{"id":177959,"date":"2022-04-29T21:20:44","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T18:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/?p=177959"},"modified":"2022-04-30T12:14:46","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T09:14:46","slug":"ukraine-resists-russia-s-invasion-day-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/ukraine-resists-russia-s-invasion-day-64","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine resists Russia\u2019s invasion. Day 64: bombs on hospital in Azovstal, \u201creferendum\u201d and hunger in Kherson, missiles on Kyiv"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The Ukrainian troops regained control of Kutuzivka in Kharkiv region, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said in an evening report on April 28. The Ukrainian forces hold back Russia\u2019s offensive on several axes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the night of April 28, Russia struck a field military hospital in the Azovstal steel works. There are casualties. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Russia bombards field hospital in Azovstal, casualties reported. <\/strong>\u201cAll night long, the Russians dropped heavy bombs on a military field hospital in the Azovstal steel works in Mariupol. These bunker busters are capable of destroying thick concrete walls,\u201d Azov regiment said in a Telegram post. \u201cThey continued to shell the damaged sites with naval artillery.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere are fatal casualties, injuries and concussions among the already wounded service members,\u201d the statement reads. Russia\u2019s attack destroyed part of the premises, particularly an operation room. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the Geneva Conventions, fixed establishments and mobile medical units of the Medical Service may in no circumstances be attacked, the Azov regiment said. Soldiers in combat must respect hospitals and places where the wounded and sick, civilian or military, are collected. Azov released a video made right after the attack. In the video, they dig into the rubble to get corpses of the military who were in the hospital. They also give first aid to those affected. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Kherson region, Russia lacks people for crowd scenes ahead of \u201creferendum\u201d \u2013 deputy head of the Kherson regional military administration.<\/strong> Russian forces lack people to film crowd scenes in Kherson during the so-called \u201creferendum\u201d on \u201cKherson people\u2019s republic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey have no support by either local residents, or local self-government,\u201d said Yuriy Sobolevskyi, deputy head of the Kherson regional military administration. \u201cThey would not be able to make a referendum in Kherson region. They would not be able to prepare it. That\u2019s a lot of work, they would also need to open polling stations, and form voters\u2019 lists.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey might be able to make a show. I would not be surprised if they film the show in Crimea. In Kherson region, they would have a hard time filming. They need many people, but they don\u2019t have that.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Russia fails to introduce the ruble in the temporarily occupied territory, Sobolevskyi said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey plan big, but as they get to practice, they repeatedly fail. From what we saw, they would steal most of the ruble supplied to Kherson region,\u201d Sobolevskyi said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
They can distribute the ruble through social lists and fake pensions, yet the \u201cmoney\u201d would hardly circulate as entrepreneurs of Kherson region will not accept the ruble. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Russia fires missiles on Kyiv.<\/strong> Two blasts hit Kyiv\u2019s Shevchenkivskyi district, a central part of the city, Kyiv mayor Vitaly Klychko said on Telegram. Several people were wounded, spokesperson for the State Emergency Service Svitana Vodolaha said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201c[Russian missiles] hit two sites \u2013 a non-residential facility and a residential site nearby. The attack struck the lowers floors. People remain on the upper floors,\u201d Vodolaha said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Explaining Ukraine podcast. Is Russia preparing a new Holodomor in Ukraine?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Russian authorities ordered to \u201cexpropriate\u201d harvests, seeds and equipment from Ukrainian farmers in the occupied Kherson region. These orders remind of Stalin\u2019s \u201crequisitions\u201d of food from Ukrainian peasants in early 1930s. This led to Holodomor, Stalin\u2019s artificial famine in which at least 4 million of Ukrainian peasants died in 1932-1933. \u2013 We continue our \u201cExplaining Ukraine\u201d podcast. Hosts: Volodymyr Yermolenko, Ukrainian philosopher and journalist, chief editor at UkraineWorld.org, and Tetyana Ogarkova, Ukrainian scholar and journalist who is in charge of international outreach at the Ukraine Crisis Media Centre. Listen to the episode<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n