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  • Al-Qaeda chief blames US for Russia, Ukraine battle in new video

    Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahri in a brand new video blamed the US for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

    Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahri in a brand new video blamed the US for battle in Ukraine. (Photo: Reuters/File)

    Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahri made an look in a pre-recorded video to mark the eleventh anniversary of the loss of life of his predecessor, Osama bin Laden.

    Al-Zawahri says within the video that “US weakness” was the explanation that its ally Ukraine grew to become “prey” for the Russian invasion.

    The 27-minute speech was launched Friday in accordance with the SITE Intelligence group, which screens militant exercise. The chief seems sitting at a desk with books and a gun.

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    Urging Muslim unity, al-Zawahri stated the US was in a state of weak point and decline and cited the impression of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan launched after the 9/11 terrorist assaults. Bin Laden was the mastermind and financier behind the assaults.

    “Here (the US) is after its defeat in Iraq and Afghanistan, after the economic disasters caused by the 9/11 invasions, after the Corona pandemic, and after it left its ally Ukraine as prey for the Russians,” he stated.

    Bin Laden was killed in a 2011 raid by US forces on his compound hideout in Pakistan.

    Al-Zawahri’s whereabouts are unknown. He is needed by the FBI and there’s a $25 million reward for info resulting in his seize.

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  • Evacuation begins in Mariupol; US, Germany pledge continued assist to Ukraine | Top factors

    On the 68th day of the struggle, the Ukrainians caught in Mariupol’s metal plant amid a Russian assault have been evacuated. The evacuation operation was in coordination with Ukrainian and Russian officers.

    While US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Ukraine as a present of assist to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zeleskyy of their battle towards the Russian invasion.

    HERE ARE THE TOP DEVELOPMENTS:

    1. Nearly a whole bunch of civilians, primarily ladies and youngsters, who have been sheltering at Azovstal metal plant have been carried out with the International Committee of the Red Cross on Sunday. These civilians are anticipated to reach in Zaporizhzhia on Monday.

    2. US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Saturday revealed her go to to Kyiv was to indicate America’s unflinching assist for Ukraine’s protection towards Russian aggression. Her go to got here simply days after Russia launched rockets on the capital throughout a go to by UN Secretary-General António Guterres. She is the senior-most US lawmaker to journey to the war-torn nation since Russia’s invasion in February 24.

    Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy awards US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi the ‘Order of Princess Olga’ medal after their assembly in Kyiv, Ukraine April 30, 2022. (Photo: Reuters)

    3. Germany pledges to proceed to assist Ukraine with cash, support and in addition weapons, saying a pacifist method to the struggle is “outdated.” Speaking at a May Day rally in Dusseldorf, Chancellor Olaf Scholz mentioned: “I respect all pacifism, I respect all attitudes, but it must seem cynical to a citizen of Ukraine to be told to defend himself against Putin’s aggression without weapons.”

    READ | Ukraine seeks to stall Russia’s relentless assault in Donbas area

    4. Poland on Sunday mentioned that navy workout routines involving hundreds of NATO troopers have begun. The Polish armed forces mentioned they’re holding common workout routines aimed toward bettering the safety of the alliance’s jap flank however come this 12 months with Russia’s struggle towards Ukraine raging close by.

    5. India requires a cessation of hostilities in Ukraine forward of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s three-nation European journey. Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra mentioned, insisting the important thing focus of the go to shall be to spice up ties on a variety of areas together with commerce, vitality and inexperienced know-how.

    6. Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov emphasised that the upcoming anniversary of Russia’s liberation on the finish of World War II on May 9 may have no bearing on the navy operations in Ukraine. “We’ll commemorate our victory in a solemn manner but the timing and speed of what is happening in Ukraine will hinge on the need to minimise risks for civilians and Russian solders,” he mentioned on Italian tv.

    Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. (Photo: Reuters/File)

    7. Ukraine’s Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba, claimed he urged the European Union’s high diplomat that the bloc should sanction an oil embargo on Russia. “I also emphasised there can be no alternative to granting Ukraine EU candidate status…,” Kuleba wrote on Twitter after his name with Josep Borrell, as per a Reuters report.

    8. The Ukrainian military has claimed {that a} Russian offensive alongside a broad entrance within the nation’s east has been stalling. They mentioned Russian troops have been making an attempt to advance within the Sloboda, Donetsk and Tauride areas, however have been being held again by Ukrainian forces that proceed to struggle amid human and materials losses inflicted by Kyiv’s forces.

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  • Ukraine seeks to stall Russia’s relentless assault in Donbas area

    Russian troops in Ukraine’s japanese Donbas area have shifted from a steamroller technique to one in all relentlessly chipping away at their opponents within the hope of grinding them down.

