US denies helping Ukraine attack Russian warship Moskva
The United States Department of Defense denied having shared with the Ukrainian government the data on the location of the Russian military ship Moskva in the Black Sea, which sank in mid-April after a fire and the detonation of ammunition.
“The Ukrainians have their own intelligence capability to track and target Russian ships,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said, the Russian news agency Sputnik reported.
Earlier, the CNN television channel had revealed that the Americans gave the Ukrainian military information on the location of the ship.
Ukrainian government confirms that 500 civilians were evacuated from Mariupol in recent days
A total of “almost 500 civilians” were able to be evacuated in recent days from the city of Mariupol, besieged and bombed by Russian troops, Ukrainian authorities reported today, without specifying whether they were referring to people who were in the Azovstal industrial plant. , the only focus of resistance in the southern city.
“We have managed to evacuate almost 500 civilians,” the head of the presidential administration, Andri Yermak, said on Telegram. “Ukraine would continue to do everything possible to save all civilians and military” who are in the Azovstal steelworks, he added.
The UN-sponsored evacuations began last weekend and will continue on Friday, Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk told AFP.
Ukraine denounces attacks on Azovstal, where a new rescue of civilians is underway
Russian troops have intensified attacks on the Azovstal steelworks in the beleaguered city of Mariupol in recent hours, where a new evacuation of civilians is underway, according to Ukrainian sources.
The last part of the High Command of the Ukrainian Army indicates that “the Russian invaders continue to block the Ukrainian defense units inside the Azovstal plant”, the last stronghold of the Ukrainian resistance in that strategic port city.
Hundreds of civilians entrenched since the beginning of the invasion on February 24, including children, are still resisting in that facility, although some have already been able to leave thanks to an evacuation operation sponsored by the UN and the Red Cross.