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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during his nightly address, on Monday, April 25. (Zelensky/Youtube) From CNN's Paul P. Murphy, Josh Pennington and Natalie Gallon Weeks after first occupying the major Ukrainian city of Kherson, Russian troops have taken control of the Kherson City Council, according to two members of the city government. Kherson Mayor Igor Kolykhaev said on his Facebook that on Monday night, "armed men entered the building of the Kherson City Council, took the keys and replaced our guards with their own."  Addressing rumors that the Ukrainian flag that flew over city council had also been taken down, Kolykhaev…

https://youtu.be/zUpGQ0x1QVw There are also reports that Russian soldiers who died in battle are being summarily cremated and then reported as simply “missing in action,” to avoid the need for the government to pay the standard compensation to their families back home. This seems to be borne out by the father of one of the sailors who died on the Moskva; he was able to discover his son’s fate by other means, but officially he has never been told that his son died

From the media of the aggressor, it became known about the facts of the illegal removal of 27 orphans to Aprelivka near Moscow. They were transferred to temporary care for up to ten local families. Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Lyudmila Denisova wrote about this on Facebook, There is currently no information on whether such children have the status of orphans or are deprived of parental care and whether the children have relatives who wish to take them to their families. The living conditions of the children and their state of health are unknown. And whether the opinion of…

Operational information of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine regarding the Russian invasion as of 6:00 pm on April 22, 2022. "58 days of heroic opposition of the Ukrainian people to the Russian military invasion continue. The enemy continues to conduct a full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine. In the Volyn and Polissya directions, the enemy did not take active action. There is an increase in electronic reconnaissance and electronic warfare systems in the border areas of Gomel region with Ukraine. In the areas of the settlements of Klimovka and Dimamerka, radio interference posts have been set up…

Russia misinforms its residents about the course and consequences of the war in Ukraine. "The beginning of the "special operation" was based on Putin's story that "Lenin is the author and architect of Ukraine" and "fables" about "neo-Nazis" who have been repressing the people of Donbass for 8 years. Subsequently, the idea changed. The occupant "heroically" ran away from our army from Kyiv, Chernihiv, and Sumy regions with the explanation that there are no Nazis there anymore," the message says. It is noted that a similar story took place in Mariupol. Putin refused to storm Azovstal and on April 21,…

TOPSHOT - Relatives of Mykhailo Romaniuk, 58, who was shot dead on his bicycle on March 6, help to bury his coffin at a cemetery in Bucha, on April 19, 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP) (Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images) UN human rights officers have documented the "unlawful killing, including by summary execution, of some 50 civilians" in Bucha, a town on the outskirts of Kyiv, the UN Human Rights Office said Friday. The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) has documented and verified at least 5,264 civilian…

The Ukrainian Marines are once again asking the world community to help organize the extraction of the military or at least "green corridors" to remove civilians and the wounded from the territory of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. This was announced in a comment to Radio Svoboda by Serhiy Volynsky (Volyn), commander of the 36th separate brigade of marines of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which is currently surrounded at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. Hundreds of civilians, more than 500 wounded soldiers, and other Ukrainian servicemen remain on the territory of the enterprise, defending their positions under artillery fire…

Ukrainian forces move through the town of Borodyanka in Ukraine. Photograph: Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times/REX/Shutterstock Ukraine is ready to offer unconditional talks on Mariupol and has proposed a “special round” of negotiations with Russia in the besieged city, the Ukrainian negotiator and presidential aide Mykhailo Podolyak tweeted. Another key Ukrainian negotiator, David Arakhamia, said he and Podolyak were ready to arrive in Mariupol to hold talks and “a proposal was put forward to hold direct negotiations, on site, on the evacuation of our military garrison”. Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said the situation in Mariupol is deteriorating with roughly 1,000 civilians remaining…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pushed back against concerns from US and NATO officials that his military would need significant training before receiving advanced weapons from other countries, telling CNN his forces need weapons quickly – and can learn to use them just as fast. “I’ve heard these tall tales that we would need months to train our troops to use new tanks. OK, give us a Soviet-era tank,” Zelensky said in an exclusive interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on Friday.“We are prepared to use any type of equipment, but it needs to be delivered very quickly. And we have the ability to…

https://youtu.be/Q6UOYKQ8JD8 In spite of Russian propaganda about its control over Mariupol, Ukrainian troops in Mariupol were successful ambushing a Russian military convoy.The video, taken by a drone, shows a convoy of six vehicles moving south along Metallurgists Avenue in Mariupol. The convoy pulls off the road and onto a sidewalk just outside the Ararat cafe. As the drone zooms out, it shows at least nine Ukrainian troops creeping toward the convoy, which has stopped moving. The video then cuts to soldiers firing in the direction of the convoy. It then cuts to another scene, in which at least three of…