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Post by Admin on Apr 18, 2022 6:11:01 GMT
Mariupol’s Last Stand 293,194 views Apr 18, 2022 Ukrainian forces vowed to defend the besieged city even after Russia issued an early morning ultimatum. President Zelenskyy warned of major consequences if the city falls and says that could end negotiations.
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Post by Admin on Apr 18, 2022 17:19:14 GMT
2,500 Ukrainian forces in Mariupol set to fight to the end | DW News 464,917 views Apr 18, 2022 Major Ukrainian cities are coming under renewed attack from Russian air strikes. Powerful explosions hit the western city of Lviv this morning.
Regional officials say at least six people were killed and several others injured. Initial reports suggest the airstrikes targeted military infrastructure facilities. But several civilians have been reported among the wounded. Lviv had largely been spared the worst of the violence until now.
In the eastern city of Mariupol, a few thousand fighters and some civilians are believed to have been encircled in the Azov-stal steel plant near the port. It's the last pocket of Ukrainian resistance in the city.
Russia claims to have complete control of all of Mariupol's urban areas, and has left much of it destroyed.
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Post by Admin on Apr 18, 2022 19:42:41 GMT
Reacting to a damning report by Radio Canada, Efraim Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Israel, blames the Canadian government for training neo-Nazi fighters in Ukraine. “Canada has spent nearly $1 billion to train Ukrainian forces since 2014, Radio Canada says, in an article published on April 11, 2022. Military personnel from the Azov regiment, known for its links to the far right, have benefited from this training, according to documents analyzed by the radio.” The article states, “Since 2015, Canada has helped train 33,346 candidates from Ukraine’s Security Forces, including 1951 elements of the Ukrainian National Guard (GNU), as part of Operation Unifer. The cost of this program is over $890 million. Every six months, approximately 200 Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) personnel rotate to provide security force training assistance. All of these personnel have been temporarily relocated to Poland until conditions allow training to resume.” The Azov Battalion and Nazi ideology Efraim Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Israel and arguably the world’s greatest “Nazi hunter”, reacted to this information on April 13, 22, in the Canadian daily Ottawa Citizen. Efrain Zuroff reproached Julien Trudeau and his government for not having “shown vigilance” in this matter, explaining that “It is the responsibility of the Canadian Ministry of Defense to know exactly who it is training”. He added, “There is no doubt that there are neo-Nazis in various forms in Ukraine, whether in the Azov regiment or in other organizations.” The Azov battalion was incorporated into the Ukrainian army. Its links to the far right have always been recognized. In 2017, Canada’s Joint Task Force Ukraine produced a briefing on the Azov Battalion, acknowledging that “multiple Azov members have described themselves as Nazis.” Ottawa Citizen recalls that in 2018, the U.S. Congress banned the use of U.S. funds to provide weapons, training and other assistance to the Azov Battalion because of its links to the far right and neo-Nazis. The UN and Amnesty International have accused the unit of human rights violations. Nazi insignia Putin is known to have used, among other things, the argument of the presence of neo-Nazi fighters to justify the war in Ukraine. But the Russian invasion and the sympathy it generated for Ukraine in Western countries served as a catalyst for a wider acceptance of Azov, according to the Canadian daily. Still, the far-right sympathies of some Ukrainian military units are sometimes a problem. NATO recently used Twitter to highlight women in the Ukrainian military, but the organization had to remove the tweet “after social media users pointed out that the women pictured were wearing Nazi insignia.” Others have claimed that the allegations made against the Azov Regiment are part of a Russian disinformation campaign. Efrain Zuroff does not believe this. This is not Russian propaganda, far from it,” he says. These people are neo-Nazis. There is an ultra-right element in Ukraine and it is absurd to ignore it.”
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Post by Admin on Apr 18, 2022 21:03:01 GMT
How Russian Forces Are Attempting To Advance In Eastern Ukraine 21,517 views Apr 19, 2022 As the Russian military lays siege to Mariupol and moves their forces through eastern Ukraine, NBC News analyst Clint Watts breaks down what Russia needs to do on the ground to continue their advancement.
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Post by Admin on Apr 19, 2022 1:06:33 GMT
Zelenskyy says Russia’s battle for the east has begun as besieged Mariupol holds on 23,693 views Apr 19, 2022 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that the expected next phase of Russia’s war, focusing on the eastern part of his nation, appears to have begun. John Yang reports, then Judy Woodruff talks to retired Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, the former U.S. ambassador to NATO, and Dmitri Alperovitch of the Silverado Policy Accelerator about what to expect and what Russia wants.
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