As the Ukrainian army announced on Facebook on Wednesday afternoon, the enemy forces are now ready to attack the Donetsk and Kherson regions. This is based on “available information”. Previously, the situation in the port city of Mariupol seemed to continue to deteriorate. More than 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers laid down their arms there, according to Moscow.
According to Ukrainian data, there are still 120,000 people in Mariupol
According to Russian information, 1,026 members of the 36th brigade of marines were taken prisoner in Mariupol. The prisoners include 162 officers and 47 women, said Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenko. There was no confirmation from the Ukrainian side. The Ukrainian state news agency Ukrinform only reported on Wednesday that “Members of the Azov regiment continue to defend Mariupol.” Accordingly, there are still 120,000 people in the city
According to Konashenkov, the fighters surrendered to Russian army units and pro-Moscow separatists from the Donetsk region in the battle for a large metal processing plant. The separatists had previously reported the capture. Russian media had reported that around 3,000 Ukrainian fighters were still holding out in Mariupol.
New rocket attacks reported
In his daily situation report, Konashenkov also reported new missile attacks by Russian planes and warships. Among other things, two large weapons depots were hit. Four attack helicopters were destroyed in an attack on an airfield in Myrhorod in the Poltava region.
Russian fighter jet shot down
On the other hand, Ukraine reported the downing of a Russian Su-25 fighter jet. Overall, however, the activity of the Russian Air Force has declined due to the bad weather, the Ukrainian General Staff said on Facebook on Wednesday. However, civilian objects in the Kharkiv and Zaporizhia regions were attacked with rockets. According to the General Staff in Mariupol, Ukrainian positions are also being bombed. The Russian troops are continuing their attacks in the port area and in the Azovstal steelworks.
According to the governor, at least seven people were killed and another 22 injured in one day in Kharkiv. A two-year-old boy, who was injured in a shelling a few days ago and has now died in hospital, is among the fatalities, Oleg Synegubov said. In total there have been 53 Russian artillery or rocket attacks in the region in the past 24 hours.
According to the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office, seven people have been shot dead by Russian soldiers in a village in the southern Ukrainian region of Cherson. The six men and one woman were killed Tuesday at a house in Prawdyne village, the statement said. Then “the occupiers blew up the house with the corpses” to cover up their crime.
Alleged Russian military convoy destroyed
Meanwhile, Ukraine reported successes in the southern city of Melitopol. Ukrinform reported that “unknown patriots” killed a total of 70 Russian soldiers there between March 20 and April 12, including Chechen soldiers. The army had managed to destroy a Russian military convoy, it said.
Meanwhile, the body finds continued. In the Sumy region, the authorities say they found the bodies of more than 100 civilians killed by the invaders. They showed signs of torture and gunshot wounds to the head and were tied up, said the head of the regional military administration, Dmytro Zhyvytskyi, according to Ukrinform.
Bodies of more than 1500 Russian soldiers recovered
In the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro, the bodies of more than 1,500 Russian soldiers were born by authorities. They were taken to a total of four different morgues, said the deputy mayor of the industrial city, Mykhailo Lysenko, to the US-financed television station Nastoyashcheye Vremya on Wednesday. He called on Russian mothers to pick up their dead sons. “I don’t want to bury them in mass graves. I don’t want to cremate them,” said Lysenko. “We are not brutes.”
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