Mariupol "Tribunal" for Azov Steel fighters: Separatists do not want to bring prisoners to Russia
Created: 05/24/2022, 04:48 am
By: Richard Strobl, Franziska Schwarz
Kyiv sees an "extremely difficult" situation in the Ukraine war.
Captured soldiers from Mariupol are said to be awaiting a tribunal.
The news ticker on the military situation.
Dead soldiers in the Ukraine war
: Selenskyj admits high losses in eastern Ukraine.
From Desna in the north of the country, Ukraine reports almost 90 deaths.
According to Kyiv, Ukrainian partisans have meanwhile carried out an attack on a mayor appointed by Russia.
Mariupol "Tribunal": The pro-Russian separatists do not want to try the Azov steel fighters in Russia.
This ticker on the
military situation in the Ukraine conflict
is regularly updated.
Update from May 23, 11:40 p.m .:
According to Ukrainian information, Russian rocket attacks in eastern Ukraine destroyed the railway infrastructure on Monday.
Governor Valentyn Resnichenko said on his Telegram channel that four rocket hits in the Dnipropetrovsk region severely damaged tracks and overhead lines.
So nobody was injured.
It is not yet known when train services can be resumed.
The Russian war of aggression on the neighboring country has now lasted three months.
Ukraine reports dead civilians after Russian attack
Update from May 23, 11:18 p.m .:
According to Ukrainian information, three civilians were killed in Russian attacks in eastern Ukraine on Monday.
Six other people were injured, the governor of the Donetsk region, Pavlo Kyrylenko, wrote on Telegram.
The Ukrainian army said it had destroyed eight tanks, one drone, six aircraft and other military equipment on the Russian side.
A Russian missile is said to have been shot down in the Novoukrainka region.
The information could not be independently verified.
According to Ukrainian information, Russia is expanding the command structures of the military police in eastern Ukraine.
The Ukrainian general staff wrote on Monday evening that 19 so-called commander's offices had been set up in the occupied regions of Cherson and Zaporizhia.
Update from May 23, 8:27 p.m .:
They have been the home of thousands of people in the past few weeks: the metro stations in Kharkiv are scheduled to reopen on Wednesday (May 24).
According to CNN, Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said on Ukrainian television.
“The subways will run from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
There will not be the same tact as outside of wartime because a train depot was destroyed in bomb and rocket attacks.”
Kharkiv residents rest from attacks in a metro station.
© EMRE CAYLAK/afp
If necessary, Kharkiv residents can continue to use the subway stations as shelters against bombing raids.
Ukraine War: Ukraine retakes 24 municipalities in Kharkiv region
Update from May 23, 7:03 p.m
.: According to the
Kyiv Independent
, Ukraine liberated 24 communities from Russian occupation on Monday as part of a large-scale counterattack.
According to commander Valerii Zaluzhnyi, people in villages north of Kharkiv had been stuck in their basements for months.
This information could not be independently verified.
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Pro-Russian Separatist Leaders in the Ukraine War: “International Tribunal” for Azovstal Prisoners
Update from May 23, 6:46 p.m .: According to
dpa
information, the pro-Russian separatist leaders in eastern Ukraine want to
hold an “international tribunal” for the soldiers from the Azowstal plant.
According to the Interfax agency, Denis Puschilin said on Monday that the soldiers captured in the port city of Mariupol should not be taken to Russia, but should be tried in the region.
A first trial should therefore take place in Mariupol, others could be held in other places.
Ukraine War: At least 4,600 civilians dead outside Russian-occupied east, according to Ukraine
Update from May 23, 6:23 p.m
.: According to the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office, at least 4,600 Ukrainian civilians have been killed since the start of the Ukraine war, including 232 children.
This is reported by the
Kyiv Independent
, citing the Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova.
According to her, however, the figures did not contain any data from the Russian-occupied areas in eastern Ukraine, where thousands more deaths are suspected.
Ukraine war: 87 people died in an attack in the north - Selenskyj speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos
Update from May 23, 1:38 p.m .:
According to the leadership in Kiev, 87 people were killed in a Russian attack on a village with a Ukrainian military base in the north of the country last week.
So many fatalities have now been discovered under the rubble in the village of Desna, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj on Monday in a video address to participants at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Russian forces attacked the village in the Chernihiv region on May 17, the president said.
The local authorities had initially spoken of eight fatalities and twelve injured in the past week.
London: Russia's losses in the Ukraine war as high as those of the Soviets in Afghanistan
Update from May 23, 10:18 a.m
.: There are currently no verifiable figures on soldiers killed and losses on the part of Ukraine and Russia.