    Ukraine’s military has little possibility however to attempt to stall their bigger and better-equipped enemy within the sprawling plains of Donbas, the place artillery is king.

    “It’s not like 2014, there’s no defined front along a river or a road or a motorway,” says Iryna Rybakova, spokeswoman for the Ukrainian military’s 93rd brigade, which is on the centre of the combating.

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    “It’s one of their villages or one of ours: it’s more like a chessboard. At the moment, we aren’t able to make the enemy retreat from our front line,” she admits.

    In March, the Russian military stated it could focus its efforts on the Donbas areas of Donetsk and Lugansk the place pro-Russia separatists have been energetic since 2014.

    But on day 66 of the warfare, Moscow remains to be removed from acquiring the victory that many imagine President Vladimir Putin needs to declare by May 9, a date that marks Russia’s victory over the Nazis in 1945.

    In southern Ukraine, Russian forces have taken over a strip of territory stretching from the besieged port metropolis of Mariupol to Kherson, the area simply north of Crimea.

    But the Donbas remains to be removed from being taken.

    “Even if there has been some advance by Russian troops on the ground, it is not very fast,” Russian navy knowledgeable Alexander Khramchikhin advised AFP.

    CREEPING PESSIMISM

    Apart from the hard-fought takeover of a lot of the southern port metropolis of Mariupol on the shores of the Sea of Azov, the frontline that emerged from the 2014 warfare has not moved within the southern Donbas.

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    “In the Lugansk region, the objectives announced by Moscow are close to being achieved but in Donetsk, the advance is proving more difficult,” stated Khramchikhin.

    Kramatorsk is a key goal for Moscow as capital of Ukrainian-controlled a part of the Donbas area. (Photo: AFP)

    For now, Russian forces are step by step shifting down in the direction of Kramatorsk, capital of Ukrainian-controlled Donbas and a key goal for Moscow, whereas additionally shifting up in the direction of Pokrovsk, on the area’s western flank.

    In the previous two weeks, they’ve gained a foothold in a number of small cities the place city fight is raging, comparable to Rubizhne, which had 57,000 residents earlier than the warfare.

    But no place of significance has been taken for the reason that seize of Kreminna on April 18, a city of 18,000 folks earlier than the warfare, 50 kilometres (30 miles) northeast of Kramatorsk.

    Pessimism in regards to the probabilities of pushing again the Russians seems to be spreading.

    Abandoned trains left on stage crossings, bulldozed streets and barricaded roads counsel the main target has shifted to spoiling ways to sluggish the advance.

    ‘HUGELY DISPROPORTIONATE’

    With the battle now shifted to the rolling plains and industrial cities of the Donbas, the confrontation is essentially right down to artillery — what Soviet chief Stalin referred to as “the god of war”.

    In sprawling plains of Donbas the place artillery is king, Ukrainian troops admit they aren’t in a spot to power a Russian retreat. (Photo: AFP)

    But the steadiness of energy stays massively disproportionate, with Russia as much as “five times stronger in terms of equipment”, says Iryna Terehovych, a 40-year-old sergeant within the 123rd Ukrainian brigade.

    “We need tanks, artillery, anti-tank missiles,” she advised AFP.

    “In Kreminna, we only had a few NLAW anti-tank missile systems and some didn’t even work.”

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    Russian forces even have Soviet-designed Grad, Uragan and Smerch rocket launchers which may fireplace a number of projectiles at a time, typically used to lethal impact towards residential areas.

    Faced with the longer-range Tochka-U missiles, the Ukrainian defences have solely been capable of intercept a few of them.

    Kyiv has lengthy been hoping that NATO would shut the air area over Ukraine however it by no means materialised. And Ukraine has just a few SU-24 and SU-25 fighter planes to maintain watch on Russian positions.

    On the bottom, there are roughly 40,000 to 50,000 Ukrainian troopers within the Donbas, analysts say. Moscow has not stated something about its forces within the space.

    “It’s too late for us,” stated one Ukrainian soldier, who was struggling to restore a broken-down tank he stated was used within the Soviet-Afghan warfare (1979-1989).

    SAVING AMMUNITION

    Although they’re holding their floor on the battlefield, lots of Ukraine’s infantry troopers admit to feeling overwhelmed.

    Although they’re holding their floor on the battlefield, lots of Ukraine’s infantry troopers admit to feeling overwhelmed. (Photo: AFP)

    “Viking”, a 27-year-old workers sergeant who fought in Kreminna stated his comrades are exhausted and ready for the order to tug again.

