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RUSSIA-UKRAINE LIVE NEWS: MOSCOW WARNS US OVER MILITARY AID

Russian top diplomat snaps back at US’s promise of military aid, warning that it
would be ‘pouring oil on the flames’.


A local resident walks past a non-exploded multiple rocket launch shell, as
Russia's attack on Ukraine continues [Vladyslav Musiienko/Reuters]
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 * Antony Blinken and Lloyd Austin promise Ukraine $322m in US military aid,
   after meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv.
 * They also say US diplomats will start returning to the western city of Lviv
   in the coming week.
 * Russian top diplomat to Washington warns that the delivery of more military
   aid would be like “pouring oil on the flames”.
 * Several locations in central and western Ukraine have been hit by Russian
   shelling, including five railway stations and two towns in Vinnytsia region,
   local authorities have said.
 * Russia’s defence ministry has announced a ceasefire around the Azovstal steel
   plant in Mariupol to allow a civilian evacuation.
 * The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) has called
   for the release of members detained in separatist-held Ukraine.
 * The British defence ministry says Russia is planning a staged referendum in
   the southern city of Kherson to justify the invasion.




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31 mins ago (12:57 GMT)


RUSSIA CLAIMS UKRAINE HIRED “NAZIS” TO KILL PRO-KREMLIN JOURNALIST

Russia’s main intelligence service reportedly said that Ukraine hired
“neo-Nazis” to “assassinate” outspoken pro-Kremlin television anchor Vladimir
Solovyev.



The Federal Security Service claimed in a statement published by the RIA Novosti
news agency that Russian members of the outlawed National Socialism / white
power neo-Nazi group were hired by Ukraine’s intelligence service to kill
Solovyev.

The newsman is one of the most popular anchors on the Kremlin-controlled Rossiya
1 television network. He called critics of Putin “imbeciles” and said that
Crimea’s 2014 annexation was an “act of justice”.

Jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation claimed in
2019 that Solovyov owned two luxurious villas in Italy.

Reporting by Mansur Mirovalev in Kyiv, Ukraine.

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38 mins ago (12:50 GMT)


US STATE DEPARTMENT BACKS AMMUNITION SALE FOR UKRAINE

The US Department of State supports the approval of a possible sale of $165m
worth of ammunition to Ukraine, it said in a statement.


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The Ukrainian government has asked to buy various rounds of so-called
non-standard ammunition, which are those that do not adhere to NATO standards.

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47 mins ago (12:41 GMT)


UKRAINE CLAIMS TO HAVE REBUFFED ATTACK IN THE EAST

Ukraine’s defence ministry said Russia was continuing to attack in eastern
Ukraine, but was being pushed back.



Defence Ministry spokesperson Oleksandr Motuzyanyk said Russian forces had
attempted to break through the defences of towns including Rubizhne, Popasna,
Sievierodonetsk, Maryinka and Avdiivka, and were attempting to advance from the
town of Izyum towards Barvinkove and Sloviansk.

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56 mins ago (12:32 GMT)


NO AGREEMENT ON MARIUPOL CORRIDOR

Ukraine has not reached any agreement with Russia on establishing a humanitarian
corridor to evacuate civilians from the southern city of Mariupol, Deputy Prime
Minister Iryna Vereshschuk said.



“It is important to understand that a humanitarian corridor opens by the
agreement of both sides. A corridor announced unilaterally does not provide
security, and therefore is not a humanitarian corridor,” Vereshchuk said,
referring to a previous announcement by Russia that a safe route had been
opened.

A boy stands next to a wrecked vehicle in front of an apartment building damaged
during the Ukraine-Russia conflict in the southern port city of Mariupol,
Ukraine [Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters]

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2 hours ago (11:45 GMT)


BIDEN NAMES BRINK AS US AMBASSADOR TO UKRAINE

United States President Joe Biden named Bridget Brink, who currently represents
the US in Slovakia, as the new US ambassador to Ukraine, the White House said in
a statement. The position must be confirmed by the US Senate.

