In The 'Café at the End of the World' During Russian Air-Strike on Lviv
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WEDNESDAY 4 MAY 2022: Ukraine Situation Summary:
Lviv Hit. Sixth package of sanctions against Russia. Lost connection with “Azov” regiment
BY PAVLO VITENKO, Ukrainian Freedom News
UKRAINE: The Russians exported 100,000 tons of grain from the occupied Luhansk region
About 50 thousand inhabitants remain in Luhansk region.
Zelensky: Ukraine has suffered losses of about $ 600 billion due to the war
Russian troops broke into the territory of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. The Ukrainian military there has not been in touch.
WORLD: The EU has presented the sixth package of sanctions against Russia: the shutdown of "Sberbank" from Swift, the phasing out of oil
Hungary, whose regime supports the Kremlin, disagrees with the EU's decision and opposes Russia's oil embargo. Hungary’s prime minister cryptically told Pope Francis that he thinks the war will end on May 9.
The European Union may impose sanctions on the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, who supports the war and the killings of Ukrainians.
Here’s how Pope Francis described a recent phone call with the Moscow patriarch:
“For 40 minutes in March, I spoke with Kirill by video. For the first 20 minutes, he explained the reasons for the war with a map in his hand. I listened to him and said: I don’t understand any of this. Brother, we are not state clerics and we must not speak the language of politics, but the language of Jesus.”
DONETSK REGION
In the evening of May 3, the Russians fired on the Avdiivka Coke Plant. There are dead and wounded. On the morning of May 4, the company was fired upon again. Damaged infrastructure. Details are being clarified.
In the evening, the Mariinsky Military Administration managed to restore the line connecting Krasnohorivka. At 9:30 p.m., Marinka was fired upon with incendiary shells …
Read the rest, including our region-by-region updates: Daily Situation Report
In The 'Café at the End of the World' During 3 May Russian Air-Strike on Lviv
Facet, a narrow cafe favoured by Lviv’s artists, musicians, conversationalists, was crowded during the second air-raid alarm yesterday evening. I sat amid several American volunteers and a few Ukrainian friends, feeling somehow safe amid the fear, as though we were somehow in those walls protected from time and space.
Read the story here.
Speak Freely: Near-Daily Ukraine War Journal
Here's a near-daily audio war-journal from Lviv, Ukraine with American journalist Joe Lindsley and Ukrainian bartender Zakhar Pikh.
This Episode:
“Lviv is a very strange city,” says Zakhary Pikh. “The people here are not like in another cities. We cannot live in a bad mood all the time. We really … we are not stopping caring about this this the war, but we are stopping depression bout that. We are always happy and funny and we are looking for the things that are making us happy.”
You can also listen on Spotify:
Essay: Understanding Russia: "If You Want to See the State of Culture, Look at Some Members of Society"
"Religion and culture that prevail in society leave their mark on people’s traditions and opinions. So, if you want to see the state of culture, look at some members of society.
"One way or another, you will see common traits and behaviours. This is culture.
"[Russian] soldiers in the Kyiv region and people on the streets of Moscow interviewed by journalists are the result of one upbringing. One culture."
—Maksym Kolyba, PhD, deputy director, International Institute of Ethics, Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv
Read Makysm’s essay here.
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