    “If it was a war between infantry forces, we would have a chance. But in this area, it’s first and foremost an artillery war and we don’t have enough artillery,” he says.

    “For every 300 shells they fire, we fire three.”

    Rybakova of the 93rd brigade stated Ukrainian forces had been working “in a more targeted way”.

    “We’ve learnt to save our ammunition during eight years of war,” she stated.

    “For example, we fire when their troops try to break through.”

    The query stays whether or not the Ukrainian military will probably be compelled to desert the area, the place it has been combating since 2014.

    “Either we go overboard on the heroics and we all die, or we pull back, stay alive and regroup our forces,” stated Sergeant Iryna Terehovych.

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  • Half one million Ukrainians deported to Russia: Ukraine’s UN envoy

    Ukraine claimed that greater than 500,000 Ukrainians had been “forcibly transferred” to Russia. 

    Half one million Ukrainians, together with 121,000 youngsters, deported to Russia, says Ukraine’s UN envoy. (Photo: AP/Representational)

    Ukraine claimed that greater than half one million Ukrainians had been “forcibly transferred” to Russia. Ukraine’s everlasting consultant to the UN made the declare on Tuesday, April 19.

    The Ukraine’s everlasting consultant to the UN, Sergiy Kyslytsya, on April 19 mentioned that greater than 500,000 Ukrainians had been “forcibly transferred” to Russia, together with 121,000 youngsters, as per a tweet by Kyiv Independent.

    Ukraine’s UN envoy: Half one million Ukrainians deported to Russia.

    Ukraine’s Permanent Representative to the UN Sergiy Kyslytsya mentioned on April 19, that greater than 500,000 Ukrainians had been “forcibly transferred” to Russia, together with 121,000 youngsters.

    — The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) April 20, 2022

    Meanwhile, Russia delivered a recent ultimatum for 2pm Wednesday to Ukrainian fighters in Mariupol asking them to place down their weapons.

    Russia poured extra troops into Ukraine on Tuesday to up its battle for management of the nation’s japanese industrial heartland of coal mines and factories.

    The japanese cities of Kharkiv and Kramatorsk got here below lethal assault, and Russia additionally mentioned it struck areas round Zaporizhzhia and Dnipro west of the Donbas with missiles.

    The arms offered by Europe and America have been key to bolstering Ukraine’s protection, serving to the under-gunned nation to carry off the Russians.

    (With inputs from AP)

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  • Ukrainian refugees recall fleeing houses amid Russian assault: ‘Our home was the wrong way up, and eventually…’

    The Ukrainian metropolis of Zaporizhzhia is surrounded by Russian troops. About 70 per cent of the state is underneath Russian occupation. From Melitopol to Burdyansk, the Russian flag is waving over the cities. Here, explosions are heard at common intervals.

    In this particular report, India Today talks to refugees in Zaporizhzhia as they recount their tales of fleeing their houses and residing in a bunker.

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    Tertanya, 68, retains seeing the terrifying scenes on her cell. She is watching a video of the lethal phosphorus bomb which is banned within the worldwide world. The clip of burning embers raining from the sky. Terror fills her eyes. What would be the destiny of their village, or of their buddies, she wonders.

    Tertanya, 68, resident of Huliaipole, a metropolis close to Zaporizhzhia in Ukraine. (Photo: India Today)

    “They started bombing with these phosphorous bombs when I had already left the town and I didn’t see them myself, but I was sent the video and the message came from confirmed sources. Some people are still there, my daughter’s husband’s parents are still there. They decided to stay and they sat in the basement with 30 people. My best friend is still there, too. I was talking to her yesterday and asked her to leave town immediately,” she stated.

    Her village is 70 kms away from Zaporizhzhia. She by no means thought that her village could be bombed since there isn’t a army base, however she was fallacious.

    READ: Russia intensifies assaults on Kyiv; Zelenskyy guarantees houses to displaced Ukrainians | Top factors

    Even when the missiles began falling on the village, she didn’t depart the home. She lived alone within the basement for 3 weeks regardless of affected by a kidney illness.

    When requested why she didn’t depart her city without delay, she stated, “I thought I would protect my home, my land, my building. I thought it would stop soon. My children escaped because they have small children. They asked me to go with them, but I didn’t. They left along with their cousins in their private car. I said I would stay, my daughter was calling me and crying and then she found me the other car to leave.”

    “IT WAS HELL”

    Recalling his expertise, Eugan, who fled from Mariupol, stated it was not possible to flee from all of the areas of Russian occupation.

