FRIDAY 13 MAY 2022
UKRAINE UPDATE:
CNN
- There are wounded inside the steel plant in Mariupol. It is believed that all the civilians are all out.
- The Russians keep shelling the plant.
- Russian troops have withdrawn around Kharkiv and destroyed bridges.
- Destroying the bridges means that the Russians have given up attempts to occupy Kharkiv, according to the reporter on the scene.
- Kherson: controls the head of a canal that controls fresh water into Crimea.
- They are trying to carve Kherson off, the Russians to add this to the occupied territory.
- Convoys are leaving Kherson and have been attacked.
- The Ukrainian counteroffensive in Kharkiv has been very successful.
- The Ukrainians have forced Russian troops down in Izium back north to defend their supply lines.
- Ukrainians are trying to keep the russians out of Kramatorsk. Russians are trying to take Kramatorsk.
- Russians are pushing into Voevodivka towards Kramatorsk. They have secure supply lines into Voevodivka.
- Ukrainians have destroyed 13 ships of the Russians.
- Odesa is a key port. Grain products have to be shipped out through Odesa.
- Odesa is blockaded now. This is going to have an impact on world hunger.
UKRAINE WORLD
- Member of Russian government: “Poland should be the next in the line for denazification…”
- Residents of Mariupol are starving.
- Zelensky: “France’s President Macron offered to make concessions on Ukraine’s sovereignty in order to save the face of Putin.”
- Russian Foreign Ministry threatened that if Finland joined NATO, Russia would take “reciprocal steps, both military-technical and other.”
- Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow (controlled by Russia) stated that Russia invaded Ukraine because its former President Poroshenko established the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (independent of Moscow.)