- LIVE: The Ukrainian forces have mounted stiff resistance and the West has imposed sweeping sanctions on Russia in an effort to force it to withdraw its forces.
Updated on Apr 23, 2022 02:37 PM IST
LIVE UPDATES: The war between Russia and Ukraine entered day 59 on Saturday as Russian troops continued to make advancements in the east.
Russia shifted a dozen crack military units from the shattered port of Mariupol to eastern Ukraine and pounded away at cities across the region, Ukrainian authorities said Friday. Russia said it would “fight to take control over all east and south of Ukraine” as the UN documented dozens of civilians killed in one town.
Russia has already claimed that it has “complete control” of Mariupol several times this week. Mariupol has taken on outsize importance in the war. Capturing it would deprive the Ukrainians of a vital port and complete a land corridor between Russia and the Crimean Peninsula, which Putin seized from Ukraine in 2014.
It would also allow Putin to throw more of his forces into the potentially climactic battle for the Donbas and its coal mines, factories and other industries, or what the Kremlin has now declared to be its main objective.
Nearly five million Ukrainians have fled the country, cities have been shattered and thousands have died since the start of the invasion on Feb 24.
Russia calls its action a special military operation to demilitarise Ukraine and eradicate what it calls dangerous nationalists. The West and Kyiv accuse Russian President Vladimir Putin of unprovoked aggression.
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Apr 23, 2022 02:37 PM IST
Ukraine liberated three villages in Kharkiv, says local governor
The Ukrainian forces claimed to have liberated three settlements in Kharkiv, namely Bezruky, Slatine and Prudianka, the regional governor was quoted by news website The Kyiv Independent
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Apr 23, 2022 02:31 PM IST
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Apr 23, 2022 02:24 PM IST
Watch: Ukrainian soldiers rescue animals affected by war
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“Our heroes are risking their lives to save animals.We are grateful to all the shelters and volunteers working to save animals affected by the war in #Ukraine,” the post read.
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Apr 23, 2022 01:29 PM IST
Ukraine says will try to evacuate Mariupol civilians from noon
Ukraine will make a new attempt to evacuate civilians from Mariupol, the heavily destroyed city largely controlled by Russian forces, at noon on Saturday, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said.
“Today we will again try to evacuate women, children and the elderly,” Vereshchuk said on Telegram, calling for people to gather on the motorway close to the Port City shopping centre in the city. “If everything happens as planned, we will start the evacuation around noon.”
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Apr 23, 2022 01:25 PM IST
A timeline of war as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine enters third month
Russia heads into the third month of its invasion of Ukraine on Sunday with no end in sight to fighting that has killed thousands, uprooted millions and reduced cities to rubble.
In the face of mounting sanctions and fierce Ukrainian resistance bolstered by Western arms, Russia has kept up its long-distance bombardment and opened up a new offensive in the east.
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Apr 23, 2022 12:24 PM IST
Russia’s big admission: 1 dead, 27 missing in Moskva sinking
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Apr 23, 2022 12:22 PM IST
UK says Russian forces made no major gains in the last 24 hours
Russian forces have made no major gains in the last 24 hours despite increased activity, as Ukrainian counterattacks continue to hinder their efforts, British military intelligence said on Saturday.
Despite Russia’s claimed conquest of the port city of Mariupol, heavy fighting continues to frustrate Moscow’s attempts to capture the city, impeding their progress in the Donbas region, the Ministry of Defence tweeted in a regular bulletin.
Russia’s air and maritime forces have not established control in either domain owing to the effectiveness of Ukraine’s air and sea defences, it said.
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Apr 23, 2022 12:21 PM IST
Ukrainian counterattacks slowing Russian offensive in east
Ukrainian forces over the past 24 hours repelled eight Russian attacks in the two regions, destroying nine tanks, 18 armored units and 13 vehicles, a tanker and three artillery systems, the General Staff said as per news agency AP.
“Units of Russian occupiers are regrouping. Russian enemy continues to launch missile and bomb strikes on military and civilian infrastructure,” the General Staff said on its Facebook page.
