Children's Rights Commissioner for the President of the Russian Federation Maria Lvova-Belova "adopted" a child who was abducted by the Russian army from Mariupol. The woman also confessed to facilitating the illegal adoption of about 350 more children from the occupied Donbas
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine stressed that the removal of Ukrainian children from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine to Russia and their subsequent "adoption" violate the Geneva Convention and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
According to official data, during the full-scale war Russia deported over 9,000 Ukrainian children. Over 400 children died, 255 are considered missing. The exact number of affected children is impossible to establish due to active hostilities & temporary occupation of some lands
"The purpose of this criminal policy is not just to steal people, but to make sure that the deportees forget about Ukraine and cannot return," Volodymyr Zelenskyy stresses
Mass missile attacks have already damaged about 40% of the energy infrastructure. Because of this, Ukraine has stopped exporting electricity to stabilize its own energy system
Harsher and longer restrictions on electricity supply are being introduced in a number of regions to prevent a complete blackout. This decision was made after another russian attack on power facilities in Kyiv Oblast.
Iran supplies Russia with kamikaze drones, which the occupiers use to attack Ukrainian cities. Now Iran is planning to sell ballistic missiles to Russia
At night, air defense forces shot down 26 Shahed-136 drones over Odesa and Mykolaiv oblasts. In the morning, 28 more such drones were launched towards the capital. In a few hours, 16 more cruise missiles were launched from the Caspian Sea in the direction of Ukraine
russians use these weapons not to hit strategic military targets. Instead, civilian Ukrainians suffer after each such launch
Tonight, the russian army shelled a school in Mykolaivka in Donetsk Oblast, where people were hiding. One woman was killed
Every day and every night, russia is shelling Ukrainian cities and villages, still holding 2,500 Ukrainians captive, and making the whole world live in danger as well
The President of Ukraine once again called on the authorities of Western countries, international institutions and every person in the world who values life to recognize Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism
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
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.
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