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At 10 years old, she survived the Nazis in part by hiding in a basement in Mariupol. 81 years later, she died in a basement in the same city hiding from the Russians.

Vanda Semyonovna Obiedkova was born in Mariupol, Ukraine, in 1930 and survived the Nazi roundups that swalled her mother and family. Obiedkova, an active member of Mariupol's Jewish community, died in a freezing basement in Mariupol on April 4.

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sds71 said:
At 10 years old, she survived the Nazis in part by hiding in a basement in Mariupol. 81 years later, she died in a basement in the same city hiding from the Russians.

Vanda Semyonovna Obiedkova was born in Mariupol, Ukraine, in 1930 and survived the Nazi roundups that swalled her mother and family. Obiedkova, an active member of Mariupol's Jewish community, died in a freezing basement in Mariupol on April 4.

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91 years old, Holocaust survivor but her last days tortured by madman Putin and his uncaring, monstrous military. May she finally rest in peace <3

"As she lay dying in a Mariupol basement, freezing and pleading for water, Holocaust survivor Vanda Semyonovna Obiedkova wanted to know only one thing: “Why is this happening?”...

...In recent years, she lived with Larissa [her daughter].

“Mama loved Mariupol; she never wanted to leave,” she says...

...When the shelling and bombings began in the beginning of March, the family moved into the basement of a neighboring heating-supply store...

...“There was no water, no electricity, no heat—and it was unbearably cold,” she says. Larissa spent all her time caring for her immobile mother, but “there was nothing we could do for her. We were living like animals!”

Two snipers had set up positions near the closest sources of water, making every trip there intensely dangerous aside from the bombs raining down from the skies.

“Every time a bomb fell, the entire building shook. My mother kept saying she didn’t remember anything like this during the Great Patriotic War [World War II].”

https://www.chabad.org/news/article...st-Survivor-Perishes-in-Mariupol-Basement.htm
 
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Ukrainian drone reveals Russian hiding places before strikes destroy them
Apr 19, 2022
 
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Canada sending heavy artillery to Ukraine, imposing sanctions on Putin's daughters | CBC News
Darren Major · CBC News · Posted: Apr 19, 2022
''The government has announced a round of new sanctions targeting individuals with ties to the Russian government — including President Vladimir Putin's daughters — and plans to send heavy artillery to Ukraine as Russian forces step up their attacks in the country's eastern regions.

Katerina Tikhonova and Maria Vorontsova, Putin's adult daughters, are among 14 individuals being added to Canada's sanctions list. The U.S. and the U.K. made similar announcements earlier this month.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a press conference in New Brunswick on Tuesday that Canada will send heavy artillery to support Ukrainian forces.

"We've been in close contact with President (Volodymyr) Zelensky since the very beginning and we're very responsive to what it is that they need most specifically," Trudeau said. "Their most recent request from Canada is to help them with heavy artillery, because that's what the phase of the war is in right now."
Maria Lavrova, the wife of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, was also named in the latest round of sanctions.''

Lethal darts were fired into a Ukrainian neighbourhood by the thousands | Stuff.co.nz
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''At Svitlana Chmut's house outside Kyiv, there are carrots in her garden and deadly Russian mini-arrows in her yard.

A pile of the sharp, finned projectiles rounded up by Chmut are now gathering rust in the spring's fine mist. She combed her walled courtyard for them, she said, after a Russian artillery shell carrying them burst somewhere overhead days before the Russians withdrew late last month, seeding the area with thousands of potentially lethal darts.

Some were embedded in the tarp that covered her vehicle, as if someone nailed them to her car.

"If you look closely on the ground around my house, you will find a lot more of them," said Chmut, 54.
''These projectiles, called fléchettes, are rarely seen or used in modern conflict, experts have said.

Many landed in the street in the strike, Chmut said, including some observed by Washington Post reporters, among fields of gear and the occasional liquor bottle or chocolate bar abandoned by retreating Russian soldiers.

At 3 centimetres in length, these fléchettes look like tiny arrows. They have a long history in war - a version of them was dropped from airplanes in World War I and used by the US in Vietnam - but are not in common use today.''
 
