Ukrainians Despair Of Rescue In Mariupol As Russian Advance Delayed

The United Nations has continued to try to mediate the evacuation of civilians from the extensive Soviet-era factory and other bombed-out ruins of Mariupol, a port city that Russia has sought to seize and bombard since it invaded more than nine weeks. There are up to 1,000 civilians in the Azovstal steel plant, according to Ukrainian officials, who did not say how many fighters remained in the only part of Mariupol that is not occupied by Russian forces. The Russians increased the number of Ukrainian soldiers in the factory to about 2,000. Videos and images shared with the Associated Press by two Ukrainians who said their husbands were among the fighters there showed unknown wounded with stained bandages in need of replacement. others had open wounds or amputated limbs.

Wound healing in steel factory

Skeleton medical staff treated at least 600 wounded, the women said, who identified their husbands as members of Ukraine’s Azov National Guard Regiment. The constitution is an extreme right-wing armed group that deployed to the country’s national guard after Russia’s first invasion in 2014. In the video shared by the women, the injured tell the camera that they eat once a day and share only 1.5 liters of water a day between four. Supplies inside the enclosed facility have been depleted, they said. This recent but undated photo was given to the Associated Press on Friday by the wife of a member of the Azov National Guard Regiment of Ukraine showing a woman consoling a wounded man inside the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol. (The Associated Press)
The AP could not independently verify the date and location of the video, which the women said was taken last week in the passages below the steelworks. A man without a shirt spoke with obvious pain as he described his wounds: two broken ribs, a pierced lung and a dislocated arm “hanging in the flesh”. “I want to say to everyone who sees it: If you do not stop here in Ukraine, it will go further, in Europe,” he said. The Soviet-era steel plant has a huge underground network of warehouses capable of withstanding air raids. But the situation has become more dire after the Russians dropped “bunker busters” and other bombs. Above the ground, the residents of Mariupol chose their dilapidated houses in search of their belongings and continued to cook in the streets on Friday. Furniture was stacked outside burned-out apartment buildings as people went out into the spring sun and explosions could be heard in the background. Kindergarten teacher Natalia Kalugina, 64, prepares to cook pancakes on the street in Mariupol on Friday. She says her brother’s house in the city was destroyed by bombing. (Reuters)
Kindergarten teacher Natalia Kalugina, 64, cooked pancakes on the street. He said he found the bombing scary. “I still can’t laugh. It’s just tears. My brother’s house was destroyed by bombing,” he said.

100,000 are believed to have been trapped in Mariupol

In the bombed city, about 100,000 people are believed to have been trapped with little food, water or medicine. “Locals who manage to leave Mariupol say it is hell, but when they leave this fortress, they say it is worse,” said Mayor Vadym Boichenko. UN envoy Farhan Haq said the group was in talks with authorities in Moscow and Kyiv to establish a safe passage. This time, “we hope there is a little humanity in the enemy,” the mayor said. Ukraine has blamed the failure of several previous evacuation attempts on the ongoing Russian bombing. CLOCKS Russian missiles strike Kyiv, fighting intensifies in eastern Ukraine:

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told Saudi television network Al-Arabiya that the real problem was that “humanitarian corridors are being ignored by Ukrainian supranationals.” Moscow has repeatedly claimed that right-wing Ukrainians are blocking evacuation efforts and using civilians as human shields. In other developments:

A former U.S. Marine was killed while fighting alongside Ukrainian forces, his family said, in what would be the first known American death in the war. The United States has not confirmed the report. The mayor of the city of Popasna in eastern Ukraine, Nikolai Hanatov, says two buses heading there to evacuate residents have been shot down and that contact with drivers has been lost. Ukrainian forces are destroying people accused of helping Russian troops. In the Kharkiv region alone, nearly 400 have been detained under anti-cooperation laws introduced after the February 24 invasion of Moscow. International sanctions imposed on the Kremlin over the war are crushing the country. Russia’s central bank has said Russia’s economy is expected to shrink by as much as 10 percent this year and the outlook is “extremely uncertain”. Russian forces have stolen “several hundred thousand tons” of grain in the occupied territories of Ukraine, Ukrainian Deputy Agriculture Minister Taras Vysotsky said on Saturday.

