SATURDAY 30 APRIL 2022, 4:00 PM

UKRAINE UPDATE

UKRAINE WORLD

• The residents of Mariupol are in danger from cholera, dysentery and E coli.
• Putin has refused three requests to organize humanitarian corridors from Mariupol.  This includes evacuating people on a ship with a Vatican flag. 
• Explosions in Odesa.
• Attack on Odessa airport have made the airport not functional.
• The Moskva was nearly the length of two football fields and protected by three layers of air defense.  How could it have been targeted?
• The Kremlin has not invited any foreign leaders to the May 9 ceremonies.

EUROMAIDAN PRESS

• An exchange of war prisoners.
• A column of cars marked with UN logos has arrived in Mariupol.
• Occupation authorities in Crimea will stage a rally to make it seem as if Crimean Tartars support Putin.
• Russian troops shelled the entire front line in Donbas.
• Norway joins in sanctions by closing borders, ports to Russian trucks and ships.
• In Mariupol people are being forced to clean the streets in exchange for food.

KYIV INDEPENDENT

• Denmark to supply Ukraine with dozens of armored personnel carriers, mortars.
• Russia hires criminal gang to plot provocations and riots in Odesa.
• Russia has made itself uninsurable.

TWITTER

• Olga Tokariuk: Pope Francis reached out to Putin three times asking for a ship with a Vatican flag to be allowed to evacuate civilian trapped in Mariupol.
• New York Times:  Strikes inside Russia.  Noone knows who is setting the fires.