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António Guterres urged to take lead in securing peace in Ukraine or risk future of UN

Former UN officials say body could be doomed if secretary general does not play a bigger role in mediating for peace in Ukraine

A group of more than 200 former senior UN officials have written to the UN secretary general, António Guterres, warning him that unless he does more personally to take a lead in trying to mediate a peace in Ukraine, the UN risks not just irrelevance, but its continued existence.

The former staff members, including many former UN undersecretaries, urged him to raise his profile and be prepared to take personal risks to secure peace, saying the UN is facing an existential threat due to the invasion of Ukraine by one of the five permanent members of the security council.

“What we and the broader public want to see, though, is a political UN presence and public engagement, in addition to the UN’s notable humanitarian response to the Ukraine crisis,” the authors said.

“We want to see a clear strategy to re-establish peace, starting with a provisional ceasefire, and the use of the UN’s capacity for good offices, mediation and conflict-resolution. That could include visits to the conflict-stricken areas, discussions with the opposing sides, even moving your own office temporarily to Europe, closer to the urgently needed negotiations and, thereby, indicating the UN’s resolve to address this major crisis head-on.”

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By contrast during the Cuban missile crisis in 1961, the newly appointed Burmese UN secretary general, U Thant, played a major role in de-escalating and then mediating the conflict between Russia and the US.

Similarly, during the buildup to the Gulf war the UN secretary general, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, convinced the US to negotiate with Iraq. In 2013 the UN took the task of mediation so seriously that its senior envoy Sérgio Vieira de Mello was in Baghdad where he was killed in a terrorist blast at the UN headquarters.

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“This is the raison d’être of the United Nations, which is being tested again in this case. We are horrified at the alternative, the UN becoming increasingly irrelevant and, eventually, succumbing to the fate of its predecessor, the League of Nations, with the human losses and material destruction that went with it.”
 
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Mo Thuairim said:
António Guterres urged to take lead in securing peace in Ukraine or risk future of UN

Former UN officials say body could be doomed if secretary general does not play a bigger role in mediating for peace in Ukraine

A group of more than 200 former senior UN officials have written to the UN secretary general, António Guterres, warning him that unless he does more personally to take a lead in trying to mediate a peace in Ukraine, the UN risks not just irrelevance, but its continued existence.

The former staff members, including many former UN undersecretaries, urged him to raise his profile and be prepared to take personal risks to secure peace, saying the UN is facing an existential threat due to the invasion of Ukraine by one of the five permanent members of the security council.

“What we and the broader public want to see, though, is a political UN presence and public engagement, in addition to the UN’s notable humanitarian response to the Ukraine crisis,” the authors said.

“We want to see a clear strategy to re-establish peace, starting with a provisional ceasefire, and the use of the UN’s capacity for good offices, mediation and conflict-resolution. That could include visits to the conflict-stricken areas, discussions with the opposing sides, even moving your own office temporarily to Europe, closer to the urgently needed negotiations and, thereby, indicating the UN’s resolve to address this major crisis head-on.”

(...)

By contrast during the Cuban missile crisis in 1961, the newly appointed Burmese UN secretary general, U Thant, played a major role in de-escalating and then mediating the conflict between Russia and the US.

Similarly, during the buildup to the Gulf war the UN secretary general, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, convinced the US to negotiate with Iraq. In 2013 the UN took the task of mediation so seriously that its senior envoy Sérgio Vieira de Mello was in Baghdad where he was killed in a terrorist blast at the UN headquarters.

(...)

“This is the raison d’être of the United Nations, which is being tested again in this case. We are horrified at the alternative, the UN becoming increasingly irrelevant and, eventually, succumbing to the fate of its predecessor, the League of Nations, with the human losses and material destruction that went with it.”
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Amen to this call to action by over 200 former senior UN officials.
 
