Ukraine Fights (online)

(Updated) Major developments of the 49th day of the war.

Ukraine has been fighting for its freedom for the 49th day. In the Siversky direction, it is possible to maintain separate units in the border areas of the Kursk region with Ukraine to conduct demonstration actions in order to restrain the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is not excluded.

Partial blockade and artillery shelling of the city of Kharkiv continues. In the Donetsk and Tavriya directions, the enemy continued to launch airstrikes on Mariupol. It is launching an offensive near the Azovstal metallurgical complex and the Seaport.

In the South Buh direction, the enemy is trying to seize individual settlements, but without success.

The Charter97.org broadcasts the 49th day of the war online. You can see the developments in Ukraine on April 12 in our previous online broadcast.

Ukraine 24 TV channel special broadcast

23:05 The President of Poland expressed his hope that Ukraine will soon become part of the European Union.

"I hope that Ukraine will soon become part of the EU as a free, sovereign, independent state that will decide its own fate and make its own decisions," Andrzej Duda said at a briefing with the presidents of Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in Kyiv.

22:57 The Russian military, retreating from Ukraine to the territory of Belarus, stole beds from the service premises of Ukrainian border guards.

22:45 The Moskva cruiser, now on fire, is the ship that was told where to go on Snake Island.

22:30 The leaders of the Baltic countries and Poland called on NATO members to arm Ukraine.

22:21 The Pentagon said that the United States will transfer to Ukraine in the near future: 200 M113 armored personnel carriers; 11 Mi-17 helicopters; 18 howitzers; 300 Switchblade kamikaze drones; 500 Javelin missiles.

22:16 At the request of Kyiv, France will provide Ukraine with a new volume of military assistance, French Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly said on Wednesday.

21:59 The Russian soldier, who was left wounded on the battlefield, pretended to have lost his memory. The inventive Russian was uncovered, though.

21:44 Ukrainian defenders attacked the flagship of the Russian navy missile cruiser Moskva. "The cruiser Moskva has just been hit by two Neptune missiles. It is standing there burning. And the sea is stormy. Tactical flooding is required, apparently," said volunteer Serge Marco.

21:35 The Russian Foreign Ministry imposed sanctions on 398 members of the US House of Representatives and 87 Canadian senators.

21:27 Ukrainian defenders eliminated the regiment commander of the Taman division Mezhuev, Lieutenant Colonel Denis Mezhuev.

21:21 The Russian Ministry of Defense directly threatens to shell Kyiv. The Russians threaten Ukraine to strike at "decision-making centers, including those in Kyiv."

21:14 Apple headquarters architect Norman Robert Foster is ready to participate in the restoration of Kharkiv. Foster is a British architect and designer, winner of the Imperial and Pritzker Prizes.

21:03 Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Karim Khan visited the Ukrainian city of Bucha today.

20:58 Russians are bringing S-300 and Pantsir systems to the Luhansk region. Apparently, they are preparing for the upcoming battle for the Donbas.

20:47 A rally was held in Warsaw against the looting of the Russian military in Ukraine.

20:41 Volodymyr Zelensky spoke with Joe Biden. The presidents discussed military and financial assistance, as well as strengthening sanctions against the Russian Federation.

20:36 Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov says that there are more than 10,000 Russian soldiers near Mariupol who are trying to capture the city.

20:31 The Polish Senate adopted a law on the simplified legalization of Belarusians and assistance to Ukrainians who fled the war.

20:13 Address by Commander of the Azov Regiment Lieutenant Colonel Denys Prokopenko, and Commander of the 36th Brigade Major Serhiy Volyn regarding the break through operation of the 36th Brigade and its link-up with the Azov Regiment:

20:02 Because of the war in Ukraine, Belarus' right to representation in the Bologna process has been suspended.

