War in Ukraine: Day 50

Main events at this point.

Ukraine has been fighting Putin's occupiers for 50 days. The AFU is conducting tactical counterattacks in the Kherson region. The enemy continues bombing Kharkiv and towns in the Luhansk region. A large-scale offensive in Donbas is being prepared. Mariupol is heroically holding its ground.

Charter97.org is broadcasting online the 50th day of the war. One can see the developments in Ukraine on 13 April in our previous online broadcast.

Special broadcast on Ukraine 24 TV channel

23:57 Over the past day, the servicemen of the Joint Forces of Ukraine successfully repelled six enemy attacks and inflicted significant losses on the Russian occupiers.

23:49 According to the Ukrainian embassy in the United Arab Emirates, the UAE sent a plane with 50 tons of humanitarian cargo and equipped ambulances to Ukraine.

23:40 Svyatoslav Vakarchuk performs in Kharkiv, destroyed by Russian bombardments.

23:29 Makei pleads with the EU to save Lukashenka's regime.

23:15 Great Britain added Yevgeny Tenenbaum and David Davidovich, two business partners of oligarch Roman Abramovich, to the sanctions list. The British government has frozen their assets worth up to 10 billion pounds.

23:02 Officially: the cruiser "Moskva" went down. The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation reported this. By the way, the cruiser "Moscow" was the most expensive loss of the Russian Federation in this war — $750 million.

22:50 Russia recruits fighters for the war in Ukraine on job search sites.

22:37 Investigations of war crimes in Ukraine are conducted by the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

22:23 It has become easier for Belarusians to register at the Polish visa centers on their own.

22:10 How Belarusians fight for the freedom of Ukraine. Report of a Ukrainian TV channel.

21:58 The map of military actions in Ukraine according to the British Ministry of Defense.

21:46 The story of a resident of the village of Grebelka in the Kyiv region, who survived the occupation of the Russian troops.

21:40 Biden says he is ready to go to Kyiv personally. He said he would like to visit Ukraine, confirming reports that his administration was about to send a senior official to war-torn Kyiv.

21:28 The United States does not rule out the use of nuclear weapons by Russia against Ukraine, CIA Director William Burns said:

“Given the possible recklessness of President Putin and the Russian leadership, given the challenges they have so far experienced from a military standpoint, none of us can take lightly the threat posed by the possible recourse to tactical or low-yield nuclear weapons”

21:21 Now the Ukrainian intelligence will be able to take foreigners for military service, the corresponding law was adopted by the Verkhovna Rada. It is assumed that this increases the likelihood of fulfilling the tasks assigned to intelligence in the conditions of the war.

21:10 According to the head of the Odesa Regional State Administration Maxim Marchenko, the missile cruiser "Moskva" burns out in the Black Sea.

21:02Latvian Foreign Minister urged citizens not to use visa-free travel to Belarus.

“Despite the fact that the Lukashenka regime has introduced visa-free travel to Belarus for citizens of Latvia and Lithuania, we urge our citizens not to visit Belarus! This is dangerous!" Edgars Rinkevich said.

20:55 The city of Oleshky in the Kherson region was occupied, Mayor Yevhen Ryshchuk said: "A Russian flag is already hanging on the City Administration building, now they are completely entering the city, unfortunately."

20:45 14 sailors of the wrecked cruiser "Moskva" were brought to Sevastopol. The fate of nearly 500 others is unknown.

20:38 The Armed Forces of Ukraine are expelling Russian invaders from Ukrainian settlements.

20:31 U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba discussed by phone Thursday an additional $800 million to help Ukraine defend the country against the war with Russia.

According to US State Department spokesman Ned Price, the additional funding will help Ukraine obtain "weapons, ammunition and other security assistance."

20:27 According to the mayor of Bucha Anatoliy Fedoruk, 73 bodies have already been raised from a mass grave near the St. Andriy Pervozvanny Church.

20:22 The operational information of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of the evening of April 14 has been published.

20:16 A senior US Department of Defence official told CNN that Russian troops who fled northern Ukraine are now gathering in the Donbas to prepare for an offensive.

