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20 civilians evacuated from Mariupol steelworks plant

A group of 20 civilians are leaving the Azovstal steelworks, where the last Ukrainian troops are holed up in the Black Sea port of Mariupol, the soldiers there said today.

"Twenty civilians, women and children... have been transferred to a suitable place and we hope that they will be evacuated to Zaporizhzhia, on territory controlled by Ukraine," said Sviatoslav Palamar, deputy commander of the Azov regiment.

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Many require medical attention.

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In Odessa, regional governor Maxim Marchenko said a Russian missile destroyed the airport runway - as Russia targets infrastructure and supply lines deep in the west of the country.

There were no victims from the airport strike.

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After failing to capture Kyiv in a nine-week assault that has turned cities to rubble, killed thousands and forced five million Ukrainians to flee abroad, Russia is now focusing on the east and south of Ukraine.

Moscow hopes to take full control of the eastern Donbas region made up of Luhansk and Donetsk, parts of which were already controlled by Russian-backed separatists before the invasion.

Moscow said today its artillery units had struck 389 Ukrainian targets overnight.

Serhiy Gaidai, governor of Luhansk, told Ukrainian public television that the Russians were shelling all over the region "but they cannot get through our defence".

He said civilians would continue to be evacuated despite the difficult situation.
 
APR 30, 2022
Ukrainians plead for Mariupol rescue; Russian advance crawls | AP News
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Russian state media outlets reported Saturday that 25 civilians had been evacuated from the Azovstal steelworks, though there was no confirmation from the U.N. Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency said 19 adults and six children were brought out, but gave no further details.

A top official with the Azov Regiment, the Ukrainian unit defending the plant, said 20 civilians were evacuated during a cease-fire, though it was not clear if he was referring to the same group as the Russian news reports.

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Video and images from inside the plant, shared with The Associated Press by two Ukrainian women who said their husbands are among the fighters refusing to surrender there, showed unidentified men with stained bandages; others had open wounds or amputated limbs.

A skeleton medical staff was treating at least 600 wounded people, said the women, who identified their husbands as members of the Azov Regiment of Ukraine’s National Guard. Some of the wounds were rotting with gangrene, they said.

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In his nightly video address late Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy switched into Russian to urge Russian troops not to fight in Ukraine, saying even their generals expect that thousands more of them will die.

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The Kyiv Independent on Twitter - 9 hrs ago
Mariupol mayor: Russian military killed twice as many residents as Nazi Germany. Vadym Boychenko said that in 2 years of Mariupol’s occupation during World War II, the Nazis killed 10,000 people. Russians have doubled the number of victims in 2 months of the Mariupol siege.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter - 5 hrs ago
CNN: Satellite images show significant destruction of Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol. New satellite images from Maxar Technologies pictured ruins of most of the plant buildings. Some of them collapsed while others had visible large holes in the roofs.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
It’s still unclear whether the basement with civilians aged four months to 16 years survived the Russian military strikes.

Euromaidan Press on Twitter
Russian occupiers took from Mariupol ventilators necessary for the treatment of seriously ill patients, including those with coronavirus. Only part of the ventilators survived in damaged hospitals but was taken away, the deputy mayor said. Telegram: Contact @andriyshTime

Draft Document Gives New Clues To Russian Plans For Occupied Ukrainian Regions (rferl.org)
A draft document prepared by top officials with Russia’s ruling political party calls for a new state named Southern Rus to be created from some regions of Ukraine occupied by Russian forces.

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The draft document obtained by Schemes, titled The Manifesto Of The South Russian People's Council and dated April 16, does not specify which occupied territories would make up the new state of “Southern Rus.”

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The online news site Meduza reported this week that the Kremlin was considering holding two referendums in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions on May 14 and 15.

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@mrsorokaa
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is in Kyiv meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky

@ChadPergram
Accompanying Pelosi to Ukraine were Rules Cmte Chair McGovern, Intel Cmte Chair Schiff, Foreign Affairs Cmte Chair Meeks & Dem CO Rep Crow. Dem Reps Lee of CA & Keating are going with the delegation now to Poland

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Russia troll factory spreads disinformation: Britain | CTV News
April 30 2022
''The British Foreign Office said on Sunday Russia is using a troll factory to spread disinformation about the war in Ukraine on social media and target politicians across a number of countries including Britain and South Africa.

