Ukraine War Updates - News straight from the frontline of Kyiv

08/04/2022

08/04/2022

Bucha. In the yard where three people were killed, the Russians also killed a dog. This German shepherd miraculously managed to escape, however now he won't leave the body of a murdered friend.

08/04/2022

A woman in Borodyanka has been waiting for the third day for her family to be pulled out from under the rubble.

We will never forgive!

08/04/2022

263 dogs from the shelter in Borodyanka died in closed cages from hunger and dehydration. (UNIAN)

08/04/2022

Consequences of the occupation of the Kyiv region by the troops of the Russian Federation.

The north of the Kyiv region was under Russian occupation for a month. Several dozen settlements were completely cut off from communications and supplies. At the end of March, Ukrainian troops drove the invaders out of the Kyiv region. What the Russian army left behind will now be investigated by an international military tribunal.

08/04/2022

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Google will show the destruction in Ukraine: pictures from Irpin should appear next week.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs, together with Google experts, has begun to digitize the consequences of the Russian invasion in the destroyed cities of Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reports.

🔻 The goal of the project is to fix the destruction that Russian invaders inflicted on Ukrainian cities and villages.

🔻 The Ministry notes that the new project will be in the public domain. Therefore, everyone will be able to see what happened to the streets and houses in their native village.

🔻 According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, they will also separately create a service for law enforcement officers and rescuers. They can use it as an information and reference resource.

🔻 Google specialists promise to publish the first panoramic images of the destroyed streets and buildings of Irpin next week.

(UNIAN)

08/04/2022

⚡️⚡️The Battle for Donbass will resemble World War II - Kuleba

It will be carried out with "major operational maneuvers and thousands of tanks, aircraft and armoured vehicles."

This was stated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmitry Kuleba on Thursday in Brussels, calling for the help of the allies.

"Either you help us now - I'm talking about days, not weeks - or your help will come too late and many people will die," he told reporters. (UNIAN)

08/04/2022

There are no more surviving hospitals in the Luhansk region.

According to the head of the OVA Gaidai, since the beginning of the full-scale war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine in the Luhansk region, every medical facility has been shelled.

The photos shows a shelled hospital in Rubizhne.

08/04/2022

The Czech Republic has issued a collector's banknote called Sláva Ukraine (Glory to Ukraine).

The new banknote with a circulation of 20,000 pieces is not a means of payment, but is equipped with security elements like the local crowns. A bill can be bought for 2,000 hryvnia, and the money from the sale will be sent to help Ukraine. (UNIAN)

07/04/2022

The war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine is supported by Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Eritrea, Belarus, Syria, Myanmar and North Korea.

Ukraine is supported by almost all European countries, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan, the USA, Canada and Colombia.

The rest of the world is trying to remain neutral.

07/04/2022

⚡️Mass evacuation of the population begins in Donbass. In the video, residents of Kramatorsk are trying to leave the city

"Evacuate! The chances of saving yourself and your family from Russian death are getting smaller every day. Protect yourself and your family. We are taking people out for free every day," said Gaidai, head of the Luhansk OVA.

(UNIAN)

07/04/2022

Ukrainian intelligence has published a list of servicemen of the 748th separate operational battalion of the National Guard (military unit 6912) in Khabarovsk, who committed war crimes against the people of Ukraine in the Kyiv region.

The full list of war criminals is here -https://gur.gov.ua/content/voennosluzhashchye-748-otdelnoho-batalona-operatyvnoho-naznachenyia-roshvardyy.html

(UNIAN)

07/04/2022

Last night in Lviv remembering the victims of the invasion.

More photos in the UNIAN report (https://bit.ly/3LLwUQk) 👈

07/04/2022

Aerial photography of the village of Moshchun, where one of the key battles with the Russian Horde for Kyiv took place

07/04/2022

These are Ukrainian orphans, some of these children were abandoned immediately after birth. The First Lady of Ukraine, Olena Zelenska writes how 25 children from the orphanage had to be evacuated abroad due to the invasion. Some babies are only a few months old.
(https://bit.ly/3x2WFYe)

07/04/2022

The water in the pond opposite the Russian embassy in Vilnius, Lithuania was painted the color of blood.

The city says it is "an artistic performance designed to draw the world's attention to Russia's war crimes."

(UNIAN)

07/04/2022

Cemetery of burnt military equipment near Gostomel.

07/04/2022

"After Bucha, Irpin, Gostomel, we thought we were ready for anything. But Borodyanka…. This is the most terrible thing I have ever seen" - Head of the Kyiv OVA, Oleksiy Kuleba.

“Rescuers from all over Ukraine are going to dismantle the rubble in Borodyanka. The invaders wiped the village off the face of the earth,” Kuleba said.

07/04/2022

⚡️New US sanctions will hit Putin's offspring.

The White House announced this on Wednesday. Among other measures, they will be taken against adult children of President Vladimir Putin as a response to new crimes in Ukraine.

07/04/2022

Journalists showed what Borodyanka looks like after the Russian occupation.

The occupiers almost completely smashed residential buildings, playgrounds, kindergartens, schools, parks. Rescuers and law enforcement officers are now working in the liberated Borodyanka.

(UNIAN)

07/04/2022

❗️The United States will be able to identify the Russian units that committed the atrocities in Bucha. It is reported by CNN with reference to the official representative of the United States.

Identifying those involved "is now an extremely high priority" for US intelligence agencies, the official said.

