War against Ukraine: ++ UN: Five million displaced persons from Ukraine ++
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Status: 04/20/2022 01:03 am
According to the UN refugee agency, five million people have now been displaced from Ukraine. Canada announces delivery of more heavy weapons to Ukraine. All developments in the live blog.
1:03 a.m
Schulze urges alliance for global food security
In view of the worsening of the food crisis due to Russia’s war against Ukraine, Federal Development Minister Svenja Schulze is promoting an alliance for global food security. “Our goal must be to save millions of people from starvation,” the SPD politician told the newspapers of the Funke media group before the World Bank conference in Washington. Food security is not only a human right, but also an essential part of forward-looking security policy. Putin uses hunger as a weapon. As a result of the war, the worst global food crisis in recent decades is looming, which would hit the poorest in Africa, the Middle East and Asia in particular. According to Schulze, the model for the alliance should be the Covax initiative, which aims to ensure fair access to corona vaccines worldwide.
1:00 a.m
Zelenskyj: Russia has the most barbaric army in the world
According to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Russian military is using all available forces for the invasion of Ukraine. Most of the combat-ready Russian troops are now in his country or just across the border with Russia, Zelenskyy said in a video message to the nation at night. “They quickly drafted anyone and anything against Ukraine that is capable of fighting us.” Contrary to Moscow’s assurances that only targets would be targeted, Zelenskyy said that residential areas would continue to be targeted and civilians killed.
12:52 a.m
UN Refugee Agency: Five million displaced people from Ukraine
According to calculations, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) assumes that more than five million people have fled Ukraine to escape the Russian war of aggression. “That’s five million individual fates full of loss and trauma,” said the famous UN High Commissioner for UNHCR, Kelly Clements, at a session of the UN Security Council. In addition, around 7.1 million people have left their homes within Ukraine, added António Vitorino of the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
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Gerhard Mangott, political scientist at the University of Innsbruck, on the Russian offensive in Ukraine
Gerhard Mangott, political scientist at the University of Innsbruck, on the Russian offensive in Ukraine
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12:52 a.m
Canada announces delivery of more heavy weapons to Ukraine
Canada will send heavy artillery to defend Ukraine against Russian attack. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said this was in response to a request from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Details of the weapons and their costs should therefore be presented in the coming days.
The United States had also announced that it would supply Ukraine with heavy weapons, including artillery. The promised 18 field howitzers are to be handed over to Ukraine “very, very soon,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said. Trudeau also unveiled new sanctions against 14 other Russian allies of President Vladimir Putin, including his two adult daughters. Your assets in Canada will be frozen and you will no longer be able to do business there. In the past few days, the US and Great Britain had imposed similar sanctions.
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