citing The Wall Street Journal, reports pravda.com.ua.

00.10. The entire Kiev region has been liberated from Russian troopssaid Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Hannah Malara on Saturday.

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