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2 hours ago (11:11 GMT)


RUSSIAN SHELLING KILLS FIVE IN DONETSK: LOCAL AUTHORITY

Five civilians, including two children, have died in a Russian attack in the
southeastern Donetsk region, an official has said.



The children were aged five and 14 and lived in the village of Krasnohorivka,
Donetsk defense chief Pavlo Kirilenko said late Sunday.

The three other victims were from the towns of Novoselivtsy and
Novomikhailivtsy, he added.



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3 hours ago (10:55 GMT)


FOREIGN SERVICES BEHIND PLOT TO MURDER RUSSIAN JOURNALIST: PUTIN

Russian President Putin said that Moscow’s security forces thwarted an
assassination attempt against a Russian journalist. He also pointed at foreign
special services, including the CIA, working in conjunction with Ukrainian
forces to murder Russian journalists.



Putin also said that provocations against the Russian military using foreign
media must be stopped.

He suggested that Western military support to Ukraine was a “strange diplomacy”.

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3 hours ago (10:22 GMT)


RUSSIA TO OPEN AZOVSTAL HUMANITARIAN CORRIDOR: MINISTRY

The Russian defense ministry said a humanitarian corridor will open at 2pm
(11:00 GMT) for all civilians to leave the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. It said
Russian troops will cease fire to allow civilians to safely exit the plant.



The mammoth steel plant, which has a sprawling maze of underground channels, has
remained the last bulwark of Ukrainian resistance in the strategic Sea of Azov
port city.



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3 hours ago (10:20 GMT)


RUSSIA INVESTIGATES LARGE OIL DEPOT FIRE IN REGION NEAR UKRAINE

Russia said it would investigate the cause of a large fire that erupted in the
early hours of the morning at an oil storage facility in the city of Bryansk,
154km (96 miles) northeast of the border with Ukraine.



Unverified social media footage showed what sounded like two explosions followed
by a tower of flames, with one unverified video showing a fire raging around a
giant fuel reservoir.

Russia’s ministry of emergency situations said nobody had been hurt in the
incident.

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3 hours ago (10:17 GMT)


FLOATING MINES HIT DANUBE TRAFFIC: APK-INFORM

Ukrainian border guards last week closed several shipping lanes at the mouth of
the Danube river due to drifting mines in the Black Sea, analyst APK-Inform has
said.



Ukrainian Danube ports of Izmail and Reni last week remained the only sea routes
for Ukrainian grain exports after seaports were blocked due to the Russian
invasion. APK-Inform said that the traffic along the Danube was significantly
limited “because of the danger of blowing up ships on laid in the Black Sea by
Russian troops”.



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4 hours ago (09:58 GMT)


GERMANY TO DECIDE ON FIGHTING VEHICLE DELIVERIES TO UKRAINE ‘SOON’

The German government will make a decision on the delivery of 100 old Marder
infantry fighting vehicles to Ukraine “soon”, said a German government
spokesperson.



German defence company Rheinmetall has requested approval to export the vehicles
to Ukraine, a defence source told Reuters, in what would be the first heavy
weapons shipment from Germany to Ukraine.

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4 hours ago (09:55 GMT)


SOLDIER DOWNS THREE RUSSIAN HELICOPTERS: UKRAINE MILITARY

Ukraine has claimed that a new recruit shot down three Russian helicopters in
the southern Zaporizhzhia region on April 21, using a portable Igla (Needle)
infrared homing surface-to-air missile.



Ukraine’s general staff of armed forces posted a video on Facebook showing the
debris of a Ka-52 helicopter that Moscow hails as “the pride and joy of Russia’s
air forces”.

There were no reports of lost helicopters from the Russian side.

Reporting by Mansur Mirovalev in Kyiv, Ukraine.

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4 hours ago (09:14 GMT)


RUSSIANS SHELL TOWNS IN CENTRAL UKRAINE: GOVERNOR

Russian cruise missiles hit two towns in the southwestern Ukrainian region of
Vinnytsia, its governor said, adding that “sites of critical infrastructure”
were hit in the towns of Zhmerynka and Kozyatin.



