Ukraine War: Two Russian Generals Killed?

Forced deportation from Mariupol is on the agenda

Created: 04/24/2022, 04:51

By: Bedrettin Bölükbasi, Cindy Boden, Christoph Gschoßmann

Ukraine reports killing two Russian generals.

There was a Russian missile attack on Odessa.

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• Ukraine conflict

  : Ukraine reports killing two Russian generals.

• There is said to have been a violent deportation of Ukrainian citizens from Mariupol.

• There was a missile attack on Odessa.

  Five deaths were reported.

  Russia has also confirmed the attack.

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  news ticker on the military events in the Ukraine war

  is continuously updated.

Update, April 23, 10:50 p.m.:

Forced deportation?

Ukraine officials claimed on Saturday that Russia forcibly deported citizens of Mariupol to a remote Russian region.

"Russia forcibly sent Ukrainian citizens from Mariupol to Primorsky Krai - 8,000 kilometers from home," said Lyudmyla Denisova, the human rights commissioner of Ukraine's parliament, in a Telegram post.

According to Denisova, volunteers informed her that on April 21, a train carrying 308 Ukrainians from Mariupol, including mothers with young children, people with disabilities and students, arrived in the city of Nakhodka.

Denisova also added photos to her Telegram post showing the arrival of Ukrainian citizens at the train station.

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Ukraine war: NATO officers in steel plant in Mariupol?

Update, 8:49 p.m .:

Why hasn’t the steelworks in Mariupol been taken yet?

Russian state media stated that the steelworks had not yet been taken because "Western mercenaries" and even NATO officers had barricaded themselves in the building.

Ukraine-Russia War: Moscow confirms shelling of southern Ukrainian port city of Odessa

Update, 8:39 p.m .:

Russia has confirmed the shelling of the port city of Odessa in southern Ukraine with rockets.

A logistics terminal at a military airfield was hit on Saturday, in which a "large shipment" of weapons from the United States and European countries were stored, said Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov, according to the Interfax agency in Moscow.

The Russian armed forces also killed depots with rocket and artillery weapons, ammunition and fuel as well as up to 200 fighters in attacks in Ukraine, Konashenkov said.

The information cannot initially be independently verified.

Ukraine news: Two Russian generals killed?

Ukraine probably hit command post

Update, 7:23 p.m.:

According to military intelligence, Ukraine claims to have killed two Russian generals in an attack on a command post.

This is reported

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The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Defense Ministry of Ukraine issued a statement on Saturday that two Russian generals were killed in the southern Kherson region.

"On April 22, 2022, the Armed Forces of Ukraine struck a devastating blow against a forward command post of the 49th combined arms army of the occupying Russian forces, located not far from the battle line in the Kherson region," the statement said.

"The Result: The 49th Combined Arms Army field checkpoint was destroyed. Two occupying generals were eliminated and one was seriously wounded and evacuated in critical condition."

The attack has not yet been verified.

Ukraine war: At least five dead after rocket attack on Odessa

Update, April 23, 5:40 p.m .:

At least five people were killed in the southern Ukrainian port city of Odessa as a result of a Russian missile attack.

At least 18 people were injured, as the head of the presidential office, Andriy Yermak, announced on Saturday via the news service Telegram.

At the same time, the Ukrainian air defense announced that it had shot down two missiles and two reconnaissance drones.

The missiles were fired from a Tu-95 long-range bomber over the Caspian Sea.

Despite the shooting down, a military object and two residential buildings in Odessa were damaged, it said.

Ukraine: dead from Russian attacks - curfew in Easter Vigil

Update from April 23, 4:14 p.m .:

Several people were again killed or injured in Ukraine by Russian artillery and rocket attacks.

In the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk, two people were killed and two others injured in the settlement of Zolote on Saturday, Governor Serhiy Hajday said via the Telegram news service.

The embattled cities of Popazna, Rubishne and Sieverodonetsk were heavily shelled by artillery and bombed from the air, sources said.

Pipes are constantly being damaged, which means that the supply of the remaining population, especially with water, is questionable.

More than 110 people were evacuated from the cities mentioned.

According to the regional administration, three people were killed and seven injured in the neighboring Donetsk region on Friday.

In the Kharkiv region, Governor Oleh Synyehubov reported 2 dead and 19 injured as a result of 56 attacks over the past 24 hours.

According to the authorities, eight people were injured by shelling in the southern Ukrainian region of Mykolaiv.

Ukraine War: Rocket attack on Odessa

Update from April 23, 3:35 p.m .:

A Russian missile attack hit the port city of Odessa in southern Ukraine.

This was announced by the city's official Telegram channel on Saturday.

The statement said: "Infrastructure facilities have been hit.