"Some of the units that have left Ukraine and the Kiev region in recent weeks to return to Russia and Belarus for resupply and reinforcements should also join forces in Donbas," the official said.

20:07 Google blocked the earnings of Russian propagandists. It is reported that sites that publish Kremlin propaganda messages about the war in Ukraine will no longer be able to monetize their false content.

20:00 The European Union plans to introduce a step-by-step ban on Russian oil imports so that member countries have time to negotiate with other suppliers.

The oil embargo will not be submitted for negotiations between EU member states until the run-off elections in France.

19:50 According to Pavel Kirilenko, head of the Donetsk Military State Administration, teachers refused to go to work on the orders of the Russian military in one of the schools in the occupied Donetsk region.

“We will not participate in this circus,” with these words, schoolteachers in an occupied Donbas settlement met the demand of the occupation administration to go to work. "This is indeed a heroic deed," Kirilenko said.

19:37 "Finland is ready for any action by Russia if it joins NATO," said Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto.

“Finland actually has quite a strong conventional army. We have more than 280,000 reservists, we have a conscription army, we have just invested in F-35 fighters, and 60 of them are coming to Finland, and so forth. So we have been taking quite good care of our national defence forces. But of course, we live in a world, as we see from Russia’s attack against Ukraine, that also new security threats appear. Through closer cooperation with NATO, we can address all those different threats,” Haavisto said.

19:26 A heavy flamethrower system "Solntsepek" was noticed in the Navabialitski microdistrict in Homel. It was transported on 2 motor transport platforms towards the village of Karaneuka. The military airfield is located next to Karaneuka. Russian aircraft flights were recorded there.

19:19 Russian TV presenter and publicist Aleksandr Nevzorov said in an interview with Alesya Batsman, the editor-in-chief of the Gordon publication, that Europe is avoiding war only thanks to Ukraine.

19:14 The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine together with the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Karim Khan discussed the beginning of the investigation of war crimes of the Russian Federation and bringing all perpetrators to justice.

19:04 The cruiser "Moskva" became the most expensive military loss of Russia in the war with Ukraine. According to Forbes, it costs about $750 million.

18:58 The occupiers feel doomed to death under the pressure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Some even try to get rid of the loot. This is evidenced by new interceptions of conversations.

18:49 Moldovan authorities accused the Russian army of trying to recruit Moldovan citizens to participate in the war against Ukraine.

The statement came a few days after British military intelligence reported that Moscow recruited people in Transnistria.

18:43 The world's largest superyacht Dilbar of Putin's billionaire Alisher Usmanov is under arrest in Germany.

18:36 Russian invaders fired at border settlements in the Sumy region. Private houses were damaged, one was completely destroyed.

"A few hours ago, shelling of some border settlements of the Sumy region from artillery or mortars took place. 120-mm mines were dropped, private houses were damaged. One mine destroyed a private house, it came directly into the house to the people,” said Dmitro Zhivitsky, the head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration.

18:23 How Belarusians evade military service and mobilisation.

18:17 Ukraine is negotiating the purchase of US-made MQ-9 Reaper heavy attack drones. The drones can change the balance in the Russian-Ukrainian war.

18:10 According to Defense Express, the wrecked Russian cruiser "Moskva" may have nuclear warheads. The occupiers could transport P-1000 Vulkan missiles equipped with nuclear warheads, and anti-aircraft missiles for the Fort complex, a naval version of the S-300.

18:01 The powerful video from the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the 50th day of the large-scale war.

17:53 The Verkhovna Rada officially recognized Russia's war against Ukraine as genocide. The bill banning the symbols Z and V as symbols of Russian aggression was also adopted.

17:51 In the video that appeared on the Web, a volunteer detachment of the Hero of Ukraine Dmitro Kotsyubaylo (call sign "Da Vinci"), using the Ukrainian Aist-100 drone, destroyed a Russian troops' ammunition depot near Kryvyi Rih.

17:40 The Belarusian Workers' Association presented an SUV to the Kalinouski Battalion. The car has already been delivered and will be on combat duty very soon.

