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Status: 04/20/2022 01:03 am
According to the UN refugee agency, five million people have now been displaced from Ukraine. Canada announces delivery of more heavy weapons to Ukraine. All developments in the live blog.
1:03 a.m
Schulze urges alliance for global food security
In view of the worsening of the food crisis as a result of Russia’s war against Ukraine, Federal Development Minister Svenja Schulze is promoting an alliance for global food security. “Our goal must be to save millions of people from starvation,” the SPD politician told the newspapers of the Funke media group ahead of the World Bank conference in Washington. Food security is not only a human right, but also an essential part of forward-looking security policy. Putin uses hunger as a weapon. As a result of the war, there is a risk of the worst global food crisis in recent decades, which will hit the poorest in Africa, the Middle East and Asia in particular. According to Schulze, the model for the alliance should be the Covax initiative, which aims to ensure fair access to corona vaccines globally.
1:00 a.m
Zelenskyj: Russia has the most barbaric army in the world
According to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Russian military is using all available forces for the invasion of Ukraine. Most of the combat-ready Russian troops are now in his country or just across the border with Russia, Zelenskyy said in a video message to the nation at night. “They have drafted almost anyone and everything against Ukraine that is capable of fighting us.” Despite assurances from Moscow that only military targets would be hit, residential areas would continue to be targeted and civilians killed, Zelenskyy explained. “The Russian army will forever make world history in this war as the most barbaric and inhumane army in the world.”
12:52 a.m
UN Refugee Agency: Five million displaced people from Ukraine
According to current calculations, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) assumes that more than five million people have fled Ukraine from the Russian war of aggression. “That’s five million individual stories of loss and trauma,” UNHCR Deputy High Commissioner Kelly Clements said at a UN Security Council meeting. António Vitorino of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) added that there were around 7.1 million people who had fled their homes within Ukraine.
12:52 a.m
Gerhard Mangott, political scientist at the University of Innsbruck, on the Russian offensive in Ukraine
Gerhard Mangott, political scientist at the University of Innsbruck, on the Russian offensive in Ukraine
daily topics extra 11:00 p.m., 19.4.2022
12:52 a.m
Canada announces delivery of more heavy weapons to Ukraine
Canada wants to send heavy artillery to defend Ukraine against Russian attack. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said this was in response to a request from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Details of the weapons and their costs should therefore be presented in the coming days.
The United States had also announced that it would supply Ukraine with heavy weapons, including artillery. The promised 18 field howitzers are to be handed over to Ukraine “very, very soon,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said. Trudeau also unveiled new sanctions against 14 other Russian allies of President Vladimir Putin, including his two adult daughters. Your assets in Canada will be frozen and you will no longer be able to do business there. In the past few days, the US and Great Britain had imposed similar sanctions.