The world shuddered at the horrors committed by the Nazis and laid the foundations of international security. More than 70 years have passed. What have we come to? A full-scale war in the center of Europe, torture and shooting of civilians, unpunished war crimes. #armyhromadske
The cynical killing of Ukrainian soldiers in Olenivka is yet another terrorist attack on the part of Russia against the Ukrainian people. This is how the occupiers try to show their power over Ukrainians and hide the traces of torture of prisoners of war. #russiaisaterroriststate
"Olenivka is the new Auschwitz" – Ukraine demands from international organizations to provide security guarantees for the captured fighters of Azovstal.
The warriors of Azovstal are people who resisted Russians for 82 days in the besieged Mariupol, and now they have been in Russian captivity for more than two months. These are people whose families, loved ones and friends are waiting at home.
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The Zaporizhzhia NPP has been under the occupation of Russian troops for more than five months. Up to 500 Russian military personnel have been at the ZNPP site since the day it was captured 2/6
Ukrainian personnel of the station continues to work in inhumane conditions, taking all measures to ensure nuclear and radiation safety for Ukraine and the whole world 3/6
Press service of the Russian ministry of justice says that the Russian court will consider the case of recognizing the Ukrainian Volunteer Regiment Azov as a terrorist organization on 26 May 1/4
In addition, the investigative committee of Russia claims it “will interrogate surrendered militants from Azovstal as part of the investigation into criminal cases of crimes committed by the Ukrainian regime against the civilian population of Donbas” 2/4
We are reminding that yesterday 53 wounded and 211 service members from Azov Regiment were evacuated (not surrendered) to the self-proclaimed DPR within a rescue operation initiated by the Ukrainian government whose goal was to save the lives of its military 3/4
Azov Regiment Commander, Denys Prokopenko, said on evening of May 16 that ‘Mariupol defenders fulfilled order of top military command and despite difficulties were delaying enemy forces for 82 days to allow Ukrainian troops to regroup.’ Prokopenko didn’t describe the order 1/4
A few hours later, Reuters witnesses reported that ‘about a dozen buses with Ukrainian troops’ were leaving Azovstal. The buses direction wasn’t specified either 2/4
On the afternoon of May 16, the Russian Defense Ministry said that it had allegedly agreed with the Ukrainian military blocked at Azovstal to take the wounded through a humanitarian corridor to the Novoazovsk hospital, which is under the control of the self-proclaimed DPR 3/4
During the inauguration ceremony on May 14, the newly elected President of Hungary — first female and youngest — Katalin Novák, pronounced ten points in which she expressed her position on Russia's war against Ukraine — @Telexhu
- We condemn Putin's aggression, the armed attack on a sovereign state.
- We will forever say "no" to all efforts to restore the Soviet Union.
- We Hungarians want peace here and in neighboring countries, we want peace, not war.
- We demand the investigation and punishment of war crimes.
- We are not neutral, we are on the side of innocent victims and the truth. We are fulfilling our commitments within the EU and NATO, but if Hungarian interests demand it, we will say no.
Update on the situation in Ukraine from the @GeneralStaffUA as of May 3, 6 p.m local time:
- In Luhansk Oblast, Russia focuses on an offensive to take full control of Rubizhne and Popasna and move towards Lyman, Siversk and Sloviansk 1/4
- In Krarkiv Oblast, Russian troops conduct offensive operations in the Izyum-Barvinkove direction but suffer losses. Filtration centers continue its function in the temporarily occupied territories of Kharkiv Oblast. 2/4
- In a breakaway state of Transnistria, units of operative forces of Russian troops continue to be on full alert. Preparations are underway for the evacuation of their families 3/4
Approx. 300,000 square kilometers of Ukraine need to be inspected and demined. Sowing work on a large area of Ukrainian fields cannot begin due to the threat of explosives left by the occupiers 1/4
The main efforts of sappers are now focused on the directions of Bucha, Irpin, Borodianka, Hostomel, as well as on Chernihiv, Nizhyn, Trostianets directions 2/4
Experts of Kyiv School of Economics say that more than 400 million people around the world depend on grain supplies from Ukraine. This includes Egypt, Yemen, Israel, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Libya, Lebanon, Tunisia, Morocco, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey 3/4