A self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) prisoner went to war against Ukraine in order not to be imprisoned for theft
He was once sentenced to three counts of imprisonment: twice for robbery and once for grievous bodily harm. When he committed another crime in 2021, he received an offer: to go to prison for the fourth time or to sign a contract for service with the militants. Thus, in July 2021, the criminal joined the "People's Militia of the LPR."

Occupiers forcibly deported more than 500,000 Ukrainians to Russia.

More than 500,000 Ukrainians, 121,000 of whom are children, were forcibly deported to #Russia from the temporarily occupied territories of #Ukraine.⤵ This was announced by the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN, Sergiy Kyslytsya.

"Filtration camps are integral to such relocation," Kyslytsya said.⤵

Offensive in #Donbas and assault on #Azovstal. The key takeaways from the General Staff

🔻The enemy is trying to continue offensive operations in the Eastern Operational Zone in order to establish full control over the territory of the Donetsk and #Luhansk regions.⤵ 🔻 Certain units of the Armed Forces of the Republic of #Belarus continue to perform tasks to cover the Ukrainian-Belarusian border in Brest and Gomel regions.

🔻In the #Izium direction, the enemy attempted an offensive in the direction of Sulyhivka, Dibrivne.⤵

April 19: The situation in the transport infrastructure as of 20:00.

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#StopRussia #StandwithUkraine #StopPutin #Ukraine Russian troops continue to hold hostage sailors of three foreign cargo ships. Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, these vessels have been in the #Mariupol seaport, said the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Lyudmila Denisova.

The mother of a sailor from the sunken cruiser #Moskvacruiser says that it was going to capture #Odesa.

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#StopRussia #StandwithUkraine #StopPutin #Ukraine A surviving sailor of the cruiser Moskva, sunk by the Ukrainian army, told his mother that the ship was to drop off the marines in Odesa. Radio Svoboda journalists managed to talk to the woman.

The Russian troops shelled a hospital in #Mykolaiv region - the chairman of a regional council.

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#StopRussia #StandWithUkraine #StopPutin #Ukraine The Russian troops hit at a hospital in Bashtanka of the Mykolaiv region, wounding several people, the chairman of regional council Hanna Zamazeeva reported in Facebook.

The image of a woman with a baby from the #Kyiv subway has become an icon in Naples.

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#StopRussia #StandWithUkraine #StopPutin #UkraineRussiaWar #Ukraine The Madonna of Kyiv has already become the patron saint of one of the city's Catholic parishes, and the church-goers lit candles and planted yellow and blue flowers near her image.

The Czech Republic will repair Ukrainian tanks and armored personnel carriers damaged during the fighting, as announced by the Minister of Defense of the #Czech Republic, Jana Černochová, the BBC reports.

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#StopPutin #StopRussia #UkraineRussiaWar She said that the first vehicles would be Ukrainian T-64 tanks but they would be followed by others, including infantry fighting vehicles. The minister said that the Czech Republic was the first country to which Ukraine applied for maintenance and repair of combat vehicles.

Operational situation on the diplomatic front as of 19:00 on April 19.

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#StopRussia #StandwithUkraine #StopPutin #Ukraine Support of the world.

🔺 Following a conversation with President Zelenskyy, the Prime Minister of the #Netherlands announced that his country would provide additional military assistance to Ukraine;
🔺 The US is considering identifying Russia as a sponsor of terrorism;

The US, Canada, and the UK promise to pass more artillery to #Ukraine.

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#StopRussia #StandwithUkraine #StopPutin #UkraineRussiaWar The US, Canada, and the UK leaders have announced an increase in artillery supplies to Ukraine amid a new phase of the Russian-Ukrainian war.

Continuation of martial law and a new exchange of POWs: the main news for April 19.

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#StopRussia #StandwithUkraine #Ukraine #StopPutin School without Russian.
The Minister of Education and Science, Serhiy Shkarlet, supported the Ombudsman's initiative for the Protection of the State Language to replace the Russian with other subjects in schools from September 1.

In Rozivka, Zaporizhzhia, Russian invaders held a pseudo-referendum on joining the DNR at gun point.

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#StopRussia #StandwithUkraine #StopPutin On the territory of the occupied Rozivka territorial community of the #Zaporizhzhia region, the Russian occupation forces held an illegal referendum on the temporary accession to the so-called DNR.

Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of #Ukraine collected fakes, manipulations, and disinformation the enemy produced on April 19, 2022.

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#StopRussia #StandwithUkraine #StopPutin ❌Russian propagandists denied civilians' presence at the Azovstal plant, but the Russian Defense Ministry began demanding that Kyiv released all civilians from the plant and added that forcible detention of civilians as a human shield is terrorism.
🔻 This is a manipulation!

Restoration of #Sumy region: demining territories, cleaning garbage, repairing communications.

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#StopRussia #StandwithUkraine #StopPutin #Ukraine️ 🔸 Landscaping works are underway in #Okhtyrka. Today blockages near the city council were removed, also as solid waste. The territories of Yuriyivskyi and Uspenskyi cemeteries were also cleaned.

The territory of Okhtyrka CHP is under clearing the rubble.

Minister of Digital Transformation of #Ukraine Mykhailo Fedorov on technology companies and their new sanctions against Russia.

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#StopRussia #StandWithUkraine #StopPutin #Ukraine • MongoDB Inc. ceased operations in Russia. American company MongoDB Inc. suspended sales of its cloud services to customers in Russia and Belarus. Also, the company will not sell the software of its flagship product - a database management system MongoDB.

Russia strikes with cruise missiles, often guided by outdated intelligence data - CIT.

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#StopRussia #StandwithUkraine #StopPutin #Ukraine The Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT) believes that Russians launch cruise missiles at Ukrainian cities to destroy military and transport infrastructure but are often guided by outdated intelligence.

More than 1 million Ukrainians have returned to the country since February 24, - said the Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal.

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#StopRussia #StandwithUkraine #StopPutin #Ukraine Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, lots of Ukrainians have been returning to Ukraine, said the Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal:

💬 Ukrainians go back home. More than a million of our citizens have returned home since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion.

55th day of the heroic resistance of Ukrainian people to the large-scale Russian invasion, 2930th day of resistance to Russian occupation in #Donetsk region.

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#StopRUssia #StandwithUkraine #StopPutin #Ukraine️ The Russians continue to "fight" with civilians in #Donetsk. This afternoon, they launched a missile strike on an infrastructure facility in Kramatorsk - 1 civilian was killed and 2 were injured.

In Kherson region, Russian invaders are already printing ballots for the "referendum" to create the "People's Republic of Kherson".

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#StopRussia #StandWithUkraine #StopPutin #Ukraine In the occupied territory of the Kherson region, Russians are printing ballots, forms, brochures, posters, and booklets for voting in a "referendum" to create the "People's Republic of Kherson" and recognize the occupying power.

Summary from the Ministry of Internal Affairs as of April 19, 2022.

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#StandWithUkraine #StopRussia #StopPutinNOW #Ukraine State Border Guard Service of Ukraine:
▪️ 56,000 people and over 12,000 vehicles crossed Ukraine's western borders with the EU and Moldova on April 18. Passenger traffic remains stable.

The situation in #Mariupol and the supply of weapons. Highlights from @ZelenskyyUa address.

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#StopRussia #StandwithUkraine #StopPutin #Ukraine 🔻Every day matters, any procrastination with the help to Ukraine leads to more Ukrainians dying from Russians attacks.

🔻The Russian army in this war will forever inscribe itself in world history as perhaps the most uncivilized and inhuman army.