Britain cited U.K.-funded expert research, which it did not publish. It said the research exposed how the Kremlin's disinformation campaign was designed to manipulate international public opinion of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, boost support for it and recruit new sympathizers.

Russia calls its actions in Ukraine a "special operation" to disarm Ukraine and protect it from fascists. Ukraine and the West say the fascist allegation is baseless and the war is an unprovoked act of aggression.''

''Russia says the Western media have provided an excessively partial narrative of the war that largely ignores Moscow's concerns about the enlargement of NATO and what it says is the persecution of Russian speakers in Ukraine, something denied by Kyiv.''

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Ukraine: War has shown Zelenskyy's qualities, wife says | CTV News
''Ukraine's first lady, Olena Zelenska, says the war with Russia has not changed her husband but only revealed to the world his determination to prevail and the fact that he is a man you can rely on.

Zelenska, in an interview published Friday in the Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita, also said she has not seen her husband, 44-year-old Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy, since Russia invaded Ukraine.

When Zelenska woke up on Feb. 24, the day the war began, her husband was already awake and dressed. He told her simply: "It's started," and left for the office in Kyiv, she recalled.''

"The war has not changed him," she replied. "He has always been a man you can rely on. A man who will never fail. Who will hold out until the end. It's just that now the whole world has seen what may not have been clear to everyone before."

She was also asked if she had a message for the mothers, wives and sisters of Russian soldiers. Zelenska said she did not, because "nothing gets through to them."

"During those two months, as their sons are being killed in Ukraine as criminals and occupiers, they had time to define their position. Since there is no such declaration -- if the coffins do not convince them that something is wrong here -- then I have nothing to say to them," she said.''
 
Vladimir Putin set to vanish for cancer surgery, mystery Russian Telegram account says - World News - Mirror Online

April 30, 2022

Vladimir Putin may soon vanish for a period as he is due to undergo surgery linked to cancer, according to a new claim.

He has allegedly secretly nominated his hardline security council security secretary Nikolai Patrushev - a former KGB counterintelligence officer - to take “control” of Russia while he is incapacitated.
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The extraordinary unconfirmed claims come from General SVR Telegram channel, which first raised issues of Putin’s health - including abdominal cancer and Parkinson’s - some 18 months ago.

They come amid speculation that Putin will announce all-out war in Ukraine, and order mass mobilisation of military-age men. Such a move would be seen as high-risk since many may refuse to fight.

It is suggested Putin, 69, has already delayed surgery, which is now unlikely to take place before he presides over the grandiose Red Square 9 May Victory Day commemoration of the defeat of Hitler.

The surgery had been scheduled for the second half of April but was delayed, it was claimed.
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It went on: “The Russian President Vladimir Putin has oncology, and the latest problems identified during [his latest] examination are associated with this disease.”

He also suffers from “Parkinson's disease and schizoaffective disorder”.

The latter is defined as “a mental health disorder that is marked by a combination of schizophrenia symptoms, such as hallucinations or delusions, and mood disorder symptoms, such as depression or mania”.
 
Russia pounds Ukraine as some civilians escape Mariupol

What would it mean if Finland and Sweden join Nato? - BBC News

Russia-Ukraine war: Sweden alleges Russian plane violated airspace | International News | WION
 
NEXTA on Twitter - 7 hrs ago, Video
Dog Patron continues to clear areas near #Chernihiv. In the past 24 hours, together with Chernihiv pyrotechnicians of the State Emergency Service, he helped to destroy 262 explosive objects.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter - 6 hrs ago
Ukraine’s Intelligence: Russia continues to prepare Transnistria for war with Ukraine. According to the report, a local newspaper in the Russian-occupied part of Moldova will publish an article calling on Putin to involve the Transnistrian forces in Russia’s war on May 2.