17:34 Finnish Defense Minister Antti Kaikkonen said he believes it is possible that his country will decide to join NATO within the next two months.

17:24 Russian special services have begun to implement a plan of terrorist attacks to whip up anti-Ukrainian hysteria in the Russian Federation.

17:17 The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine suspended the activities of the "Opposition Platform – For Life" party in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

17:08 St. George ribbons and the "Z" and "V" symbols have been banned in Moldova. Today, the country's parliament supported this bill in the last reading.

16:58 The owner of the rights to the fonts Times New Roman, Arial, Verdana, Tahoma and Helvetica, the American company Monotype has closed access to its library on the web page for Russian users.

16:52 Russians took out about 10,000 vehicles from the Ukrainian Chernobyl zone, a part of the equipment is in Belarus.

“Cars were dismantled and crushed by tanks. Most of the cars are missing, and according to the GPS sensors of our cars, we can observe their movement in Belarus and Russia. […] Every second car had Ukrainian licence plates. These were large trucks and cars that they stole from our citizens and enterprises," Yevhen Kramarenko, the head of the State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management, said.

16:47 A government delegation urgently arrived in the occupied Sevastopol on a Tu-154M aircraft of the Russian Navy.

16:41 Putin was “buried” in Georgia. Under Chopin's "Funeral March", a hearse with a portrait of Putin and carnations on his windshield rode through the streets of Tbilisi.

16:36 Ukrainian intelligence claims that the mobilised Russian soldiers are given unusable bulletproof vests.

16:30 John Kirby said in a commentary for CNN that the Pentagon has confirmed at least one powerful explosion on the cruiser Moskva, but the cause of the explosion is unknown. Washington also believes that the cruiser was still able to get under its own power to Sevastopol for repairs.

16:16 Six special planes with the Government of the Russian Federation leave Moscow urgently at the same time.

16:05 The Air Assault Forces continue to destroy the enemy in the South. In particular, as of April 14, Ukrainian soldiers from the 80th Separate Air Assault Brigade (Lviv) reported another brilliant operation.

15:55 Ukrainian intelligence published photos of the Russian officers involved in war crimes. The soldiers under Solodchuk's command are involved in crimes in the Kyiv region, under Dvornikov's command — in Mariupol.

15:48 Having sent tens and hundreds of thousands of its soldiers to the war of aggression in Ukraine, Russia now manages to get out so as not to pay the promised amount of compensation to the relatives of the dead occupiers.

15:42 Ukrainian artillery destroys the Russian troops that roam a forest.

15:39 Russian social media writes that seven government planes are urgently leaving Moscow.

15:30 Ukrainian social media laugh and offer "barbecue" from "Neptunes" for Russian warships. Russians unsuccessfully equipped tanks with such railings, thinking that they would protect against Javelins.

15:24 Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi said that Japan calls to bring Russia to justice for killing civilians in Ukraine.

15:23 Another exchange of prisoners of war took place.

Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk said 30 citizens, including 5 officers and 17 enlisted personnel, as well as 8 civilians, including 1 woman, will come home.

15:13 Bogomolov Alexey Yurievich, commander of the group of the 25th Special Forces Regiment of the Russian Federation, was killed.

15:05 The head of the State Border Service of Ukraine reported shelling the Chernihiv by the Russian side.

14:59 In the photo: downed Orlan Russian drones. The Ukrainian military demonstrates a funny inscription on the drone body.

14:46 In the Kyiv region, border guards came to the Vilcha checkpoint, which is located near Belarus.

14:39 Occupiers wandering in the Kyiv region have lagged behind their retreating units.

14:37 The EU has closed a loophole in the sanctions regime against Russia that had allowed arms trade with it since 2014, Reuters reports.

14:31 The AFU have confirmed that a Russian warship was hit by an anti-ship Neptune missile in the Black Sea.

Other Russian ships tried to assist the cruiser but were unable to do so due to bad weather. Weather conditions were also unfavourable for the landing.

14:24 "No one here is considered human, no one cares. People fucking die here... their bodies are not even taken away". Occupier advises brother not to go to Ukraine.

