05/04/2022
Ukraine war in the live ticker
+++ 01:49 Ukraine is preparing another rescue operation for Mariupol +++
Ukraine is preparing for another evacuation of civilians from the port city of Mariupol, which has been almost completely captured by Russia, on Wednesday. At night, the Zaporizhia regional administration named a large shopping center in western Mariupol as the meeting point for the transport. However, it is several kilometers away from the Azovstal Steel Plant, where the last Ukrainian defenders of the city and still numerous civilians are hiding. “The evacuation is taking place with the support of the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross,” Governor Oleksandr Staruch said on Telegram. On Tuesday, 156 refugees from Mariupol and the surrounding area arrived in Zaporizhia. Before the Russian war of aggression, Mariupol had about 400,000 inhabitants. According to estimates, 100,000 people are still holding out in the largely destroyed city.
+++ 01:15 Kyiv sees destruction of Western weapons as reason for rocket fire +++
According to the Kiev leadership, Russia wants to stop the supply of western weapons with massive rocket attacks on Ukrainian railway systems. This is what the head of the Presidential Office, Andriy Yermak, writes on Telegram. 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 interprets the attacks as a sign of Moscow’s impotence. “Obviously the Russian military reacted extremely nervously to our successes today,” said Zelenskyj in his evening video address in Kyiv. He reports on rocket attacks on Lviv, Vinnytsia, Odessa, the Kiev region and the Dnipro region.
+++ 00:36 Social medicine: Pregnant women are exposed to great dangers in Ukraine +++
The social medicine doctor and left-wing candidate in the federal presidential election in February, Gerhard Trabert, is campaigning for more help for pregnant women and newborns in Ukraine. “Pregnant women are never the focus of war. The number of premature births and miscarriages is much higher in war than in peacetime due to flight and fear of death,” says the Mainz social doctor to the editorial network Germany (RND). Together with the left-wing politician Gregor Gysi, he will get an idea of the situation on site during his five-day trip to hospitals, aid organizations and so-called poor kitchens from Lviv to Kyiv, Bucha and Irpin. After his return, he will look for cooperation partners in Germany to organize incubators and send them to the Ukraine.
+++ 23:59 Latvia supports citizens in taking in refugees +++
Latvia wants to financially support its citizens in accommodating war refugees from Ukraine. The Baltic EU and NATO country will pay 100 euros a month to households that take in a Ukrainian refugee. The government in Riga decides that there should be 50 euros for each additional person admitted. The compensation should be granted for a maximum of 90 days and up to a sum of 300 euros per month. Parliament still has to approve the regulation.
+++ 23:25 Russia attacks several cities +++
Cities in several regions of Ukraine became the target of Russian rocket attacks on Tuesday evening. According to media reports, parts of the city of Lviv in the west of the country were without electricity after three power plants were damaged by rockets, according to Mayor Andriy Sadowyj. As a result, according to him, there were also problems with the water supply because the pumps failed due to a lack of electricity. Rocket attacks are also reported from Vinnytsia in the center, Odessa in the south-west and Kirovograd in the center of the country. For the first time since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression on February 24, the Transcarpathia region near the border with Hungary was also attacked with a rocket, as regional governor Viktor Mikita reports in the online service Telegram.
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+++ 22:58 Biden on arms deliveries: “Fighting will not be cheap” +++
US President Joe Biden has defended US support for Ukraine with arms against Russia. “Because history has shown us that dictators will always come back if you don’t oppose them,” Biden said while visiting an arms factory in Troy, Alabama. Your thirst for power keeps growing. “Either we support the Ukrainian people in defending their country, or we stand by as Russia continues its atrocities and aggression,” Biden said. Since the beginning of the war at the end of February, the United States has promised or delivered weapons and ammunition worth more than 3.7 billion US dollars (around 3.5 billion euros) to the former Soviet republic. Biden has also asked Congress for billions more in military aid and humanitarian assistance. “Like I said from the start, this fight will not come cheap,” Biden said.
+++ 22:21 Ukraine: 21 dead civilians after attacks in Donbass +++
At least 21 civilians have been killed in a Russian attack in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk, according to Ukrainian sources. Another 27 were injured, the area administration announced in its Telegram channel. The main civilian casualties were in the embattled cities of Avdiivka, Lyman and Wuhledar. According to governor Serhiy Hajday, the heaviest fighting took place in the neighboring Luhansk region around the town of Popasna.
+++ 22:07 Russian attacks on several cities – Lviv partly without electricity +++
Cities in several regions of Ukraine became the target of Russian rocket attacks in the evening. According to media reports, parts of the city of Lviv in the west of the country were without electricity after three power plants were damaged by rockets, according to Mayor Andrij Sadowyj. As a result, according to him, there were also problems with the water supply because the pumps failed due to a lack of electricity. Rocket attacks are also reported from Vinnytsia in the center, Odessa in the south-west and Kirovograd in the center of the country. For the first time since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression, the Transcarpathia region near the border with Hungary was also attacked with a rocket, as regional governor Viktor Mikita reports on Telegram.
+++ 21:45 Russia: Escape corridors open daily in Mariupol +++
The Russian military has denied allegations of barring civilians from entering Ukrainian-controlled territory. Every day since March 4, Russian forces in Mariupol have opened “escape corridors without any restrictions for the evacuation of civilians, primarily women, children and the elderly, in any direction they choose,” Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev of the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. The Russian military leadership was thus responding to a request by French President Emmanuel Macron, who had previously called for the evacuees to be given free choice of destination in accordance with international law in a telephone call to Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin.
You can read earlier developments in the Ukraine conflict here.