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Civilians evacuated from Ukraine's Mariupol; U.S. Speaker Pelosi visits Kyiv
Ukraine, May 1 (Reuters) - Around 100 Ukrainian civilians were being evacuated from a ruined steelworks in the city of Mariupol on Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, after the United Nations had confirmed a "safe passage operation" was in progress there. Mariupol, a strategic port city on the Azov Sea, has endured the most destructive siege of the war, with Pope Francis, in an implicit criticism of Russia, telling thousands of people in St Peter's Square on Sunday it had been "barbarously bombarded". With fighting stretching along a broad front in southern and eastern Ukraine, U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi pledged continued U.S. support for Ukraine when she met Zelenskiy in an unannounced visit to Kyiv.
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- U.N. confirms 'safe passage' operation under way from Mariupol
- Pelosi says U.S. stands with Ukraine after meeting Zelenskiy
- Russia says it destroyed weapons supplied by Western nations
- Moscow steps up assault in Ukraine's south, eastern Donbas
- Kharkiv residents warned to stay in bomb shelters on Sunday
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Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 69 of the invasion
- Some of the first civilians to be evacuated from a giant steel plant in Mariupol reportedly arrived on Monday in the Ukrainian-held city of Zaporizhzhia after an overnight bus journey stymied by delays across the frontline. More than 100 civilians – mostly women, children and elderly people – were evacuated from the Azovstal steel plant, Ukraine’s military police said in a statement. Hundreds of people are believed to still be remained trapped in the last stronghold of resistance in the city.
- Russian forces in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine – where the bulk of the fighting is taking place – are suffering from poor command and control, low morale, and less than ideal logistics, the US says. “We continue to see minimal, at best, progress by the Russians in the Donbas,” a senior US Defense Department official, has said.
- Russian troops are reportedly destroying historical tombs in Ukraine’s Kherson region, according to Ukrainian officials. Via Twitter, Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that Russian troops were destroying 1,000-year-old Scythian tombs in Kherson by “arranging firing positions on them”.
- Germany said it was prepared to back an immediate EU embargo on Russian oil, a major shift from Moscow’s biggest energy customer that could let Europe impose such a ban within days. “We have managed to reach a situation where Germany is able to bear an oil embargo,” German economy minister Robert Habeck said Monday in Brussels, where he met with EU colleagues. “This means it won’t be without consequences.”
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U.S.-Pledged Mi-17 Helicopters Arrive in Ukraine With 11 More to Go
The Pentagon has delivered five Mi-17 helicopters to Ukraine's armed forces but is still working on transferring 11 more of the promised aircrafts along with other military aid. A senior U.S. defense official told Foreign Policy that the five Soviet-era helicopters are in Ukrainian hands. The delivery comes months after the White House first signaled it would send the helicopters to Ukraine, later committing more in a recent aid package.White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in January that it intended to deliver Mi-17 helicopters to Ukraine as Russia amassed troops along the country's border. The helicopter can be used as a twin-turbine transport copter and an armed gunship. The Pentagon says that as of April 22, the U.S. had committed more than $4 billion in military aid since President Joe Biden took office. That includes $3.4 billion since Russia began its invasion on Ukraine on February 24.
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‘They Deceived Us at Every Step’: Troops Say Russia’s War Is in Shambles
Troops sent into Ukraine to back up Russian forces say they had no choice but to leave because Russian military was in shambles and “they deceived us at every step.” Soldiers from the breakaway state of South Ossetia—speaking to South Ossetian leader Anatoly Bibilov at a meeting publicized by the independent news outlet MediaZona rattled off a list of complaints about faulty equipment, lack of leadership and intel, and brainless tactics. South Ossetia, which relies heavily on military and financial aid from Russia, sent troops to Ukraine in late March to “defend Russia.” Ukrainian military officials said at the time that some 150 South Ossetian troops were joining forces with Russia, but Tskhinvali never gave any official figures.
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Troops sent into Ukraine to back up Russian forces say they had no choice but to leave because Russian military was in shambles and “they deceived us at every step.” Soldiers from the breakaway state of South Ossetia—speaking to South Ossetian leader Anatoly Bibilov at a meeting publicized by the independent news outlet MediaZona rattled off a list of complaints about faulty equipment, lack of leadership and intel, and brainless tactics. South Ossetia, which relies heavily on military and financial aid from Russia, sent troops to Ukraine in late March to “defend Russia.” Ukrainian military officials said at the time that some 150 South Ossetian troops were joining forces with Russia, but Tskhinvali never gave any official figures.
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Russia tightens grip on Mariupol as Ukraine seeks more Western aid
Russian forces appeared to tighten their grip on the southern port city of Mariupol on Thursday, with a senior police official describing “constant” attempts to overrun the last Ukrainian forces holding. Seizing the plant would give Russia total control of the city, delivering the Kremlin its largest prize in a 10-week-old invasion that has been marked by immense human suffering and logistical failures, and has shifted to focus on eastern Ukraine after attempts to take control elsewhere faltered. Ukrainian forces and their Western partners are girding for a grim next phase of the war, with Russia increasingly desperate for victory and the West rushing more and more aid to Ukraine.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke to a donor conference in Warsaw that was organized by the prime ministers of Poland and Sweden and raised $7 billion in aid.
