Ukraine, 50 days of war: the ‘genocide’ and the flagship of the Russian fleet ‘wounded’

“Genocide”, say Volodymyr Zelensky and Joe Biden. “War crimes,” says Emmanuel Macron. 50 days have passed since the dawn of February 24 when Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the start in Ukraine of what he considers a “special military operation” but which is an invasion, with unspeakable atrocities and horrors. An “unprovoked” war that has triggered “unprecedented” sanctions against Russia, which responds with “blackmail” on gas in rubles, but also a conflict that casts the shadow of the food catastrophe in the Middle East and North Africa, as the winds of war blow on fuel costs. And the Russian threat brings Sweden and Finland closer. Read also 50 days after the start of what was the most heralded conflict, the Moskva, pride of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, would be “seriously damaged”. Kramatorsk railway station on 8 April. For the Moscow Ministry of Defense the Moskva was evacuated after a fire on board and “remains afloat”, while for the Ukrainians it was hit in a missile attack. The Pentagon confirms “an explosion”, An operation claimed by the Ukrainians who continue to ask for more weapons for their “resistance” on behalf of Europe, who denounce the atrocities of Bucha (a “fake” for Putin), while the United States sends other military aid (an 800 million dollar package) that includes 11 Mi-17 attack helicopters and ‘kamikaze drones’ (300 Switchblades). After 50 days of war, Putin revised his strategy to focus on trying to take control of Donbass and other regions of eastern Ukraine. All evoke the symbolic date of May 9, when Russia celebrates ‘Victory Day’ every year, and for that purpose, perhaps Russia would reorganize the command of its troops in Ukraine, assigning General Alexander to the operations. Dvornikov, a ‘veteran’ of Syria where the Russians were crucial for Bashar al-Assad in the conflict that erupted in the wake of the repression of the anti-government protests of 2011. And Ukraine prepares for an escalation while, according to CNN, satellite images show a growing number of Russian troops and vehicles pouring into eastern Ukraine. The war has already displaced more than 4.6 million Ukrainians and, according to Kiev, has caused at least 197 deaths among children. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights records 1,964 civilian deaths in Ukraine since February 24 (including 72 children, 34 girls and 55 boys) and at least 2,613 Turkey confirms that it is working to organize a meeting between Putin and Zelensky, meanwhile Mariupol assures that he continues to resist and denounces the news from Moscow about the conquest of the port and the surrender of over a thousand soldiers as a falsehood. “It was, is and will continue to be a Ukrainian city,” the mayor of the martyr city of south-eastern Ukraine, Vadym Boichenko, promised this morning, speaking on Ard.