Ukraine’s president says ‘there is no such thing as a justice and no logic’ to Antonio Guterres’s choice to journey to Moscow earlier than he visits Kyiv.
- Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy criticises a choice by UN Secretary-Common Antonio Guterres to go to Moscow on Tuesday earlier than heading to Kyiv.
- Zelenskyy says Ukraine hopes to safe heavy weapons at talks with the US secretaries of state and defence in Kyiv on Sunday, however reiterated requires a assembly with Putin to “finish the conflict”.
- The Group for Safety and Cooperation in Europe says it's working to safe the discharge of a variety of Particular Monitoring Mission members detained in jap Ukraine.
- A collection of cruise missile assaults killed at the very least eight individuals in Ukraine’s Odesa area, together with a three-month-old child.
Listed below are the newest updates:
21 minutes in the past (02:14 GMT)
Guterres to go to Ankara earlier than journeys to Moscow, Kyiv
The secretary-general of the UN will go to Turkey, an necessary mediator in search of an finish to Russia’s conflict towards Ukraine, earlier than heading to Moscow and Kyiv, based on his workplace.
Guterres “will go to Ankara, Turkey, the place, on 25 April, he can be obtained by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan,” the assertion stated.
51 minutes in the past (01:43 GMT)
Zelenskyy threatens to exit peace talks over Mariupol, referendums
Ukraine’s president has stated Kyiv will withdraw from negotiations if Russian troops kill Ukrainians holed up in a metal plant in Mariupol or conduct referendums for independence in different occupied territories.
“If our males in Mariupol are killed, and if these pseudo-referendums are organised within the south, then Ukraine will withdraw from all negotiations,” Zelenskyy stated throughout a information briefing.
“I consider that this is not going to facilitate diplomatic settlement of the scenario. This can positively hinder the tip of the conflict. This can be positively a mistaken step taken by Russia.”
1 hour in the past (01:11 GMT)
Zelenskyy urges Asian nations to help Ukraine
Ukraine’s president has urged international locations in Asia to alter their therapy of Kyiv, noting that the Russian invasion of his nation has impacted its capability to export grain to the remainder of the world.
“We managed to alter, with our unity and energy, the therapy of Ukraine by many European international locations. I'd very very like international locations in Asia to alter their therapy of Ukraine, too,” Zelenskyy informed reporters.
“Do I sense that they've? No. Have they modified it? I feel their individuals have, for positive. The individuals of those states know us properly. And I really feel that the leaders of those international locations are getting there.”
Zelenskyy added that the Russian invasion has prevented Ukraine from exporting some 90 million tonnes of grain, noting this might end in rising costs and shortages in some locations.
“This will imply hunger,” he stated. “That is what Russia has completed. We're seeing now that it isn't only a conflict in Europe, it's a conflict on different continents due to these steps of disrespect in direction of all life and in direction of worldwide regulation.”
2 hours in the past (00:44 GMT)
Ukraine below curfew for evening of Orthodox Easter
Ukraine is below a country-wide curfew for the evening of the Orthodox Easter.
Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of Ukraine’s presidential workplace, stated in a video deal with that within the areas most affected by the invasion – Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, Kherson — the curfew will run from 7pm on Saturday till 5am on Sunday.
In others areas, together with Kyiv, Odesa, Chernihiv and Lviv, the curfew will run from 11pm on Saturday till 5am on Sunday.
2 hours in the past (00:13 GMT)
Germany’s ex-chancellor rejects criticism over his hyperlinks with Russia
Germany’s former chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has rejected criticism of his work as a lobbyist for Russian vitality corporations since leaving workplace in 2005, telling the New York Occasions: “I don’t do mea culpa.”
In an interview with the newspaper, Schroeder referred to as the conflict in Ukraine “a mistake” and stated atrocities should be investigated. However he stated that he didn't consider Russian President Vladimir Putin himself ordered killings of civilians resembling these allegedly dedicated by Russian troops in Bucha.
Schroeder, who met with Putin in Moscow final month on a personal mission to dealer peace with Ukraine, claimed the Russian president “is all for ending the conflict.”
“However that’s not really easy. There are a number of factors that should be clarified,” the New York Occasions quoted him saying, with out elaborating.
21 hours in the past (23:25 GMT)
Poland, Ukraine ink deal on railway transport
Poland and Ukraine have signed an settlement growing cooperation within the railway transport sector, aiming to assist Kyiv preserve its commerce alternate with overseas international locations because the Russian invasion impacts its ports.
Ukraine’s Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and Poland’s premier, Mateusz Morawiecki, met on Saturday in Krakow, Poland.
Shymhal stated the settlement signed with Poland offers for the creation of a joint logistics firm by the 2 international locations, which is able to “dramatically improve the rail transportation of Ukrainian exports” to the European Union and “world markets by way of Europe”.
Poland helps 🇺🇦 in a time of conflict and can accomplish that in a time of reconstruction as properly. At a gathering with @Denys_Shmyhal we signed an settlement because of which🇵🇱will assist facilitate commerce between🇺🇦and the remainder of the world.Polish corporations will assist with the reconstruction effort pic.twitter.com/6xnuuvKJ5z
— Mateusz Morawiecki (@MorawieckiM) April 23, 2022
4 hours in the past (22:52 GMT)
Ukraine asks IAEA for gear to function nuclear energy vegetation
Ukraine has requested the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company for “a complete checklist of kit” it must function nuclear energy vegetation throughout the conflict with Russia, IAEA Director Common Rafael Grossi stated.