Do not share photos and videos, do not help the enemy.

The information will be clarified.”

Senior Russian military officials said the aim of the invasion of Ukraine is to take "full control" of southern Ukraine and the eastern Donbass region.

Major General Rustam Minnekayev, the acting commander of Russia's Central Military District, said that taking

of southern Ukraine would give Russian forces access to Transnistria — a separatist microstate in Moldova, where since the early 1990s a contingent of Russian forces is stationed.

Russia resumes attacks on Azovstal steel mill

Update from April 23, 2:35 p.m .:

According to Ukrainian information, Russian troops have resumed attacks on the Azovstal steelworks in the port city of Mariupol.

"The enemy is trying to smother the last resistance of the Mariupol defenders," said presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych in a video message.

Artillery and air force would be used.

However, the Ukrainian soldiers would hold their positions and "even launch counterattacks".

The information cannot be verified.

At 12:00 p.m. local time (11:00 a.m. CEST) a ceasefire was to start for the evacuation of remaining civilians from the largely destroyed city of once 440,000 people.

There was initially no information on this.

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered on Thursday not to storm the bunkers dating back to the Cold War.

This should avoid own losses.

The port city on the Azov Sea had previously been declared conquered.

Mariupol was completely encircled by Russian troops shortly after the start of the Russian war of aggression two months ago.

Kyiv estimates that more than 20,000 people have been killed as a result of the fighting.

Satellite images showed locations of possible mass graves. 

War in Ukraine: Russia attacks civilian infrastructure and claims destruction of military equipment

Update from April 23, 11:30 a.m .:

According to Ukrainian authorities, Russian forces are continuing their attacks on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.

The Russian soldiers would target the civilian infrastructure in the entire Kharkiv region, said the region's military governor, Oleg Synyehubov.

Two people died during the day.

19 others were injured.

Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed the destruction of more than 20 ammunition depots in Ukraine.

Air-launched missiles and the tactical air force each destroyed 3 depots, while the missile forces destroyed another 16 ammunition depots, Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said.

The reports cannot be verified independently.

“Russian air defense systems shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft in the Nova Dmytrivka area of ​​the Kharkiv region.

In addition, 15 Ukrainian drones were destroyed during the night, including a Bayraktar TB-2 over the village of Nova Zorya in the Mykolayiv region,” Konashenkov said.

A total of 66 Ukrainian military objects were hit by the air force, and as many as 1,098 objects by rocket forces and artillery.

Konashenkov emphasized that these were mostly troop concentrations, military convoys and command points of the Ukrainian army.

You can read reactions from Germany to the Ukraine war in this news ticker.

War in Ukraine: Kyiv reports new figures on Russian losses - more than 21,000 Russian soldiers

Update from April 23, 10:05 a.m .:

According to the Ukrainian General Staff, around 21,600 Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine since the Russian attack began.

In the new situation report on Facebook, the General Staff also wrote that Ukrainian forces destroyed 854 Russian tanks, 403 artillery systems, 143 multiple rocket launchers, 69 air defense systems, 177 aircraft, 154 helicopters and 182 drones.

The information provided by the Ukrainian General Staff cannot be independently verified.

Ukraine War: Britain sees Russian offensive in Donbass faltering

Update from April 23, 8:50 a.m.:

According to a recent security assessment by the British Ministry of Defense, Russian troops in Ukraine have not been able to make much progress in the last 24 hours.

Ukrainian counterattacks would repel efforts by Russian units, the ministry said in the report published on Twitter.

In addition, Russia has still not been able to gain control in the air or at sea.

Here, too, the “effectiveness” of the Ukrainian air and sea forces is preventing the Russian army from making “notable progress”.

Also, heavy fighting in Mariupol would prevent full Russian control of the city, thus slowing down Russia's intended progress in Donbass.

Ukraine war: Possible evacuation from Mariupol - mutual accusations from Kyiv and Moscow

Update from April 23, 8.30 a.m .:

According to Ukrainian information, an evacuation from the badly damaged Ukrainian port of Mariupol could take place on Saturday.

"There is a possibility that we will be able to open a humanitarian corridor from Mariupol," Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said on Facebook.

Wereshchuk named a shopping center in the north of the city, which is directly on one of the exit roads, as the meeting point for 10 a.m. on Saturday.

She went on to say that escape corridors out of the city had failed several times and that she understood how difficult this was for people.

"But you and I have to try so many times until it works." She wanted to share specific details on Saturday morning.

There were conflicting reports on the situation of the remaining Ukrainian fighters and civilians from the besieged Asovstal Steel Works.

Russian agency

, citing data from the separatist “people's militia” in the Donetsk region, wrote that no Ukrainian militants used a “humanitarian corridor” to surrender or evacuate civilians.

