Zelenskyj reiterates demand for Marshall Plan for Ukraine +++ Ukraine has apparently sunk “Moskva” with the help of US information +++ The most important reports on the war in Ukraine in star-Ticker.
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More civilians could be evacuated from the embattled Azovstal plant in the heavily damaged Ukrainian port of Mariupol today. This was announced by both UN Secretary-General António Guterres and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Details were not given. According to the Ukrainian account, buses have already been set in motion in the direction of Mariupol.
According to Ukrainian sources, around 200 civilians are still waiting in the steelworks, the last bastion of the Mariupol defenders, for a chance to get to safety. In two previous evacuations, mediated by the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross, about 500 people from Mariupol and the surrounding area were taken to Zaporizhia in Ukrainian-controlled territory.
The main news about the war in Ukraine on Friday, May 6th:
5:54 a.m .: British government freezes assets of steel company Evraz
The UK government has frozen the assets of UK-based steel and mining company Evraz, in which Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich is the majority shareholder. The government says that Evraz is a major supplier of the railways in Russia, and that the railway is “vital” to Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine, transporting “important military supplies and troops to the front lines.”
The London government points out that Evraz’s core business is in Russia, where the company is a major employer. “These sanctions will further erode Putin’s financial reserves and siege economy, and support Ukraine’s continued resistance.”
4.48 a.m .: Ukrainians consider Russian landing operations near Odessa possible
The Ukrainian military believes a Russian landing operation on the Black Sea coast near the port city of Odessa is possible. According to a statement from the regional military leadership, Russian reconnaissance drones are increasingly flying over the area, reports the Ukrajinska Pravda newspaper. In addition, the Russian Navy continues to have a strong presence off the Ukrainian-controlled stretch of coast.
3.55 a.m .: Selenskyj: So far over 2000 Russian rocket attacks
According to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Russian army has used missiles against various targets in its war against Ukraine since 2014. Selenskyj announced this in his daily video speech at night. In addition, since the start of the Russian army’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2,682 airstrikes have already been registered. “Each of these operations means the death of our people, the destruction of our infrastructure.”
The medical infrastructure in Ukraine alone has suffered heavy losses, says Zelenskyj. “To date, Russian troops have destroyed or damaged almost 400 health facilities.”
1:39: Media: Ukraine sank “Moskva” with the help of US information
According to media reports, US intelligence information helped the Ukrainian military sink the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet “Moskva” (Moscow). However, the US government had no knowledge of Ukraine’s plans, according to several US media such as the Washington Post and the New York Times, citing unnamed people who are familiar with the matter.
At the request of the Ukrainian military, the United States identified the ship as “Moskva” and helped to locate it, reports the broadcaster NBC News. The “Moskva” was sunk in mid-April, presumably with Ukrainian anti-ship missiles of the “Neptun” type. Moscow denies that. The missile cruiser was also responsible for air defense in the Black Sea between the mouth of the Danube and the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014.
0.41 a.m .: Selenskyj reiterates demand for the Marshall Plan for Ukraine
Despite the West’s massive financial support for Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is sticking to his thoughts about a sort of Marshall Plan for his country after the war. The international donor conference in Warsaw, which a few hours earlier had raised a little more than six billion euros in support for Kyiv, is “an element of our protection, an element of protection for the whole of Europe,” says Zelenskyj in his daily video address at night. The fate of Ukraine and Europe will now be decided “not only on the battlefield”, but also in the economic sphere, in the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine.
However, the billions pledged in Warsaw are “only part of what is really necessary to restore normal life in the entire area to which Russia brought the war”. This requires even greater participation from the free world and international institutions. “Therefore we need a modern analogue of the Marshall Plan for Ukraine.”
With the Marshall Plan, named after the then US Secretary of State George Marshall, the United States had supported reconstruction in Western Europe with billions in the years after the Second World War. At that time, a total of almost 14 billion US dollars were distributed to European countries – estimated at today’s value 140 billion dollars (around 132.7 billion euros).
0.15 a.m .: Kyiv: Russians want to conquer Azovstal by May 9th
According to the Ukrainian government, Russia wants to conquer the besieged steelworks in the port city of Mariupol by Monday. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s adviser Oleksiy Arestovych said during the night that the Azovstal plant should be conquered on May 9th on the 77th anniversary of the victory over Hitler’s Germany. “The most beautiful gift given to a ruler is the head of his opponent. I clearly recognize the desire to conquer Azovstal and give Putin ‘victory’ on May 9,” he was quoted as saying by the Unian agency. A grand military parade is planned in Moscow on Monday to commemorate the anniversary of the end of World War II, which will be celebrated in Russia on May 9. President Vladimir Putin will give a speech.
12:01 a.m .: Paramedics from Mariupol ask Erdogan for support
A medic from the Azovstal plant in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, which is besieged by Russian troops, asks Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for support. “End this nightmare,” the man, who identified himself as a Muslim Crimean Tatar by the name of Hassan, asked in a video message. “People are dying here, some from bullets, others from starvation, the wounded from lack of medication, under terrible conditions.”
He is asking the Turkish head of state to mediate in the conflict and to monitor the evacuation of people from the plant, including Ukrainian military personnel. “We don’t have time, I don’t know if there’s tomorrow,” said the man, who studied medicine before the war and is now deployed in the hospital at the steelworks where the last defenders of Mariupol are holed up .