    Eugan stated, “I will thank this car, this car was my life. I walked with my family for four days and crossed 30 checkpoints on the way. It was hell.”

    Eugan, a resident of Mariopol. (Photo: India Today)

    Mariupol has suffered the heaviest devastation by the hands of the Russians. Eugan stated there isn’t a concern now. The scene of dying, the sound of bullets, he had seen all of it.

    He spent many days in a bunker earlier than reaching Zaporizhzhia with 4 relations. Though, his father was left behind within the village.

    “I left my father behind in my village. I want to go to Germany with my family but my daughter, Maria, 11, finds her house to be the most lovely. She left everything behind except a bag and this doll,” he stated.

    Maria, 11, a resident of Mariopol. (Photo: India Today)

    “STOP WAR IN UKRAINE PLEASE!”

    Maria stated, “This doll was presented to me when I was in Melitopol. I was really happy. My friends are still there and they can’t leave the village. All the humanitarian corridors are closed and it’s so hard to leave by car. Stop the war in Ukraine please!”

    Maria recounts that sooner or later they returned dwelling to search out that their home had been damaged into and there have been shards of glass in every single place. The door was open and every part was in disarray. Maria’s mom, Olena, was a faculty instructor.

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    She stated, “We were not at home and when we came back we saw the window of the house was broken. How can the Russian army do this? They could have waited for us, I don’t know. They took the cups. Our house was upside down. How can they do all this?”

    Maria, 11, performs along with her doll. (Photo: India Today)

    From that day Olena began worrying about her daughter. She was scared, she stopped consuming and ingesting. She began on the lookout for a approach to escape the village.

    Olena stated, “Finally we decided to leave because our territory was occupied and still is. The Russian military units and vehicles were driving through our village. We could hear all this rumbling and we were petrified. My hands were down, I was disorientated. I didn’t know what this was. I didn’t want to eat and drink anything. We couldn’t decide for so long to leave but we got the idea that we were absolutely alone. People around us were sympathising with us, helping us. But we were not protected. We had no protection, people around were armed. We decided to leave far away where we are not under attack.”

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  • Russia intensifies assaults on Kyiv; Zelenskyy guarantees properties to displaced Ukrainians | Top factors

    As the conflict in Ukraine entered the 52nd day, the Russian forces accelerated assaults on Kyiv and different western cities. Several airstrikes had been reported from Kyiv, Lviv and Kharkiv on Saturday as officers in Moscow claimed they had been concentrating on army websites in Ukraine.

    Meanwhile, President Zelenskyy vowed to supply housing to Ukrainians who misplaced their properties within the conflict. Zelenskyy introduced plans to supply short-term housing to internally displaced folks, those that defend the state or are working within the public curiosity.

    TOP DEVELOPMENTS

    1. Russia stepped up its assault on the capital metropolis of Kyiv, and different western cities after Russian authorities accused Ukraine of launching airstrikes in Bryansk, a area bordering Ukraine. Though Moscow claimed that it was solely concentrating on army websites, this has been refuted by witnesses.

    READ | Executed within the streets: Ukraine says greater than 900 civilian our bodies present in Kyiv area

    2. With the renewed assaults on the capital metropolis, Mayor Vitali Klitschko urged Ukrainians to not return to Kyiv. He warned that strikes on the capital are prone to proceed and its suburbs are rigged with explosives. Airstrikes ripped by Darnytski district of the capital, although the Russian Defense Ministry stated it focused an armored automobile plant within the Ukrainian capital.

    3. Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday introduced the transfer to bar British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and different high UK officers from coming into the nation in response to British sanctions. The ministry’s assertion cited “unprecedented hostile actions of the British authorities…” as the reason.

    4. As per an estimate by Ukraine, nearly 2,500 to 3,000 Ukrainian troops have died in the war, and about 10,000 have been injured. It said that some 700 Ukrainian troops and more than 1,000 civilians have been taken captive by the Russian forces. Around the same number of Russian troops Ukraine holds as prisoners. A swap is intended but Ukriane is demanding the release of civilians “without any conditions”.

    (Photo: AP/File)

    5. A Russian general who was commanding troops at the Ukrainian port of Mariupol died in battle and was buried in St. Petersburg on Saturday. Major General Vladimir Frolov was deputy commander of the 8th Army, which Russian media identified as being among the forces battering Mariupol. Ukraine has claimed that several Russian generals and dozens of other high-ranking officers have been killed during the war.

    6. Pope Francis on Saturday invoked “gestures of peace” throughout an Easter vigil homily in St. Peter’s Basilica, which was attended by the mayor of the occupied Ukrainian metropolis of Melitopol and three Ukrainian lawmakers. The pontiff didn’t refer on to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, however he has known as for an Easter truce with the intention to attain a negotiated peace.

