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Tanks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on a street in a village in the Donetsk region, April 18, 2022. REUTERS - SERHII NUZHNENKO

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On the 58th day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the strategic port of Mariupol, which Moscow claims to have "liberated", is still resisting Russian forces, kyiv says that thousands of Ukrainian fighters continue to fight fiercely to defend Ukraine. huge Azovstal metallurgical complex.

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The main points:

► Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Thursday that Ukraine needs $7 billion a month to compensate for economic losses caused by Russia's war.

► Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday claimed the liberation of Mariupol, indicating that he had canceled his plan to storm the Azovstal steelworks, where the last Ukrainian troops in the city were still resisting the Russian assault.

On Wednesday, Mykhaïlo Podolyak, adviser to the Ukrainian presidency and one of the negotiators with Russia, had proposed to Moscow a “special session of negotiations” in the port city on the Sea of ​​Azov.

► Kyiv called on Thursday for the establishment of an emergency humanitarian corridor to evacuate civilians holed up in the gigantic Azovstal factory in Mariupol.

After four days without humanitarian evacuations, three buses of civilians arrived in Zaporizhi from the Ukrainian port of Mariupol.

► More than 1,000 civilian bodies are currently in mortuaries in the Kyiv region, according to a Ukrainian official, as Kyiv accuses the Russians of 'massacring' hundreds of civilians during their occupation of the region in March, what Moscow denies.

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