Russian invasion of Ukraine: tanks and rocket attacks on the cities. Breaking news

Former American astronaut Scott Kelly sold his art project "Dreams Out of This World" at an NFT auction for $500,000 within a day. He will forward all net proceeds to support Ukraine to help fight Russian aggression.

I'm proud to announce that my NFT collection is officially sold out on @opensea
Thank you to everyone who supported this project! In the midst of this war, it's amazing that we can come together through art to aid the people of Ukraine. Over $500,000.00 raised today! pic.twitter.com/YnO9VUeiLS

— Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) April 12, 2022

Austria opposes the gas embargo, they say it is "impossible" to reject Russian gas right now, Chancellor of Austria Karl Nehammer said on CNN. Germany and Hungary share the same position.

Unknown patriots in Melitopol liquidated 70 Russian occupants, including "Kadyrov’s combatants”, according to Defence Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine.

The curfew on the territory of the Ivankiv community has been intensified. Starting today and until April 18 from 20:00 to 06:00 it is forbidden to stay outside and in public places either on foot or by any transport. This was announced by Oleksandr Pavliuk, the Chairman of Kyiv Regional State Administration.

Oksana Marchenko, a wife of Victor Medvedchuk who was detained yesterday, recorded a video address to Volodymyr Zelenskyy in which she demands to immediately release her husband and calls his arrest "a political persecution".

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) suspended Russia's membership in the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

According to the law, it will be possible to deprive Viktor Medvedchuk of his deputy mandate only after a court ruling, Verkhovna Rada spokesman Ruslan Stefanchuk said on the national telethon.

Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal together with presidents of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Poland visited Borodyanka, Kyiv region, ruined by Russians.

The Royal Court of Jersey has frozen assets related to Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich in the amount of more than $ 7 billion. According to Forbes magazine, the oligarch's fortune in 2021 was estimated at $ 14.5 billion.

"Kremlin does not see any reasons to include Medvedchuk in exchange of prisoners of war and detainees. "Medvedchuk is not a citizen of Russia. He has no connection to the special military operation", — Peskov says.

Zelenskyy addresses international community: "Without additional weaponry, this war will become an endless bloodbath, spreading misery, suffering, and destruction. Mariupol, Bucha, Kramatorsk – the list will be continued. Nobody will stop Russia except Ukraine with Heavy Weapons."

Without additional weaponry, this war will become an endless bloodbath, spreading misery, suffering, and destruction. Mariupol, Bucha, Kramatorsk – the list will be continued. Nobody will stop Russia except Ukraine with Heavy Weapons. #ArmUkraineNow pic.twitter.com/miSOL5zvuA

— Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) April 13, 2022

BBC states that video distributed with their [BBC] branding with Russian propaganda on Kramatorsk missile attack is fake and that the company is taking action to have the video removed from the web.

We are aware of a fake video with BBC News branding suggesting Ukraine was responsible for last week’s missile attack on Kramatorsk train station. The BBC is taking action to have the video removed. We urge people not to share it and to check stories on the BBC News website.

— BBC News Press Team (@BBCNewsPR) April 13, 2022

Russia has violated international humanitarian law by deliberately attacking the civilian population in Ukraine, and attacks on a maternity hospital and drama theater in Mariupol can be qualified as war crimes, an independent OSCE mission said.

CNN team got into firing zone in Saltivka, in northeastern region of Kharkiv. The team was at the positions of the AFU when Russian troops launched artillery and opened fire with small arms. At the request of the Ukrainian military, journalists moved to a safer place, — the CNN informs.

Presidents of Lithuania Gitanas Nauseda, Latvia Egils Levits, Estonia Alar Karis and Poland Andrzej Duda have arrived to Kyiv.

Zelenskyi in his address to the parliament of Estonia: "All international institutions that have to keep peace - the UN, OSCE and others - are not capable of stopping the Russian aggression. Thought that is what they were created for".

More than 500 000 Ukrainians have already been deported by force by Russian occupants. Russians use mass deportations again, filtration camps that try to destroy everybody who supports the national idea. Volodymyr Zelenskyi stated that in his address to the parliament of Estonia. 

Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses people and politicians of Estonia.

Russia and Belarus are excluded from the Bologna Process, as the Minister of Education Serhii Shkarlet informs. It was made to meet the petition of 39 state and 6 advisory participants of the process, created to coordinate the quality of higher education in Europe.

Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Karim Khan agreed to act jointly with the Office of the Prosecutor General. Karim Khan's team lead an independent investigation of crimes against humanity committed on the territory of Ukraine.

Great Britain imposes personal sanctions on Victor Medvedchuk, the OFSI  of British Treasury informs. Sanctions cover the freezing of Medvedchuk's assets under British jurisdiction.

Russian government prepares a regulatory framework to transfer to Russian families orphans abducted from Ukraine.