19:55 The testimony of Viktor Medvedchuk's security guard has been published by the SBU:

19:46 Parcels of Russian occupiers sent from Belarus have disappeared. As Mediazona writes, 45 out of 69 parcels sent from Mazyr by the Russian occupiers through the SDEK service have the status "not delivered" or "order not found".

19:35 The European Union has approved further military assistance to Ukraine totaling $1.63 billion.

The new package will finance the provision of Ukrainian Armed Forces with equipment and supplies, including personal protective equipment, first aid kits and fuel, as well as military equipment designed to deliver lethal weapons for defensive purposes, the European Council said in a statement.

19:27 Ukraine adequately rebuffed the terrible blow of Putinism, but it's too early to relax: in an interview with Alesya Batsman, Alexander Nevzorov spoke about what else Putin is capable of in this war.

19:22 Ukrainian fighters shared footage of the destruction of military equipment of the RF Armed Forces.

19:09 The Russian military men massively refuse to fight in Ukraine.

19:00 Two-thirds of the people of Kyiv, who left the capital of Ukraine in the first weeks of the war in Ukraine, have already returned to their homes, said Mayor of Kyiv Vitaliy Klitschko.

At the same time, Klitschko still does not recommend returning to Kyiv to those who have not yet done so.

18:52 President of Poland Andrzej Duda and his colleagues Alar Karis (Estonia), Gitanas Nauseda (Lithuania), Egils Levits (Latvia) met with Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv.

18:47 Unknown persons have already eliminated 70 occupiers during night patrolling in the occupied Melitopol.

18:35 The Armed Forces of Ukraine are conducting heavy offensive operations in the direction of Kherson. Such work should not be called an operation to liberate the city, but a gradual advance of Ukrainian forces. This was stated by Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Oleksiy Arestovich.

18:25 Ukrainian artillery destroyed the tank column of the invaders:

18:13 Japan imposed sanctions against Sberbank, Alfa-Bank and 398 Russians. In addition, the country has imposed sanctions on 26 Russian enterprises.

385 deputies of the State Duma of Russia, Putin's daughter, wife and daughter of Lavrov, fell under Japanese sanctions.

The list includes the commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy, the commander of the Black Sea Fleet, the commanders-in-chief of the Ground Forces and the Aerospace Forces and other high-ranking military officers of the Russian Federation.

18:07 This is a wall and a door in the school basement in Yahidne near Chernihiv. About 300 people lived here for weeks while the village was under Russian occupation. On the walls, there was a calendar and lists of the dead.

18:01 The assets of the Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich worth more than $ 7 billion were frozen by the authorities in the English Channel tax haven on the island of Jersey.

17:55 The Government of Canada has announced $500 million in military aid for Ukraine. Zelensky, in a conversation with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, asked for armored vehicles and fighter jets. Canada cannot transfer the latter, but there are armored vehicles.

Ukraine may receive Senator armored vehicles and Coyote and Bison armored personnel carriers from Canada.

17:41 The Armed Forces of Ukraine received American Switchblade unmanned aerial vehicles to fight the Russian invaders. The Switchblade kamikaze drones will be used to fight the Russian occupiers, the Pentagon said.

17:35 Spending on state media in Russia has tripled against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine. From January to March 2022, expenses amounted to 17.4 billion rubles. For the same period in 2021, they amounted to 5.4 billion rubles.

The main expenses fell on March, when hostilities were already underway in Ukraine: almost 12 billion rubles, in January-February they amounted to about 5.5 billion rubles. 17.4 billion Russian rubles = almost 700 million Belarusian rubles.

17:30 Medvedchuk's wife Oksana Marchenko showed up and immediately recorded a video message to Volodymyr Zelensky.

17:17 Italian coffee producer Lavazza will stop working in Russia.

17:08 Zelensky called on other countries to urgently provide Ukraine with heavy artillery, armored vehicles, air defense systems, and aviation.

16:58 Ukraine will receive the third tranche from the EU for the purchase of weapons in the amount of 500 million euros, said EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Josep Borrell.