Only small gains for Russia

It was difficult to get a complete picture of the unfolding battle in the east, because air raids and artillery barricades have made the movement of journalists extremely dangerous. Both Ukraine and Moscow-backed rebels fighting in the east have imposed severe restrictions on reports from the battle zone. But so far, Russian troops and separatist forces appear to have made only small gains. A crew member pushes 155mm missiles destined for Ukraine on a C-17 aircraft for transfer to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Friday. (Alex Brandon / The Associated Press)
In part because of the strength of the Ukrainian resistance, the United States believes the Russians are “at least several days behind where they wanted to be” as they try to encircle Ukrainian troops in the east, a senior U.S. defense official said. of anonymity to discuss the evaluation of the US military. As Russian troops try to move north from Mariupol to advance on Ukrainian forces from the south, their progress has been “slow and uneven and certainly not decisive,” the official said. The British Ministry of Defense offered a similar assessment, saying that it believes that Russian forces in Ukraine are likely to suffer from “weakened morale”, along with a lack of skills at the unit level and “inconsistent air support”. Russian forces “were forced to merge and redeploy exhausted and disparate units from failed bases in northeastern Ukraine,” the ministry said in a tweet Saturday as part of a daily report on the war. He did not say on what basis he made the assessment.

Zelensky: “Russia wants to empty this territory”

In a video overnight speech, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of trying to destroy Donbass and all those living there. The constant attacks “show that Russia wants to empty this territory of all people,” he said. CLOCKS What happened in the 10th week of Russia’s attack on Ukraine:

What happened in the 10th week of Russia’s attack on Ukraine

Russia has warned the West not to provoke World War III if leaders continue to intervene in Ukraine, and top US and UN officials have visited Kyiv to assess the horrors of mass graves east of the capital. The Kremlin also cut off gas supplies to Bulgaria and Poland. This is followed by a summary of the war in Ukraine from 23 to 29 April. 4:43
“If the Russian invaders are able to carry out their plans, even in part, then they have enough artillery and aircraft to turn the whole of Donbas into stones, as they did with Mariupol.” Ukrainian troops in the Luhansk region of Donbass repulsed an attack by Russian airborne troops and killed most of their unit, the governor said. Cleaning crews are preparing to work at the site of the explosion in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, on Friday. (Emilio Morenatti / The Associated Press)
“Only seven of the intruders survived,” Governor Serhiy Haidai told the Telegram messaging app on Friday. The claim could not be immediately confirmed. He did not say where the attack took place, but said Russian forces were preparing for an attack in Sheverodonetsk, northwest of Luhansk.

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The United Nations has continued to try to mediate the evacuation of civilians from the extensive Soviet-era factory and other bombed-out ruins of Mariupol, a port city that Russia has sought to seize and bombard since it invaded more than nine weeks. There are up to 1,000 civilians in the Azovstal steel plant, according to Ukrainian officials, who did not say how many fighters remained in the only part of Mariupol that is not occupied by Russian forces. The Russians increased the number of Ukrainian soldiers in the factory to about 2,000. Videos and images shared with the Associated Press by two Ukrainians who said their husbands were among the fighters there showed unknown wounded with stained bandages in need of replacement. others had open wounds or amputated limbs.

Wound healing in steel factory

Skeleton medical staff treated at least 600 wounded, the women said, who identified their husbands as members of Ukraine’s Azov National Guard Regiment. The constitution is an extreme right-wing armed group that deployed to the country’s national guard after Russia’s first invasion in 2014. In the video shared by the women, the injured tell the camera that they eat once a day and share only 1.5 liters of water a day between four. Supplies inside the enclosed facility have been depleted, they said. This recent but undated photo was given to the Associated Press on Friday by the wife of a member of the Azov National Guard Regiment of Ukraine showing a woman consoling a wounded man inside the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol. (The Associated Press)
The AP could not independently verify the date and location of the video, which the women said was taken last week in the passages below the steelworks. A man without a shirt spoke with obvious pain as he described his wounds: two broken ribs, a pierced lung and a dislocated arm “hanging in the flesh”. “I want to say to everyone who sees it: If you do not stop here in Ukraine, it will go further, in Europe,” he said. The Soviet-era steel plant has a huge underground network of warehouses capable of withstanding air raids. But the situation has become more dire after the Russians dropped “bunker busters” and other bombs. Above the ground, the residents of Mariupol chose their dilapidated houses in search of their belongings and continued to cook in the streets on Friday. Furniture was stacked outside burned-out apartment buildings as people went out into the spring sun and explosions could be heard in the background. Kindergarten teacher Natalia Kalugina, 64, prepares to cook pancakes on the street in Mariupol on Friday. She says her brother’s house in the city was destroyed by bombing. (Reuters)
Kindergarten teacher Natalia Kalugina, 64, cooked pancakes on the street. He said he found the bombing scary. “I still can’t laugh. It’s just tears. My brother’s house was destroyed by bombing,” he said.

