There are reports from Mariupol of a possible poison gas attack. Artillery shelling is reported in Kharkiv. News ticker on the Ukraine war.
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- “Last Battle for Mariupol”: Ukrainian troops expect to capture the city.
- Azov regiment: Reports of poison gas attack in Mariupol.
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Update from April 11, 11:51 p.m.: Shortly after a Russian threat to use chemical weapons in Mariupol, the Azov regiment of Ukraine reported an alleged poison gas attack. An unknown substance had been dropped from a drone over the long-contested city, Azov said on Monday evening on his Telegram channel. The information could not initially be checked.
Ukraine War: Azov regiment reports Russian poison gas attack in Mariupol
However, the public Ukrainian TV broadcaster Suspilne reported that there was no confirmation from official bodies. Military sources considered the probability of a chemical weapons attack by the Russian side to be “very high”. The broadcaster is trying to get confirmation from the military or the secret service. According to the Azov information, the people hit suffered from breathing difficulties and movement disorders.
In his nightly video address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy referred to the threat of a possible chemical weapons attack. “We take it extremely seriously.” Such an attack should prompt foreign states to react even more harshly to Russian aggression, Zelensky said.
Ukraine War: Deaths from artillery shelling in Kharkiv reported
Update from April 11, 11:34 p.m.: According to official Ukrainian sources, at least eight civilians were killed by Russian artillery fire in the eastern Ukrainian region of Kharkiv. Another 19 were injured, Governor Oleh Synyehubov announced on Monday in the Telegram news channel. A 13-year-old child was among the fatalities and two children between the ages of four and nine were among the injured. The Russian troops are also said to use air-dropped deceleration mines that only react to movement. The information could not initially be checked.
According to Ukrainian sources, eleven people had been killed in the area in the previous 24 hours, including a seven-year-old child. Russian troops are said to have attacked over 60 times with artillery, multiple rocket launchers and mortars. Russia has been waging a war of aggression against its neighbor for almost seven weeks.
Russia reports capture of Mariupol port
Update from April 11, 5:02 p.m.: The port of the south-east Ukrainian city of Mariupol, which has been contested for weeks, is said to be under Russian control. Armed forces of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic have taken control, Russian agencies Ria and Interfax wrote on Monday, citing Donetsk separatist leader Denis Puschilin.
Meanwhile, Ukraine accused Russia of seizing a ship at the port of Mariupol. 18 sailors and the captain’s wife were arrested, Lyudmyla Denisova, Human Rights Commissioner of the Ukrainian Parliament, wrote to Telegram on Monday. Russian troops had previously fired on the ship flying the Liberian flag. In addition to Ukrainian citizens, one Egyptian was among the prisoners.
On Sunday, the pro-Russian separatists announced that Ukrainian troops had seized two foreign ships and their crews in Mariupol and were shelling the city from there.
Bundeswehr flies out injured Ukrainians from Poland
Update from April 11, 4:41 p.m.: On Monday, the Bundeswehr brought war-wounded Ukrainians to Germany for treatment in a special aircraft. The Airbus A310 MedEvac picked up the injured children and adults on Monday in Rzeszow in south-eastern Poland, according to the Air Force. The injured are civilians.
According to the information, the injured were given medical care during the flight. In Germany, they should be treated in civilian hospitals, said a spokesman for the Federal Ministry of Defense. The Bundeswehr is only responsible for the transport, the action is coordinated by the Federal Ministry of the Interior.
The flight was the first of its kind since the start of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. The city of Rzeszow is located in south-eastern Poland around 90 kilometers from the Ukrainian border.
Imminent large-scale attack from eastern Ukraine could be imminent
Update from April 11, 3:47 p.m.: A new, major Russian attack on eastern Ukraine could be imminent. Satellite images from the US company Maxar Technologies give cause for concern – and Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck (Greens) is also assuming an offensive from Russia.
A long Russian convoy can be seen in pictures taken on Friday (April 8) east of the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. According to New York Times the convoy is said to consist of hundreds of military vehicles and be around 13 kilometers long. The vehicles were moving south towards the city of Izyum.
