Putin, his ministers and the generals of the Russian army must be tried for genocide and war crimes, as were Hitler’s generals in the Nuremberg trials. This is the request that Volodymyr Zelensky, president of Ukraine, addressed yesterday to the UN Security Council in his speech. During the night, on social media, Zelensky returned to ask for the suspension of Russia from all international organizations: “As long as Moscow is exercising its vetoes, the UN is unable to exercise its functions”. Meanwhile, the EU is ready to launch the new sanctions, while the conflict is spreading on the diplomatic level: Italy has also expelled 40 members of the Russian representative office in our country. On the military level, the war does not stop and from the cities devastated by the bombings, testimonies of new horrors emerge.
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02.14 WHO will provide antiretroviral drugs to Ukrainian HIV patients
The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that it will provide thousands of doses of antiretroviral drugs to Ukraine to meet the needs of HIV patients in the country for the next 12 months. In Ukraine, about 260,000 people are affected by HIV, the second most affected country in Europe after Russia, and before the invasion by Moscow about half of them were on antiretroviral treatment.
01.57 Zelensky: “Sanctions commensurate with Russian crimes”
“Now is a crucial moment, especially for Western leaders,” Ukrainian President Zelebsky said in a speech on social issues, calling for the next round of sanctions against Russia to be “commensurate with the severity of the war crimes of the occupiers”. “Now Kiev is the capital of global democracy, the capital of the struggle for freedom for all on the European continent,” says Zelensky.
01.55 Zelensky: “As long as Russia is inside, the UN doesn’t work”
“The United Nations Security Council exists, security in the world does not” and then Russia “discredits the UN and all the other international institutions in which it still participates”. This was stated by the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, in a speech released on Facebook. The UN, says the Ukrainian president, “is currently unable to carry out the functions for which it was created”. Zelensky called for the removal of Russia from the body, where it exercises its veto power, saying that Moscow’s role at the UN is “to block everything that is constructive and to use global architecture to spread lies and justify the evil it does. “.
01.07 Cyprus will not send arms to Ukraine, but stands in solidarity
Cyprus will not send weapons to Ukraine at the request of the United States, in order not to reduce its defense capacity, said the head of the Cypriot defense ministry, Charalambos Petridis. Ria Novosti writes this, citing media sources. Speaking to the parliamentary commission, Petridis specified that there is no such possibility, because the country is under occupation. However, Cyprus stands in solidarity with Ukraine and provides it with humanitarian assistance.
01.05 Lviv, aerial alarms continue to sound
In Lviv and Dinpropetrovshchyna eyewitnesses reported explosions, and aerial alarms continue to sound. Ukrainska Pravda reported, also quoting the head of the Lviv regional military administration Maxim Kozitsky: “The air defense forces are working, they are protecting our peaceful skies. The air alert continues. Stay hidden”.
00.55 Prosecutor: many reports of sexual violence
Ukraine’s attorney general, Iryna Venediktova, said the country’s law enforcement agencies are registering an increasing number of reports of sexual assaults against women, men, minors and the elderly. The Ukrainian government is working to help the victims, she added, according to the Kyiv Indipendent newspaper.