14:16 Lviv paratroopers destroyed the enemy along with its equipment.

14:11 Kadyrov's video report on the capture of an empty basement.

14:10 Up to 40% of Russian contract servicemen refuse to return to Ukraine, Conflict Intelligence Team reports.

14:04 A unit of the 501st AFU Independent Marines Battalion has shot down a Russian Orlan-10 drone. This was reported by the AFU General Staff.

13:56 "Say that your leg hurts, Lesha, play limp". Occupier's wife urges him to imitate to return from Ukraine.

Kramatorsk and Kostyantynivka are likely to become Russian targets for further attacks, British Intelligence notes.

13:45 Russian invaders effectively turn Mariupol into a ghetto for Ukrainians on the pattern of the Nazis in Lviv and Poland. Civilians are encouraged to wear white ribbon. They want to make people bait for the AFU.

13:35 FSB says a border checkpoint in the Bryansk region was shelled.

13:26 Russian looters' wives engaged in selling items looted in Ukraine.

13:15 Russia planned to seize Ukraine under the guise of strategic exercises. Documents published by the Ukrainian GUR claim this. However, things failed to go as planned.

13:13 The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has suspended Russia's membership in the Nuclear Energy Agency. The decision will take effect on 11 May.

13:01 Spanish RIU Hotels & Resorts chain is no longer available for Russian tourists.

12:57 Ukraine returns home two pilots shot down by occupiers in the Chernihiv region

Ivan Pepelyashko and Oleksiy Chizh were captured on March 8 near the village of Novaya Basan (Chernihiv Region).

12:50 A number of NATO countries will soon announce deliveries of tanks to Ukraine, US Defence Department spokesman John Kirby says.

12:48 A graveyard of Russian equipment near the village of Dmitrovka near Kyiv looks like.

12:44 Russian Grad MLRS vehicles and ammunition supply vehicles destroyed by the AFU.

12:41 The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has appealed to the UN over the illegal removal and adoption of Ukrainian children to Russia.

Such actions by the Russian Federation violate international law.

12:44 Russian Grad MLRS vehicles and ammunition supply vehicles destroyed by the AFU.

12:35 The AFU report the elimination of a Russian pilot, Major Yevgeny Osipov. His Su-25 was also destroyed.

12:33 Bellingcat was shocked by the backwardness of the Russian army

The Russian army demonstrated its backwardness and unprofessionalism after the start of the large-scale war on February 24. First of all, the lack of logistics and dependence on a centralized strategy was evident.

12:25 The Ukrainian Neptun missile system that was allegedly used to destroy the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, the Moskva.

12:21 CNN writes the US has already sent a third of its Javelins to Ukraine.

12:18 AFU shows what's left of the Russian SU-34 fighter bomber, which destroyed entire neighborhoods in Chernihiv.

12:11 "No need to go here. It is worse than Syria. I don't have half a company anymore." An occupier tells his wife about combat losses in Ukraine.

12:05 Ukraine detains ex-husband of collaborator, former Crimean prosecutor general and current United Russia member Natalia Poklonskaya

The SSU has detained Volodymyr Klymenko, who was hiding in Odessa, the head of the Mariupol faction of the opposition party. He has repeatedly called to overthrow the government in Ukraine, violate territorial integrity, and spread Russian propaganda.

11:49 Recent footage from near Izyum and Bakalya, where the enemy's equipment entered. The AFU worked away at them.

11:34 Informnapalm points out that Russian Typhoons are being destroyed en masse in Ukraine. Did the AFU find their vulnerability?

11:30 How Ukrainians celebrate birthdays during the war. Photo from basement in Lysychansk, Luhansk region.

11:28 Thanks to the AFU destroying the Russian cruiser Moskva, the Russian Black Sea Fleet has been shortlisted for 16 Kalibr cruise missiles. The total number of such ammunition has dropped from 72 to 56.

11:23 Russian looters like magpies pull everything shiny from Ukrainian homes. These are even the orders and medals of Ukrainian soldiers.

11:18 Unidentified people in Berlin burned cars that took part in a car rally in support of Putin.