There are “dead and wounded”, Serhiy Borzov said on Telegram without providing
further details.



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4 hours ago (09:11 GMT)


RUSSIA WARNED US AGAINST SENDING MORE ARMS TO UKRAINE

Russia has warned the US against sending more arms to Ukraine, Moscow’s
ambassador to Washington told Russian state television.



“We stressed the unacceptability of this situation when the United States of
America pours weapons into Ukraine, and we demanded an end to this practice,”
Anatoly Antonov said in an interview with the Rossiya 24 TV channel.

An official diplomatic note had been sent to Washington expressing Russia’s
concerns, he said, adding that such arms supplies would further aggravate the
situation.

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4 hours ago (08:58 GMT)


FIVE RAILWAY STATIONS HIT

Five railway stations in central and western Ukraine were hit by Russian forces
early morning, the country’s railway service’s chief Oleksandr Kamyshin has
said.



“There are victims, we are finding out the details,” he said in an online post,
adding that at least 16 trains have been delayed.

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3 hours ago (10:01 GMT)


WHERE ARE PEOPLE FLYING TO?



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5 hours ago (08:35 GMT)


RUSSIA STRIKES UKRAINIAN OIL DEPOT AND MILITARY INSTALLATIONS

Russia has struck and destroyed the Kremenchug oil refinery and Ukrainian
military installations, the defence ministry said, TASS news agency has
reported. The governor of the Poltava region said one person was killed and
seven were wounded in the refinery attack.



Russian air defense systems shot down a dozen Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles
in the areas in the Kharkiv region, it added.

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5 hours ago (08:30 GMT)


RESCUE OPERATIONS ONGOING IN LUHANSK

Following Russian shelling in the east of Luhansk region, rescuers are working
to extinguish fires in Lysychansk and pulling bodies from the rubble in
Severodonetsk, the country’s emergency service has said on its Telegram channel.



“Rescuers are constantly performing their professional duties, eliminating fires
despite the high risk of shelling,” it added.

A recent cemetery near a local church in the town of Severodonetsk, Luhansk
region [Marko Djurica/Reuters]

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5 hours ago (08:28 GMT)


HEAVY SHELLING IN LYMAN: AL JAZEERA CORRESPONDENT

As Russian forces are pressing into the eastern city of Slovyansk, Al Jazeera’s
Charles Stratford said that the nearby town of Lyman was already under heavy
attack.

“The shelling was too heavy,” Stratford said as he tried to access the city.
Families are sheltering in bunkers and a crater was seen in the center of the
town, Stratford reported, citing people fleeing Lyman.



But there are also those trying to enter the town despite Russian attacks: “We
have no choice, our home is there and we can’t afford to live in Dnipro,” a
family told Stratford, highlighting the amount of challenges displaced people
are facing.

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5 hours ago (08:27 GMT)


AZOVSTAL UNDER FIRE: UKRAINE’S MILITARY

Russian forces hit the Azovstal steel plant, Ukraine’s military says.

The steelworks is the last remaining pocket of resistance in southern Mariupol,
and hundreds of Ukrainian fighters and some 1,000 civilians are estimated to be
hiding in underground tunnels there.



Reporting by Mansur Mirovalev in Kyiv, Ukraine.



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5 hours ago (08:01 GMT)


RUSSIA STORMS EASTERN TOWN OF POPASNA

Russian forces stormed Popasna, a town of 20,000 in the southeastern Luhansk
region, Ukraine’s General Staff of Armed Forces has said.

Its takeover could ease the encirclement of Ukrainian forces in Luhansk and
neighboring Donetsk as the city sits on a hill near a key transport hub.



Reporting by Mansur Mirovalev in Kyiv, Ukraine.

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6 hours ago (07:20 GMT)


UKRAINE CAN WIN WITH ‘RIGHT EQUIPMENT’: AUSTIN

The US defence chief says Ukrainians can win against Russia with the right
equipment and support.