Transnistria - Wikipedia

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter - 5 hrs ago
SBU: Russia planned a terrorist attack to blame on Ukraine. The Security Service reported that they neutralized Russia’s sabotage reconnaissance group that had been planning to shoot down a passenger plane over Russia or Belarus and blame it on Ukraine and its allies.

NEXTA on Twitter - 4 hrs ago
Head of the #Kharkiv regional administration, Oleg Sinegubov, recommends city's residents not to leave their homes throughout the day because of the intense shelling of the northern and eastern districts of the city, particularly #Saltovka.

NEXTA on Twitter - 2 hrs ago
#Ukrainian Armed Forces inflicted new strikes on Snake Island "Three Strela-10 anti-aircraft missile systems and a communication vehicle were destroyed," the Southern operational command said in a statement. Also reported on the loss of personnel of the #Russian troops.
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The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
Ukrainian ambassador asks Germany to pass lend-lease law. Andriy Melnyk, Ukraine’s ambassador to Germany, has suggested in an interview with Bild am Sonntag that Germany should adopt a law to aid Ukraine similar to the lend-lease act passed by the U.S. Congress on April 29.

Володимир Зеленський on Twitter -1 hr ago (President of Ukraine)
Evacuation of civilians from Azovstal began. The 1st group of about 100 people is already heading to the controlled area. Tomorrow we’ll meet them in Zaporizhzhia. Grateful to our team! Now they, together with #UN, are working on the evacuation of other civilians from the plant.
 
Russia-Ukraine war: UN evacuation under way from Mariupol steelworks; Pelosi dismisses fears of provoking Russia – live (theguardian.com)

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Pictures have emerged of the first people to leave the area near the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, after the UN confirmed that an evacuation operation was underway.

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Azovstal steel plant employee Natalia Usmanova (left), 37, who was evacuated from Mariupol, along with other evacuees near a temporary accommodation centre today in the village of Bezimenne in the Donetsk region, Ukraine. Photograph: Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters

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Civilians who left the area near Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol walk accompanied by a member of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) at a temporary accommodation centre in the village of Bezimenne in Russian-separatist eastern Ukraine. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko Photograph: Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters

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Civilians who left the area near Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol walk accompanied by a service member of pro-Russian troops at a temporary accommodation centre during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the village of Bezimenne in eastern Ukraine. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko Photograph: Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters

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From 3h ago 09.35
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Officials reached the factory on Saturday, and the exercise is being coordinated with the International Committee of the Red Cross, Ukraine and Russia.

According to Reuters, the UN’s Saviano Abreu added that further information was not being shared to ensure the safety of evacuees. It’s believed about 1,000 people are at the site.
 
Ukraine - the narrative the West doesn't hear - BBC News
"Ukraine and its allies, including London, are threatening Russia for the last 1,000 years, to move Nato to our borders, to cancel our culture - they have bullied us for many, many years."

That is what Yevgeny Popov, a member of the Russian Duma (parliament) and an influential TV host in Russia, told the BBC's Ukrainecast on 19 April. "Of course Nato plans for Ukraine are a direct threat to Russian citizens."

His views were both surprising and enlightening as to the very different narrative put out by the Kremlin, compared to the way it's viewed in the West. To European and Western ears, these pronouncements sound almost unfathomable, even amounting to a blatant disregard for carefully documented evidence. Yet these are just some of the beliefs held not only by Kremlin supporters in Russia and across the wider population there but also in several other parts of the world.''
 
The Kyiv Independent on Twitter - 4 hrs ago
Ukrainian intelligence: Russian troops steal, destroy medical equipment in occupied areas. Russian troops have stolen all equipment from the infectious disease unit of a hospital in the city of Starobilsk, Luhansk Oblast, Defense Ministry’s Intelligence Directorate reported.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter - 2 hrs ago
US congressman calls on troops' deployment in Ukraine if Putin uses chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons. Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger introduced a resolution on May 1 to authorize U.S. President Joe Biden to send troops to Ukraine in such cases.

