04/06/2022
Ukraine war in the live ticker
+++ 00:20 Doctors Without Borders witness Russian attack on hospital +++
Doctors Without Borders workers have witnessed Russian attacks on a hospital in Mykolaiv, according to the aid organization. On Monday there were several explosions in the immediate vicinity of the team within ten minutes, explains the head of the Ukraine mission, Michel-Olivier Lacharite. The facility was a cancer clinic that also treats war wounded. The information cannot be independently verified. Russia denies accusations of attacking civilian targets.
+++ 23:56 governor reports of explosions in the Lviv area +++
In the evening there were several explosions in the Lviv region in western Ukraine. “Everyone has to stay in the shelters,” Governor Maksym Kosytsky wrote on Telegram, referring to explosions near Radechiv, a city about 70 kilometers northeast of Lviv. So far there have been no reports of casualties. Lviv is a place of refuge and transit station for hundreds of thousands of refugees from other parts of the Ukraine. So far, the city has been largely spared from fighting.
+++ 23:28 White House suspects further atrocities in occupied areas +++
According to the White House, the alleged war crimes in the Ukrainian Bucha could possibly only be “the tip of the iceberg” in the Russian war of aggression. US President Joe Biden spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Russian forces “probably also committed atrocities” in those parts of Ukraine that are not yet accessible. The US had previously warned that it was the “intent” of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the military to commit atrocities in Ukraine.
+++ 22:47 Security Conference boss Heusgen: Putin belongs in court +++
According to the chairman of the Munich Security Conference, Christoph Heusgen, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin should have to answer to an international court. “Like Milosevic, he belongs before an international court,” says Heusgen on ZDF’s “heute journal,” referring to former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and against the background of the atrocities involving dead civilians in Bucha, Ukraine. Heusgen called it “difficult to imagine” that one could sit down at a table with Putin again. “Putin has lost all credibility,” said Chancellor Angela Merkel’s former adviser.
+++ 22:27 Lavrov rejects central demands from Kiev for a peace agreement +++
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has warned the Ukrainian government against sabotaging talks between Moscow and Kyiv to end the fighting in Ukraine. Russia will not engage in a “cat-and-mouse game” like in previous years with the peace plan for eastern Ukraine, Lavrov said in a video distributed by the ministry. Russia does not want a referendum on a possible agreement between Moscow and Kyiv to resolve the conflict. There is “a very high probability” that the negotiation process will start all over again in the event of a “negative result” in the referendum, Lavrov warned. The Ukrainian negotiators recently agreed to negotiate a neutral status for the country, including renunciation of NATO membership. In return, Kyiv is demanding security guarantees from third countries. Lavrov openly rejected this for the first time.
+++ 22:07 Klingbeil for more arms deliveries to Ukraine, but against gas boycott +++
SPD leader Lars Klingbeil announces in the program “RTL Direkt” that the federal government is examining further arms deliveries to Ukraine. “We have just seen in the past few days what a terrible war criminal Putin is, and that must not remain without consequences,” said Klingbeil in the evening. Germany is now one of the largest arms suppliers to Ukraine. “Now we have to check every day at great speed what we can still deliver. We always have to check whether it’s necessary and whether it makes sense,” said Klingbeil. “But Germany has to deliver, the Ukrainians have to be strengthened.” He hopes that a coal embargo will be part of the EU’s fifth package of sanctions. Dependence on Russian fossil fuels is being turned back every day. However, an immediate gas embargo would not only have serious economic consequences: “We are also losing social support. That’s something we have to consider: Can we stick to these sanctions? That has to be checked every day.”
+++ 21:54 Russia announces new attacks on Mariupol +++
The Russian Defense Ministry has announced new clashes against Ukrainian troops in the port city of Mariupol. The “regime” in Kyiv is constantly ignoring requests to stop fighting, ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in Moscow in the evening. The troops were to lay down their arms and withdraw from the city through the agreed corridors. However, Kyiv has no interest in protecting the lives of its soldiers or the people in the city, according to two statements by the ministry. “Mariupol is being liberated from the nationalists by units of the Russian armed forces and the Donetsk People’s Republic,” Major General Konashenkov said. His colleague Mikhail Mizintsev said the humanitarian corridors were barely functioning. The Russian and Ukrainian sides repeatedly accuse each other of violating the ceasefire.
You can read about previous developments here.