“The first step in winning is believing that you can win. And so they believe
that [they] can win,” Austin said in a news briefing on the Polish-Ukraine
border.



“We believe that they can win. They can win if they have the right equipment,
the right support. And we’re going to do everything we can, continue to do
everything we had to ensure that they get it.”

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speak
with reporters after returning from their trip to Kyiv [Alex Brandon/Pool via
Reuters]

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6 hours ago (07:16 GMT)


RUSSIA ‘FAILING’ IN ITS UKRAINE WAR AIMS: BLINKEN

After a secrecy-shrouded visit to Kyiv, the US Secretary of State has said that
Russia is failing in its war aims in Ukraine.

“We’re seeing that when it comes to Russia’s war aims, Russia is failing.
Ukraine is succeeding. Russia has sought as its principal aim to totally
subjugate Ukraine, to take away its sovereignty, to take away its independence.
That has failed,” Blinken told reporters in Poland.



“It sought to assert the power of its military and its economy. We, of course,
are seeing just the opposite. The military that is dramatically
under-performing, an economy as a result of sanctions, as a result of a mass
exodus from Russia, that is in shambles. And it sought to divide the West and
NATO. Of course, we’re seeing exactly the opposite.”

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6 hours ago (07:01 GMT)


GERMAN COMPANY SEEKS APPROVAL TO SEND MILITARY VEHICLES TO UKRAINE

The German defence company Rheinmetall has requested approval to export 100 old
Marder infantry fighting vehicles to Ukraine, a defence source told Reuters on
Monday, confirming an earlier report by Welt am Sonntag newspaper.

The company is seeking an export licence for the vehicles in their current state
for now, aiming to restore them over the coming months before shipping them
to Ukraine, the source said.



The deal will have to be approved by Germany’s national security council, a
committee chaired by Chancellor Olaf Scholz that meets in secret session.

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7 hours ago (06:57 GMT)


RUSSIA DOWNS TWO UKRAINIAN DRONES IN KURSK: GOVERNOR

Russian air defence systems shot down two Ukrainian drones in Russia’s Kursk
region which borders Ukraine, regional Governor Roman Starovoyt wrote on his
Telegram channel on Monday.

He said there were no casualties.

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7 hours ago (06:49 GMT)


US AID TAKING UKRAINE’S DEFENCE TO ‘NEW LEVEL’: ZELENSKYY

Ukraine’s president says the $3.4bn in military assistance from the US is
“already” helping bring Ukraine’s defence capabilities to a “qualitatively new
level”, according to a statement from his office.

“We appreciate the unprecedented assistance of the United States to Ukraine,” he
said following Blinken and Austin visits to Kyiv.

“I would like to thank President Biden personally and on behalf of the entire
Ukrainian people for his leadership in supporting Ukraine, for his personal
clear position. To thank all the American people, as well as the Congress for
their bicameral and bipartisan support. We see it. We feel it,” he said.



The statement noted the president’s discussions with the US delegation included
“current priorities for the belligerent state”, strengthening sanctions on
Russia, financial support for Ukraine and security guarantees.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in a
meeting with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, April 24, 2022
[Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via Reuters]

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7 hours ago (06:26 GMT)


ONE DEAD AND SEVEN INJURED IN KREMENCHUK: GOVERNOR

One person has died and seven have been injured in missile attacks in the city
of Kremenchuk, governor of the Poltava region, Dmytro Lunin, confirmed on
Telegram on Monday morning.

On Sunday night, Lunin had written of attacks on infrastructure but said details
were being clarified.



“Nine enemy missiles the day before hit the Kremenchuk thermal power plant and
the Kremenchuk oil refinery,” Lunin said in a post, adding the hit to the power
plant meant most of the city’s districts were without hot water.

He also said that the shelling on Sunday evening was the largest in the Poltava
region since Russia’s invasion began.