Ukrainian forces are preparing for a “final battle” for Mariupol
Update from April 11, 2:04 p.m.: The Ukrainian armed forces say they are preparing for a “final battle” around Mariupol. “Today will probably be the last battle as ammunition is running low,” the 36th Marine Brigade said on Facebook on Monday. The soldiers were “pushed back” and “surrounded” by the Russian army. Conquest will mean “death for some of us and imprisonment for the rest.”
Of the Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy* said in a video message to South Korea’s parliament that he believed “tens of thousands of Mariupol citizens were killed.” The Russians had “completely destroyed” the southern Ukrainian port city that had been under siege for weeks. In his speech, he also asked South Korea for military support, “from planes to tanks.”
The aid organization Caritas International reported the death of two employees in the war-torn Mariupol*. Two Ukrainian employees and one person seeking help there were killed in a rocket attack on the organization’s building.
Update from April 11, 2:00 p.m.: Vladimir Putin has apparently appointed a new general to lead Russia’s attack on Ukraine. According to information from Washington Post the military already played a major role in the bloody air war in Syria*.
Update from April 11, 1:30 p.m.: According to the government, nine escape corridors have been set up for the civilian population in contested areas in eastern Ukraine. From the port city of Mariupol, which was particularly hard hit by Russian attacks, a route for private vehicles in the direction of the city of Zaporizhia was made possible, as Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Wereshchuk explained in a telegram message.
Escape routes should also be set up from the city of Berdyansk and other places in the region. Five corridors now lead from the embattled areas in the Luhansk region to the city of Bakhmut, Vereshchuk explained. New routes out of the conflict points are announced every day. As Wereschtschuk also announced, around 2,800 civilians were able to flee the contested regions on Sunday. The warring parties Russia and Ukraine repeatedly accuse each other of sabotaging the evacuation of towns and cities. Meanwhile he cares Visit of Austria’s Chancellor Karl Nehammer in Moscow cause a stir.
War in Ukraine: Russian troops report 78 military objects destroyed
Update from April 11, 12:46 p.m.: According to the Russian armed forces, another 78 Ukrainian military objects were destroyed. A spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry said: “Russian air defense systems shot down two Ukrainian Su-25 fighter jets near the village of Izyum,” said Igor Konashenkov. In addition, a Ukrainian Mi-24 attack helicopter was shot down in the Cherson region.
In addition, several Ukrainian command points, ammunition and fuel depots and air defense systems were allegedly destroyed. According to Russian information, this includes an S-300 system supplied by the EU near the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro.
Ukraine war: Putin’s allies want to “completely liberate” Luhansk and Donetsk
Update from April 11, 10:13 a.m.: Ramzan Kadyrov, President of the Russian republic of Chechnya, is said to be threatening further attacks on Ukrainian cities in the Ukraine war. “There will be an offensive not only on Mariupol, but also on other places, towns and villages,” said the son of the republic’s ruler, Akhmat Kadyrov, who died in 2004. These military forces* from the autonomous republic are assigned to the Russian military and are fighting for the country of Vladimir Putin in the Ukraine war.
In a video published by Telegram, the 45-year-old explained that the cities of Luhansk and Donetsk would first be “completely liberated”, followed by Kyiv and other regions. “Fighters from the Chechen Republic, together with the military personnel of the Russian Federation and Donbass, are successfully performing the tasks set by the leadership of our state in strict accordance with the plan,” Kadyrov told his followers in the video message. Western media often refer to Kadyrov as Vladimir Putin’s “bloodhound”.
Ukraine war: Selenskyj on the phone with Scholz – and praises German “change”
First report: Moscow/Kyiv – On Sunday, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyj spoke to Chancellor Olaf Scholz on the phone. It was about three specific things in the course of the Ukraine conflict: How to bring war criminals to justice, tighten sanctions against Russia and get Russia to seek peace.
While the Ukrainian side blames Russia entirely, the attacking country takes the opposite view. Important in connection with the escalation in Ukraine are the predecessors that took place between 2014 and 2021 in the east. “They grabbed Crimea, we’re supposedly to blame for that,” said the President of Ukraine. “They destroyed every normal life in the Donbass.” The head of government was also pleased that the German position had “changed in favor of Ukraine” recently.
The Russian side explains that since Government coup in Ukraine* (2014) the Russian-born population in this part of the country was increasingly harassed, expelled and even killed. (PF) *Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA