Today’s Ukraine news in 5 minutes. April 5, 41st day

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President Volodymyr Zelensky in the online address at a meeting of the UN Security Council stressed that the organization can be disbanded if it is unable to stop the war and war crimes committed in Ukraine.

He said that the UN Security Council must develop solutions for peace in Ukraine. If the UN does not know how to make this decision, there are two things that can be done. Either eliminate russia as an aggressor and a source of war from blocking decisions about its own aggression, its own war. And then do everything possible to bring peace. Or show how the UN can re-form. And work for peace. If the current format is unalterable and there is no way out, then only voluntary dissolution will follow. I am convinced that the UN can do without the third option.

Bucha

According to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, russian servicemen, who committed war crimes in Bucha, are returning to Ukraine. The 64th Motorized Rifle Brigade will be again thrown to the front line without rotation by the russian command — approximately in the Kharkiv region. Meanwhile, in the Kyiv region, 1,200 war crimes of the russian Federation have already been recorded.? The National Police is currently documenting all war crimes, interviewing locals and gathering evidence. The Parliament of the Czech Republic recognized the killings in Bucha and other cities of Ukraine as a war crime and voted to convene an international tribunal. Prime Minister of Israel Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid have condemned the killing of civilians by the russian military in Bucha and called them war crimes.

Another Freudian slip. Commenting on the genocide in Bucha, russia's permanent representative to the United Nations said that "corpses lying on the streets of Bucha did not exist until russian troops arrived." Then he tried to "correct" himself so as not to deviate from the kremlin's playbook and began to blame Ukraine. russia itself should not have a place among civilized countries, including the UN.

Mariupol and East territories

General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine informs that russia is focusing on preparations for an offensive operation in the east, to establish full control over the territory of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions that were partially occupied by russia since 2014. In these areas, they are focusing on taking control of the areas of Popasna and Rubizhne, establishing full control over Mariupol, as well as preparing offensive operations around Zolota Niva. The enemy continued artillery shelling in the city of Mariupol and nearby settlements.

"The evacuation did not take place because the russians were destroying our buses and there were fewer and fewer of them every day," the mayor of Mariupol said. Ukraine had to coordinate the evacuation with russia. They said: "There is a corridor, you have the opportunity to evacuate people. Give us the locations where this will take place." When we gave them these locations, they fired at them from howitzers and Grads. And when we were asking our military to open the city for departure, tanks were bursting into meeting points of the evacuation routes. russia is preparing a large-scale provocation in Mariupol to blame Ukraine for it, says the Security Service of Ukraine. The invaders are planning to collect the bodies of Mariupol residents killed by the russians in one place, and present them as mass victims of Ukrainian troops. This is how the propagandists are planning to divert the attention of the audience away from Bucha massacre.

A civilian ship under the flag of the Dominican Republic is sinking, shelled by the russians, in the port of Mariupol.? One crew member is injured. The captain gave an SOS signal on the International Maritime Safety Channel. Maritime border guards promptly assisted the wounded and evacuated the crew to safety.

In Lugansk region, the russian invaders stroke a tank with nitric acid. Residents are asked not to leave the shelters, to close the doors and windows in the premises. Nitric acid is dangerous when inhaled, swallowed and in contact with the skin and mucous membranes. Acid vapors are irritating to the respiratory tract. With mild poisoning, there are signs of bronchitis, mild bronchiolitis, dizziness, drowsiness; in severe poisoning — pulmonary edema. To protect against vapors and mist of nitric acid, gas masks are used.

Additionally, the russian invaders continue to block Kharkiv, with constant artillery shelling and further destruction of residential areas and infrastructure of the city.? In the direction of Slovyansk, the enemy is trying to resume offensive operations. russian troops shelled Mykolayiv with cluster munitions prohibited by the Geneva Convention. Civilian quarters and medical facilities, including a children's hospital, came under enemy fire.? There are dead and wounded, including children.

World News

A single man protest called "Bucha-Moscow" took place in Moscow

belarus continues to provide executioner services. On the night of April 5, a pair of the invaders Su-35? from the territory of belarus launched a strike with cruise missiles on the territory of Ukraine. It is likely that the targets were civilian infrastructure in several western oblasts. There is a movement of columns of weapons and military equipment on the territory of the republic of belarus in the direction of the belarus railway stations above north Ukraine territories.?

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier admitted his own mistakes in russia policy for the first time. “My commitment to Nord Stream 2” was a clear mistake. We clung to bridges that russia no longer believed in and that our partners had warned us about.? We have failed in creating a common European home to which russia could belong.? Furthermore, we failed with the approach of including russia in the overall security architecture”.

The European Union announced the fifth package of sanctions against russia in response to the atrocities in Bucha, which included a coal embargo against the aggressor and a ban on transactions with four leading russian banks. russian ships will also be banned from entering EU ports.

The EU plans to cut funding for Hungary. The president of the European Commission informed Hungary about such a step two days after the elections in this country, in which Orbán's party won again. Such restrictions are being applied because of significant problems with the democratic process and the growing concentration of power in Hungary in the hands of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen and EU High Representative Joseph Borrell are coming to Kyiv this week

Other News

• 40% of young people from Ukraine were forced to leave home due to the russian attack?
• The ministry of finance of the russian federation stated that they did not receive 302 billion rubles of oil and gas revenues from the expected in March.
• The Pentagon has announced that the United States will provide an additional $300 million in military assistance to Ukraine.? In total, the United States has provided $1.6 billion in military aid since the beginning of the invasion
• Poland has signed a contract for the purchase of 250 American Abrams M1A2 tanks for more than 4 billion euros - this is the largest contract for the purchase of weapons for the Polish army
• During the war, the IT Army attacked more than 600 russian online resources. Since the beginning of russian aggression in Ukraine, the Ministry of Digital Transformation has created an IT army that brought together IT specialists from Ukraine and the world to fight the enemy on the cyber front.
• Auchan is to isolate the russian office. The company stops investments and supplies
• More than 4,000 citizens and businesses became owners of military OVDP bonds worth more than UAH 4.8 billion and almost $1.6 million
• The Ministry of Infrastructure announced that it plans to restore the Kyiv-Chop route within the next two weeks.? All destroyed bridges in Kyiv region are also being actively rebuilt.? Preliminarily, it takes 2-3 months to rebuild each bridge.

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