The Ukrainian authorities have confirmed that the week-long operation to evacuate civilians hiding in underground shelters at Azovstal, organized thanks to the efforts of the UN and the Red Cross, has been successfully completed.

Volodymyr Zelensky himself reported about 300 evacuated women, children and elderly people, the figures of other humanitarian agencies vary, but everyone agrees that there are no civilians left at Azovstal. Now efforts are focused on the evacuation of all the wounded and doctors from the territory of the plant.

Meanwhile, the Azov fighters spoke at a press conference via video link about what awaits them.

“All of us, the military contingent of the Mariupol garrison, are witnesses of war crimes committed by Russia,” he stressed. Surrender is not an option, because Russia is not interested in our survival.

“We will continue to fight as long as we are alive,” Captain Svyatoslav Palamar, deputy commander of Azov, said in turn, once again calling on the international community to provide assistance with the removal of the wounded.

In his emotional Sunday address on the occasion of the anniversary of the end of World War II (Day of Remembrance and Reconciliation), Volodymyr Zelenskyy compared Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to the actions of Nazi Germany during World War II.

“This year we say ‘Never again’ differently. We hear ‘Never again’ differently. It sounds painful, cruel. Without an exclamation, but with a question mark. You say: ‘Never again?’ Tell Ukraine about it,” he said. Zelensky.

According to Zelensky, Russia staged a bloody reconstruction of Nazism in Ukraine, but no evil can escape responsibility and can not hide in a bunker.

Today, Russian President Vladimir Putin sent telegrams to the leaders of several countries, including the self-proclaimed DPR and LPR, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, as well as “the peoples of Georgia and Ukraine”, in which he congratulated them on the anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War.

In telegrams to the heads of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, Putin said that today Russian servicemen, “like their ancestors, are fighting for the liberation of their native land from Nazi filth” and used Stalin’s phrase “Victory will be ours.”

According to the head of the local administration, Sergei Gaidai, dozens of people could have died as a result of an air strike on a school in the village of Belogorivka in the Lugansk region on Saturday evening.

According to him, about 90 people were hiding in the school, almost all the villagers who did not have time to evacuate. From under the rubble managed to get 30 people, among them seven wounded. “Most likely, all 60 people who remained under the rubble of buildings died,” the head of the regional administration suggested.

Throughout the last week in the area of Belogorovka – villages near Lisichansk and Severodonetsk – there have been constant battles.

Day of Diplomatic Activity and

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrived in Irpen in the Kyiv region without an announcement.

“He came to Irpen to see with his own eyes all the horror that the Russian invaders did to our city. And, of course, he was shocked. After all, he saw not military facilities burned and completely destroyed, but the houses of Irpinsk residents, who until recently enjoyed life and planned the future,” the mayor of the city Alexander Markushin wrote in his telegram channel.

On Sunday, US First Lady Jill Biden also visited Ukraine. She arrived in Uzhgorod, where she met with the wife of Volodymyr Zelensky. Jill Biden’s visit to Ukraine was also not announced.