This consists of radiation measurement units, protecting materials, computer-related help, energy provide techniques and diesel turbines, he stated in an announcement.
“We are going to coordinate the implementation of the help that the IAEA and its member states will present, together with by delivering required gear on to Ukraine’s nuclear websites,” he stated.
Ukraine has 15 operational reactors at 4 vegetation of which seven are at present linked to the grid, together with two on the Zaporizhzhia facility which is at present managed by Russia.
4 hours in the past (22:35 GMT)
Putin attends midnight Orthodox Easter mass in Moscow
Vladimir Putin has attended an Easter mass carried out by the Russian Orthodox Church, which has strongly backed the Kremlin chief’s “particular army operation” in Ukraine.
Putin, wearing a darkish blue go well with, a white shirt and darkish purple tie, stood to 1 aspect in Moscow’s Christ the Saviour Cathedral, holding a lit purple candle, dwell photographs of the midnight service confirmed.
The Russian chief crossed himself a number of occasions throughout the ceremony. When Patriarch Kirill introduced “Christ has risen”, Putin joined the opposite members of the congregation with the reply “Actually he's risen”. He in any other case didn't converse.
At an out of doors service in Moscow on Saturday, Kirill stated he hoped the battle in Ukraine would finish rapidly however didn't condemn it. His statements backing Russia’s intervention, which has been condemned by Kyiv and Western nations as an act of aggression, have splintered the worldwide Orthodox Church.
5 hours in the past (22:01 GMT)
Russia accused of planning to conscript Ukrainians in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia
The Ukrainian Primary Intelligence Directorate and Common Employees have accused Russia of planning to conscript Ukrainian civilians from the Russian occupied Kherson and Zaporizhzhia areas, based on the British Ministry of Defence.
“This may comply with related prior conscription practices within the Russian-occupied Donbas and Crimea,” the ministry stated on Twitter.
“Article 51 of the Fourth Geneva Conference states “the occupying energy could not compel protected individuals to serve in its armed or auxiliary forces”, and “no strain or propaganda which goals at securing voluntary enlistment is permitted’,” it added.
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The Ukrainian Primary Intelligence Directorate and Common Employees have accused Russia of planning to conscript Ukrainian civilians from the Russian occupied Kherson and Zaporizhzhia areas.— Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 (@DefenceHQ) April 23, 2022
5 hours in the past (21:07 GMT)
Six civilians killed in Ukraine’s Luhansk: Governor
Six civilians died in Russian shelling within the village of Girske in Ukraine’s Luhansk area, its governor stated.
“The village of Girske suffered heavy Russian shelling your complete day,” Sergiy Gayday stated on Telegram. “Six inhabitants of the village died.”
6 hours in the past (21:01 GMT)
Zelenskyy says child amongst eight individuals killed in Odesa
Ukraine’s president stated that Russian missile strikes had killed eight individuals within the metropolis of Odesa, together with a three-month-old youngster.
He fought again tears at one level throughout the press convention in a Kyiv metro station, saying that he shared the ache of each Ukrainian who had misplaced kids in Russia’s conflict.
A Ukraine official had earlier reported that 5 individuals had been killed after Russian forces fired at the very least six cruise missiles at Odesa.
6 hours in the past (20:41 GMT)
OSCE working to safe launch of employees held in Ukraine
The Group for Safety and Cooperation in Europe stated it was attempting to safe the discharge of a variety of Particular Monitoring Mission (SMM) employees members who had been detained in jap Ukraine.
“The OSCE is extraordinarily involved that a variety of SMM nationwide mission members have been disadvantaged of their liberty in Donetsk and Luhansk. The OSCE is utilizing all obtainable channels to facilitate the discharge of its employees,” its media workplace stated, giving no extra particulars.
In an deal with to the 157-member physique on Friday, the UK’s deputy ambassador to the Vienna-based OSCE, Deirdre Brown, criticised Russia for refusing to increase the SMM’s mission in Ukraine past March, and stated that the UK had “obtained alarming reviews that Russia’s proxies in Donbas are threatening mission employees, gear and premises and that Russian forces have taken SMM employees members captive”.
6 hours in the past (20:35 GMT)
Zelenskyy to satisfy with Blinken and Austin in Kyiv
Ukraine’s president stated he hoped to safe heavy weapons at talks with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin in Kyiv on Sunday, provides that he stated had been very important for Ukraine to finally retake Russian-occupied territory.
“As quickly as we've [more weapons], as quickly as there are sufficient of them, consider me, we'll instantly retake this or that territory, which is quickly occupied,” he informed reporters.
6 hours in the past (20:27 GMT)
Zelenskyy slams UN chief’s ‘illogical’ plan to go to Moscow earlier than Kyiv
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has criticised a choice by UN Secretary-Common Antonio Guterres to go to Moscow on Tuesday earlier than heading to Kyiv on Thursday.
“It's merely mistaken to go first to Russia after which to Ukraine,” Zelenskyy informed reporters within the Ukraine capital. “There is no such thing as a justice and no logic on this order,” he added.
“The conflict is in Ukraine, there are not any our bodies within the streets of Moscow. It will be logical to go first to Ukraine, to see the individuals there, the results of the occupation,” he stated.
Zelenskyy additionally referred to as once more for a gathering with Russian chief Vladimir Putin in an effort to “put an finish to the conflict”.
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