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7 hours ago (06:25 GMT)


EXPLOSIONS REPORTED IN LVIV AS AIR RAID SIRENS BLARE ACROSS UKRAINE

Several explosions have been reported in Ukraine’s western city of Lviv, with a
large plume of smoke cited in an unknown location. Reports are being confirmed.



Air sirens were activated across Ukraine overnight, including in the Chernihiv,
Kyiv, Kirovohrad, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Sumy, Kharkiv, Odesa, Mykolaiv,
Zaporizhzhia, Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk regions.

Explosions were also reported in Vinnytsia.

Firefighters work to extinguish a fire in a warehouse amid Russian bombardment
in Kharkiv, Ukraine, April 23, 2022 [Felipe Dana/AP Photo]

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8 hours ago (05:46 GMT)


RUSSIA TRYING TO HIDE TRUE DEATH TOLL IN UKRAINE: UK

Russia’s defence ministry has proposed that compensation for families of
deceased military personnel will be overseen by military rather than civilian
officials, the latest briefing of the United Kingdom defence ministry says.



“This likely reflects a desire to hide the true scale of Russia’s losses from
the domestic population,” the ministry adds.

It also noted that Russia had made only “minor advances” in some areas since it
shifted its focus to occupying the eastern region of the Donbas.

“Without sufficient logistical and combat support enablers in place, Russia has
yet to achieve a significant breakthrough,” it said.





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8 hours ago (05:40 GMT)


RUSSIA TELLS US TO STOP GIVING UKRAINE WEAPONS

Moscow sent a note to Washington demanding it stop supplying weapons to Kyiv,
Russia’s ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov, said in an interview
with the Russia-24 TV channel, state news agency TASS reported.

“$800 million, for this [amount of] weapons will be supplied to Kyiv from
Washington. This is a huge figure, it does not contribute to finding a
diplomatic solution, resolving the situation,” Antonov said.

“Did we pass a note – yes, we emphasised the unacceptability of the situation
when the United States are stuffing Ukraine with weapons, we demanded an end to
this practice,” he said.



Antonov added that the US was “trying to raise the stakes even more and
aggravate the situation”.

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8 hours ago (05:39 GMT)


ENTIRE REGION UNDER HEAVY SHELLING: LUHANSK GOVERNOR

The entire Luhansk region is under “heavy shelling” on Easter Sunday, the
region’s governor, Serhiy Haidai, said in a post on Telegram, adding that three
high-rise buildings and four houses had burned down as a result.

He said several vehicles, including trucks, were involved in accidents.
“Therefore, people were saved not only by sorting out the rubble, but also from
under beaten vehicles.



“The Russian army has hit the oil refinery in Lisichansk for the third time,” he
added without mentioning any casualties.

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9 hours ago (04:57 GMT)


RUSSIA ATTEMPTING TO SAVE PARTS OF SUNKEN MOSKVA: REPORTS

Russia is using a special rescue ship to lift its sunken warship Moskva from the
seabed, Ukraine’s news channel Espreso reported, citing the German newspaper
Bild.

“Due to the size of the Moskva [187 metres in length], the 110-year-old Kommuna
is unlikely to be able to lift the sunken cruiser from the depths completely,
but there will be attempts to save the ship’s anti-ship and anti-aircraft
missiles, as well as secret documents and military equipment,” the Bild
reportedly noted.



Other publications such as Forbes said the Kommuna is attempting to rescue only
sensitive materials from the ship.

Kommuna, a submarine-salvage ship, was placed into active service in July 1915.
It has served in the Russian Imperial, Soviet and Russian Federation navies,
through the Russian Revolution and both world wars.



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9 hours ago (04:52 GMT)


PENTAGON CHIEF HEADED TO GERMANY FOR TALKS WITH NATO MINISTERS

After his trip to Kyiv to meet Zelenskyy, Austin, the Pentagon chief, will head
to Ramstein, Germany, for a meeting of NATO defence ministers and other donor
countries, The Associated Press news agency reported.



The discussion on Tuesday will look at battlefield updates from the ground,
additional security assistance for Ukraine and longer-term defence needs in
Europe, including how to step up military production to fill gaps caused by the
war in Ukraine, officials told the AP.

