The war in Ukraine is on the 47th day. In the east of the country, almost on the Russian border, the army has moved a convoy 12 kilometers long to the south. Meanwhile, a Russian bombing hit and destroyed the Dnipro airport. Meanwhile, reports of atrocities multiply: a mass grave with dozens of corpses of Ukrainian civilians is discovered in Buzova, a small liberated center a few kilometers west of the capital Kiev, near a service station. The archbishop of Kiev denounces: “People tortured in the Orthodox church of the Lukashivka village”. Odessa woke up in full curfew for missile attacks and the Red Cross was unable to reach Mariupol for five days.
Russian forces also allegedly stole 133 highly radioactive substances from Chernobyl, even a small fraction of these substances could kill them, if not handled professionally. The Pope called for an Easter truce and negotiations, while Patriarch Kirill urged the faithful to unite against the enemy and close ranks around power. Moscow-Rome clash on gas. Russia turns to Di Maio and accuses: “The EU blackmails us on gas.” The reply from Rome: «The blackmail is the rubles».
The shocking interceptions of Russian soldiers by the Ukrainian secret services: in the audio also the order to kill all civilians and the rape of a 16-year-old
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00.02 – Mayor of Bucha: everyone understood that Russian propaganda cannot be believed
“I had already proposed to Mr. Lavrov and Mr. Putin to go to the city of Bucha. I am sure they will come, but not on an official visit but as war criminals to answer for the crimes they have committed and to get them to pay for the crimes they have committed. But for those who still have doubts I would like to point out that the Ukrainian law enforcement agencies, the various international authorities, under the meticulous control of the international media are exhuming every body, every corpse and we are recording everything. So, if you have any doubts, I invite you to visit the city of Bucha and the other surrounding towns and see this massacre, this massacre with your own eyes. I think everyone has understood that Russian propaganda can no longer be believed. Let me give you an example: in Eastern Europe they call this large-scale war a ‘special operation’. Just think about this. I am looking at the pictures and I am reliving what I have already had to experience. You must understand that we immediately found 163 dead, they were people I knew, I worked there, I greeted them every day, we went to church, to school. And I ask: why? Why kill a civilian? I understand that war is always bad and there are consequences, but so cynically why did they execute those people as hunting prey? “Bucha Mayor Anatoly Fedoruk said in an interview with ‘Zona Bianca’. on Retequattro,
00.01 – Austrian mission to seek peace in Moscow
‘Neutral’ Austria does not want to leave any stone unturned. Chancellor Karl Nehammer is on his way to Moscow where he will meet with Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin tomorrow afternoon. That of the head of the Austrian government, the first government leader of a European Union country to meet in person the tenant of the Kremlin since he launched the “special military operation” in Ukraine on 24 February, will be a very hard. There will be a few points on the table but all very important: the first is to stop the war, or to put an end to the bombing. Federal Chancellor Nehammer will fly to Russia via Turkey. The meeting with Putin is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon at 3 pm local time (4 pm Italian time) but, as reported by the Vienna Chancellery, it is not excluded that Putin makes the guest wait.
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