Russia claims: "Moskva" did not fight against Ukraine at all - soldier's father is outraged

Created: 05/08/2022 05:02

By: Patrick Mayer, Katharina Haase, Franziska Schwarz

An urgent message comes from the Azovstal steel mill in the port city of Mariupol.

Russia denies the use of the "Moskva".

The news ticker on the Ukraine war.

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  : In the border region, a monastery comes under fire.

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Russia-Ukraine War: Car allegedly shot at during evacuation from Mariupol

Update from May 6, 3:25 p.m

.: New allegations against Russia in the Ukraine war: The authorities in Mariupol accuse the Russian armed forces of violating a ceasefire for evacuations from the besieged Azowstal steel plant.

Accordingly, a car was shot at, which was therefore involved in the evacuation measures.

One Ukrainian fighter is said to have been killed and six others injured.

The information could not be independently verified.

Russia-Ukraine War: 500 Mariupol civilians evacuated

Update from May 6, 2:50 p.m

.: According to Ukrainian information, a total of 500 civilians have been brought to safety in the past few days from the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, which has been besieged by Russian troops for two months, and the steel works there.

Another UN convoy for evacuations was expected for Friday.

According to Ukrainian sources, the Russian attacks in Mariupol continued.

The Russian army is on the verge of taking complete control of the strategically and symbolically important port city of Mariupol in the south-east of the country.

According to Ukrainian sources, hundreds of soldiers and around 200 civilians are holed up in the Azov steelworks there.

In recent days, however, UN-led operations have "succeeded in evacuating almost 500 civilians," said the head of the Ukrainian Presidential Office, Andriy Yermak, on Friday.

The operations should therefore continue.

"Today we are concentrating on the Azov steel plant," said Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk.

Russia announced a three-day ceasefire for evacuation operations from the industrial complex on Wednesday evening.

Ukraine, however, accused Moscow of violating it.

The Kremlin denied the allegations.

Ukraine War: Alleged Russian frigate set on fire in Black Sea

Update from May 6, 1:35 p.m

.: The next Russian warship in the Black Sea was allegedly badly damaged in the Ukraine war.

Reporter Illia Ponomarenko from Ukraine's media project

tweeted: "According to unconfirmed reports from Odessa, a Russian Krivak-class frigate is burning in the Black Sea near Snake Island after being hit by a Ukrainian Neptun missile.

Meanwhile, a US Air Force RQ-4B Global Hawk is monitoring the area.”

On April 14, the missile cruiser "Moskva" sank, the warship was the flagship of the Russian Navy in the Black Sea.

According to information from Kyiv, the "Moskva" was set on fire by Neptune anti-ship missiles and thus sunk.

The Kremlin, on the other hand, spoke of exploded ammunition.

Update from May 6, 11:35 a.m.: According to the

, Kiev expects

an intensification of the Russian offensive in the Luhansk region.

The governor of the Luhansk region, Serhiy Haidai, said that the Russian armed forces would make every effort in the next three to four days to break through to either Sievierodonetsk or Popasna.

They are two cities controlled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Ukraine-News: Russia claims - missile cruiser "Moskva" was not involved in fighting

Update from May 6, 11:15 a.m

.: According to Moscow, the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet “Moskva”, which sank off the Ukrainian coast, was not involved in the military operation against Ukraine.

This emerges from a response from the military prosecutor's office to the surviving relatives of a sailor.

"The inspection showed that the ship on which ED Shkrebez served did not enter Ukrainian territorial waters and was not on the list of units and units involved in the military special operation," it said in the official letter published by the sailor's father this Friday on the social network Vkontakte.

The sailor has been missing since the accident on the missile cruiser in mid-April.

Since the Russian attack on Ukraine on February 24, Moscow has also been fighting naval forces, which have fired missiles at offshore targets and participated in the capture of Ukraine's Snake Island.

The Moskva sank in the Black Sea on April 13.

The official cause was a fire, Ukraine said it had sunk the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet with two anti-ship missiles.

Moscow has so far reported one dead and 27 missing crew members.

According to media reports, the losses are significantly higher.

In the focus of the Russia-Ukraine war: the missile cruiser "Moskva", which Kyiv says was sunk.

© IMAGO / SNA

The missing man's father, Dmitri Shkrebez, called the letter a lie.

"Snake Island is not part of Ukraine's sovereign waters, you rascals," he said in response to his inquiries into the whereabouts of his son, who, as a conscript, should not have taken part in the war against Ukraine under Russian law.

Russia-Ukraine War: Moscow apparently used rockets as early as 2014

Update from May 6, 10:30 a.m

.: The Russian army apparently used rockets in the Ukraine war in 2014.

This was announced by President Volodymyr Selenskyj on Friday night in his daily video address.

In addition, 2,682 air raids have been registered since the beginning of the war.

"Each of these operations means the death of our people, the destruction of our infrastructure."

Update from May 6, 6:43 a.m .:

In the badly damaged Ukrainian port of Mariupol, more civilians could be evacuated from the embattled Azovstal plant on Friday.

This was announced by both UN Secretary-General António Guterres and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday evening.

According to Ukrainian sources, around 200 civilians are still waiting in the steelworks, the last bastion of the Mariupol defenders, for a chance to get to safety.

A paramedic from the Azovstal plant asks Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for assistance.

"End this nightmare," asked the man, who identified himself as a Muslim Crimean Tatar by the name of Hassan, in a video message released on Thursday evening.

