All Vlad is saying: surrender or die
No sign of surrender in Mariupol where the situation “remains as severe as possible. Just inhuman,” says Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. An estimated 100,000 Ukrainians still remain in the city reportedly “largely under Russian control” (CNN).:
Russia’s Ministry of Defense confirmed Sunday that an ultimatum for Ukrainian soldiers still resisting an unrelenting assault in parts of the devastated southeastern city to surrender had been ignored.
In a statement, it said that the surrounded Ukrainian soldiers at the Azovstal plant “were offered to voluntarily lay down arms and surrender in order to save their lives.”
“However, the Kiev nationalist regime, according to the radio intercept, forbade negotiations about surrendering,” the Ministry claimed.
It also asserted that according to Ukrainian soldiers who had previously surrendered “there are up to 400 foreign mercenaries who joined the Ukrainian forces” trapped at the plant. including Europeans and Canadians. “In case of further resistance, all of them will be eliminated,” it said.
The Washington Post added after the 6 a.m. Kyiv-time deadline for surrender passed, “Russia gave soldiers holed up in the Avozstal steel works, a final remaining Ukrainian stronghold, a further few hours to lay down their weapons, offering a guarantee that they would be not be killed.”
We won’t kill you if you surrender. Really.
Three explosives specialists of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine were killed and four were seriously injured while clearing cluster munitions near Kharkiv.
The head of the Kharkiv regional military administration, Oleh Syniehubov, reported this on Telegram, Ukrinform reports.
“Unfortunately, while clearing Russian cluster munitions near Kharkiv, three explosives specialists were killed and four were wounded. They are now in hospital. In total, 31 people, including four children, were injured in the shelling by the Russians in the past 24 hours. Three civilians died,” he said.
Pope Francis calls for peace amid “Easter of war” (CNN)
Pope Francis on Sunday said the world is marking an “Easter of war,” and called for peace in Ukraine, which he said has been dragged into a “cruel and senseless war.”
“We have seen all too much blood, all too much violence. Our hearts, too, have been filled with fear and anguish,” the Pope said while delivering his annual “Urbi et Orbi” Easter blessing, adding “our eyes, too, are incredulous on this Easter of war.”
“May there be peace for war-torn Ukraine, so sorely tried by the violence and destruction of the cruel and senseless war into which it was dragged. In this terrible night of suffering and death, may a new dawn of hope soon appear! Let there be a decision for peace. May there be an end to the flexing of muscles while people are suffering,” Pope Francis said from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica after Easter Mass.
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“I hold in my heart all the many Ukrainian victims, the millions of refugees and internally displaced persons, the divided families, the elderly left to themselves, the lives broken and the cities razed to the ground. I see the faces of the orphaned children fleeing from the war,” Pope Francis continued.
C’mon, ev’rybody’s talking about
Ministers, sinisters, banisters and canisters
Bishops and Fishops and Rabbis and Popeyes and bye-bye, bye-byes
All we are saying is give peace a chance
All we are saying is give peace a chance
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