- 06:37 a.m: ➤ Kyiv claims: Russia plunders grain silos – already 400,000 tons removed
- 5:56 am: Ukrainian military equipment to be repaired in Slovakia
- 04:12: Pro Asyl criticizes the kidnapping of Ukrainians to Russia
- 01:52 am: EU Commission proposes oil embargo once morest Russia
➤ Kyiv claims: Russia plunders grain silos – already 400,000 tons removed
Russia has from the occupied territories of Ukraine According to Kiev sources, 400,000 tons of grain might be transported away. That is regarding a third of the grain stocks in the Kherson, Zaporizhia, Donetsk and Luhansk regions, Deputy Minister of Agriculture Taras Vysotskyi said on Ukrainian television. Before the war, regarding 1.3 million tons of grain were stored there for daily supply, but also for sowing. “There were no strategic reserves,” said Wyssozkyj, according to information from Wednesday night. If grain stocks are further reduced, there is a risk of famine in these areas.
The forced removal of grain has historically been a painful issue between Ukrainians and Russians. When the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin forced the peasants into collective farms and confiscated grain by force, around four million people starved to death in the Ukraine in 1932/33. There were also deaths in the south of Russia and in Kazakhstan. Ukraine regards the artificially created famine, the so-called Holodomor, as from Moscow ordered genocide.
The situation at a glance:
Since February 24, Russia has been waging a war of aggression once morest Ukraine from the air and on the ground. Shortly before that, President Wladimir Putin that Ukraine’s right to exist as an independent state in doubt and the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics in eastern Ukraine.
Since then, the Ukrainian army has been fighting the invaders as best they can. Thousands of dead are reported on both sides, but exact numbers of soldiers and civilians have not been independently verified. The fact is: the humanitarian situation in Ukraine is getting worse every day. According to the More than 5.4 million people have now fled Ukraine (As of May 2nd), especially women and children, since men between the ages of 18 and 60 are not allowed to leave the country.
The EU and the USA reacted with sanctions. Besides, they supply arms to Ukraine, too Deutschland supports the country with arms deliveries. Ukraine is also to receive Gepard-class tanks from Germany. So far, it has been ruled out that NATO will actively intervene in the war.
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On the first weekend in April, pictures of the The bodies of many civilians in the small town of Bucha near Kyiv caused international horror. Ukraine speaks of serious war crimes and genocide and blames Russian troops for it. Despite numerous indications, Moscow denies having been involved in the deaths of the civilians. The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Selenskyj stressed that negotiations with Russia should continue.
On April 18, according to the Ukrainian statement, a long-prepared Major Russian offensive in eastern Ukraine.
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Updated on 05/03/2022 at 16:57
Fighting continues in the southeastern Ukrainian port of Mariupol. A planned rescue of further civilians from the besieged Azovstal plant has apparently failed.
The other news of the day:
Belarus sends rapid reaction force in unannounced maneuvers
07:55 am: Checked once morest the background of the Ukraine war Belarus his rapid reaction force in an unannounced military maneuver. During the inspection, “units and units must practice aspects of combat readiness, marching to the commanded areas of operations and carrying out combat tasks,” the Belarusian Defense Ministry said on its Telegram channel on Wednesday.
According to the description, the maneuver is used to defend once morest ground and air attacks. The number of troops involved would be gradually increased. The aim of the inspection is to check how quickly the intervention force can react to sudden crisis situations. The military exercise “does not pose any danger either to European society as a whole or to neighboring countries in particular,” the Belarusian leadership stressed.
After the Russian attack on Ukraine on February 24, which was partly carried out from Belarusian territory, relations between Minsk and Kyiv tense. the USA and the EU have also imposed sanctions on Belarus because of the war. So far, ruler Alexander Lukashenko has always denied wanting to take part in the Russian invasion with his own troops.
