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- So, we helping UKR win, or helping RUS lose? “The war in Ukraine is changing — and the West now faces a stark choice” (CBC News)
- UKR MP: Thanks for the cash, Canada, but it’s nopt getting spent quickly enough “”Canada announced a huge support of around $500 million for military support for Ukraine. But, unfortunately nothing has been purchased yet or delivered yet.” Ukrainian MP Oleksandra Ustinova says by comparison, the U.S. delivered arms just days after promising to do so …” (cbc.ca, video)
- He says, she says on Mariupol being allowed to evacuate RUS MoD 20 Apr 2130 local humaitarian brief: “The Russian Armed Forces today, April 20, 2022, for purely humane reasons, from 2pm (Moscow time) opened a humanitarian corridor for the evacuation of civilians from the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, which, according to the Ukrainian side, is allegedly located there, and also offered AFU servicemen, fighters of nationalist battalions and foreign mercenaries to lay down their arms and voluntarily surrender. We are forced to note that the announced humanitarian operation has been cynically disrupted by the Kiev authorities, and no one has made use of the corridor in question. The commanders of the nationalist battalions did not seize another opportunity to save themselves and the lives of their subordinates …” (safe PDF, official English) – “The humanitarian corridor from Mariupol did not work as planned today, the Russian occupiers were unable to ensure a proper ceasefire and timely transportation of people, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for the Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk has said …” (UKR media)
- Latest on trying to settle things diplomatically “Russia sends proposal to Ukraine” (RUS state media)– “I heard nothing about Russia’s proposal – Zelensky” (UKR media)
- Easter ceasefire: We like it, says UKR foreign minister …. UKR foreign minister: “We are grateful to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for the initiative to introduce an Easter four-day “humanitarian pause” in Ukraine beginning on Maundy Thursday, April 21. We fully share the view that the humanitarian pause is necessary for the safe evacuation of thousands of civilians who wish to leave the dangerous zones of ongoing and possible hostilities, especially from the long-suffering Mariupol …” (Google English from Ukrainian, UKR MFA via UKR Cabinet info-machine)
- … and “we think UKR’ll just refill its mags” from Donetsk rebels “DPR Foreign Minister Natalia Nikonorova dismissed the calls of UN Secretary-General António Guterres for ceasefire in Ukraine as inexpedient, as Kiev will use it only to regroup and strengthen its positions …” (Donetsk rebel media) – “DPR head considers UN chief Guterres’ ‘humanitarian truce’ proposal potentially dangerous” (RUS state media)
- RUS moms mourn “Mothers Of The Moskva: For Relatives Of Missing Sailors, A Lack Of Information Fuels Grief” (USA govt funded media) – ” ‘What does missing in action mean? Is my son dead?’ Meduza talks to mothers of conscripts who served aboard the sunken Russian warship Moskva” (Meduza.io, RUS independent media) – “In Putin’s heartland, Russian mothers mourn their sons killed in Ukraine” (ITV News, UK)
- Remembering all the heroes “Heroes of the war in Ukraine” (UKR govt info-machine) – “MFA of Ukraine has created a portrait of the Ukrainian resistance on Ukraine’s official website. Read more than 100 stories of heroes defending Ukrainian freedom” (UKR MFA, via Cabinet info-machine, safe PDF)
- Mo’ hardware from the Nordics “Norway sends Ukraine 100 anti-air missiles” (NOR media)
- The mundane business of RUS/proxy occupation rolls along “Fake ‘referendums’ at gunpoint planned to try to ‘legitimize’ Russia’s invasion of Ukraine” (UKR human rights NGO) – “In Berdiansk, a janitor was appointed “deputy mayor” – In Berdiansk, a janitor agreed to cooperate with the Russian invaders. He was appointed “deputy” of the so-called occupation “mayor” …” (pro-UKR Crimean media) – “Pushilin announces works to restore water supply in Mariupol next week” (Donetsk rebel media) – “On Wednesday, April 20, Head of the Donetsk People’s Republic Denis Pushilin, together with the First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Secretary of the General Council of the United Russia party Andrey Turchak, visited Mariupol School No. 53 and talked with 11th grade students and teaching staff …” (Donetsk rebel info-machine, Google English from Russian) – “Putin plans to carry out forced mobilization in the occupied territories of Zaporizhia and Kherson regions – Pseudo-referendums in the occupied territories of Zaporizhia and Kherson oblasts are aimed at declaring forced “mobilization”. After its holding, the FSB of the Russian Federation plans to throw “mobilized” Ukrainians to the hottest parts of the front to storm the positions of the Armed Forces under the control of barricading detachments. In fact, this is an attempt to destroy Ukraine at the hands of Ukrainians themselves. As previously reported, personal data of residents of the temporarily occupied territories are collected in advance for “referendums”, allegedly to receive “humanitarian aid” or social benefits. On election day, FSB officers will fill out ballots using the information obtained without the consent and physical presence of the Ukrainians themselves …” (UKR mil int, Google English from Ukrainian)
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