"Together with this new €500 million, the EU has committed a total of €1.5 billion to support the supply of military equipment to the Armed Forces of Ukraine by EU Member States. As Russia prepares for an offensive in eastern Ukraine, it is essential that we continue and increase our military support for Ukraine," he said.

16:51 Belarusian truckers shared their thoughts about sanctions, plans for life and work.

16:43 The Ukrainian military destroyed a huge amount of Russian equipment near Izyum.

16:35 Le Pen said that if she is elected president, France will leave NATO. Current President of France Emmanuel Macron won the first round of the presidential election, which was held on April 10. Ahead is the 2nd round (April 24), following which the name of the new head of state will be known.

16:26 Polish President Andrzej Duda visited Borodyanka in the Kyiv region.

16:21 More than 100 thousand people still remain in Mariupol. Exhausted people hope for evacuation. About 60,000 more Ukrainians are waiting to be evacuated in the settlements around the city.

16:16 The German company Krauss-Maffei Wegmann offers to supply Ukraine with 100 Panzerhaubitze 2000 self-propelled howitzers.

16:06 Ukrainian soldiers delivered a targeted attack on Russian equipment from a drone. The BM-21 Grad of the invaders was destroyed.

15:55 Ukrainian border guards are now inspecting the territory of the Chernobyl territory. It turned out that part of the Russian soldiers lived in houses abandoned back in 1986, and the military even had a picnic in the polluted forest.

15:48 Peskov on the possibility of exchanging Medvedchuk: This man is not a Russian citizen, but a foreign politician, we don't even know if he wants this.

15:46 Slovakia may transfer MiG-29 fighters to Ukraine.

This is reported by Foreign Policy reporter Jack Detch.

15:43 In the Kharkiv region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed two more enemy planes.

15:41 Photo of a basement in one of the villages in the Chernihiv region. About 300 people lived here for weeks while the village was under occupation.

The photo was taken by Evgeny Maloletka from AP.

15:38 CNN journalists came under fire from the Russian Federation when they were in the territory of the Saltovka district in Kharkiv.

American journalists note: "the shelling was evidence that Putin is conducting a large-scale military attack."

15:27 The Armed Forces of Ukraine eliminated the Russian navigator of the helicopter squadron, Captain Alexander Prikhodko.

15:26 Russia has threatened to attack NATO and US vehicles that deliver weapons to Ukraine.

15:22 The occupiers forged a video and superimposed BBC-style captions to accuse Ukraine of missile attacks on the civilian population in Kramatorsk and "creating fake stories on a global scale." Now this "video" is being actively rebroadcast by the Russian garbage dump media. The BBC has already declared that it had nothing to do with this video, and is working to have it removed on all social networks.

15:07 Italian coffee producer Lavazza has announced a decision to suspend all activities in Russia and was also forced to temporarily suspend distribution in Ukraine.

14:55 Two Russian military aircraft were destroyed in Kharkiv today.

14:48 However, Mariupol still resists. You can see the destruction of Russian military equipment by the defenders of the city in the video.

14:45 This is what the same drama theatre in Mariupol looks like. 300 people could have died there. We will remind, that the Russians bombed the building, despite the inscription "Children" on it.

14:35 Ukrainian doctors rescued a soldier who walked through the forest with a bullet in his heart for two days after the occupiers shot him.

14:33 The Russian occupiers are not shy about telling their wives about the atrocities they are committing in Ukraine.

14:21 In Germany, the ruling coalition agreed on the supply of heavy weaponry to Ukraine.

14:18 Destroyed vehicles of the Russian occupiers near Bucha. The city in which the Russian army committed atrocities has become a grave for many of its soldiers.

14:15 Ukrainian fighters are not only masters of war, but they can also play the bandura.

14:13 Great Britain will ban the import of iron and steel from Russia from April 14.

