THURSDAY 28 april 2022

UKRAINE UPDATE: 8:30 PM

EUROMAIDAN PRESS

• Residents of a village, Demydiv, flooded their village to slow down the Russians.
• Russia bombs hospital at Azovstal.
• More mass graves are found near Mariupol.
• Brazil Senate votes to recognize Holodomor, Stalin’s artificial famine of 1932-33.
• Russia is planning to stage a sham “referendum” in Kherson to declare the region a “Kherson People’s republic.”  Such staged “plebiscites” are one of its favorite instruments and Kremlin plans a series of them in other Ukrainian regions.
• Russians fired stun grenades at Ukrainians having a peaceful protest.
• Russia’s ongoing forced conscription in Ukraine’s Donbas leads to defacto elimination of local male population, as occupiers use them as “cannon fodder.”
• Two Russian missiles hit central Kyiv.

KYIV INDEPENDENT

• Several countries have advised their citizens to leave Moldova and Transnistria.
• US, Germany, France and Canada told their citizens to leave Molova over the “deteriorating security situation.”
• UN is ready to participate in the evacuation of civilians from Azovstal in occupied Mariupol.
• Russian force school teachers in occupied town to switch to Russian curriculum.  (Note: Like DeSantis in Florida).
• Spanish army ship arrives in Poland with 200 tons of military assistance for Ukraine.

UKRAINE WORLD

• Is Russia preparing a new Holodomor in Ukraine?
• The operating room in the Azovstal facility collapsed because of Russian shelling.