
Russian President Vladimir Putin during a telephone conversation with the prime minister of Israel, Naphtili Bennett apologized for the words of the Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov about Jews, the Bennett’s office said.
“The Prime Minister accepted President Putin for Lavrov’s words and thanked him for explaining the president’s attitude towards the Jewish people and the memory of the Holocaust,” the report said.
However, Putin’s exact statement is not given. At the time of writing the note, no information about the negotiations of Putin and Bennetes, as well as an apology from the Russian president, was not given on the Kremlin’s website. The apology, which Israel reported, relate to Lavrov’s reasoning that Adolf Hitler had Jewish blood. Lavrov also claimed that the most ardent anti -Semites are usually Jews.
Lavrov’s statement was made on the eve of the day of memory of Israeli who fell in the wars and victims of terrorist attacks. On May 4, the delegation of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas (recognized as an Israeli, Canada, USA, Japan, the EU, the USA and the organization of American states) arrived in Moscow. On May 5, the Ministry of Foreign Ministers Mikhail Bogdanov discussed with representatives of Hamas an situation in the Palestinian territories and events around the Al-Aksa Mosque, TASS reports .
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko on May 5, after two months from the beginning of the war, stated that the so -called Russian operation against Ukraine dragged on: “I am not immersed in this problem to say whether it is going according to the plan, as Russians say, or the way I feel it. I want to emphasize once again, I feel that this operation was delayed. ”
According to him, Ukraine provokes Russia and is not interested in negotiations that began thanks to the assistance of Belarus. Lukashenko added that the use of nuclear weapons would be “unacceptable”, but he cannot say if Russia has such plans.
On the eve of the publication "Belarusian Gayun" reported that at least 631 missiles were issued from the territory of Belarus in Ukraine over the two months of the war. The shelling began at 6:20 in the morning on February 24, 2022, most often rockets are launched with the onset of darkness or in conditions of severe cloudiness.
According to the UN, in Ukraine, from the beginning of the war, 3238 civilians were killed, 3397 people were injured. Among the dead - 227 children, among the wounded - 322. The organization emphasized that the real number of victims can be much higher.
The largest number of victims are in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions (1700 dead and 1652 wounded). In Kyiv, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Kharkov, Kherson, Kyiv, Nikolaev, Odessa, Sumy, Zaporizhzhya, Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, Rivne, Vinnitsa and Zhytomyr regions - 1538 dead and 1745 wounded. Most died from the use of explosive devices, under shelling from heavy artillery and rocket lapsing systems, as well as missiles and aircraft shows.
A source in the Ministry of Health of Chechnya announced the huge losses of the Chechen military in the war in Ukraine, “important stories” write . Officially it is known about 13 Chechens who died in Ukraine - this is one of the lowest numbers in the Russian regions.
According to the interlocutor in the Ministry of Health, the number of the dead of the Chechen military in Ukraine is comparable to the number of dead Dagestanis, but the population of Chechnya is two to three times less than in Dagestan and for the republic this is huge losses. Now 123 deaths of Dagestan military personnel and Rosgardists have been confirmed. The source of the publication, which is involved in the transfer of the residents of Chechnya who died in Ukraine, also says that every day the Chechen units carry losses to the dead and wounded.
The UN and the Red Cross sent the humanitarian convoy towards the siege of the Russian military plant "Azovstal" in Mariupol, it should get to May 6th. UN Secretary General Martin Griffiths said that the organization hopes to take the remaining “in this hell” and deliver them to a safe place.
On May 5, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the humanitarian corridor would open from Azovstal from 08:00 to 18:00 Moscow time 5, 6 and 7 to evacuate civilians. According to the statement, at the indicated time, combat operations will be unilaterally terminated. The units are allocated to a safe distance and ensure the withdrawal of civilians in any directions that they have chosen.
Ukrainian journalists found a grandmother with a red flag, who is erected in Russia. Anna Ivanovna and her husband were taken to the hospital in Kharkov after the Russian shell fell into their house. The old woman herself explains that she came out with the red flag, as she thought, to the Russian military, so that they "do not smash Ukraine and peacefully solve issues."
“Things, of course, are lousy. Since Russia went so evil on us, very lousy, ”says Anna Ivanovna, adding that she did not want such“ glory ”. “It would be better if there were no celebrities. And there was no war, ”she summed up.