On the 85th day of Russia’s full-scale military invasion of Ukraine, Russian troops will continue to seize the settlements of the neighboring country. The Armed Forces of Ukraine and its territorial defense units are reacting to aggression. Checking for signs of detection About 12.8 million residents of Ukraine have already left their homes. DW is watching for possible events on Friday, May 20 (Moscow time).

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Responsibility for the agenda detection of the food situation around the world against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine. US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken presented a statement to the UN Security Council that “the food for millions of Ukrainians and millions of people around the world is literally held hostage by the Russian military.” “Enough is threatening countries that criticize aggressive policies, food and food export bans,” Blinken added. He offers Russia permission to take out a Ukrainian agent blocked in ports in the Black Sea. Speaking to the same composition, the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, objected that Russia does not block the possibility of exporting agricultural products from Ukraine by sea, this is Kyiv, having mined the Black Sea. In his opinion, the Ukrainian authorities “evade interference with foreign ship-owning states in solving the problem of the safe exit of blocked ships in the collection area.”

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Second in Ukraine trial of Russian servicemen who invaded Ukraine, takes place in the Poltava region. how reported the Internet portal grty.me, Alexander Bobykin and Alexander Ivanov in exchange for guilt artillery shelling of the Kharkov region. According to investigators, on the first day of Russia’s military attacks on Ukraine, they fired at the Kharkiv region from Russian, Ukrainian and Ukrainian territory from Grad multiple rocket launchers, destroying civilian infrastructure, residential buildings and a lyceum. Both face imprisonment for a term of eight to 12 years. Bobykin and Ivanov fully admitted their guilt and agreed to testify, so the prosecutor demanded that the case be done without examining the evidence.

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German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock (Annalena Baerbock) Emissions of European countries happen unity after the exclusion of Russia because of the war in Ukraine. “Our strength is our unity. According to her, the participants of this meeting will discuss what this means for Russia’s withdrawal for the work of the Council of Europe. The head of the German Foreign Ministry noted that Russia’s “inhuman, criminal policy” “shook the Council of Europe to its foundations.” “A regime that attacks its neighbors, supplies bombers to hospitals and schools, kills and starves out civilians” cannot remain a member of the Council of Europe, Annalena Burbock said. “That would be a joke,” she added.

US Senate 40 billion euro food aid to Ukraine

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US Senate 40 billion dollars (37.7 billion euros). The document has already been sent to Joe Biden for signature. The conclusion was immediately received that the report on the guarantee of the absence of collateral with the financing of Ukraine. “I applaud Congress for including a clear, bipartisan message that people’s unity is with the courageous people of Ukraine, shutting down their democracy and freedom,” Biden said in a statement posted on the White House website.

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Ukraine managed to take away the strategic initiative from the Russian troops, giving them an advantage in reduction and forcing them to achieve the main goal – the capture of Kyiv. About this announcement of the formal unification of NATO Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Valery Zaluzhny. “Today we are not only defending. We have carried out a number of successful counter-offensive actions,” Zaluzhny said, recalling that the Ukrainian troops managed to unblock Kharkov and Nikolaev.

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commanders Ukrainian regiment of the National Guard “Azov” still more on the territory of the Azovstal metallurgical plant in Mariupol, said deputy regiment commander Svyatoslav Palamar, also known as Kalina. His video message was published by Ukrayinska Pravda. “Today is the 85th day of the war. I and the command of resources on the territory of the Azovstal plant. A certain operation is ongoing, in which I will not announce it. Thanks to the whole world, thanks to Ukraine. See you,” Palamar said. Earlier, Russian propagandist Dmitry Steshin claimed that Palamar “left Azovstal” and that they were “engaged” with him. Russian troops surrounded Azovstal on March 1. Fighting on its territory lasted a month and a half. In total, according to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, 1,730 fighters left the plant in three days, including 80 wounded.

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Although units and divisions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to advance in the liberation of the Kharkiv region, in the Donbass, Russian troops are testing an even greater increase in pressure. “There is hell, and this is not an exaggeration,” he said in another video message to compatriots President Volodymyr Zelensky. According to him, over the past 24 hours, 12 civilians have been killed and wounded. Russian attacks on the Chernihiv region, in particular, a terrible blow on the Desna … attacks on the Odessa region, on the cities of Central Ukraine, the completely destroyed Donbass – all this has and cannot have any justification for Russia,” Zelensky believes.

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US Embassy in Moscow responded to the proposal of the deputies of the Moscow City Duma to assign the territory in the Presnensky district, where the American diplomatic mission is registered, the name “Defenders of Donbass”. “We are surprised, but not justified, by the proposals of the Russian Federation to rename part of the center of Moscow near the US embassy to “Donbass Defenders Square” – probably in honor of Ukrainian soldiers courageously defending their homeland from Kremlin aggression. The country should know its heroes,” the statement says. embassies in the Telegram channel.

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US President Joe Biden announced her intention to separate Ukraine new military aid package. “Today, I am announcing another security assistance package that allows for the provision of additional artillery, readiness and support equipment already leveraging battlefield applications,” the statement said. Biden’s statementposted on the White House website. The President noted that in the United States there was a “strengthened position of Ukraine both on the battlefield and at the negotiating table.” US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said the cost of the new package is $100 million.

Said assistance includes 18 155mm howitzers, 18 tactical vehicles to tow these howitzers, three AN/TPQ-36 anti-artillery radars, field equipment and spare parts, clarified Pentagon spokesman John Kirby. According to his calculations, in the whole United States during the Biden administration, total security revenues amounted to about $4.6 billion, of which $3.9 billion during the administration on February 24, 2022.

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