Immediately put the arms” – Russia told Ukrainian forces on Tuesday because it gave a warning to the defenders in Mariupol’s strategic port city, hours after the battle for the Donbas area held with rebels, in the eastern part of the war. -Barma state, starting. But Ukrainian presidential adviser Volodymyr Zelensky, Olexiy Arestovych, said that Moscow would not be able to make a profit, promising resistance to the last moment. “The battle for Donbas, which was announced and seemed to start yesterday, ongoing and will be very careful. The battle will not go in Russian assistance,” he said.
1. Russia has claimed that it makes a quick profit. More than 1,200 Ukrainian targets were struck last night, the Ministry of Defense. Jet Mig-29 Ukraine in the Donetsk area forced down, Reuters quoted the officials.
2. Calling Kyiv to show “the reason and give the appropriate command to the fighters to stop unreasonable resistance”, Moscow said the defenders in the strategic port city Mariupol would survive” if they put their hands starting during the day.
3. Colonel General Russia Mizintsev was reported to have given time to Ukrainian troops – hiding in a giant Azovstal steel factory in Mariupol – until noon of the day (0900 GMT) to give up.
4. The focus of the Kremlin has shifted back to Mariupol, according to AP reports, can free almost a dozen tactical groups of battalions for use elsewhere in Donbas.
5. In the past, Ukrainian forces had refused to accept the offer. Azoval plant, which covers an area of around 11 square kilometers (more than 4 square miles) is the last Ukrainian main resistance bag in Mariupol.
6. Previously, Zelensky, at the night address, said: “We can now confirm that Russian forces have started a battle for Donbas, which they have prepared for a long time. No matter how many Russian soldiers are brought here, we will fight . We will defend themselves. “
7. There is no civil evacuation permitted for the third consecutive day in Ukraine. “Today, April 19, unfortunately there is no humanitarian corridor,” Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk wrote about Telegram.
8. On Monday, at least six people were killed in a Russian missile attack in the western city of Lviv, which was considered mostly safe.
9. More than 4 million people have so far been forced out of their homes in a battered country of war.
10. The eastern part of the country remains largely surrounded when the war enters the eighth week.