14:08 The Armed Forces of Ukraine soldiers' trophy. It seems the occupier wasn't such an "excellent student".

13:55 Putin is trying to gather forces in the Donbas area that will outnumber Ukrainian troops in the east of the country by 5 to 1, according to The Times, citing sources.

13:48 The Russian Federation was unable to slow down the supply of weapons to Ukraine by the West. Deliveries of modern weapons continue.

13:40 The Turkish Defence Ministry announced the provision of ships for the evacuation of residents of Mariupol.

13:38 Lithuanian, Latvian, Polish and Estonian presidents have already arrived in Kyiv.

13:34 Finnish Prime Minister said the Parliament of Finland will discuss NATO membership next week.

13:25 The United Kingdom has added 206 individuals and legal entities from the Russian Federation to the sanctions list.

13:20 Expert Vladislav Lesko said that the occupiers received a lethal dose of radiation for a month in the Red Forest.

13:16 The brigade named after Volodymir Monomakh showed what remained of the enemy after their meeting.

13:09 “Our guys are coming back almost all of them, they just throw their things and everyone says 'I’m home' and they go.” The invaders say that the command of the Russian army is deceiving them with payments.

13:03 The first video of the Milan Franco-German anti-tank missile systems in Ukraine has appeared. Earlier it was reported that France supplied Ukraine with several dozen Milan anti-tank systems.

12:56 “When they were standing in the village, the woman came out and just started firing at the column.” The occupier tells about the resistance of ordinary Ukrainians.

12:49 "Over 500,000 Ukrainians forcibly moved to Russia," Zelensky said in his address to the Estonian parliament.

12:48 All animals from the Kharkiv zoo, where the Russian invaders stole food, were taken to Kyiv.

12:40 Destroyed military equipment of Russian occupiers near Izyum in the Kharkiv region.

12:34 There are more than 1,500 corpses of Russians in the morgues of the Dnipro. The assistant to the mayor of the city called Russian mothers to take the bodies.

12:33 In Mariupol, the Russians and the "DPR" are preparing a "victory parade" for May 9. However the city still isn't taken. Thousands of defenders continue to fight in the Azovstal area.

12:23 “Of course I will quit, here is deep s**t”. Many occupiers are afraid to fight with Ukraine further.

12:21 Twenty dead journalists – The National Union of Journalists of Ukraine has published a list of killed colleagues since the invasion of the Russian Federation.

12:05 Scary footage from Mariupol. The city, in which 400 thousand people lived, was wiped off the face of the earth.

12:04 Fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed the equipment of the Russians directly at their positions.

11:58 Lieutenant Colonel, commander of the tank battalion Miras Bashakov was liquidated in Ukraine.

11:56 Bloggers found the house of the occupier, who looted in Ukraine, through Google-maps. It is not surprising that for many Russian soldiers toilet bowls were an oddity.

11:54 In the Zaporizhzhia region, Russian occupants fired phosphorus bombs at the village of Novodanilivka, Polohy district.

11:50 The old man from Kharkiv near his house. It was destroyed by Russian shelling.

11:43 The United States is ready to consider the possibility of supplying Ukraine with medium-range weapons that are capable of striking airfields in Russia.

This was stated by US Deputy Secretary of Defence Kathleen Hicks.

11:37 This is the "remarkable" piece of machinery. The battle point of the Russian army.

11:31 Russian troops dropped delayed-action mines on Kharkiv, prohibited by the Ottawa Treaty.

11:18 This is a motivational video by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The destruction of the occupants' military equipment over the past few days on the video.

11:17 An unknown person shot the occupiers' car tonight in the city of Melitopol in the Zaporizhzhia region.

11:11 “Yesterday the convoy was going back, 10 km from here ... The Tiger was so f**ked up that the guys from the Tiger jumped 4 meters from this car. The fractures were open, it was impossible to look there…” The Security Service of Ukraine publishes a new interception of the conversations of the Russian occupiers.