Earlier on Friday, Kyiv accused Russian troops of preventing civilians from leaving the steelworks.

Ukraine War: Another possible mass grave in Mariupol discovered on satellite images

Update from April 23, 8:25

a.m .: Not far from the port city of Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine, which was besieged by Russian troops, satellite images indicate a possible further mass grave.

"This time in the left-bank district near the Vynohradne cemetery," city council deputy Petro Andryushchenko told the Telegram news service.

The occupying forces would try to cover up war crimes.

The images distributed by the US satellite photo service Maxar from March 22 to April 15 are said to show a cemetery near Wynohradne before, during and after an expansion of the graves.

Wynohradne is located on the eastern edge of the port city on the Azov Sea.

The day before, Ukrainian officials, based on satellite images, had already suspected a possible mass grave in Manhush about 15 kilometers west of the city outskirts.

The information cannot be independently verified.

Mariupol officials assume at least 20,000 residents were killed.

Before the start of the Russian war of aggression almost two months ago, the city had around 440,000 inhabitants.

Now more than 100,000 are said to be staying in the largely destroyed city.

Russia has declared Mariupol completely conquered despite Ukrainian resistance around the Azovstal steelworks. 

Ukraine war: Russia intensifies attacks in Donbass - Bucha unit now attacks Izyum

Update from April 23, 7.40 a.m .:

According to Ukrainian information, Russian troops have increased their attack efforts in the Donbass region.

"In the direction of Donetsk, the enemy is carrying out offensive actions along the entire front line," the Ukrainian General Staff said in its situation report on Saturday morning.

The strongest Russian attacks are aimed at the city of Sievjerodonetsk in the Luhansk region.

In addition, the General Staff reports on ongoing assault attempts in Rubischne, Popasna and Marjinka.

The attacks were repelled.

To the north, near the city of Izyum in the Kharkov region, Russian troops are attempting to advance further south in order to encircle the Ukrainian troops.

According to Ukrainian information, the Russian 64th Motorized Rifle Brigade, which was deployed in the Kiev suburb of Bucha, was also involved in the attacks.

Images of more than 400 civilians killed there had caused horror around the world.

Kyiv had therefore accused the Russian soldiers of war crimes, while Moscow denied having anything to do with the atrocities.

Russian President Vladimir Putin honored the brigade.

The Russians are also increasing the pressure on the southern sections of the front.

While there are no changes in the situation in Mariupol, the Russian troops in the Zaporizhia region are said to have been reinforced by fighters from the “Wagner” mercenary unit.

Kyiv speaks of around 200 Wagner fighters.

The reports could not be independently verified.

Ukraine war: Russia wants to use "new methods" - the British interpret this as an admission

First report:

Kiev - An announcement by the Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to use "new methods of warfare" is, according to the British assessment, a tacit admission that Russia is not progressing as planned in its war of aggression against Ukraine.

Nevertheless, it will take a while to adapt tactics, techniques and procedures and to implement them with improved effectiveness, the British Ministry of Defense said on Friday evening (April 23), citing intelligence information.

This applies in particular to land-based maneuver warfare.

Meanwhile, London expects Russia to continue using bombing to quell Ukrainian resistance to Russian forces.

As a result, frustration at not being able to quickly defeat the Ukrainian defense is likely.

War in Ukraine: Russian units probably establish themselves in several places

According to Ukrainian information, Russian troops have meanwhile established themselves in several places in eastern Ukraine.

Russian units in the Ukraine war are said to have gained a foothold in the small town of Losowa, an important railway junction in the Kharkiv region in the east of the country, as the Ukrainian General Staff announced in its report on Friday evening.

In the areas of Selena Dolyna in the Donetsk region and Crimea in the Luhansk region, which is about 40 kilometers to the east and was conquered a few days ago, Russian troops are expanding their positions and preparing for further advances.

They could also have gained a foothold in the town of Stepne in the Donetsk region.

Attacks were fended off in the Luhansk region, around 80 percent of which is already under Russian control, according to Ukrainian sources, in the area of ​​the city of Rubishne and the village of Novotoschkivske.

The information could not be independently verified.

A wrecked Russian military vehicle was seen on April 21 near a building destroyed by Russian troops near the Chernihiv highway in northern Ukraine.

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War in Ukraine: Zelenskyj calls for resistance against Russian attack

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on his country's citizens to resist Russia's war of aggression.

"Everyone has to defend themselves against the occupation at every opportunity," said Selenskyj in his video message every evening on Saturday night.

People shouldn't cooperate with the Russians.

Those living in areas controlled by Russian units should "cause as many problems as possible" for them.