British intelligence experts have now at least made an estimate - and this is illustrated with a comparison: after only three months, the losses of the Russian army in the Ukraine war are probably as high as those of the Red Army in the nine years of the Soviet war in Afghanistan .
This is according to a statement from the British Ministry of Defence.
The high loss rate is also increasing in the Russian offensive in the Donbass.
The reason for this is a combination of factors such as poor tactics, limited air superiority and a lack of flexibility.
The secret service experts assume that this could also increase dissatisfaction among the Russian population - and the willingness to express this: "In the past, the Russian public has reacted sensitively to losses in wars that were not forced on the country," said it.
Ukrainian attack on Putin's governor?
Moscow persecutes “Ukrainian nationalists”
Update from May 23, 9.17 a.m
.: The most powerful nuclear power plant in Europe is located near Enerhodar in southern Ukraine.
Now the Ukrainian military is reporting a bomb attack in the city.
The mayor Andriy Shevchik, who was deployed by the Russian occupying forces, was seriously injured.
It was a targeted partisan attack against a collaborator, the Ukrainian military administration of the Zaporizhia region, in which Enerhodar is located, announced on Telegram.
According to media reports, Shevchik is in intensive care.
It was also said that the Russian occupying forces were now looking for two young men in a red Audi.
They would also have strengthened the checkpoints.
According to its own statements, the Russian investigative committee has initiated criminal proceedings "for the crime of Ukrainian nationalists".
Russian troops had already occupied Enerhodar in the first days of the war.
During the fighting, a fire even briefly broke out on the nuclear power plant site, but it was able to be extinguished again.
The regional capital of Zaporizhia itself is still under Ukrainian control.
Photo from May 1: A Russian soldier at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in Enerhodar © Uncredited/AP/dpa
Ukraine-News: Ukrainian military warns of activities on the Belarusian border
Update from May 23, 8:28 a.m
.: The former Soviet Republic of Belarus, which has not yet actively participated in the Russian-Ukrainian war, is pulling forces together at the border, according to information from Kiev.
"The Belarusian armed forces are conducting increased reconnaissance and have set up additional units in the border area," the Ukrainian General Staff said in its situation report.
Accordingly, the danger of rocket and air attacks on Ukraine from Belarusian territory remains.
The Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko did not take part with his own troops in the war against Ukraine that Russia started at the end of February.
However, Russian troops were allowed to use the country as a staging area for the attack.
Kyiv therefore does not see Minsk as neutral and fears that Belarusian soldiers could potentially intervene in the conflict on the part of Russia.
Lukashenko, who is meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi on May 23, has always denied such intentions.
Dead soldiers in the Ukraine war: Selenskyj admits high losses in eastern Ukraine
Update from May 23, 7:28 a.m
.: Volodymyr Selenskyj has admitted high losses in eastern Ukraine: "Today between 50 and 100 people can die on the front in the east of our country, which is the hardest for us," said the Ukrainian President about the daily losses of his own troops .
"They protect our freedom and independence, which is talked about all over the world." Zelenskyj justified the rejection of a petition to allow men of military age to leave Ukraine with the high losses.
This is how the news agency RBK-Ukraina reports from a joint press conference between Zelenskyjs and his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda.
Most recently, Selenskyj disclosed his own losses in mid-April.
At that time he spoke of a total of around 3,000 Ukrainian soldiers who had died since the Russian attack on February 24.
However, the President's Office has refused to provide precise figures.
Presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovich explained that this was a war secret.
Ukraine-News: Politician raises serious allegations against the Kremlin - "wiping out entire cities"
Update from May 23, 6:43
a.m .: According to Ukrainian MP Dmytro Lubinets, the Russian occupation in eastern Ukraine is trying to “wipe out entire towns and cities”.
Above all, the civil infrastructure is being attacked, said Lubinets on Monday in the ARD "Morgenmagazin" according to the broadcaster's translation.
This affects the power supply and water pipes, but also schools and hospitals.
"It seems that the Russians are not fighting the Ukrainian armed forces, but the whole people," said the parliamentarian.
Therefore, Ukraine is appealing to the international public to recognize the situation as a genocide of the Ukrainian people.
The Ukrainian government is making every effort to organize the evacuation of civilians from the contested areas, Lubinets said.
He dismissed Moscow's claim that Ukrainians were being taken to safety in Russia.
"Russian propaganda, as always, distorts the facts," said the politician.
"The Russians are forcing people to evacuate to Russia - that is, with the use of force." Many children were among those abducted.
Picture from May 22: a destroyed bridge in eastern Ukraine.
© ARIS MESSINIS/AFP
Because of the Ukraine war, more than 100 million people are fleeing for the first time worldwide
Update from May 23, 6:19 a.m
.: "One hundred million is a blatant number - sobering and alarming at the same time": With these words, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, commented on the latest figures.