100,000 are believed to have been trapped in Mariupol

In the bombed city, about 100,000 people are believed to have been trapped with little food, water or medicine. “Locals who manage to leave Mariupol say it is hell, but when they leave this fortress, they say it is worse,” said Mayor Vadym Boichenko. UN envoy Farhan Haq said the group was in talks with authorities in Moscow and Kyiv to establish a safe passage. This time, “we hope there is a little humanity in the enemy,” the mayor said. Ukraine has blamed the failure of several previous evacuation attempts on the ongoing Russian bombing. CLOCKS Russian missiles strike Kyiv, fighting intensifies in eastern Ukraine:

Russian missiles strike Kyiv, fighting intensifies in eastern Ukraine

Russia fired rockets at the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, during a visit by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. On the eastern front, Russian troops are trying to encircle and defeat Ukrainian forces hit by heavy fighting. 2:34
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told Saudi television network Al-Arabiya that the real problem was that “humanitarian corridors are being ignored by Ukrainian supranationals.” Moscow has repeatedly claimed that right-wing Ukrainians are blocking evacuation efforts and using civilians as human shields. In other developments:

A Russian rocket attack has destroyed the runway at Odessa, Ukraine’s third most populous city and a major Black Sea port, the Ukrainian military has said. The Ukrainian news agency UNIAN reported that “several” explosions were heard in Odessa on Saturday, prompting local authorities to advise residents to take refuge in the facility. The mayor of the city of Popasna in eastern Ukraine, Nikolai Hanatov, said two buses heading there to evacuate residents had caught fire on Friday and that contact with drivers had been lost. Ukrainian forces are destroying people accused of helping Russian troops. In the Kharkiv region alone, nearly 400 have been detained under anti-cooperation laws introduced after the February 24 invasion of Moscow. International sanctions imposed on the Kremlin over the war are crushing the country. Russia’s central bank has said Russia’s economy is expected to shrink by as much as 10 percent this year and the outlook is “extremely uncertain”. Russian forces have stolen “several hundred thousand tons” of grain in the occupied territories of Ukraine, Ukrainian Deputy Agriculture Minister Taras Vysotsky said on Saturday. Ukraine held a prisoner exchange with Russia on Saturday, with seven soldiers and seven civilians returning home, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said in an online post. One of the soldiers was a woman who is five months pregnant, he added. He did not say how many Russians had been transferred.

Only small gains for Russia

It was difficult to get a complete picture of the unfolding battle in the east, because air raids and artillery barricades have made the movement of journalists extremely dangerous. Both Ukraine and Moscow-backed rebels fighting in the east have imposed severe restrictions on reports from the battle zone. But so far, Russian troops and separatist forces appear to have made only small gains. A crew member pushes 155mm missiles destined for Ukraine on a C-17 aircraft for transfer to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Friday. (Alex Brandon / The Associated Press)
In part because of the strength of the Ukrainian resistance, the United States believes the Russians are “at least several days behind where they wanted to be” as they try to encircle Ukrainian troops in the east, a senior U.S. defense official said. of anonymity to discuss the evaluation of the US military. As Russian troops try to move north from Mariupol to advance on Ukrainian forces from the south, their progress has been “slow and uneven and certainly not decisive,” the official said. The British Ministry of Defense offered a similar assessment, saying that it believes that Russian forces in Ukraine are likely to suffer from “weakened morale”, along with a lack of skills at the unit level and “inconsistent air support”. Russian forces “were forced to merge and redeploy exhausted and disparate units from failed bases in northeastern Ukraine,” the ministry said in a tweet Saturday as part of a daily report on the war. He did not say on what basis he made the assessment.

Zelensky: “Russia wants to empty this territory”

In a video overnight speech, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of trying to destroy Donbass and all those living there. The constant attacks “show that Russia wants to empty this territory of all people,” he said. CLOCKS What happened in the 10th week of Russia’s attack on Ukraine:

What happened in the 10th week of Russia’s attack on Ukraine

Russia has warned the West not to provoke World War III if leaders continue to intervene in Ukraine, and top US and UN officials have visited Kyiv to assess the horrors of mass graves east of the capital. The Kremlin also cut off gas supplies to Bulgaria and Poland. This is followed by a summary of the war in Ukraine from 23 to 29 April. 4:43
“If the Russian invaders are able to carry out their plans, even in part, then they have enough artillery and aircraft to turn the whole of Donbas into stones, as they did with Mariupol.” Ukrainian troops in the Luhansk region of Donbass repulsed an attack by Russian airborne troops and killed most of their unit, the governor said. Cleaning crews are preparing to work at the site of the explosion in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, on Friday. (Emilio Morenatti / The Associated Press)
“Only seven of the intruders survived,” Governor Serhiy Haidai told the Telegram messaging app on Friday. The claim could not be immediately confirmed. He did not say where the attack took place, but said Russian forces were preparing for an attack in Sheverodonetsk, northwest of Luhansk.