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Ukraine’s General Staff: 18,500 Russian soldiers killed during invasion.

kyivindependent.com - 07:39 Apr 05, 2022

Russian troops have also lost 676 tanks, 1,858 armored fighting vehicles, 332 artillery pieces, 107 multiple rocket launchers, 55 surface-to-air missiles, 150 jets, 134 helicopters, 7 ships, 76 fuel tanks, 94 drones, and 4 ballistic missile systems, the General Staff said on April 5.

Tags: General Staff Russian
Slovenian prime minister says European Commission president, EU foreign minister will visit Kyiv.

kyivindependent.com - 07:06 Apr 05, 2022

Ursula von der Leyen and Josep Borrell will arrive in Kyiv this week, Ivan Jansa said on April 5. He also said that the embassies of the EU mission and Lithuania would return to Kyiv.

Tags: Kyiv
Prosecutor General’s Office: At least 165 children killed as a result of Russian aggression.

kyivindependent.com - 06:39 Apr 05, 2022

At least 266 children have been injured, the prosecutors said on April 5. This figure does not take into account children’s casualties in front-line areas such as Mariupol in Donetsk Oblast, as well as Kyiv, Chernihiv and Luhansk oblasts.
Bodies of tortured civilians found in Sumy Oblast.

kyivindependent.com - 05:46 Apr 05, 2022

Sumy Oblast Governor Dmytro Zhyvytsky reported on April 5 that in Konotop district of Sumy Oblast, the Ukrainian military found the bodies of at least three tortured civilians in places where Russian forces had been stationed. Russians withdrew from Sumy region on April 3.

Tags: Sumy Oblast
US State Department approves potential sale of up to eight F-16 aircraft to Bulgaria.

kyivindependent.com - 05:16 Apr 05, 2022

The deal is valued at $1.6 billion to provide Bulgaria with fighter jets and related support equipment. According to Reuters, U.S. officials said the sale agreement was not directly related to Russia’s war on Ukraine. The war has prompted Ukraine’s government to ask that countries with MiG aircraft – including […]

Tags: Bulgaria
Ukrainian Canadian Congress proposes a ‘Ukraine Victory Fund.’

kyivindependent.com - 03:29 Apr 05, 2022

The UCC, a group representing over 1.3 million Ukrainian-Canadians, set forth the idea to include the fund in the federal government’s budget. If successful, the fund would provide additional financing for fighter aircraft, weapon systems and munitions along with a financing program similar to the Marshall Plan implemented after World […]
Germany’s software giant SAP keeps its Russian clients despite claims it shut down cloud services in Russia

kyivindependent.com - 03:26 Apr 05, 2022

The German software giant SAP appears to have been hypocritical about its promises to stop providing cloud services to Russian clients over Russia’s war in Ukraine. According to a document obtained by the Kyiv Independent, just a day before the company’s public announcement to shut down its cloud services in […]

Tags: Russian Russia
Russian forces shell chemical plant in Donetsk Oblast.

kyivindependent.com - 03:04 Apr 05, 2022

Artillery rounds hit the building seven times, according to Ukraine’s military, damaging manufacturing equipment. There’s no threat to local residents.
Air raid alerts go off in almost every region of Ukraine.

kyivindependent.com - 02:37 Apr 05, 2022

Sirens have been activated in the Cherkasy, Chernivtsi, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kharkiv, Khmelnytsky, Kirovohrad, Kyiv, Lviv, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Poltava, Rivne, Sumy, Ternopil, Vinnytsia, Volyn, Zakarpattya, Zaporizhzhia and Zhytomyr oblasts and in the city of Kyiv.
Editorial: Give Ukraine everything it asks for and now

kyivindependent.com - 02:12 Apr 05, 2022

Editor’s note: Editorials are articles that present the opinion of the editorial team of the Kyiv Independent. We write this editorial with difficulty. Journalists are the people of words, but right now it’s hard to find the ones to reflect what we feel. The uncovered atrocities of Russians have left […]
Russia claims to have ‘evacuated’ 402,000 Ukrainians to Russia.

kyivindependent.com - 18:31 Mar 24, 2022

Out of them, 84,000 are children, according to the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Lyudmyla Denisova. Ukraine is not yet able to verify these statistics, but the Ukrainian government is investigating the removal of 2,389 children from Ukraine.
Ukraine mirrors Belarusian expulsion of diplomats.

kyivindependent.com - 18:15 Mar 24, 2022

In retaliation for the expulsion of most of Ukraine’s diplomatic mission to Belarus, Ukraine will officially reduce the diplomatic staff of the embassy in Kyiv to just five diplomats, according to Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko. Ukraine will also close the consulate of Belarus in Lviv.

Tags: Ukraine
Shelling kills 3, injures 13 in Mykolayiv Oblast.

kyivindependent.com - 17:49 Mar 24, 2022

Russian forces fired Tornado rockets at civilians in the village of Yavkyne, where IDPs from neighboring villages had gathered. The attack also damaged a building, according to the Bashtan City Council.
Zelensky urges G7 to fully block Russia’s central bank, other banks.

kyivindependent.com - 17:17 Mar 24, 2022

He also called on G7 countries to block Russia from the Global Positioning System (GPS) and impose an embargo on all trade with Russia. Russia’s frozen assets should be used to pay reparations to Ukraine, he added.

Tags: Russia
Ukrainian parliament abolishes customs tariffs, value-added tax for imports during war.

kyivindependent.com - 17:12 Mar 24, 2022

The bill would also exempt the owners of residential real estate in areas affected by the war from paying a property tax for 2021-2022.
Poland won’t pay for Russian gas in rubles says CEO of PGNiG.

kyivindependent.com - 16:29 Mar 24, 2022

Paweł Majewski, head of Polish largest oil and gas company, said that the contract with Gazprom envisions the payment method and Poland won’t change it. Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has previously demanded that the European Union switch its payments for Russian gas from dollars to rubles.

Tags: Russian Poland
Deputy Prime Minister: 10 Russian prisoners of war exchanged for 10 Ukrainian soldiers.

kyivindependent.com - 16:11 Mar 24, 2022

Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk added that 11 Russian sailors saved by Ukraine from a sunken ship would be exchanged for 19 Ukrainian sailors captured by Russia.

Tags: Ukrainian Russian
CNN: US still opposed to providing fighter jets to Ukraine

kyivindependent.com - 15:36 Mar 24, 2022

A senior U.S. official told CNN that the country’s position has not changed on the matter. Earlier, President Volodymyr Zelensky asked NATO for “one percent of all (their) planes,” later adding, “you have thousands of fighter jets, but we have not been given one yet.”
NATO to protect Ukraine from chemical, biological, nuclear threats.

kyivindependent.com - 14:51 Mar 24, 2022

According to a joint statement by NATO countries, the use of chemical or biological weapons by Russia will lead to severe consequences for the Kremlin. The statement didn’t specify the consequences.

Tags: NATO
Inside massacre of civilian evacuees outside Kyiv

kyivindependent.com - 14:27 Mar 24, 2022

STOYANKA-2, Kyiv Oblast – In the village of Stoyanka-2 outside Kyiv, a half-dozen cars line the road, riddled with holes, their bodywork mangled by bullets and an explosion. Their windows, bearing handwritten Ukrainian signs saying “Children” are perforated or shattered. The suitcases inside the vehicles appear to have been searched. […]

Tags: Kyiv

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