More than 20 nations are expected to send representatives to the meeting.

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9 hours ago (04:10 GMT)


BLINKEN AND AUSTIN PLEDGE MORE AID, RETURN OF US DIPLOMATS

The US has announced new military aid for Ukraine and promised that its
diplomats will return to Lviv in the coming week, as its top diplomat and
defence chief completed a secretive trip to the Ukrainian capital.



Blinken and Austin told Zelenskyy and his advisers that the US would provide
more than $300m in foreign military financing and had approved a $165m sale of
ammunition.

They also said US President Joe Biden would soon announce his nominee to be
ambassador to Ukraine and that US diplomats who left Ukraine before the war
would start returning to the country this coming week.

The US embassy in Kyiv will remain closed for the moment.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken boards a plane for departure, at Joint Base
Andrews, in Maryland, US, April 23, 2022 [Alex Brandon/Pool via Reuters]

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10 hours ago (03:29 GMT)


RUSSIA MAY BE PREPARING FOR RENEWED ASSAULTS ON AZOVSTAL: THINK-TANK

Russian forces have continued to bombard the remaining Ukrainian defenders in
Mariupol’s Azovstal steel plant and may be preparing for renewed assaults on the
facility, according to a US-based think-tank.



The Institute for the Study of War said its latest analysis showed that the
storming of the vast steelworks would likely lead to high Russian casualties.

The institute also noted that Russian forces had secured limited gains northwest
of the city of Severodonetsk, which is in the Luhansk region, but remained
“unlikely to be able to launch massive offensive operations”.

It added Russia was deploying additional forces to “reinforce unsuccessful
attacks on the Izyum front”.






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10 hours ago (03:17 GMT)


ZELENSKYY PRAISES UKRAINE’S RESISTANCE, THANKS US FOR SUPPORT

Ukraine’s president has praised his people for two months of bravely resisting
Russian forces since Moscow’s invasion on February 24, and thanked the US for
its support.

“Two months of heroic nationwide resistance of Ukraine to the Russian aggression
have passed. I am grateful to @POTUS and the people of the US for leadership in
supporting Ukraine,” Zelenskyy wrote on Twitter.



He was responding to Biden’s tweet which honoured Ukraine’s resolve.

“Two months after [Russian President Vladimir] Putin launched an unprovoked and
justified attack on Ukraine, Kyiv still stands,” Biden wrote, promising to
continue to support Ukraine “in their right to defend their homeland”.





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11 hours ago (02:55 GMT)


KYIV AND HAMBURG NOW ‘STRATEGIC PARTNERS’

Ukraine’s Kyiv and Germany’s Hamburg have become strategic partner cities
through a pact stipulating support in times of crisis.



Kyiv’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko and his Hamburg counterpart, Peter Tschentscher,
signed the agreement on Sunday.

It lays down “effective cooperation between our cities” including “the provision
of assistance by Hamburg for the restoration of Kyiv”, Klitschko wrote on
Telegram. He added Hamburg will increase its humanitarian assistance efforts.

Tschentscher said Kyiv “is of particular importance in the fight against Russian
aggression, as well as in the fight for peace and freedom in Europe”, Interfax
reported.






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11 hours ago (02:32 GMT)


SANCTIONS WON’T ‘STRANGLE’ ECONOMY: RUSSIAN SENATOR

A Russian senator says Western sanctions against Moscow will not “strangle” its
economy and that the European Union has revealed its inability to function
without Russia’s fossil fuels.

Aleksey Pushkov told state newspaper Izvestia that the EU’s plan to phase out
Russian fossil fuels by 2027 “is a recognition of the impossibility of ensuring
the functioning of the economy of Germany and a number of other European
countries without supplies from Russia”.



He said there were two reasons why Western sanctions will not work.

“The first is rise of hydrocarbon prices which will provide Russia with a record
budget surplus. The second is the long-term nature of restrictions, which gives
Russia enough time to adapt to new conditions. All this makes it impossible for
the Russian economy to collapse.”



