Incidents

Units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in battles with the People's Militia of the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR) on April 19 lost 165 personnel.

Georgy Muradov, Permanent Representative of Crimea to the President of Russia, said that Ukraine is preparing mass executions in Odessa.

Russia's special operation in Ukraine will not be limited solely to the Donbass, State Duma deputy Alexander Borodai told NEWS.ru.

Ukraine has no chance of joining the European Union until the end of the special operation in Donbass, as this is a very long procedure that takes years.

The meeting of the UN Security Council on the situation in Ukraine will be held on Tuesday, April 19.

Ukrainian militants attempted to break out of the encirclement from the territory of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, in an interview with NTV, said that Turkey would impose sanctions against Russia if they were approved by the United Nations (UN).

The Ukrainian authorities do not hold the inhabitants of the southeast of the country for people, so Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky prepared for this region the fate of a scorched field.

Political scientist Andriy Kortunov said that despite the refusal Volodymyr Zelensky to receive Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Germany's position on the situation around Ukraine will not change radically.

French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has a secret plan to withdraw the country from the European Union, said the current head of state Emmanuel Macron.

Aleksey Arestovich, adviser to the Office of the President of Ukraine, asked for understanding about the cancellation of the visit of German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to Kyiv.

The largest German concern Rheinmetall plans to supply Ukraine with up to 50 used Leopard 1 battle tanks and up to 60 decommissioned Marder infantry fighting vehicles.

Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski said that the Polish capital seized Russian property at 100 Sobieski Street in order to transfer it to Ukraine.

The head of the Donetsk People's Republic, Denis Pushilin, during a conversation with foreign media, said that the real number of victims among the civilian population of Mariupol could exceed five thousand.

High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell said that the conflict in Ukraine will soon escalate.