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The Kyiv Independent on Twitter - 7 hrs ago
Russia mines roads, fields near occupied Kherson. Russians have densely mined the area along the Kherson – Snihurivka highway overnight on April 18, according to Ukraine’s Defense Ministry’s intelligence. The highway is one of the main routes from Mykolaiv Oblast to Kherson.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
Azov says Azovstal plant bombed, almost completely destroyed. Mariupol City Council said more than 1,000 civilians are hiding in underground shelters of the city’s main metallurgical plant, where the last defenders are holding out against Russian forces.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter - 6 hrs ago
Ukrainian military regains control of Marinka, Donetsk Oblast. According to the General Staff, Ukraine launched a counter-offensive and drove out Russian troops from the city, which is less than 10 km west of Donetsk. Marinka was last controlled by Ukraine in mid-March.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter - 5 hrs ago
Scholz says Germany will continue arming Ukraine but Berlin's capacity 'almost exhausted.' German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that weapons that are already familiar to Ukrainian soldiers should be supplied, and his government will work with manufacturers to make it possible.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
UN chief calls for 4-day Easter 'pause' in Russia's war against Ukraine. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged for a truce from Holy Thursday until Easter Sunday on April 24 that would allow a safe passage for civilians to flee the war zone and deliver humanitarian aid.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter - 3 hrs ago
Zelensky: 'If we had access to all the weapons we need, which our partners have, we would have already ended this war.' Zelensky renewed calls for weapons to Ukraine, saying “it is unfair that Ukraine is still forced to ask for what its partners have been storing for years.”

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
UK Defense Ministry update: Despite increased shelling and attacks, Russia is struggling to make significant progress as its advances are stifled by environmental, logistical and technical challenges, combined with the resilience of the highly-motivated Ukrainian armed forces.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter - 2 hrs ago
Biden, Johnson, Trudeau to send more artillery to Ukraine. U.S. President Joe Biden, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson all said their countries are planning on sending heavy artillery to Ukraine.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
Johnson told lawmakers in London that “(Ukrainians) need support with more artillery, that is what we will be giving them.”

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
Ukraine's Air Force: Nine Russian aerial targets destroyed. According to Ukraine’s Air Force, air defense units shot down one airplane, one helicopter, one missile, and five UAVs on April 19.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter - 1 hr ago
CNN: US preparing another $800 million military aid package for Ukraine. According to officials and sources familiar with the planning, the details of the aid are still being discussed. One senior administration official said the aid could be approved within the next 36 hrs.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
Pentagon: Ukraine has received additional aircraft and aircraft parts to increase fleet size. Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said Ukraine has received additional fighter planes and spare parts from other countries, not including the U.S., to expand its air capabilities.
 
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Euromaidan Press on Twitter - 7 hrs ago
John Deere agricultural machinery stolen by Russian troops in Zaporizhia Oblast "surfaced" in Chechnya at an agricultural firm linked to Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov Looting - stolen in Ukraine combines from the United States found in a company with which Ramzan Kadyrov is associated | Ukrayinska Pravda

Euromaidan Press on Twitter - 4 hrs ago
Two Kharkiv-based Feldman Ecopark employees missing since early March found dead They stayed to feed the animals amid Russian attacks. Now their bodies were found with gunshot wounds in a back room. In total, 5 employees were killed during the war.

Euromaidan Press on Twitter - 2 hrs ago
The Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol was destroyed by heavy bombs and many people were trapped under its rubble, the Azov Regiment stated. Mariupol defenders: Azovstal steelworks destroyed, many people under rubble (ukrinform.net)

Euromaidan Press on Twitter - 1 hr ago
Romania is likely to hand over weapons to Ukraine from the reserves of some institutions of the national defense system. The country has prepared necessary changes to legislation to make possible the transfer of military aid to a country outside NATO.

Euromaidan Press on Twitter
2,000 foreign medical workers have applied to work in Ukraine to save lives. Many of them were from Germany and Lithuania. 230 foreign medical workers are already working in Ukraine, - the Ministry of Healthcare Chairman of the Committee on Health of the Nation Mykhailo Radutsky

'They Waved Goodbye To Us': Ukrainian Woman Recalls How Russian Soldiers Killed Her Son (rferl.org)
VIDEO CAPTION: This is a Ukrainian mother's account of how her 13-year-old son was killed when she and her children tried to flee a village occupied by the Russian military. Inna says that, at first, Russian troops allowed her family to leave and even waved goodbye, but then opened fire at the cars they were traveling in.

