🔵23.05.2022
22:37 Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine
Since February 24, the Russian army has launched 1,474 missile strikes on Ukraine, using 2,275 different missiles, mostly on civilian objects. Ukraine needs modern anti-missile weapons and combat aircraft to save people’s lives.
22:34 Lloyd Austin US Secretary of Defense
20 countries announced new security assistance packages, inc. donating critically needed artillery ammunition, coastal defense systems, tanks, and other armored vehicles.
22:01 Petro Andriushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol
Russia wants to remove metal-roll and grain residues from the port of Mariupol by rail. The repair of the railway line has started urgently. Also, 🇷🇺 army blocks 22 million tons of grain and sunflower in Ukraine, which threatens the world with food crisis.
20:55 Liudmyla Denisova, Ukraine’s Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights
In the Kherson region, Russian troops raped children aged 6 months, some of them died. Russia systematically uses rape and sexual violence in its military tactics.
19:23 Energoatom
In Enerhodar, Zaporizhzhia region, the Russians broke into the house of Serhii Shvets, an employee of the Zaporizhzhia NPP, and shot him. He was hospitalized with numerous injuries. Doctors are fighting for his life.
19:02 Militarnyi
The Ministry of Defense of Belarus is starting the next stage of examining its response forces. The Belarusian army is conducting intensive reconnaissance activity in the Volyn and Polissya areas.
17:52 Iryna Venediktova, Prosecutor General of Ukraine48 more Russian soldiers to face war crimes trials. About 13,000 cases of Russian alleged war crimes are being investigated.
17:14 Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine
Up to 100 people are being killed each day while fighting in eastern Ukraine, where Russia has centered its military efforts in recent weeks.
16:06 Bild
Germany has Marder vehicles that could be transferred to Ukraine but Olaf Scholz’s government blocks the supplies.
14:53 Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine
We need to create a global structure to provide sufficient support within 24 hours to any country that has suffered a military attack, natural disaster, or pandemic. This is a new format of security guarantees based on what is happening now.
14:15 CNN
Denis Pushilin, the leader of the puppet “Donetsk People’s Republic”, says Azovstal defenders are being held on the territory of the “republic” and will face an “international tribunal” there. Some Russian lawmakers have already urged the death penalty for captured Mariupol defenders. In the puppet “Donetsk People’s Republic”, the death penalty is used as a punishment for “crimes”, which is a violation of all fundamental principles of the right to a fair trial.
14:05 Iryna Venediktova, Prosecutor General of Ukraine
At least 4,600 Ukrainian civilians have died as a result of Russian aggression, not including data from the occupied territories, where the situation is catastrophic with many cities and towns completely destroyed.
13:59 Kyrylo Budanov, Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense Intelligence Chief
There has been an attempt on the life of Vladimir Putin since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24.
12:55 Livyi Bereh
Russian soldier Vadim Shyshymarin was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing an unarmed civilian in the Sumy region on Feb. 28, 2022. He has become the first Russian soldier to appear before the court for war crimes in Ukraine.
10:56 The Guardian
#WEF2022: Ukrainian President calls for ‘maximum sanctions’ against Russia, among them:
📍a full oil embargo;
📍no trade with Russia;
📍barring ALL Russian banks from global systems;
📍cutting ties with Russia’s IT industry.
10:22 Security Service of Ukraine
Detained Putin’s ally Medvedchuk says Ukraine’s ex-president Poroshenko was involved in the withdrawal of part of the main oil pipeline “Samara — Western direction” from state ownership for further pumping of diesel fuel through it. The European Solidarity political party, led by Poroshenko, has already called Medvedchuk’s statement “an obvious information subversive attack in the interests of the aggressor’s country as today the collapse of internal political unity would not work in Ukraine’s interests”.
9:03 Wprost.pl
Poland has terminated its contract with Russia’s Gazprom, which provided for the supply of gas until the end of 2022.
6:39 The Guardian
New Zealand to send 30 troops to the UK to train the Ukrainian military how to use a howitzer gun.
0:05 United NationsOver 6.5 million refugees have fled Ukraine since Russia’s invasion on February 24. Also, 2 million have returned home from abroad since February 28.
