Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: Update on April 22 – BBC News

April 22, 2022

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The Azov steel plant in Mariupol was besieged by Russian troops, among which Ukrainian resistance forces and civilians faced running out of ammunition and food,

Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine has been going on for 58 days. Ukraine has offered Russia a truce over Orthodox Easter this weekend, but Russia has rejected it.

The following is the latest situation on April 22:

  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says progress is only temporary following Russian forces invading Ukraine seized 40 villages on the eastern front
  • Ukrainian army says Russia continues partial blockade of Kharkiv and fires on Ukrainian defender positions
  • Hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers are still resisting at the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, where Putin ordered Russian troops to abandon the attack on Thursday (April 21) and besiege them.
  • There are reports that the Russian army agreed to the evacuation of the besieged, but must raise the white flag to surrender
  • Mariupol’s mayor says 100,000 people are still trapped in the war-torn city and people’s lives are in Putin’s hands
  • Ukraine will need ‘hundreds of billions of dollars’ to recover from war, Zelensky tells world finance ministers
  • Preliminary estimates from the World Bank show that the damage to buildings and infrastructure in Ukraine due to the war has reached regarding 60 billion US dollars, and the amount will continue to grow.
  • British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his aides have confirmed that dozens of Ukrainian soldiers are being trained to use British-supplied armoured vehicles
  • The British Ministry of Defence has confirmed that it is sending Challenger 2 main battle tanks to Poland to supplement the T-72 tanks that Poland will send to Ukraine
  • Johnson also said the UK would reopen its embassy in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv next week
  • Ukraine says it remains hopeful for peace despite Russia rejecting a truce over Orthodox Easter this weekend
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More coverage of the war in Ukraine from the BBC in Chinese:

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Top Russian generals: Fight for full control of Donbass and southern Ukraine

One of Russia’s deployment plans in the second phase of the Ukrainian military operation is to take full control of the Donbass and southern Ukraine, a senior Russian military commander reportedly said.

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