The mobile divisions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have shot down two Russian aircrafts that were attacking cities and villages of Kharkiv region - the Head of Kharkiv Region State Administration informs.

Finland will decide if their apply to the NATO within weeks, the Prime Minister Sanna Marin states following a meeting with Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, — the CNN informs.

Ivano-Frankivsk City Council made a decision to rename 25 city streets the names of which were connected to Russian and Soviet history.

The Swedish government made a principled decision on joining the NATO. The application to join the Alliance will be submitted at the summit in Madrid in late June, Svenska Dagbladet magazine states.

Another interception from Security Service of Ukraine. A Russian soldier says that their invasion does not look like "liberation from Nazis". He somehow does not want to be proud. 

Russian troops committed a missile strike on Cherkaske near Slovyansk. Some apartment buildings are damaged and seven people are injured, as the Head of Donetsk Region State Administration informs. 

An impressive protest action against mass rape of women in Ukraine by Russian soldiers took place in front of the Russian Embassy in Tallinn (ERR).

As Derzhzvyazok (State Connection Network Service) informs, the Russian hacking group "Sandwork" can be engaged in the attack on the Ukrainian energy sector that was aimed at the power outage in one of the regions of the country. 

There are more than 1500 dead Russian soldiers that no one wants to take from the mortuaries of Dnipro City - the Deputy Mayor of the city Mykhailo Lysenko in his interview to Current Time channel. 

"Germany does not have to be a country that always slows down", — a CDU/CSU deputy in Bundestag Jürgen Hardt says on air of the ARD channel, speaking of heavy weapons supply to Ukraine. He believes that Germany has to "play a winning part in promoting such a decision in Europe", — information according to DW.

"Germany does not have to be a country that always slows down", — a CDU/CSU deputy in Bundestag Jürgen Hardt says on air of the ARD channel, speaking of heavy weapons supply to Ukraine. He believes that Germany has to "play a winning part in promoting such a decision in Europe", — information according to DW.

Russia intends to hold a military parade on May 9 in the temporarily occupied part of Mariupol, the advisor of the mayor Petro Andryuschenko informs. Although, according to him, they do not have neither machinery, nor people resource to do so.

The RF military shelled Kharkiv region for over 50 times in the last 24 hours. In the result of these shellings 22 people were injured, 7 were killed. Furthermore, a two-year-old boy died at the hospital, injured a few days ago.

Russians use 13 mobile crematoria to destroy the bodies of killed civilians in the temporarily occupied part of Mariupol, the MDI informs. The dead Russian soldiers are being cremated there too to hide the real number of casualties. The work of mobile crematoria was also noted in Chernihiv region and also in Novoaidar city of Luhansk region. The MDI states these are deliberate attempts to destroy evidence of genocide and war crimes.

Hollywood actor Mickey Rourke names the new commander of the Russian war against Ukraine General Dvornikov "the heartless ruthless butcher" and calls on to the NATO and the USA to give Ukraine everything it needs.

Russian occupants tried to boil coffee bean porridge in the Red Forest:

Ukraine became one of the most ammo contaminated countries in the world because of the full-scale aggression of the RF. The clearing of the territories will take years, — the SUSE informs.

Road Infrastructure in Kyiv region is getting gradually rebuilt.

Another occupant conversation intercepted by the SSU demonstrates how Russians are afraid of open fractures of their "colleagues" and as soldiers to be sent to Ukraine in the result of rotation process refuse to obey orders.

In Rubizhne, a residential district burned down - 10 people were rescued, in Severodonetsk, the building of a medical building was on fire - Luhansk Regional State Administration.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine urge everyone to return spare parts from the trophy Russian equipment so that it can fully serve the defense of our country - Sumy Regional State Administration.

President of France Emmanuel Macron refused to call the war against Ukraine genocide and called Ukrainians and Russians fraternal peoples - CNN.

On April 12, the State Emergency Service detected and neutralized 1,163 explosive devices in Kyiv Region.

45 residents of Severodonetsk and Girsky left for the west of Ukraine - Luhansk Regional State Administration.

Chornobyl nuclear power plant is currently under the protection of the National Guard. The National Police is documenting the crimes of the occupiers whereas rescuers and pyrotechnics of the State Emergency Service are inspecting and demining the area - Minister of Internal Affairs Denys Monastyrsky.

Adviser to the head of the President's Office Oleksiy Arestovych informed that units of the 36th Marine Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine "due to a difficult and very risky maneuver" broke through to join the Azov Regiment, "which professionally arranged that."

After the wide international publicity of the genocide of the Ukrainian people in Bucha, Russian troops started to use mobile crematoria in Ukraine burning bodies of both killed civilians and occupiers - Central Intelligence Service at the Ministry of Defense.

Rescuers towed three humanitarian convoys with 21 buses, which could not continue moving due to bad weather in the Zaporizhzhia region.