You are right. They are definitely relocating troops from Mariupol and also reinforcing the Kherson area. Kherson is important to RU for 3 reasons, water, electricity and if the bridges are blown, Ukraine have a great defense and can relocate resources.
Full-scale invasion and national resilience, broadcasted live.
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Russian official compares Ukraine troops to WWII veterans
Kartapolov veered into sacrilegious comparisons of Putin’s murderous, looting, raping troops in Ukraine with veterans of WWII: “Everyday we’re losing veterans of the Great Patriotic War… New veterans and new heroes should replace them."
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Senators advise Biden to appoint Ukraine aid coordinator
Senators recommend that Biden appoint an official responsible for Ukraine aid
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Kharkiv: Worrying Progression and Daily Reality
Kharkiv. Two months ago, no one in Ukraine could have imagined something like this. Now it is becoming commonplace for many Ukrainians. pic.twitter.com/SNk9tDBb4F
— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) 17 avril 2022Kharkiv. Two months ago, no one in Ukraine could have imagined something like this. Now it is becoming commonplace for many Ukrainians.
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Another likely death from Moskva: ship’s cook
Another likely fatality from the Moskva, this time a ship's cook:
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Zelensky trusts Ukrainian army post-war
I don’t trust the world after what we’ve seen in Ukraine, but I do trust the Armed Forces of Ukraine and our people, Zelensky said.
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Ukrainian troops find wood in Russian explosives
Here's another great example: Ukrainian troops unwrapping sticks of abandoned Russian explosives only to find that what's inside the TNT wrappers are… sticks of wood. The real explosives presumably having been stolen and sold off: https://
x.com/CanadianUkrain
1/status/1515716818853416967?t=JD7crerpZA9FQ7lAQWYLGQ&s=19
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Russian state TV pundits dehumanize Ukrainians with demonic rhetoric
Russian state TV pundits are working overtime to demonize and dehumanize Ukrainians: "Ukraine is Gollum." "Ukrainians are “the unclean.”" “The Ukrainian God is the Devil.” The blame being placed on Russia for its massacres in Ukraine is “Satanism.”
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Zamhlay village head tortured but did not surrender to Russians
Zamhlay Village Head survived torture but did not surrender the village in Chernihiv Oblast to Russians Russians interrogated him, beat him on the ears, kidneys, liver. Smashed his eye hard with their boots.Beat him on legs so he could not walk–Stratcom https://
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Mother’s letter to fallen Ukrainian defender
"Now I have to learn to live without you, my son," – a letter from the mother of the fallen Ukrainian defender Teodor Osadchy