Ukrainian military equipment to be repaired in Slovakia
5:56 am: Damaged Ukrainian military equipment is to be stored in the future Slovakia to be repaired. The state-owned company Konstrukta-Defence has signed a contract with Ukraine to repair and modernize Ukrainian military technology, a defense ministry spokeswoman said in Bratislava on Tuesday. The first delivery involves dozens of BRDM-2 armored vehicles.
Defense Minister Jaroslav Nad and Prime Minister Eduard Heger had already declared their willingness to help Ukraine repair damaged military equipment earlier this month.
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Updated on 05/04/2022 at 07:40
In view of Moscow’s war of aggression once morest Ukraine, the European Union is aiming for an import ban on Russian oil. This is what the EU Commission and the European External Action Service propose for a new package of sanctions once morest Russia, as the German Press Agency in Brussels learned on Wednesday night.
Pro Asyl criticizes the kidnapping of Ukrainians to Russia
04:12: The refugee aid organization Pro Asyl has denounced the kidnappings of Ukrainians to Russia. “If you prevent people who want to flee from fleeing and bring them to another country, then that is abduction and therefore a blatant violation of human rights,” said its managing director Günter Burkhardt the editorial network Germany (RND, Wednesday). “This is part of a chain of criminal acts committed by the Putin regime. However, other states’ options for action in an escalating war are limited.”
At the same time, Burkhardt complained that men of military age were not allowed to leave Ukraine by order of the government in Kyiv. “It is also a human right not to want to take part in a war,” he told RND.
According to Moscow military figures, almost 1.1 million people have already been brought to Russia from the contested areas of Ukraine. Almost 200,000 of them are children, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev said on Monday. According to the Russian account, these people from Ukraine are being brought to safety from the fighting and alleged violence by the Kiev leadership. Ukraine sees this as a deportation of its citizens from the currently Russian-occupied areas in the east and south. According to Kyiv, the Russian army is not letting people flee to Ukrainian-controlled territory.
EU Commission proposes oil embargo once morest Russia
01:52 am: Companies from Germany and the other EU countries should no longer be allowed to import Russian oil in the future. That’s what the suggestion sees EU Commission and the European Foreign Service for a new package with sanctions once morest Russia, as the German Press Agency in Brussels learned from several officials on Wednesday night. In order to give the countries time for the changeover, there should be transitional periods.
Updated on 04/14/2022 06:21
Since pro-Western forces prevailed in Ukraine eight years ago, the conflict with Russia has steadily escalated. Now Russia is at war across the country. The chronology of an escalation.
Zelenskyj: Heavy Russian rocket attacks are a sign of weakness
00:43: According to the Kiev leadership, Russia wants to stop the supply of western weapons with massive rocket attacks on Ukrainian railway systems. This was written by the head of the Presidential Office, Andriy Yermak, on Telegram on Tuesday evening. Previously, many parts of the country had been shaken by explosions. But it will not be possible to stop the supply of armaments, said Yermak. “It all matters.”
Politically, President Volodymyr Zelenskyj interpreted the attacks as a sign of Moscow’s impotence. “Obviously, the Russian military reacted extremely nervously to our successes today,” said Zelenskyy in his evening video address in Kyiv. He reported rocket attacks on Lviv, Vinnytsia, Odessa, Kiev region and the Dnipro region.
However, a clear military target might not be identified when even Transkapatia in the extreme west on the border with Hungary was being shelled. The Russians only concealed their impotence “because Ukraine is too strong for them,” Zelensky said.
The Russian army fired more than 20 missiles at Ukraine, Ukrainian Air Force commander Yuri Ignat wrote on Facebook. Many missiles were fired from long-range bombers over the Caspian Sea. Ukraine’s air defenses intercepted eight enemy cruise missiles. These military details were not independently verifiable. According to reports, the attacks were aimed at railway systems and the power supply. The power went out in parts of the Lviv region in western Ukraine.
With material from dpa, AFP, APA