2023-04-21 17:48:22
The war in Ukraine He turns 422 days old this Friday. continue the heavy fighting in Bakhmut as the epicenter of the clashes in Donbas between Russian and Ukrainian troopsas well as along the Avdiivka-Donetsk axis.
The Accidentally dropped ammunition from a Russian fighter has caused a strong explosion in the Russian city of Belgorod, near the border with Ukraine, which has resulted in at least three injuries, according to local authorities.
The President of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, calls on the Government of Mexico to support “the Ukrainian Peace Formula”in reference to his proposal to end the war with Russia, and warns during a speech by videoconference before the Chamber of Deputies of the Mexican Congress that Moscow seeks to “buy time to regroup”.
He Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksi Reznikov announces that Germany and Poland have reached a commitment to host a maintenance center for Leopard 2 tanks in the latter country for use in the Ukrainian war.
On February 24, 2022, the President of Russia Vladimir Putinordered the Russian offensive in the country in what he called a “special military operation”.
Since then, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that more than 20.6 million people have fled Ukraine, since the beginning of the Russian military offensive, which he considers to be the fastest exodus in Europe since World War II. That is, up to 50.3% of the population –estimated at almost 41 million in 2021– would have left Ukrainian territory.
Situation of the war in Ukraine on April 21, 2023 / Map: EA According to him last report of Institute Study of War (ISW) (1) stresses that the forces continue “with ground attacks in and around Bakhmut, along the axis of the Avdiivka-Donetsk front and in western Donetsk Oblast“.
On the other hand, the ISW also claims that the Russian forces carry out “limited ground attacks en Kreminna“.
Also, the think tank reports that Ukrainian forces have carried out “limited ground attacks in Zaporizhia Oblast“.
The accidental fall of ammunition from a Russian fighter has caused a strong explosion in the Russian city of Belgorod, near the border with Ukraine, which has resulted in at least three injuries, according to local authorities.
“On April 20, 2023, at around 10:15 p.m. Moscow time, during the flight of the Su-34 aircraft of the Aerospace Forces over the city of Belgorod, there was an abnormal drop of aviation ammunition,” the Ministry of Defense explained. Russian defense. The Government has confirmed in residential buildings, but without notifying victims, and has indicated that an investigation is already underway.
For his part, the governor of Belgorod, Viacheslav Gladkov, explained that the explosion has left a hole with a radius of 20 meters on a main street in the city and has damaged four apartments in a building and four vehicles.
Initially, Gladkov reported two injuries, but has raised the number of victims of this incident to three, although none of them are in serious condition. He also explained that all the people affected by the damage to nearby buildings have already been evacuated from the area.
The governor has indicated in his Telegram account that the local authorities will work in the coming days to restore normalcy in the area affected by the explosion.
The President of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, has called on the Government of Mexico to support “the Ukrainian Peace Formula”, in reference to his proposal to end the war with Russia, and has warned during a speech by videoconference before the Chamber of Deputies of the Mexican Congress that Moscow seeks to “buy time to regroup.”
“Now, when Russia feels that it is weakened and that its defeat on the battlefield is near, Moscow tries to deceive the world with its hypocrisy in order to buy time to regroup, find new weapons and continue the aggression. This cannot be allowed. Peace must be irreplaceable,” he said.
“That is why evil must lose. That is why we ask the world for support. That is why we call on all states with a conscience to join global efforts to apply the ‘Ukrainian Peace Formula’,” he said, before requesting congressmen “to choose which point of the peace formula will allow Mexico to show its leadership.”
In this sense, Zelenski has maintained that “Ukraine has proposed to the Latin American community to convene a special summit and speak unitedly in defense of the important global principles of territorial integrity, peace and respect between sovereign peoples and nations.”
“I think that, with Mexico’s help, this could happen much more quickly,” he defended, while thanking the North American country for its vote on February 23 at the United Nations General Assembly to approve a resolution calling for the end of the war and the immediate withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukrainian territory.
Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksi Reznikov announced this Friday that Germany and Poland have reached a commitment to host a Leopard 2 tank maintenance center in the latter country for use in the war in Ukraine.
Reznikov signed this “letter of intent” this Friday, accompanied by his German counterparts, Boris Pistorius, and Polish, Mariusz Blaszczak, during the Contact Group meeting that is taking place today at the Ramstein airbase (Germany). This preliminary agreement, Reznikov assures on his Twitter account, “will contribute to strengthening cooperation and the capabilities of Ukrainian defenders.”
“This ‘armored fist’ formed by collaborative efforts will thwart the terrorist regime’s aggression against Europe and the entire free world (…) Modern Western technology will result in the defeat of Moscow. The sooner this happens, the sooner peace will come” , has added about this tripartite meeting or, as the minister has described it, “the coalition of the tanks”.
Flow of refugees from Ukraine to other countries as of April 18, 2023 / Map: EA The number of refugees who have crossed the border from Ukraine into the rest of Europe it continues to grow since the start of the war in Ukraine, unleashed by order of Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 24.
He United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that more than 20.6 million people have fled Ukraine, since the beginning of the Russian military offensive, which he considers to be the fastest exodus in Europe since World War II. Up to 50.3% of the population –estimated at almost 41 million in 2021– would have left Ukrainian territory.
According to the latest UNHCR data (2), 20,636,096 people have left the Ukrainian territory as of April 18, 2023. By countries, 10.885.691 Ukrainian refugees have already arrived Poland (April 16th), 2.852.395 a Russia (October 3, 2022), 2.524.705 a Hungary, 2.240.464 a Romania (April 16th), 1.313.413 a Slovakia (April 16th), 802.705 a Moldavia (April 16) and 16.705 a belarus (April 11).
The High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that more than 8.1 million Ukrainian refugees have already been registered on European territory, and that up to 5 million they would be in a situation of Temporary Protection, due to the Russian invasion of his country.
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