Direct – War in Ukraine: Mariupol evacuation operation canceled again

Sergei Orlov, Mariupol’s deputy mayor, told BFMTV that the humanitarian evacuation of civilians living in Mariupol would not take place this Saturday as expected.

“(Exodus) is impossible today (..) The Russians do not approve of the evacuation towards the territories controlled by Ukraine,” he pointed out.

In the last 24 hours, two people were killed and 19 others were injured in a Russian shelling in the Kharkiv region, Kharkiv regional governor Oleg Sinekopov said in a telegram.

According to a spokesman for the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, Kharkiv is “partially blocked” by Russian forces, especially in the northwest and “strengthening their positions” south of the city.

UN refugee agency released on Saturday According to figures from the High Commission, the number of Ukrainian refugees who fled the Russian military invasion in late February continues to rise to close to 5.2 million.

According to the UNHCR, 5,163,686 Ukrainians have fled their country since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24, 29,939 more than the number released on Thursday.

In April, so far 1,128,000 Ukrainians have left, much less than the 3.4 million who chose to leave in March.

Ukraine on Saturday said it had taken three positions near the country’s second city in the east, Kharkiv, and was constantly attacked by artillery, and the Russian military continued to focus its efforts on the Donbass and the south.

“Our Ukrainian armed forces were successful in the counterattack that began yesterday morning. After a long and fierce battle, our units withdrew Russian troops from Besroki, Slotin and Protianka,” Kharkiv regional governor Olek Sinekhov told the Telegram.

Of these three villages north of the city of Kharkiv, about fifteen kilometers north of the Russian border is Prudyanka.

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As the Russian offensive concentrated in Donbass and eastern Ukraine, residents of these regions are living in increasingly tense conditions, according to the Red Cross.

“It’s a very simple thing when you’ve been in a fighting city, it’s water, food, but a lot of medicine,” explains Lucille Morpheus, the International Committee of the Red Cross’ door word. (ICRC) on BFMTV in Ukraine.

The spokesman recalled that some had to be taken care of because they were “fire-injured”, but others had “chronic illnesses” that had “sometimes been a month without treatment, which is absolutely staggering.”

If Paris was wise enough to provide support for Ukraine to fight the Russian offensive, Emmanuel Macron spoke a little too much on Friday, revealing that France has provided more than 100 million euros worth of military equipment.

“Substantial equipment with a wide variety of weapons from Milan to Caesar,” Emmanuel Macron said Friday.

>> Details of all military assistance to Ukraine can be found in our country wise article.

The head of the Russian security forces said that the United States was preparing false accusations against Moscow. Several Russian media outlets reported this Saturday. According to him, the Americans want to accuse Russia of using weapons of mass destruction, which the country denies.

Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vareshchuk said on Saturday that a new attempt to evacuate civilians from the Russian military – controlled port of Mariupol was planned.

“Today we are trying to evacuate women, children and the elderly again,” the official posted on Facebook, and the public began to gather near a shopping center in the city, hoping to be able to evacuate by 12:00 local time. (09:00 GMT).

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BFMTV went to the city of Kryvyï Rih in Ukraine, which welcomes refugees leaving Mariupol, where there are still 100,000 people. According to witnesses at the scene, the Russians are preventing the establishment of secure humanitarian corridors.

Moscow on Friday announced “to ensure a land route to the Crimea” targeting total control of southern Ukraine and the Donbass region.

K Kiiv says that the strategic port of Mariupol, which Moscow claims to have “liberated”, is still resisting Russian forces, according to which Ukrainian militants are tightly guarding the vast Azovstal metallurgical complex where civilians are stationed.

Ï Talks aimed at resolving the conflict between Moscow and Kiev “skate” were announced on Friday as the head of Russian diplomacy Sergueï Lavrov.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres will leave for Russia on Tuesday, where he will be welcomed by Vladimir Putin, who will leave for Ukraine two days later.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said Friday that a sailor was killed and at least 27 people were missing when a ship sank off the coast of Moscow last week.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will travel to Russia next week, where he will be welcomed by Vladimir Putin, who will travel to Ukraine two days later, where he will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zhelensky.

“On Tuesday, April 26, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres will arrive in Moscow for talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. He will also be welcomed by President Vladimir Putin,” a government spokesman said on Friday. Kremlin, Dmitry Peskov.

The UN chief will then travel to Ukraine, where he will “meet with Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba and be welcomed by President Volodymyr Zhelensky on April 28,” the group said in a statement.

On Friday evening, the fate of Mariupol was not yet fixed, while Russia demanded full control of the region. In Boutcha, the UN has identified the illegal killings of dozens of civilians, which adds credibility to the war crimes charges against Moscow.

BFMTV’s story of the 58th day of the war in Ukraine.

Calls for a ceasefire in Ukraine over Easter weekend in the Orthodox country, especially in Mariupol, seem like a dead letter due to the constant conversation of the deaf between Kiev and Moscow.

On Sunday the war will enter its third month, but the “second phase of special operations” launched by Moscow began this week. “One of the objectives of the Russian military is to establish full control over the Donbass and southern Ukraine,” a senior Russian military official said on Friday.