Intelligence streams have been collected and analyzed using all available tools and assets since the atrocities became known, and the US has been narrowing down the suspects.

There is no certainty that the US will announce its findings publicly, the official said, and a decision could be made to leave it up to Ukraine. The US is also looking into possible indications that more than one unit or group of Russian fighters was present in Bucha at the time of the atrocities. The US is trying to determine if the atrocities occurred when one Russian unit retreated while another entered, the official added.

(UNIAN)

05/04/2022

For the theft and sale of humanitarian aid, attackers will receive up to 7 years in prison.

Zelenskiy signed into law a law criminalizing the use of humanitarian aid during martial law for profit.

(https://bit.ly/3JmCvuV)

04/04/2022

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited Bucha, where evidence of massacres of civilians was found.

He inspected the road with destroyed Russian equipment and talked to local residents.

Zelenskiy also said that Russia had committed war crimes and genocide in Ukraine.

During his trip to Bucha today, a BBC correspondent asked Zelenskiy if he still thinks it is possible to discuss peace with Russia.

“Yes, because Ukraine must find peace. We are in Europe of the 21st century. We will continue diplomatic and military efforts,” Zelenskiy said.

04/04/2022

After the Bucha massacres, the likelihood of European countries imposing an embargo on Russian energy imports grows - The New York Times.

The EU has previously rejected calls from Biden in particular to impose such sanctions.

Now, world leaders are expressing horror at the images, "which appear to show dead civilians, some with their hands tied behind their backs, strewn about the streets of Bucha," writes the New York Times.

04/04/2022

Journalists were shown a mass grave in the village of Motyzhin, Kyiv region, which was discovered after the withdrawal of Russian troops. (UNIAN)

04/04/2022

Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia are preparing a complete transport isolation of Russia and Belarus 🚫

According to the Deputy Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Mustafa Nayem, in the next 48-72 hours, these four countries will begin the process of complete isolation from Russia. If a positive decision is made, the borders with the Russian Federation and Belarus will be completely closed, which means that auto communication and all transportation will become impossible. (UNIAN)

04/04/2022

An comparison of how the search engines Google and Yandex (controlled by the Kremlin) process a request for Bucha.

04/04/2022

Dmitry Komarov, who entered Bucha and Irpin with the first detachments in a police car, showed photos taken by him personally.

The quote from the Russians “the tasks of the special operation have been completed” is a classic lie in their media. Unless, if the task was the genocide of the Ukrainian people, the destruction of civilians and the destruction of peaceful cities.

This "task" the Russian soldiers carried out. You must have seen yesterday photos and videos from the streets of Bucha, littered with corpses.

Here is a dog barking near the owner's body. Here is a man with his hands tied and shot in the head. Here is a guy without a head, with the keys near his hands who didn’t make it home. We took out the shot cars with civilians from the ditch. This is no longer in Bucha. Murdered pensioners, young families, burned-out cars with skeletons. I saw everything with my own eyes.

04/04/2022

❗️ The high military command of Russia knew about the atrocities of its orcs in Bucha, says Aleksey Arestovich, adviser to the head of the OP.

“The Russian command encouraged such behavior of the military,” he said, adding that the war crimes in Bucha contributed to Russia's even greater isolation in the world.

04/04/2022

⚡️Preparing new sanctions against the Russian Federation because of Bucha and the European Union. They may include:

📌 restrictions on oil and gas imports;
📌 new sanctions against Putin's entourage;
📌 additional restrictions on exports to Russia;
📌 a ban on the use of EU ports by Russian ships.

EU ambassadors to discuss new sanctions this Wednesday.

04/04/2022

Volodymyr Zelenskiy published footage from Bucha:

“It is very painful to look at what the invaders have done to our people. They will have to answer for every war crime and all the suffering that they brought to our land,” he wrote.

04/04/2022

The bodies of 410 civilians were removed from Bucha, the neighbouring towns of Hostomel and Irpin and smaller villages around Kyiv, Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Iryna Venedyktova said. Bodies of men and women were found inside apartments and houses with gaping holes made by shells and explosions. Some had their hands tied, some had traces of torture. Others were found in mass graves, barely covered with soil and garbage.

04/04/2022

In Izyum, 80% of residential buildings have been destroyed.

According to city officials, due to Russian shelling, only one in five houses is intact. In Izyum and the nearest villages of the Kharkiv region, from 15,000 - 20,000 people are blocked and in need of humanitarian assistance.

01/04/2022

Elena Zelenskaya gave an interview to the German Die Zeit, in which she told how she feels about the information that her family could be a "target" for Russia, and shared her feelings about Ukraine - https://bit.ly/3wPGWeP

01/04/2022

Russian invaders fired at the car of a second-year student of the University of Drahomanov, Anastasia Tagirova, who was carrying humanitarian aid to Chernihiv. The girl died. 😢

Девушка училась на факультете специального и инклюзивного образования.

01/04/2022

⚡️Another activist was detained in Moscow.

01/04/2022

❗️Units of OK "Sever" liberated two settlements in the Chernihiv region.

In Sloboda and Lukashovka, activities are underway to clear the area from mine-explosive "gifts" left by the Russians, and to help local residents who were under occupation.

01/04/2022

🚴 From the 1st of April, rental bicycles and electric scooters resume in Kyiv.

BikeNow responded to the call of the city authorities.

Kyiv residents who use bicycle rental services are asked to remain extremely vigilant during alarm signals, and also to refrain from traveling through forests and park areas.