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    7. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appealed to the Western nations for extra arms and a world embargo on Russian oil. He additionally accused Russian troops of terrorizing civilians in occupied cities.

    8. Italy bars Russian ships from coming into its ports with impact from Sunday. It is part of the expanded EU sanctions introduced earlier this month. The ships that are already in Italian ports should depart instantly “after finishing their business exercise”, the notice learn.

    (With enter from businesses)

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  • Ukraine proposes swapping pro-Russian politician for struggle prisoners

    Ukraine’s Zelenskyy proposed swapping senior pro-Russian politician Viktor Medvedchuk, a detailed aide of Putin, for prisoners of struggle.

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. (Photo: AP/File)

  • Ukraine snubs German president, Berlin below stress to up warfare response

    Pressure was mounting on Germany to up its recreation over the warfare in Ukraine on Tuesday as Kyiv snubbed the nation’s president and Chancellor Olaf Scholz was accused of a weak response to the disaster.

    On a go to to Poland, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier admitted he had provided to go to Ukraine with different EU leaders, however Kyiv had instructed him he was not welcome proper now.

    “I was prepared to do this, but apparently, and I must take note of this, this was not wanted in Kyiv,” Steinmeier instructed reporters.

    Steinmeier, a former overseas minister, has confronted rising criticism since Russia invaded Ukraine in February for his years-long detente coverage in the direction of Moscow.

    Scholz, in the meantime, was being panned for his personal failure to go to Kyiv, in addition to his hesitancy over offering heavy weapons to assist Ukraine resist Russia’s invasion.

    In the primary journey by a high-level German authorities delegation because the begin of the battle, three prime politicians have been as a consequence of journey to Ukraine on Tuesday, a supply instructed AFP.

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    Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann of the liberal FDP, Michael Roth of Scholz’s Social Democrats and Anton Hofreiter of the Greens have been assembly members of the Ukrainian parliament within the west of the nation, the supply mentioned, confirming a report in Der Spiegel journal.

    But following visits by a number of different leaders in latest days, together with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and EU chief Ursula von der Leyen, critics have requested why Scholz himself shouldn’t be making the journey.

    STRONG SIGNAL

    While Johnson was “walking side by side with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv” on Saturday, “Scholz was waving at an election campaign rally in Luebeck” forward of an upcoming regional vote, the Bild day by day famous.

    The opposition CDU has urged Scholz to “get an idea of the situation on the ground”.

    While UK chief Boris Johnson was in Kyiv, Scholz was at an election rally, the Bild day by day famous. (Photo: AFP)

    Even Strack-Zimmermann, a member of Scholz’s ruling coalition, urged in an interview with the enterprise day by day Handelsblatt on Monday that he ought to “start using his powers of direction and leadership”.

    The chancellor, in workplace since December, has additionally come below fireplace for therefore far refusing to ship heavy weapons to Ukraine, regardless of his dramatic U-turn on Germany’s defence coverage prompted by Russia’s invasion.

    READ: Women, children, aged requested to evacuate Ukraine’s Dnipro as battle epicentre shifts | Ground Report

    Germany had been reluctant for historic causes to ship weapons to Ukraine, nevertheless it has now despatched anti-tank weapons, missile launchers and surface-to-air missiles in response to the battle.

    However, critics need Scholz to go additional.

    Scholz’s personal financial system minister Robert Habeck has referred to as for pressing further weapons deliveries.

    “Anything that can help the Ukrainian army now must be sent quickly,” he instructed German broadcasters Sat.1 and ProSieben.

    Ukraine’s ambassador to Germany, Andriy Melnyk, in the identical programme, mentioned “it would be important” for Scholz to go to Kyiv and make the choice to ship heavy weapons.

    INSECURE GOVERNMENT

    Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, from the Green celebration, additionally voiced assist for such a transfer on the sidelines of an EU overseas ministers’ assembly in Luxembourg on Monday.

    This prompted a declare from the NTV broadcaster that Baerbock was “showing the chancellor how it’s done” and has surpassed Scholz to change into “the one who sets the pace in an insecure government”.

    Germany has virtually exhausted its means to provide Ukraine with weapons from its military reserves, however is engaged on direct deliveries from the arms business, Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht mentioned on the weekend.

    Ukraine has acquired provides of tanks from Rheinmetall in addition to different corporations together with the Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) arms group, in line with media stories.

    However, a few of the tanks may reportedly take many months to refurbish, whereas critics have additionally identified that Ukrainian troopers must be educated to make use of them.

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