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Apr 23, 2022 12:20 PM IST
Russian shelling kills 2 in Popasna
Luhansk Governor Serhiy Haidai says that two people were killed by Russian shelling in the city of Popasna, news agency AP reported.
Haidai said Saturday on the messaging app Telegram that residential buildings in the region were shelled 12 times the previous day, and Popasna “got the most” of it.
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Apr 23, 2022 10:47 AM IST
UN documents ‘unlawful’ killings in Ukraine as Russia vows bigger campaign
Russia said Friday it intended a full-bore assault to carve out a sizeable slice of Ukraine, but Kyiv said the invaders faced ruin, as the UN documented the killing of dozens of civilians in one town.
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Apr 23, 2022 09:52 AM IST
Russia says it plans full control of Donbas and southern Ukraine
Russia plans to take full control of Donbas and southern Ukraine during the second phase of what it calls its special military operation, the deputy commander of Russia’s central military district said on Friday, Russian news agencies reported.
The statement from Rustam Minnekayev, the deputy commander, is one of the most detailed about Moscow’s ambitions in Ukraine and suggests Russia does not plan to wind down its offensive there anytime soon.
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Apr 23, 2022 09:03 AM IST
Kremlin critic jailed over denouncing Ukraine war
Russian authorities have opened a criminal case against a prominent opposition activist and remanded him in pre-trial detention Friday for allegedly spreading “false information” about the country’s armed forces, news agency AP reported.
A court in Moscow ordered Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr. held in detention until June 12. Lawyer Vadim Prokhorov told reporters that the false information case against Kara-Murza cited a March 15 speech to the Arizona House of Representatives, in which he denounced the war in Ukraine, as the basis for the latest charges. The activist rejects the accusations.
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Apr 23, 2022 07:42 AM IST
Russia says 1 dead, 27 missing in Moskva sinking
Russia’s Defense Ministry said one sailor died and 27 people remain missing after last week’s sinking of the Moskva, the flagship of its Black Sea fleet. Russia says the ship sank in a storm while it was being towed back to port after fires broke out on board. Ukraine’s military says the ship was hit by Neptune missiles.
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Apr 23, 2022 06:44 AM IST
UN Chief to meet Putin on Tuesday, Zelensky on Thursday
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres will meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky in Ukraine next week after a stop in Moscow to confer with President Vladimir Putin about the war, the UN said Friday.
Guterres will see Zelensky and Ukraine’s foreign minister on Thursday, two days after visiting Moscow, the United Nations said in a statement.
The Kremlin confirmed Friday that Putin would meet Guterres on Tuesday.
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Apr 23, 2022 06:17 AM IST
‘And who will come next?’ warns Zelensky after Russian eyes southern Ukraine
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Russia’s invasion of his country was just the beginning and that Moscow has designs on capturing other countries after a Russian general said it wants full control over southern Ukraine.
“All the nations that, like us, believe in the victory of life over death must fight with us. They must help us, because we are the first in line. And who will come next?” Zelensky said in a video address late on Friday.
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Apr 23, 2022 05:42 AM IST
G20 cannot function with Russia at the table, Canada says
The Group of 20 major economies cannot effectively function as long as Russia remains a member, Canada’s finance minister said on Friday after a week of protests of Moscow’s war in Ukraine at the International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings in Washington.
“Russia does not have a place at the table of countries who have come together to maintain global economic prosperity,” Chrystia Freeland, Canadian minister of finance, told a news conference with Ukrainian Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko in Washington.
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Apr 23, 2022 05:38 AM IST
Russia says it plans full control of Donbas and southern Ukraine
Russia plans to take full control of Donbas and southern Ukraine during the second phase of what it calls its special military operation, the deputy commander of Russia’s central military district said on Friday, Reuters reported quoting Russian news agencies.
The statement from Rustam Minnekayev, the deputy commander, is one of the most detailed about Moscow’s ambitions in Ukraine and suggests Russia does not plan to wind down its offensive there anytime soon.
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Ukraine family tells of epic escape on foot:’ Children saw it as an adventure’
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