The SBU detained fugitive People’s Deputy Viktor Medvedchuk; Authorities announced the possible number of deaths in Mariupol. Athletistic features yesterday’s major events.
Opposition Platform for Living Leader Medvedchuk Imprisoned
As a result of a dangerous multi-level special operation, the SBU detained a fugitive representative of the people, leader of the Opposition Platform for Life party Viktor Medvedchuk. According to President Volodymyr Zelensky, the people’s representative, who wore a Ukrainian military uniform, was taken while trying to cross the border.
The Ukrainian leader offered to exchange Medvedchuk for the captured Ukrainians, while the Office of the President claims that the people’s representative could be liquidated in Russia.
Mariupol authorities announced at least 10 thousand dead in the city
Mariupol Mayor Vadim Boychenko said more than 10,000 civilians were killed during the siege of the city by Russian occupiers. He said the Russians take the corpses in refrigerators and then burn them in the mobile crematoria.
At the same time, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the Donetsk OVA, said that between 20,000 and 22,000 people died in the fighting for Mariupol. However, it is impossible to establish more accurate data while the city is under siege.
Biden identified the actions of the Russian Federation in relation to Ukraine as genocide
US President Joe Biden called Russian leader Vladimir Putin a dictator, and the war he unleashed on Ukraine for the first time – a genocide. At the same time, the head of the White House noted that it is necessary to provide a legal assessment of the actions of the Russian army in Ukraine, but he personally “sees everything that way.”
Ukrainian Head of State Volodymyr Zelensky accepted the words of his colleague in America, who mentioned that in the fight against evil it is important to call a shovel.
Sytnik was removed from the position of director of NABU
The director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine Artem Sytnyk has been removed from the position he held for the last seven years due to the expiration of his term in office. After April 16 and until the election of a new director, the duties of head of the Agency will be performed by First Deputy Gizo Uglava.
Putin described current stage of peace negotiations seems like a dead end
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that negotiations to end the war between Russia and Ukraine have allegedly reached a dead end, because “Kyiv has moved away from the agreements reached in the talks with between the parties in Istanbul. “
Here, the head of the Ukrainian delegation to the talks, David Arakhamia, responded that consultations between the parties were continuing online and Kyiv was following the Istanbul Communiqué.
720 bodies of civilians have already been found in the de-occupied territory of the Kyiv region
Andrey Nebitov, the chief of police of the Kiev region, said that in the part of the region liberated from Russian occupiers, the number of discovered and examined bodies of civilians who died at the hands of the Russian military is more than 720 people, more than 200 people are considered missing.
Russia began to gather troops on the border with Finland
The movement of heavy weapons, including missile systems, was observed on Russian territory towards the Finnish border shortly after the Kremlin warned Helsinki against joining NATO.
The losses of Russian army personnel in Ukraine amounted to 19.6 thousand military
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the losses of the Russian army in terms of manpower have been approximately 19,600 soldiers. In addition, Ukrainian fighters destroyed 157 aircraft, 140 helicopters, 732 tanks and more than 4,000 units of other enemy military equipment.
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Source: korrespondent