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Ukraine war: Civilians now out of Azovstal plant in Mariupol
The operation began a week ago, co-ordinated by the UN and Red Cross, which have not confirmed the news. Ukrainian forces are holding out at the heavily bombed plant, the last part of the city not under Russian control. Russia has besieged the plant for weeks, demanding the surrender of its defenders from the Azov battalion.The whereabouts of the evacuees are not yet clear, but Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said this part of the humanitarian operation was now complete. In the past, it has taken days for those evacuated to reach Ukrainian-held territory.
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Live updates | Canada’s Trudeau in Ukraine to offer support
The Ukrainian army said Sunday that Moscow was focusing its main efforts that day on destroying airfield infrastructure in eastern and southern Ukraine, in order to prevent Ukrainian air forces from operating effectively. At least five explosions were heard in the key Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odesa on Sunday, according to reports in local news media. Odesa, Ukraine’s third-largest city and a cultural center of deep significance to both Ukrainians and Russians, has so far been largely spared in the ten-week-old war. Multiple photos and videos appeared to show trails and clouds of smoke in the sky above the city. Local media also reported that at least one missile had been shot down. As of Sunday afternoon, there have been no reports of casualties, although one newspaper claimed that civilian infrastructure had been damaged. According to a Facebook post Sunday on the profile of Ukraine’s General Chiefs of Staff, Russia also ramped up “operational and tactical aviation activity” in the northwestern part of the Black Sea.
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Russia's Putin defends Ukraine invasion in "Victory Day" speech celebrating Soviet WWII win over Nazis
Russian President Vladimir Putin used a military parade marking the Soviet Union's triumph over the Nazis during the Second World War to defend his invasion of Ukraine on Monday, casting it as a response to Western policies. Despite widespread speculation, Putin did not declare victory in Ukraine or hint at any stronr push on the battlefield there. "Russia called on the West for an honest dialogue, to search for reasonable, compromise solutions, to take into account each other's interests. All in vain. The NATO countries did not want to hear us, which means that in fact they had completely different plans," Putin said. "The danger grew every day. Russia gave a pre-emptive rebuff to aggression. It was a forced, timely and the only right decision. The decision of a sovereign, strong, independent country."
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Russia-Ukraine war: civilian death toll ‘thousands higher’ than thought, says UN, and more than 8m displaced – live
UN says it has been working on new estimate for civilian deaths as it also says number of internally displaced people exceeds 8m. The figures, published in a report by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), represent a 24% increase compared with the first internal displacement figures published on 16 March. Nearly half of those people were considering further relocation due to the humanitarian crisis in the country, the report said. More than 2.7 million people have returned home.
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Ukraine says Russia strikes hit schools as first war crime trial gets underway in Kyiv
As Russia's brutal war in Ukraine enters its 11th week, fresh allegations of war crimes by Russian troops are surfacing almost daily. In some of the latest, Ukrainian officials claim that Vladimir Putin's forces attacked two schools in the country's north, killing three people and wounded 12. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russian commanders "who give such orders" were "simply sick and incurable."
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Ukraine opens first war crimes trial of captured Russian
Journalists packed a small courtroom in Kyiv for the trial of a captured Russian soldier accused of killing a Ukrainian civilian in the early days of the war, the first of dozens of war crimes cases that Ukraine’s top prosecutor said her office is pursuing. As the trial of 21-year-old Russian Sgt. Vadim Shyshimarin got underway in the capital, Russian forces suffered heavy losses in a Ukrainian attack that destroyed a pontoon bridge they were using to try to cross a river in the east, Ukrainian and British officials said in another sign of Moscow’s struggle to salvage a war gone awry. Britain’s Defense Ministry said Russia lost “significant armored maneuver elements” of at least one battalion tactical group in the attack. A Russian battalion tactical group consists of about 1,000 troops.
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'Grave mistake': Russia issues warning as Sweden, Finland move toward NATO
Russia has reiterated its warning to Finland and Sweden over joining NATO after the Nordic neighboring countries confirmed their intentions to submit a membership to the military alliance. According to Russian state news agency TASS, the Kremlin’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said that Sweden and Finland would be making a “grave mistake” in joining the 30-member organization. “This will be another gross mistake with far-reaching consequences,” he told reporters. “The fact that the security of Sweden, like that of Finland for that matter, will not be strengthened as a result of this decision, is completely obvious to us.” Finland shares a large, 800-mile border with Russia, and both Finland and Sweden control large coastlines in the Baltic Sea. Their membership would cause the Baltic to become dominated by NATO countries, which include Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany and Poland. Russia has several key ports in the region, including Kaliningrad and Russia’s second-largest city of St. Petersburg.
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