In
Ukraine
, the evacuation of civilians from
Mariupol
has resumed .
The civilians evacuated from the Azovstal steel mill arrived in Zaporizhzhia, ANSA found on the spot.
"We are making every effort to evacuate people from the occupied territories, but the situation is really difficult to manage, even international organizations are almost powerless," said the Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister, Iryna Vereshchuk, at a press conference at the Epicenter shopping center in Zaporizhzhia waiting for the first convoy of one hundred civilians evacuated from Azovstal.
And the mayor of Mariupol had sounded an
alarm
.
"Only three of the 14 evacuation buses with Mariupol refugees have reached the territory controlled by the Ukrainian government. The fate of the people in the remaining eleven buses is unknown - said Vadym Boichenko quoted by Interfax Ukraine -: these eleven buses are disappeared somewhere, they had to go to Zaporizhzhia in the controlled part of our state, but they got lost somewhere ".
"We checked the lists of residents deported by the Russians to their country - said the mayor of Mariupol, Vadym Boichenko, in an online briefing at the media center in Kiev -. Currently there are almost 40,000 people. Our citizens are being taken to the margins of Russia. , they are given an immigration certificate and used for various jobs because there is no one there. "
The Russians "are forcing citizens to perform various tasks in Mariupol itself such as removing debris and burning the bodies of killed civilians: they are hiding their crimes".
PUTIN-MACRON PHONE CALL
The phone call between Vladimir Putin and Emmanuel Macron lasted over two hours.
This was reported by French TV Bfm, cited by Tass.
It was the first meeting between the two leaders after Macron's re-election to the Elysée.
Russia is "still open to dialogue" with Ukraine, Putin said in the phone call, according to reports from the Kremlin, quoted by TASS.
"The EU countries ignore the war crimes of the Ukrainian forces and their bombings on the cities and villages of the Donbass".
Ukraine "is not ready for serious negotiations" to end the conflict with Russia, Putin said, according to reports from the Kremlin, quoted by TASS.
Then again: "The West must stop supplying arms to Ukraine".
THE SITUATION ON THE FIELD
"At the moment a powerful assault on the territory of the Azovstal plant is underway with the support of armored vehicles, tanks, landing attempts and a large number of infantry": so in a video message in the afternoon on Telegram the deputy commander of the Azov regiment, Svyatoslav Palamar, adding that in the Russian attacks in the past few hours "10 civilians have been injured", in addition to the two women killed that he had already reported.
"We were bombed all night, two civilian women were killed and now Azovstal is being stormed", reported Palamar quoted by Ukrainska Pravda.
"The Russians are now trying to break into the plant, before the assault, the planes bombed the plant."
And a Russian bombing struck today the village of Zaliznychne, near Zaporizhzhia, where two people were killed:
so Ukrinform, citing the regional military administration of Zaporizhzhia.
According to the spokesman, Colonel Ivan Arefiev, the Russians bombed the village and "destroyed a local school, damaging the building, the roof and the windows. In addition, 12 houses were damaged. Following the bombing and injuries from splinters, two people died. "
Oniks missiles launched by drones hit and destroyed a hangar near
Odessa
with the weapons sent by European countries and the US to Ukraine, according to Russian military leaders, cited by TASS, specifying that combat drones, ammunition and other weapons were destroyed in the attack.
The air forces of Moscow - they say - hit 69 Ukrainian military targets.
Russia could step up bombing in Ukraine's eastern
Lugansk region
May 9, the day of victory against the Nazis: the head of the regional military administration, Sergii Gaidai said, according to reports from the Kyiv Independent.
Gaidai believes the plan is part of Moscow's "scorched earth" strategy to take over the region by that date.
According to the governor, Russian forces will use heavy weapons, including artillery and multiple launch systems, to try to destroy "everything in their path".
In the last 24 hours, Russian attacks on the Kharkiv region have resulted in one death and 3 injuries, reports the Kyiv Independent, citing the governor of Kharkiv oblast, Oleh Synehubov.
A bombing of a factory in the region, Synehubov explains, caused a fire in which a worker died.
Furthermore,
Two people were injured in various attacks in the city of Kharkiv and one in the Chuhuyiv area.
The governor specified that the fighting continues in the direction of Izium.
Prosecutor Kiev, Putin war criminal of the 21st century
"Putin must absolutely be tried, he is the main war criminal of the 21st century: remember Chechnya, Georgia and now Ukraine".
Ukrainian Attorney General Iryna Venediktova said this when she met journalists in front of the completely destroyed Irpin House of Culture.
"He is the one responsible as commander in chief for the war crimes committed in these areas," she added.
In Irpin alone, 290 bodies of civilians killed by the Russians were found, of which "55 are only human remains".
Forty were killed by gunshots, 35 by shrapnel, 5 by starvation.
The other 210 have injuries still under investigation to be able to trace the causes of death ", she added.
THE POPE, I WANT TO MEET PUTIN
"I asked Cardinal Parolin, after twenty days of war, to send Putin the message that I was willing to go to Moscow. Of course, it was necessary for the Kremlin leader to grant some windows. We do not have still received an answer and we are still insisting, even if I fear that Putin cannot and wants to have this meeting right now. But so much brutality, how can you not stop it? ".
Pope Francis says so, interviewed by the editor of Corriere della Sera, Luciano Fontana.
"I'm not going to Kiev for now", he adds - he explains -.
First I have to go to Moscow, first I have to meet Putin ".
HUNGARY
INFORMED
Hungary
would have been informed in advance by Russia of its intention to invade Ukraine, meanwhile they say from Kiev.
The Kyiv Independent writes, quoting the head of the Ukrainian Security Council, Oleksiy Danilov.
The Ukrainian newspaper points out that on February 1st Viktor Orban went to Moscow to visit Vladimir Putin.
Subsequently, the Hungarian authorities publicly opposed the imposition of sanctions on Russia.
PUTIN
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree with the new Russian measures in response to sanctions.
This was reported by the Russian agency Tass.
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THE WORDS OF LAVROV
And the words of Foreign Minister
Lavrov
are still being discussed in Mediaset, a "rally", as premier Draghi defined it, who spoke of "
aberrant
" concepts.
"The world must oppose this
vile
and dangerous rhetoric and support our Ukrainian partners in the face of the ferocious onslaught of the Kremlin," US Secretary of State Antony Blinken tweeted, repeating a tweet from Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid condemning the anti-Semitic phrases of the Russian Serghei Lavrov.
Russia has "forgotten all the lessons of World War II," Ukrainian President Volodymyr
Zelensky said.
in his latest video speech, following comments by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that Adolf Hitler had "Jewish blood" and "the most ardent anti-Semites are usually Jews".
"Such an anti-Semitic push on the part of his minister - says Zelensky, taken up by the international media - shows that Russia has forgotten all the lessons of the Second World War. Or perhaps they have never studied those lessons. There is a great scandal in Israel. regarding the words "of Lavrov," however, no one hears objections or apologies from Moscow: there is silence. How could this be said - asks the Ukrainian leader - on the eve of the anniversary of the victory over Nazism? These words mean that the maximum Russian diplomat is blaming the Jewish people for Nazi crimes. "
Zelensky: 'Lavrov? Russia has forgotten the lessons of World War II '