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12 hours ago (01:56 GMT)


US HOUSE TO VOTE ON UKRAINE LEND-LEASE ACT

The US House of Representatives is expected to vote on the Ukraine Democracy
Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022 “this week”, according to Congressman Charlie
Christ.



The Act would expedite the transfer of critical military equipment and other
critical supplies to Ukraine by cutting bureaucratic red tape. The lend-lease
programme was created during World War II to allow Washington to quickly
resupply allies without procedural hurdles.





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12 hours ago (01:34 GMT)


RUSSIAN MISSILES HIT INFRASTRUCTURE IN POLTAVA: GOVERNOR

Nine Russian missiles have hit infrastructure facilities in the city of
Kremenchuk in the eastern Poltava region, according to its governor.



Dmytro Lunin said the attacks took place on Sunday evening.

“We are clarifying the information about the victims and the destruction,” he
wrote on Telegram.

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12 hours ago (01:21 GMT)


RUSSIA BLOCKING LOCALS FROM LEAVING OCCUPIED TERRITORIES: MILITARY

Ukraine’s military says Russian forces are restricting “the rights and freedoms
of civilians” in temporarily occupied territories, “in particular freedom of
movement”.



It said in a Facebook post that the “settlements that are preparing for holding
pseudo-referendums are closed for entry and exit”.

Ukrainian officials have warned of Russian plans to hold referendums for
independence in the occupied southern city of Kherson, similar to the one held
in annexed Crimea in 2014.

Olga Zhovtobrukh, 55, cries during an Easter religious service at a church in
Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, April 24, 2022 [Emilio Morenatti/AP Photo]

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13 hours ago (00:54 GMT)


RUSSIA REPORTS FIRE AT OIL DEPOT IN BRYANSK

Russia’s TASS news agency has reported a fire at an oil depot in Bryansk, a city
that lies 400km (248 miles) southwest of Moscow and borders Ukraine’s Chernihiv
and Sumy regions.



“Tanks caught fire at an oil depot in Bryansk,” TASS said, citing city
authorities as well as the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

Earlier in the night, residents had reported hearing explosions and posted
videos of a fire on the outskirts of Bryansk.

Russia has previously accused Ukraine of shelling the town of Klimovo in the
Bryansk region and causing casualties.





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13 hours ago (00:19 GMT)


EU READYING ‘SOME FORM OF AN OIL EMBARGO’ ON RUSSIA

The EU is preparing “smart sanctions” against Russian oil imports, The Times has
reported, quoting the European Commission’s executive vice president, Valdis
Dombrovskis.

“We are working on a sixth sanctions package and one of the issues we are
considering is some form of an oil embargo,” Dombrovskis told the London-based
newspaper.

“When we are imposing sanctions, we need to do so in a way that maximises
pressure on Russia while minimising collateral damage on ourselves.”

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14 hours ago (23:56 GMT)


PUTIN’S ACTIONS IN UKRAINE ‘NAUSEATING’: JOHNSON

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has described Putin’s actions in Ukraine as
“nauseating” during a phone call with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

Johnson told Guterres on Sunday afternoon that the actions were a “blatant
aggression, which is having devastating consequences for Ukraine’s people”,
according to a statement from his office.

“They discussed their shared concerns on attacks in areas besieged by Russian
forces, such as Mariupol and Kherson, and the need to secure a ceasefire,
facilitate humanitarian efforts and allow civilians to leave,” the statement
added.



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14 hours ago (23:42 GMT)


CURRENT RUSSIA SANCTIONS ‘INSUFFICIENT’: UKRAINIAN OFFICIAL

Andriy Yermak, an aide to Ukraine’s president, has said the continuation of the
war and the killing of civilians and children “make it clear that the current
sanctions policy is insufficient”.

“It needs to be strengthened. It needs to be updated, new sanctions need to be
developed constantly,” he said on French TV.

