The Russian military have seized a pre-trial detention centre in temporarily occupied Kherson and plan to establish a Putin police regime in occupied territories.
Former mayor of Irpin, local developer Volodymyr Karplyuk, spoke about the horrors committed by the aggressors in Vorzel, Bucha, Gostomel, Zabuchia and Mykhailivka-Rubezhivka. In these towns there are mostly no communications with the outside world, food and water have run out and there is no electricity and heating.
The National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine has information that Russian invaders in the occupied territories are compiling lists of Ukrainians who are "unreliable" and should be subject to "measures of influence".
The Chairman of the Russian Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin ordered the verification of information on the supply of various weapons to Ukraine.
The Russian occupying forces have blocked the operation of the Chornobayi poultry farm, which holds 3 million chickens. On 6 March, the Russian forces fired at staff who were transporting feed for the farm. On Monday-Tuesday, the chickens will start dying of hunger.
Minister for the Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories Iryna Vereshchuk has announced that Russia has taken 2,046 foreign students hostage and is blocking their evacuation.
Russia’s Ministry of Defence assures that it is going to open humanitarian corridors from Ukraine to Belarus and the Russian Federation and that it is going to begin a ceasefire from 10:00 (09:00 Kyiv time) on 7 March.
According to Ukrainian authorities, hospitals in the cities of temporarily occupied Crimea, including Armyansk, Krasnoperekopsk, and Dzhankoy, are overcrowded with wounded Russian soldiers, while civilians are being sent to hospitals in Simferopol.
Ihor Terekhov, Mayor of Kharkiv, has refuted false rumours claiming capitulation of Kharkiv; he assured that Kharkiv was holding on and would not surrender to the aggressor.
Military command of the Russian Federation has conducted a mobilisation of residents in the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk Regions. It is now forming subdivisions of the 1st and 2nd Army Corps to storm cities and towns in the Ukrainian territory.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba warned that Russia may resort to provocation as the country points its own rockets stationed in Ukraine towards Russian territory.
Oleksiy Reznikov, Ukrainian Minister of Defence, called on Ukrainians to wage guerrilla warfare and burn the rear food supply columns and ammunition in those territories temporarily occupied by enemy troops.
Families and relatives of Ukrainian servicemen receive calls from the Russian invaders who use the mobile phones of Ukrainian soldiers to report false information about their situation and location.
Thirty eight works by famous marine painter Ivan Aivazovsky were taken from Aivazovsky Gallery in Feodosia, Crimea to an exhibition in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.
The final amount of damages Ukraine will sue Russia for in the European Court of Human Rights for occupation of Crimea is to be determined after the Court’s decision.
May 18th is the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Crimean Tatar Genocide. This day in 1944 marked the start of the operation of forced resettlement of Crimeans to Uzbekistan and the Urals region which led to the deportation of more than 180,000 Crimean Tatars in just two days. By different estimates, between 25% and 45% of deported people died on the way and in the so-called special settlements. In 2016, all public remembrance ceremonies for this tragic date in Crimea were banned by the Russian Federation authorities.
18 May 2016, 13:15 — Publications — Anastasiya Ringis, Anastasiya Ringis