The UN refugee agency now counts more than 100 million people displaced by violence around the world.
The reason is the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine and other deadly conflicts.
It is the highest since records began.
"It's a record that should never have been," Grandi said in the statement.
Ukraine War News: Kyiv reports civilian casualties again
Update from May 22, 10:05 p.m .:
According to Ukrainian information, at least eight people were killed by Russian fire on Sunday.
According to the Ukrainian military, at least seven people were killed and eight injured in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk.
At least one person was also killed in a rocket attack on Malyn northwest of Kyiv, according to the Unian agency.
The Ukrainian military also reported eleven repelled attacks by Russian troops in eastern Ukraine on Sunday.
During the week more than 200 Russian military vehicles were destroyed and 3 airplanes.
War in Ukraine: The verdict in the first trial against Russian soldiers in Kyiv comes on Monday
Update from May 22, 7:25 p.m .:
The verdict in the first trial against a Russian soldier for war crimes is expected in Kiev on Monday.
21-year-old Vadim Shishimarin faces life imprisonment for killing an unarmed civilian.
In court he confessed and asked for forgiveness.
His lawyer asked for an acquittal.
According to Ukrainian investigators, Shishimarin wanted to flee with four comrades in a stolen car after an attack on his convoy in northern Ukraine.
The victim he killed was therefore a witness to the theft of the car.
Schischimarin confirmed this representation in court.
He is "really sorry".
Update from May 22, 2:15 p.m
.: Ukraine has extended the martial law that has been in force since the end of February by a further 90 days.
In view of the Russian war of aggression, the parliament in Kyiv also voted to extend the general mobilization until August 23, as several MPs wrote on Telegram.
Ukraine War News: Mariupol at risk of infectious diseases
Update from May 22, 12:50 p.m .:
In the port city of Mariupol, infectious diseases could soon spread rapidly.
This is reported by the mayor of the city, according to the
Kyiv Independent.
"The sewers don't work.
There are chaotic mass burials all over the city.
During the summer rains, all (toxins) get into the rivers, the sea and the springs from which people get their water,” Vadym Boychenko is quoted as saying.
Mariupol faced weeks of heavy Russian shelling and siege as Ukrainian soldiers barricaded themselves in the strategically important seaside city.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine.
(Archive image) © Ukraine Presidency/Ukraine Presi/dpa
Ukraine-News: Russia probably mines Cherson's streets to prevent escape
Update from May 22, 11:29 a.m .:
The Russian army apparently mines roads in the occupied Cherson Oblast region.
This is now reported by the English-speaking
Kyiv Independent
, citing regional authorities.
Accordingly, the military mines bridges and roads to prevent the Ukrainian population from fleeing the occupied territories to parts of the country controlled by the Ukrainian military.
This information cannot currently be checked independently.
The administrative unit (oblast) Kherson is almost completely controlled by Russia.
For a long time, the capital, Kherson, was the only large city that Putin's troops could take.
Recently there have been rumors that Russia wants to hold a referendum to incorporate the oblast into its territory.
The Crimean peninsula was treated in a similar way.
On May 1, Russia introduced the Russian ruble as official currency in the Cherson region.
The deputy head of the pro-Russian administration in Kherson, Kirill Stremousov, recently brought up a formal application to Putin for membership.
Selenskyj sees "extremely difficult" situation - News about the Ukraine war
First report from May 22nd:
Kiev - Russia has apparently intensified its offensive in eastern Ukraine.
Ukraine reports the use of planes, tanks, missiles, mortars, cruise missiles and planes against public infrastructure and residential areas along the entire front line in Donbass.
This information from the war party could not be checked independently.
Ukraine War News: Selenskyj sees intensified offensive
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke of an "extremely difficult" situation in Donbass.
Accordingly, Russia is trying to attack the cities of Slavyansk and Severodonetsk.
According to Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian army has so far managed to hold back the offensive here.
The Russian "Iskander-M" missile system at a demonstration in 2016. © Sergei Ilnitsky/dpa
At the same time, Zelenskyj called for further Western sanctions against Russia and referred to a phone call with Italy's Prime Minister Mario Draghi.
According to Zelenskyj, an end to the war can only be brought about through diplomacy.
Increased sanctions pressure on Russia should therefore force its President Vladimir Putin back to the negotiating table.
Ukraine-News: Nuclear-capable missile system at the border
At the same time, Russia has apparently also stationed launchers of the Iskander system in Belograd, Russia, near the border with Ukraine.
This is reported by the Ukrainian military.
This short-range missile system can launch nuclear warheads, among other things.
What the goals behind the transfer are is so far unclear.
We have summarized the background to the Ukraine conflict for you here.