11:07 The Ukrainian Air Force has evidence that the Russians used a cluster munition to strike the railway station in Kramatorsk.

This is the testimony of correspondents who visited the station after the strike. The traces they found match those of cluster munitions.

11:01 The head of the US command in Europe will be replaced by an expert on Russia.

General Christopher Cavoli, who has a master’s degree in Russian and East European Studies from Yale University, will take the post.

10:56 According to Ukrainian intelligence, the leadership of the Russian Federation ordered the use of mobile crematoria to hide crimes on the territory of Ukraine. Also, dead Russian soldiers are burned in the stoves.

10:46 Another Belarusian died defending Ukraine. He was the fighter of the Kalinouski Battalion Dzmitry Rubasheuski, codename "Hans". He has been fighting for Ukraine's freedom since 2015. He received a severe wound.

10:44 This is a car cemetery in Buchа. The occupiers shot at those who tried to leave the occupied city.

10:41 Guardsmen revealed a large hiding-place of ammunition in the Kyiv region. Approximately 100 boxes of 125-calibre shells were found there.

10:35 Advisor to the Office of the President of Ukraine Arestovych said that in Mariupol units of the 36th Marine Brigade as a result of a difficult and very risky manoeuvre broke through to join the Azov Battalion, which led this operation professionally.

10:33 The Armed Forces of Ukraine demonstrated a motivational video. “Сloser to a win,” the video says.

10:25 The Kadyrovites entered the battle with an empty house in Ukraine.

10:14 The bodies of 720 civilians who died as a result of the Russian attack have already been found in the Kyiv region, more than 200 people are considered missing.

10:13 Destroyed Russian military equipment between the villages of Khvilivka and Talalaivka in the Nizhyn district of the Chernihiv region.

10:12 Residents of the suburbs of Mariupol complained about the deterioration of health after the occupiers spread the poisonous substance. This was reported by the mayor of Mariupol Vadym Boychenko.

10:10 The 58th Separate Motorized Brigade published a video of the destruction of enemy equipment using a drone.

10:05 The news about the detention of a pro-Russian politician and oligarch, the godfather of Putin's daughter and Lukashenka's friend Viktor Medvedchuk became the reason for the appearance of a number of memes.

Social media is wondering who will be the next.

9:54 Russian occupiers built a pontoon bridge and were going to cross the river, but Ukrainian artillery intervened.

9:49 Ukrainian special forces destroyed the observation post of the Russian occupiers.

9:47 The Armed Forces of Ukraine updated the data on the losses of the occupiers. 19,800 invaders were destroyed in Ukraine.

9:45 Belarusian volunteer Aliaksei Skoblya (codename "Tur"), who died in the battles near Kyiv on March 13, received the title of Hero of Ukraine.

The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky signed the decree.

9:36 Japan has received an unofficial invitation to join the AUKUS trilateral defence alliance formed by Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States in 2021.

9:33 France has frozen more than 23 billion euros of Russian assets.

The main part of the arrested assets (22.8 billion euros) belongs to the Central Bank of Russia.

9:30 "Nobody wants to make contracts." In the interception, an official of the military recruitment office says that there are no people who want to go to fight in Ukraine.

9:28 The presidents of Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and Estonia are travelling by train to Kyiv, where they will meet with Ukrainian President Zelensky.

9:25 “I pretended not to breathe... came to Roma - and his skull was shot through...”

The volunteer survived the shooting and spoke about the atrocities of the Putinists in Motyzhyn, Kyiv region.

9:06 Over the past 24hrs, the defenders of Ukraine have repulsed six enemy attacks in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

9:00 Twenty yachts owned by Russians cannot leave the Netherlands. The European Pravda reported it with a reference to the statement of the Dutch government.

8:59 Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Russian occupiers have killed 191 children, and another 349 were injured.

8:54 Vitol Group, the world's largest independent oil trader, intends to completely stop trading in oil and oil products of Russian origin by the end of this year.