“People are dying here, some from bullets, others from starvation, the wounded from a lack of medication, under terrible conditions.” He asked the Turkish head of state to mediate in the conflict, to monitor the evacuation of people from the plant, including from Ukrainian military.

According to the Ukrainian government, Russia wants to conquer the besieged steelworks by Monday.

President Zelenskyy's adviser Oleksiy Arestovych said Thursday evening that the Azovstal plant should be captured on the 77th anniversary of the victory over Hitler's Germany on May 9th.

A grand military parade is planned in Moscow on Monday to commemorate the anniversary of the end of World War II, which will be celebrated in Russia on May 9.

For the celebration, Russia is aiming for military success in Ukraine.

Ukraine war: Moskva sunk with US help?

Kyiv fears an attack on Odessa

Update from May 6, 6:52 a.m .:

According to media reports, US intelligence information helped the Ukrainian military sink the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, the missile cruiser “Moskva”.

However, the US government had no knowledge of Ukraine's plans, several US media such as the

and the

reported on Thursday evening (local time), citing unnamed people who were familiar with the matter.

The Ukrainian military believes a Russian landing operation on the Black Sea coast near the port city of Odessa is possible.

According to a statement from the regional military leadership, Russian reconnaissance drones are increasingly flying over the area, the newspaper

reported .

In addition, the Russian Navy continues to have a strong presence off the Ukrainian-controlled stretch of coast.

Update from May 5, 9:45 p.m .:

Russia is concentrating on the Donbass border region in the Ukraine war.

According to the US, Russian troops in the border area have "made some small advances, especially in the northern part of Donbass".

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told US media on Thursday.

Interestingly, these advances are not “the advances that the US would have expected from Russian forces in the region at the time.”

According to Kirby, the US government still assumes that Ukraine is putting up "a very tough resistance" in Donbass.

"But that's not to say Russia hasn't made progress," Kirby said.

A Russian tank fires in the Donbass in the battle for eastern Ukraine.

The photo was released by the Russian Defense Ministry on May 5.

© Russian Defense Ministry/imago

Ukraine war: Donbass monastery under fire

Update from May 5, 6:10 p.m .:

The Ukrainian border region of Donbass is still the hardest hit by the war.

Russia apparently continues to focus its shelling on eastern Ukraine.

According to news portal

, there were attacks in the small town of Svyatogorsk.

A Christian Orthodox monastery was also hit.

Seven civilians were injured.

Update from May 5, 4:25 p.m .:

Russian troops are said to have broken the agreed ceasefire to evacuate civilians from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol.

Ukrainian fighters raise this accusation.

"Once again, the Russians broke the ceasefire promise and did not allow the evacuation of civilians who continue to hide in the plant's basements," said deputy commander of the Azov regiment of Ukraine Svyatoslav Palamar in a video message published on Telegram.

It is not yet clear whether civilians managed to escape this Thursday.

Around 200 civilians are said to be holding out in the plant's bunkers, where the remaining Ukrainian fighters are holed up.

Update from May 5, 12:55 p.m

.: Despite a ceasefire announced by Russia, the fighting for the Mariupol steelworks continued this Thursday.

This is reported by the Ukrainian site.

Russia is trying to "annihilate" the last remaining Ukrainian defenders on the compound in southern Ukraine, the army said in the morning.

The Kremlin, on the other hand, declared that the ceasefire would be observed.

Update from May 5, 12:39 p.m

.: Is the Ukrainian side sabotaging Russia in the Ukraine war?

In an interview, Oleksiy Arestovych has now given an insight into his country's tactics for the first time: "We officially say neither yes nor no, just like Israel."

Ukraine-War-News: Russia plans military parade in Mariupol on May 9, according to Kyiv

First report from May 5

: Kiev - The Ukraine war is still the scene of brutal fighting.

This map shows where the Ukraine war is raging.

Also this Thursday (May 4), Russia's Defense Ministry published a new situation report.

Vladimir Putin's tactical air force and army aviation fired on 93 military objects during the night, it said, and the artillery fired more than 500 targets in total.

At least 600 enemy soldiers were killed.

This information could not be checked independently.

Neither does this information from the Ukrainian military intelligence service: Russia is said to be planning a military parade in Mariupol on the anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany on May 9.

This is reported by the AFP news agency, citing military intelligence.

The strategically important port city in southern Ukraine is heavily contested.

Sergey Kiriyenko, deputy head of the Moscow presidential administration, has already arrived in Mariupol.

On April 21, Russia announced that it had largely taken the city.

War in Ukraine: May 9 military parade in Mariupol?

Secret service sees "propaganda campaign"

According to Moscow's plans, Mariupol should become the center of the "celebrations" on May 9th.

The city's central streets are currently being "cleared of debris, bodies and unexploded ordnance."

Mariupol is largely under the control of Russian troops, only on the premises of the Azov steelworks are Ukrainian fighters still holding out, who, together with numerous civilians, are holed up in the tunnel system on the factory premises.

"A large-scale propaganda campaign is underway," Ukrainian military intelligence said.

"The Russians should be shown stories about the locals' 'joy' at meeting the occupiers."

Ukraine War News: Moscow to hold huge celebrations on May 9 - around 65,000 attendees

On May 9, Russia traditionally celebrates the victory over Nazi Germany with a military parade and a speech by Kremlin chief Putin on Red Square in Moscow.

"This year, military parades will be held in 28 Russian cities," said Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

Almost 65,000 participants would be mobilized for this and a show of numerous weapon systems and hundreds of aircraft would be organized.

He did not comment on possible celebrations in Mariupol in the midst of the war in Ukraine.