Russia-Ukraine War Updates: Russian Army Captures Mariupol; Putin declared victory, said - we liberated the city

It's been 56 days since the Ukraine war. Meanwhile, Russian forces have also captured Ukraine's largest port city, Mariupol. President Vladimir Putin declared victory over the city of Mariupol. He said that we have liberated the city. News agency AFP quoted Russia's Defense Ministry as saying that the entire Mariupol was captured by the Russian army except for the Azovstal plant. The Russian army has destroyed 90% of Mariupol since the start of the war.

On the other hand, the Russian army has intensified the attacks. On Wednesday, 1100 attacks were carried out on Ukraine in a single day. Russian President Vladimir Putin has deployed 20,000 mercenaries to the Donbas in eastern Ukraine. Russia has deployed these mercenaries from Syria, Libya, and Georgia through the Wagner Group, an undisclosed contingent of its army.

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The debate on joining NATO began in Finland's parliament on Wednesday.

Zelesky says he is ready to send the bodies of Russian soldiers killed in Mariupol to Russia.

Due to the Ukraine attack, Japan has stripped Russia of the Most Favorite Nation's trade status.

The Russian government has banned 31 celebrities from Ukraine for 50 years.

UN Secretary-General's appeal to Zelensky and Putin

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is constantly urging Russia to stop the war. He has once again requested the Russian President to sit and talk to him face to face to end the war. With this, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, also requested a meeting.

For the past few days, a briefcase seen with Russian President Vladimir Putin is being discussed. This is not an ordinary briefcase, but Putin's nuclear briefcase, in which there is a system to order a nuclear attack.

Some officials inside the Kremlin are reportedly starting to question President Putin's decision to attack Ukraine. A report said officials called the attack on Ukraine a "big mistake" and said it would set the country back several years.

Russian army occupied 80% of Luhansk

Serhi Gaidai, the governor of Luhansk, says Russian forces have continued to advance since the capture of Kremina on April 18. So far, the Russian army has occupied 80% of this area.

The juggling ladder of the people of Ukraine

The picture below is of a village near Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. People have put up a jugaad ladder to cross the river from the bridge that was broken in the Russian attack. A 70-year-old village elder is crossing the river with his bicycle. The people here are grappling with the unimaginable tragedy of war.

Orthodox Church appeals to stop the war on Easter

Ukraine's Orthodox Church has urged the Russian military to halt attacks on Easter, April 24. Along with this, Ukrainian youth have been appealed to refrain from serving in war zones. Earlier, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also appealed to Russia to stop the war from April 21 to 24 because of Easter.

Russia successfully tests an intercontinental ballistic missile

Russia has also successfully test-fired the intercontinental ballistic missile Sarmat. In his address after the test of the Sarmat missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads, Putin said in his address that no country planning to attack Russia should think of doing so. Putin also appeared in a program on Russian television. He also interacted in a live telecast with children who came to Russia from Eastern Ukraine.

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