Yermak touted a sanctions action plan developed by an international group of
experts that he and former US diplomat Michael McFaul led. The plan lays out
further steps countries should take to pressure Russia, including a full EU
embargo on Russian gas and oil and “recognising Russia as a country that
sponsors terrorism”.

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14 hours ago (23:05 GMT)


UKRAINE TO TRY TO ESTABLISH MARIUPOL HUMANITARIAN ROUTE

Ukraine will try to establish a humanitarian evacuation corridor out of Mariupol
on Monday after attempts failed on Sunday, Ukraine’s Deputy PM Vereshchuk has
said, blaming Russian forces for not holding their fire.

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15 hours ago (22:54 GMT)


RUSSIA PLANS ‘STAGED REFERENDUM’ IN KHERSON: UK

The British Ministry of Defence says Russia is “planning a staged referendum in
the southern city of Kherson aimed at justifying its occupation”.



Russian forces seized the strategically important city in southern Ukraine in
early March.

“The city is key to Russia’s objective of establishing a land bridge to Crimea
and dominating southern Ukraine,” the defence ministry wrote on Twitter.





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15 hours ago (22:45 GMT)


CIVILIANS IN MARIUPOL STEELWORKS BEG FOR AID

Ukraine’s Azov Battalion has released a new video showing Ukrainian children in
an underground bunker receiving Easter presents.



One of the women in the video begs for help from world leaders. “We want to live
in our city, in our country. We are tired of these bombings, constant air
strikes on our land. How much longer will this continue?” she says.

Another woman says there are 600 civilians sheltering under the plant, without
food and water.

Sviatoslav Palamar, the Azov Battalion’s deputy commander, said the video was
shot on Sunday at the plant. Members of the militia are among hundreds of
Ukrainian forces holed up at the Azovstal plant, the last remaining pocket of
resistance in Mariupol.



Al Jazeera could not verify the authenticity of the video.

Ukrainian soldier from Azov Battalion and civilians on Orthodox Easter Sunday at
Azovstal steel plant, where soldiers are holding out and civilians sheltering,
amid Russia’s siege of Mariupol. April 24, 2022. Azov/Handout via Reuters

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15 hours ago (22:04 GMT)


ZELENSKYY WELCOMES MACRON’S ELECTION VICTORY

Ukraine’s president has congratulated French President Emmanuel Macron on his
victory in Sunday’s presidential runoff.

Writing on Twitter, Zelenskyy described Macron as a “true friend of Ukraine” and
said he was convinced that they are “moving forward together towards new common
victories. Towards a strong and united Europe!”






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16 hours ago (21:51 GMT)


OSCE CALLS FOR RELEASE OF MEMBERS IN SEPARATIST-HELD UKRAINE

The OSCE has called for the “immediate release” of four of its Ukrainian members
detained in pro-Russian separatist territories in eastern Ukraine.

Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau, whose country currently chairs the OSCE,
said the detention of four members “for engaging in administrative activities
that fall within their official functions as OSCE staff” was “unacceptable”.



“We call for their immediate release,” he said. “They have been held without
charge for a period of time now and the OSCE and their families have not been
sufficiently informed of the situation.”

Earlier, the OSCE wrote on Twitter it was “extremely concerned” that several
members had been “deprived of their liberty”, following Russian media reports
they had been arrested.



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16 hours ago (20:59 GMT)


ZELENSKYY MEETS BLINKEN AND AUSTIN IN KYIV: OFFICIAL

An adviser to Zelenskyy says the US secretaries of state and defence were
meeting with the Ukrainian leader, in the highest-level visit to Kyiv by a US
delegation since the start of Russia’s invasion.



Oleksiy Arestovych said in an interview on Ukrainian TV that the talks with
Blinken and Austin were taking place late on Sunday. There was no immediate
comment from the US.

Prior to the meeting, Zelenskyy said he was looking for the US to bolster its
arms shipments to Kyiv.

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Welcome to Al Jazeera’s continuing coverage of the war in Ukraine.



These were the updates on April 24.

Source: Al Jazeera and news agencies

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