Russia-Ukraine war: Russian troops capture eastern city as battle for Donbas region begins – live (theguardian.com)

2h ago 19.52
Ukraine receives more aircraft and parts for repairs, Pentagon confirms
[...]

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby did not offer details on which countries provided aircraft, but acknowledged new transfers and said Ukraine had more operable fighter aircraft than it had two weeks ago.

[...]

“We certainly have helped with the trans-shipment of some additional spare parts that have helped with their aircraft needs, but we have not transported whole aircraft,” he added.
 
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The Kyiv Independent on Twitter - 7 hrs ago
Ukraine’s UN envoy: Half a million Ukrainians deported to Russia. Ukraine’s Permanent Representative to the UN Sergiy Kyslytsya said on April 19, that more than 500,000 Ukrainians were “forcibly transferred” to Russia, including 121,000 children.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
According to Kyslytsya, citizens of Ukraine are sent to Russia’s “economically depressed regions,” in particular, the northern regions and the island of Sakhalin. He said they receive documents banning them from leaving Russia for two years.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter - 6 hrs ago
Mariupol defenders ask world leaders to evacuate people from Azovstal, say hours could be left. The 36th marine brigade commander Serhiy Volynskyi said that they were outnumbered 10 to 1 and there are only a few days, if not hours, to save people sheltering at Azovstal plant.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
According to the commander, 500 wounded soldiers and hundreds of civilians are at the plant. “This could be the last appeal of our lives,” he said.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter - 5 hrs ago
Deputy Prime Minister: Evacuation corridor for women, children, elderly agreed in Mariupol. Iryna Vereshchuk said that civilians would be able to evacuate from the besieged city to Zaporizhizhia through occupied Mangush and Berdyansk.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter - 4 hrs ago
Norway sends 100 air defense systems to Ukraine. Norwegian Defense Minister Bjørn Arild Gram said his country had donated French-made Mistral short-range missile systems to Ukraine, which are no longer used by Norway's military but are still modern and effective weapons.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter - 3 hrs ago
Ukraine's intelligence: FSB arrests Russia's proxy in occupied part of Luhansk Oblast. Ukraine's intelligence said that Moscow began to “clean up” its proxies in Donbas for “failures at the front.” Igor Kornet is currently being held in a detention center in Rostov-on-Don.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
Ukraine confirms receiving spare parts, components of aircraft from allies, but not new planes. Despite Pentagon’s earlier claim that Ukraine received new planes as well as spare parts, Ukraine’s Armed Forces said that the country “did not receive new aircraft from partners.”

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter - 2 hrs ago
Luhansk Oblast governor: Electricity, gas and water will not be restored in parts of region till the end of the war. Serhiy Haidai said that the infrastructure in the cities of Popasna and Rubizhne and several villages in Luhansk Oblast was nearly completely destroyed.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter - 1 hr ago
Ukraine’s intelligence: Russia plans forced mobilization in Zaporizhzhia, Kherson regions. Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s Intelligence Directorate says Russia plans to carry out forced mobilization in occupied territories and send Ukrainians to fight against their own country.
 
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Euromaidan Press on Twitter - 4 hrs ago
Russian representatives came to Berdiansk cultural institutions & demanded Russian concerts be held on May 9. "People are outraged,"–said Acting Berdiansk Mayor Zaporizhia Obl Head said that residents report abductions of relatives and acquaintances, –Obl Administration

NEXTA on Twitter
The West should immediately supply weapons to #Ukraine This was stated by the official representative of the #Polish government Piotr Muller.
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The New Voice of Ukraine on Twitter
The Russian occupiers fired at the Nikolaev Zoo
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Euromaidan Press on Twitter - 1 hr ago
Daily Report 20.04: Heavy fighting in the Donbas area. “Azovstal” plant in Mariupol has been almost destroyed, Ukrainian fighters are pulling people out of the rubble. UA Air Force rebutted Pentagon report: so far it has not got any aircraft from the US Russo-Ukrainian war, day 56: The Battle for Donbas escalates, Russia is preparing to annex occupied regions | Euromaidan Press