11:11 "I now know that my 'tractor' is easily running over a car". Russian occupiers boast of their atrocities in Ukraine.

11:08 Only helmets are left of the occupiers in Ukraine.

11:01 Czech howitzers are already destroying the occupiers.

10:57 Russian-Israeli businessman and public figure Leonid Nevzlin in his Telegram channel shared insights from his sources in Russia:

1. Shoigu is out of the game, possibly disabled if he survives. He suddenly had an extensive myocardial infarction. He is in intensive care, connected to devices. Rumour has it that the heart attack might not have been due to natural causes.

2. Twenty generals were arrested. All staff officers. It is embezzlement to prepare the Ukrainian leadership and population for the liberator army's triumphant welcome from Russia. Some $10 billion of Putin's blitzkrieg preparation funds have been stolen since 2014.

3. Hilarious. A criminal case is being prepared against Arkady Dvorkovich. One expects him to testify against his colleagues and friends. Sources in the FSB say if he does not agree to a deal with the investigation, he will be transferred to Matrosskaya Tishina or Lefortovo pre-trial detention centre.

4. Surkov is under house arrest. He is suspected of stealing money allocated for war preparations, the same case under which 20 generals have been arrested.

10:45 The Pentagon has clarified what weapons Ukraine will receive as part of a new $800 million US military aid package.

The package includes: 18 howitzers of 155mm, 40,000 ammunition, 500 Javelin anti-tank missiles, 200 M113 armoured personnel carriers, 300 Switchblade patrol drones, 11 Mi-17 helicopters, 10 AN/TPQ-36 artillery radar mappers, two AN/MPQ-64 towed radars.

10:37 A Russian army drone destroyed by the AFU. See what's in place of the fuel tank in this UAV. It’s an ordinary plastic bottle.

10:33 Russian army losses in Ukraine close to 20,000 dead. Russia is also losing equipment, which is becoming easy prey for the AFU.

10:30 Ukrainian Interior Ministry: Part of the National Guard troops captured in Chernobyl are in Belarus.

No details of the military's fate are available at the moment.

10:27 Former US President Donald Trump has followed Biden in calling the events in Ukraine "genocide".

10:20 Australian equipment, having covered tens of thousands of kilometres, has reached Ukraine.

10:19 Ukrainian military hold the line near Donetsk; hold back attempts of Russian forces to breach towards Krasnogorovka. The military showed the destroyed equipment.

10:15 Fighters of Kalinouski battalion showed new weapons received by Belarusian volunteers.

10:14 Highlights of Kadyrov's troops now fighting in Ukraine.

10:11 At the request of the State Bureau of Investigation, 154 items of movable and immovable property of oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk and his wife Oksana Marchenko are seized in Ukraine.

10:06 "I heard the good news that Germany will help Ukraine with tanks. It turns out that German tanks will drive on Ukrainian soil again, shoot Russian tanks, but only the swastika is on Russian tanks and the occupiers are Russians," said Vitaly Kim, head of the Mykolayiv region.

9:58 Artillery of the 14th AFU brigade destroys the occupiers with Bayraktar.

9:54 AFU expresses gratitude to tractor troops who seize Russian occupiers' equipment.

9:52 Ukraine will retaliate if Moscow strikes Kyiv, Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych has said.

9:48 Russia's war strategy against Ukraine has long failed, and the Kremlin is now looking for a scapegoat to blame for the failure. This is reported by Bellingcat investigative journalist Christo Grozev.

9:40 Russian deputy chief of staff, Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Khokhlov, is reported killed.

9:39 France predicts a Russian offensive in Donbas in about 10 days.

9:27 "You understand that this Russia can't do anything". A conversation between an occupier's son and his mother. Attention, foul language.

9:19 Here's the news from Fiji. Police there have seized the superyacht Amadea, owned by Russian billionaire Suleiman Kerimov, who is under US, UK and European Union sanctions. Law enforcers also detained its crew.

9:17 The world's largest super yacht, Dilbar, owned by Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov, has been arrested in Hamburg, Germany.