Euromaidan Press on Twitter - 1 hr ago
Russian forces began a new shelling of Mariupol's Azovstal immediately after the evacuation of civilians Commander of the Ukraine National Guard's 12th brigade, Col, Denys Schleha, who's been at Azovstal now, said this on the air of the national telethon. Evacuation from Azovstal on May 1, 2022 – the invaders resumed shelling – latest news (obozrevatel.com)

Euromaidan Press on Twitter - Video
Azov Regiment provided footage of today's evacuation of civilians from Azovstal in Mariupol. Video: https://t.me/David_Arakhamia/73

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
Zelensky: Azovstal evacuation to resume at 8 a.m. on May 2. According to Ukraine’s estimates, around 1,000 civilians, mostly women and children, have been trapped at Azovstal steel mill in Mariupol, surrounded by Russians. Some 100 of them evacuated on May 1.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
Russian occupiers resume shelling of Azovstal. About 1,000 people are still trapped with Ukrainian soldiers under Mariupol's metallurgic factory, according to Ukraine's estimates. The first 100 people were evacuated on May 1. The evacuation is expected to resume on May 2.

Euromaidan Press on Twitter
Vovchansk Regional Tuberculosis Dispensary, Kharkiv region, is being filled with wounded Russians, tuberculosis patients were sent away from the hospital, medical staff are forced to work for the occupiers. - Ukraine Intelligence

NEXTA on Twitter
The Kremlin decided to attack Moldova The Times, citing to Ukrainian intelligence data, claims that Russia has developed clear plans for the invasion of #Moldova. A successful takeover would lead to Russian troops moving into Black Sea port of Odesa. Russia ‘is already paving the way for a takeover of Moldova’ | News | The Times
 
Pelosi pledges U.S. support in Ukraine visit as evacuations begin in war-torn Mariupol
 
Supermarkets are limiting the amount of cooking oil people can buy as the Ukraine war leads to shortages and surging prices
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A growing number of supermarkets are limiting how much cooking oil shoppers can buy because the Ukraine war has led to shortages, multiple reports say.

The conflict is causing a disruption of harvests, meaning there is limited supply of sunflower oil.

Indonesia, the world's biggest palm oil supplier, imposed a partial export ban this week on the key cooking oil ingredient, RBD Palm Oil.

UK supermarket Tesco is introducing a three-bottle limit, while Morissons and Waitrose are capping purchases to two bottles, The New York Times reported.

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Активист призвал ООН обратить внимание на "непропорционально высокое число погибших из национальных республик"

“The chief elder of the Erzya people, Syres Bolyaen, speaking at the 21st session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Peoples, publicly accused Moscow "of turning the national republics and places of compact residence of the indigenous peoples of the Russian Federation into socially backward regions, where local youth are saved from poverty by signing a contract with the Armed forces of the Russian Federation.

"While we are discussing the mandate of the Forum, the Kremlin sends representatives of my and other indigenous peoples of Russia to destroy Ukraine. Russia does not recognize the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and uses the rhetoric about protecting minorities only to seize foreign lands. Russia has long been not a federation, but a prison of peoples, where for the ninth year it has also been holding millions of citizens of Ukraine. The Russian invaders are killing Ukrainians, but they themselves are suffering heavy losses. The share of representatives of the indigenous peoples of Russia in the total number of dead interventionists is disproportionately high. It significantly exceeds the share of these peoples in the structure of the Russian population," Erzya leader has said.

The twenty-first session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues takes place in New York from 25 April to 6 May.

Bolyaen said that the leading regions in terms of the number of military causalities per thousand population are North Ossetia, Buryatia, Tyva, Dagestan, Ingushetia, Chukotka and the Volga region. (“Idel.Realii" keep their own statistics of the natives of the Volga region who died in Ukraine.)

Earlier, investigator Khristo Grozev also drew attention to this. He believes that the Kremlin "throws people from the most remote parts of the country into the heat of war so as not to provoke protests in large urban centers."

Expert Harun Sidorov believes that the participation of representatives of the Russian republics in the war against Ukraine is nothing more than "fixing their "second-class" status in modern Russia."
 
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