8:53 Russia's appointment of Army General Alexander Dvornikov as commander of the war in Ukraine represents an attempt to centralise command and control. An inability to cohere and coordinate military activity has hampered Russia's invasion to date.

8:49 "Even videos showed soldiers sending loot." The occupier and his wife discuss the sensational video where the Russian occupiers in Belarus send the stolen goods in Ukraine to the Russian Federation.

8:44 The Pentagon said that Switchblade kamikaze drones have already been delivered to Ukraine and are being used by the Ukrainian military.

8:41 The footage from the liberated Chernihiv region. A Russian tank fell down into the water.

8:29 According to South Korea's Yonhap news agency citing sources, the USS Abraham Lincoln nuclear-powered aircraft carrier has entered the international waters of the East Sea. It is currently in waters east of South Korea's southeastern city of Ulsan.

The carrier strike group is expected to be in the East Sea for three to five days. This is the first such maneuvers in the waters since late 2017.

8:28 The US intends to send heavy ground artillery systems, including howitzers, to Ukraine.

8:22 The destroyed Russian Pantsir-S1 air defence missile system. The price of the system is up to $15 million.

8:18 The Armed Forces of Ukraine captured a fully charged Grad from the Rushists.

8:17 The occupiers were covered with heavy fire right during the recording of a propaganda video.

8:13 Belarusian volunteer Igor Noman (codename "Yankee") showed the equipment of the occupiers burning after a battle.

8:11 Latvian Foreign Minister: After so many horrific scenes of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Russian troops in Ukraine, it is clear that the only country in the world in need of real denazification is Russia.

8:10 More than a hundred invaders seriously wounded in Ukraine were brought to hospitals in St. Petersburg. According to Ukrainian intelligence, about a hundred aggressors in these ambulances are without limbs.

8:09 The Pentagon is set to convene a meeting of its top weapons makers today, April 13, to discuss the industry’s capacity to support Ukraine in a protracted war with Russia.

7:59 Zelenskiy has offered Russia to exchange captured Medvedchuk, the godfather of Putin's daughter, for Ukrainian soldiers who are in Russian captivity.

7:56 Biden for the first time said that Russia is committing "genocide" in Ukraine.

7:54 The presidents of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia travelled to Kyiv.

7:53 The Belarusian taxi driver sent a Russian soldier after the Russian warship.

7:51 Anti-aircraft missile forces of the Air Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine shot down the 300th target.

7:44 These are the results of the 92nd Separate Mechanized Brigade named after Ivan Sirko Kish Оtaman.

7:43 Russia is gathering military equipment in the Belgorod region to the east of Ukraine.

23:57 Tina Karol, Julia Sanina, Kateryna Pavlenko and DOROFEEVA made a performance to support Ukraine during the football match Legia Warsaw vs Dynamo Kyiv.

About 200 women of different ages and children, who were forced to temporarily leave their homes due to the war and who are now sheltered by Poland, filled the stage in the shape of Ukraine.

Each of them stood in the place where their house is geographically located.

23:51 According to Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, Ukraine will be able to obtain the status of a candidate for EU membership no later than in June.

"We met with the EU leadership in Kyiv and received a questionnaire that must be filled in order to obtain the status of a candidate for EU membership. We started to work on it. We expect that Ukraine will be able to obtain the status no later than June of this year."

23:42 The Pentagon said that Switchblade kamikaze drones have already been delivered to Ukraine and are being used by Ukrainian soldiers at the frontline.

23:37 Colombian volunteers defending Ukraine.

23:23 Argentina and Chile have suspended deliveries of lithium ore to Russia. Now the Russian Federation can receive this raw material only from Bolivia, since it does not have its own production of lithium raw materials.

And in the event of a refusal to supply raw materials from Bolivia, Russia will have problems meeting its own needs for lithium-ion batteries.

23:08 The destroyed position of the invaders.