Overnight attacks in Ukraine have killed two young men, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
In his evening video speech, the Ukrainian president said: “The missiles of the terrorists have claimed the lives of two people, very men.
“Forty other people, women, children, men, were treated for injuries and injuries. “
The attack on the city of Pavlohrad component of the wave of national missiles moment moves in 3 days.
Mykola Lukashuk, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council, said the attack on 19 buildings, 25 houses, 3 schools, 3 kindergartens and several shops.
Among the wounded were children, the region’s governor said.
Zelenskyy also showed that a 14-year-old boy was killed near his school when he went through a bomb in the Chernihiv region.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy clarified his position on Ukraine, telling a Russian reporter, “I’m voting for aid to Ukraine. I help Ukraine. “
The comments, which took place on a vacation in Israel, alienated McCarthy from some members of his Republican Party who are primarily opposed to the United States providing more aid to Ukraine.
In response to the Russian reporter, the speaker of the House said: “I don’t know what your country has done to Ukraine, nor your killing of children.
“You retreat. “
Previously, as party leader, McCarthy had said there would be “no blank check” for Ukraine, but has since insisted he would accept the U. S. effort against Russia.
However, he has made it clear that he will monitor the cash of U. S. taxpayers abroad.
A Ukrainian official refuted the pope’s claims that the Vatican is on a “peace mission” aimed at ending the war.
The unnamed official, close to the presidential office, told CNN: “President Zelenskyy gave his consent to any such discussions on behalf of Ukraine.
“If conversations take a stand, our wisdom or blessing takes a stand. “
The pope earlier told reporters that the “ongoing” project has not yet been made public.
As we discussed in our previous article, the U. S. The U. S. has proposed a final estimate of Russian troops killed in Ukraine.
New intelligence suggests that around 20,000 Russian infantrymen have been killed in the Bakhmut region since December, with 80,000 wounded.
While those figures are independently verified, if true, they would imply a dramatic acceleration in Russian losses in recent months.
Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in November that Russia had suffered more than 100,000 wounded in the first 8 months of the war.
Phillips Pobrien, professor of strategic studies at the University of St Andrews, said the Russian combat for Bakhmut is “probably equivalent to American losses in the entire Korean War. “
Professor Michael McFaul, a former US ambassador to Russia, also said the most recent estimates were “very numbers”.
What has been said before about Russian patients?
Leaked US intelligence documents, which appeared to provide detailed evidence of the war in Ukraine, suggest that Russia suffered between 189,500 and 223,000 total casualties.
This includes between 35,500 and 43,000 killed in action.
It’s unclear precisely when those estimates were implemented, but many of the leaked documents appear to date from February and early March.
Meanwhile, the British Ministry of Defense said in February that between 40,000 and 60,000 Russian-linked troops had been killed.
In the month, the Center for Strategic
The White House has estimated that Russia has suffered 100,000 casualties in recent months of fighting in the Bakhmut region alone.
Detailing the latest estimates, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby believed the U. S. believed some 20,000 Russian troops had been killed since December.
Half of them belong to the Wagner military organization, Mr. Kirby.
The estimate is based on recently declassified U. S. intelligence, he said.
The Russian offensive in Bakhmut, in Ukraine’s Donbass region, has “stalled” and “failed,” Kirby added.
Moscow has targeted its invasion of the Donbass region in recent months, especially the city of Bakhmut in Donetsk.
However, it is believed that Bakhmut was not absolutely captured by Russian forces, and Ukrainian infantrymen introduced counteroffensives in the area.
A Ukrainian army spokesman showed that Russian forces had retreated to some spaces in Bakhmut, and that the eastern city had been “completely” captured by invading troops.
Serhii Cherevatyi, spokesman for the Eastern Rally of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said the two were now engaged in “positional fighting” after Ukrainian troops introduced a series of counterattacks.
“In fact, I can verify the data that the enemy in Bakhmut left some positions after some of our counterattacks,” he told a state TV channel.
But he said that the front line was constantly moving, and continued: “Sometimes the enemy has good fortune after a heavy artillery attack and the destruction of infrastructure, and it can advance.
“But we counterattack and return to our positions after firing on the enemy. “
Fighting has been raging in the city of Donetsk for nine months, with Moscow making Bakhmut the main target of its invasion and both sides suffering heavy losses.
More than a hundred dead dolphins were recorded along the coast of Crimea in April, according to a Ukrainian expert.
Ivan Rusev, head of the Tuzly Estuary National Park branch, said the activities of Russian submarines and ships in the Black Sea were the “main factor” in the animals’ deaths.
Sharing a message on Facebook, he said the animals were discovered in bays off the coasts of Sevastopol and Crimea.
More dolphins have been discovered with symptoms believed to have been through army sonar.
Rusev said the actual number of dolphin deaths is likely much higher and could exceed a thousand.
As we discussed in our 3:24 p. m. article, lately it is not clear that Vladimir Putin will personally attend the annual BRICS summit in South Africa, as there is an arrest warrant against him.
The arrest warrant issued through the International Criminal Court, which has jurisdiction in South Africa, means the country is obliged to arrest Putin if he sets foot on its territory.
While it is unclear exactly what would happen if Putin were to travel to South Africa, Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to the Ukrainian president, remains convinced that the Russian leader would be arrested.
“All of Putin’s ‘globalism’ and ‘international visits’ are now just video communications with the outside world from a place not explained by researchers,” he said.
China’s resolution to vote “yes” to a United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) solution caused a stir.
Last week, the UNGA presented a solution for cooperation between the UN and the Council of Europe, which included language condemning Russian “aggression. “
In a move that surprised some, China voted for the solution, despite its close ties with Russia.
But what does that mean?
Geopolitical analyst Dr. Samuel Ramani said the vote “is likely to represent a replacement in Chinese policy toward Russia,” noting that Beijing and the EU have held an annual discussion on human rights for 38 years.
Professor Ryan Martinez Mitchell, a law professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, also said he signed a replacement in the legal post.
He said a separate vote was held on the paragraph condemning Russian aggression, and that China abstained one of the 48.
However, he said he positions China with countries such as Mexico and India than the two dozen who rejected the entire solution because of their language.
Professor Mitchell said the vote was “diplomatically significant”.
A former US Marine was reportedly killed on the outskirts of Bakhmut.
Cooper “Harris” Andrews went through a mortar likely on April 19, according to CNN, mentioning his mother and colleagues in Ukraine.
He killed on the so-called “road of life,” an access road to Bakhmut used by the Ukrainian army to supply its forces and evacuate civilians.
An activist organization called the Committee of Resistance, for which Mr. Andrews works, said the former Marine tried to help civilians out of town.
His mother, Willow Andrews, told CNN his frame has yet to be found.
She said she left hers from Cleveland, Ohio, in November and joined the Ukrainian Foreign Legion.
The U. S. Department of State The U. S. Department of Health said it could “confirm the death of a U. S. citizen in Ukraine,” but provided a name.