War in Ukraine, direct Kyiv: "We do not negotiate our territorial integrity". Russian media: "The trial of Azovstal’s defenders in Mariupol"

May 23, 2022 6:54 p.m

Germany: “Ukrainian refugees receive citizenship grant”

From June 1, Ukrainian refugees will come Germany will be entitled to the subsidy out of citizenship Hartz IV administered by the Federal Employment Agency. The privilege will be to have a residence permit. The daily news reports. In addition to a monthly amount of money, Hartz IV also includes health care and apartment rent. The agency has to take care of it support people when entering the market work and in all relatives education. Support is also offered for childcare and the recognition of degrees. At the beginning of May, the Federal Ministry for Migration had expected more than 600,000 Ukrainian refugees to come to Germany, including 240,000 minors. 80% of adults are women. According to police calculations, the total number of arrivals would level out at around 400,000. There is still no precise data on how many of these refugees then went on to other European countries and how many have already returned to their homeland.

May 23, 2022 6:52 p.m

USA: “New military aid for Kyiv from 20 countries”

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New military aidUkraine from about twenty of the countries that took part today Ramsteinin Germanyat the second monthly meeting of the contact group of the Western countries against Russian aggression: This was announced by the Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin.

May 23, 2022 6:44 p.m

Kremlin: “Bomb against Mayor Energodar and terrorism”

The explosion of a bomb whom he injured yesterday along with his bodyguards Andriy Shevchikthe pro-Russian mayor of energodarin south-eastern Ukraine, was a “terrorist attack“Led by Ukrainian ‘nationalist elements'”. This was said by the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, quoted by Tass, who explains that what happened “certainly obliges our army to be vigilant and to take measures to prevent a repetition of these attacks”. “Fighting these elements” is precisely the purpose of the Russian military operation,” he added.

May 23, 2022 6:22 p.m

“In Mariupol the trial for the defenders of Azovstal”

A trial of the Ukrainian military that surrendered at the steel mill Azovstal takes place on Mariupol, a source familiar with the preparations for the trial told Interfax. “The available preliminary information indicates that the first preliminary trial will take place right here in Mariupol,” the source said. According to the authors of the court statute, several more phases will follow, which could take place in other locations, he added.

May 23, 2022 5:52 p.m

Archbishop of Kyiv: “Public rape as a weapon”

“The effort is frightening sexual violence such as weapon of war: We have heard that hundreds of people, women, men and children in this city have been raped, raped in public to publicly humiliate people who need to be re-educated to intimidate others. Men are commanded to do so”. This was stated by the Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Sviatoslav Shevchuk, who spoke in connection with Kyiv at the public meeting “Ukraine: a peace to be built” organized by the “Ambrosianeum” Foundation in Milan. “Every day in Ukraine it is said that between 50 and 100 soldiers are dying in the battle lines – he continued – but civilian casualties are ten times higher and so far nobody has been able to count them”. For the archbishop “this war causes a humanitarian tragedy never seen before in Ukraine. We received almost 500 people in the basement of our cathedral in Kyiv, all with one question: “Why?”. When I see raped women, mutilated children and mass graves uncovered around the city of Kyiv every day, the same question crosses my mind. I can not understand”.

May 23, 2022 5:43 p.m

Draghi-Petkov Interview: “No Food Crisis”

the prime minister, Mario Draghihad a meeting this afternoon with the Prime Minister of the Republic of Bulgaria, Kiril Petkov. As Palazzo Chigi reported, the talks focused on the situation in Ukraine and the need to avert the ongoing food crisis, the process of expanding the European Union to include the countries of the Western Balkans and the further consolidation of bilateral cooperation.

May 23, 2022 4:59 p.m

Kyiv: “Author of Russian ship insult to be kept confidential for security reasons”

The sentence “Russian ship, fuck yourself!“, Expressed in the early days of the war in response to threats against the defenders of thesnake island in the Black Sea it has become one of the symbols of the Ukrainian resistance, so much so that the image of a soldier raising his middle finger at a burning enemy ship as it sinks has been printed on a postage stamp. Now, according to Ukrainska Pravda, Kiev border guards have revealed that the true identity fromauthor of the sentence was so far kept as a secret for security reasons, since the soldier was not yet “safe” after being captured by the Russians. So it’s not a question of the Navy, as Kyiv said at the beginning Roman Gribov, also captured and subsequently awarded a homecoming medal. But the true identity, at the moment, remains confidential.

May 23, 2022 3:38 p.m

Russian attack on Mykolaiv

1653325274 473 War in Ukraine direct Kyiv quotWe do not negotiate ourRussian troops attacked last night Mykolayiv with cluster munitions “Tornado”. Private construction industry attacked, yards and homes damaged, pets injured and killed. Information on civilian casualties is being updated. This was announced by the mayor of Nikolaev Alexander Senkevich.