9:14 Two more children who were injured in an explosion in Kramatorsk have died in hospital, the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine has said.

9:12 AFU shows trophies it managed to seize from Russian occupiers. Attention, foul language.

9:08 Anton Herashchenko, adviser to the Ukrainian Interior Minister, reports the cruiser Moskva has sunk. Arestovich also hints at it.

9:00 Video of the strike on Russian troops in Chernobayivka. Oleksiy Arestovich, adviser to the head of the Ukrainian presidential office, specifies this is the 15th defeat of enemy equipment in the area.

8:53 Putin's army has killed at least 197 children and wounded more than 351 others since the war with Ukraine began.

8:52 The spokesman for the Odessa OVA, Serhiy Bratchuk, says the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, the missile cruiser Moskva, will be out of action for at least a year. The exact condition of the ship is kept secret by the Russians.

8:50 How the Russian army struck a park in Kharkiv. Scary footage.

8:32 Russians reinforce positions near Severodonetsk and accumulate aviation near the Ukrainian border. This is reported by the AFU General Staff.

8:28 "I had 22 men from my platoon, 9 are left. Three out of these nine do not worth trusting at all". The Russian occupier talks about the complete lack of motivation of the Russian army in Ukraine.

8:26 The US will provide Ukraine with Mi-17 helicopters previously earmarked for shipment to Afghanistan.

8:21 There are reports of a new strike by the AFU against Russian equipment in Chornobaivka. Everyone has already lost count of the number of times the occupiers have been destroyed in this location.

8:18 Video that went around the world. Ukrainian grandfather Valentin Platov cradles his grandson in Zaporizhzhya refugee centre.

8:14 Colombian authorities promise to help Western countries partially or completely abandon imports of Russian energy resources by replacing them with Colombian ones. To do it, the country will increase its oil, coal and gas production.

8:05 Forbes journalist David Axe, who specialises in the subject of defence, has described the fact that the attack on the Moskva is "incredible".

- It is one of the most powerful warships in the world. Russia's situation is getting worse. Turkey will never allow one of its remaining two Slava cruisers into the Black Sea. Russia has lost half of its naval firepower off the coast of Ukraine and cannot regain it without going to war with NATO.

8:02 Ukrainian special forces destroy a bridge along with enemy equipment heading to Izyum.

7:54 Times New Roman, Arial, Verdana, Tahoma and Helvetic fonts made unavailable to Russians by rightsholder's decision.

7:51 Putin's cousin Viktor Medvedchuk detained by SSU figures in case of Russian interference in US election. The deputy was a client of Paul Manafort, the political strategist for 45th US President Donald Trump.

According to The New York Times, Medvedchuk may have known about the Kremlin's plans.

7:49 Putin demands that his troops completely destroy Lysychansk and Severodonetsk. A mobilized Russian serviceman told his wife.

7:48 Ukrainian tractor troops have already expropriated 200 Russian tanks.

7:44 Russia can no longer produce its Kinzhal hypersonic missiles. Sanctions are to blame.

7:43 Ukrainian special forces hit Russian equipment as they entered one of the settlements and hid between residential buildings.

7:42 Ukrainian-style naval combat. Let's recall that yesterday the AFU hit the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, the Moskva.

7:41 Ukrainian defenders destroy enemy Grad with Javelin.

23:55 The Czech Republic has sent another trainload of RM-70 multiple rocket launchers (the Czechoslovak version of the Soviet BM-21 Grad MLRS) to Ukraine.

23:50 In the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, Ukrainian soldiers continue to repel enemy attacks. In particular, the Ukrainian defenders destroyed a tank, four units of armoured and six units of automotive equipment, one enemy artillery system.

23:37 RIU hotel chain no longer serves Russians. Russian tourists are no longer welcome in hotels in the UAE, Dominican Republic, Maldives and Sri Lanka from 13 April. The company has also suspended its website for Russian users.

23:26 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's address on the outcome of the 49th day of the war:

23:05 The Polish president has expressed hope that Ukraine will soon become part of the European Union.

"I hope tat Ukraine will soon be 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.