NEXTA on Twitter
Germany will help the Ukrainian military with training and assistance in the servicing of equipment, Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock said. Also, according to her, #Germany did not disclose to public all the weapons they had previously sent to #Ukraine. Live updates: Russia invades Ukraine, resistance continues in Mariupol (cnn.com)

Euromaidan Press on Twitter - Video
"What is Mariupol today? A city completely destroyed, bombed, burned,and raped by Russian occupiers. Dead bodies on the streets. Burial of family members in yards, kindergartens. But it does not give up as long as Mariupol courageous defenders fight, until the last bullet"–Video: Azov soldier

Euromaidan Press on Twitter
"Mariupol must be Ukrainian in order to have hope for a happy future, so as not to become one of the many already dead cities of unrecognized 'republics',"–Azov soldier added Telegram: Contact @polkazov

NEXTA on Twitter
The U.S. is constantly monitoring Russia's nuclear arsenal, CNN reported citing its sources in Defense Department. They claim that so far the U.S. has seen no indication that #Russia has taken any steps to prepare nuclear weapons for use in time of war. Live updates: Russia invades Ukraine, resistance continues in Mariupol (cnn.com)

NEXTA on Twitter
A protest against sexual violence and war crimes in Ukraine was held near Russian embassy in #Riga. According to local media estimates, about 200 women with black bags on their heads, hands tied behind their backs and fake blood on their feet lined the street in front of embassy.
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'Top binnen Kremlin noemt oorlog catastrofale fout' • Nederland stuurt militairen naar Roemenië

'Top within Kremlin calls war a catastrophic mistake' • The Netherlands sends soldiers to Romania


3 HOURS AGO
Kremlin summit calls war a catastrophic mistake
Within the Kremlin's leadership, the veracity of President Putin's decision to invade Ukraine is being questioned, Bloomberg reports . Some members of Putin's circle believe the Russian invasion was a "catastrophic mistake that will put the country in trouble for years," ten different sources told the US news agency.

The sources also say that this summit within the Kremlin considers it unlikely that the Russian leader will change course. Some in Putin's circle would fear that he might resort to nuclear weapons.
 
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sds71 said:
At 10 years old, she survived the Nazis in part by hiding in a basement in Mariupol. 81 years later, she died in a basement in the same city hiding from the Russians.

Vanda Semyonovna Obiedkova was born in Mariupol, Ukraine, in 1930 and survived the Nazi roundups that swalled her mother and family. Obiedkova, an active member of Mariupol's Jewish community, died in a freezing basement in Mariupol on April 4.

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sunshineray said:
91 years old, Holocaust survivor but her last days tortured by madman Putin and his uncaring, monstrous military. May she finally rest in peace <3

"As she lay dying in a Mariupol basement, freezing and pleading for water, Holocaust survivor Vanda Semyonovna Obiedkova wanted to know only one thing: “Why is this happening?”...

...In recent years, she lived with Larissa [her daughter].

“Mama loved Mariupol; she never wanted to leave,” she says...

...When the shelling and bombings began in the beginning of March, the family moved into the basement of a neighboring heating-supply store...

...“There was no water, no electricity, no heat—and it was unbearably cold,” she says. Larissa spent all her time caring for her immobile mother, but “there was nothing we could do for her. We were living like animals!”

Two snipers had set up positions near the closest sources of water, making every trip there intensely dangerous aside from the bombs raining down from the skies.

“Every time a bomb fell, the entire building shook. My mother kept saying she didn’t remember anything like this during the Great Patriotic War [World War II].”

https://www.chabad.org/news/article...st-Survivor-Perishes-in-Mariupol-Basement.htm
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so terribly sad
 
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The linked page's posts by Mr. Kokriatski are just so heartbreaking and his anger is very understandable. Just think if numerous members of your family and friends were just all abducted one day. </3


Romeo Kokriatski@VagrantJourno

Writer of things, including Нигилист.Ли, Hromadske, Zaborona.
Managing Editor at @NewVoiceUkraine
co-host of@HypeUkraine.
As seen on @CNN. he/him

https://mobile.twitter.com/VagrantJourno/status/1516758940561948672
 
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