Ukrainian television reporter where enlisted in the army after the Russian invasion on February 24 was killed in a battle near the city of Izium (southeast), announced the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky.
THE Oleksandr Mahov, 36 years oldis at least the eighth journalist who is known to have been killed during the more than two months of the war.
Russians killed another person I knew, another journalist. I met Oleksandr Makhov in Sloviansk several years ago. He was one of the best Ukrainian war journalists. He joined the army after Russian full-scale invasion and was killed in combat near Izium. He was so young. RIP pic.twitter.com/tUxa2h0Un7
– Olga Tokariuk (@olgatokariuk) May 4, 2022
Mahof, known for his missions in war zones, had also reported in Antarctica. He had also enlisted and fought in 2014, when the war with the pro-Russian separatists broke out in Donbas.
Our colleague, journalist Oleksandr Makhov, died in the battle for Ukraine. #NoWords. #OnlyRage. pic.twitter.com/o0NG03qDJR
– ТРУХА⚡️English (@TpyxaNews) May 4, 2022
He was “patriotic,” “honest,” “always without vanity,” and “always among the bravest, on the front lines,” Zelensky said in a speech released earlier today.
344 civilians were rescued from Mariupol and other cities
Another 344 people were rescued from Mariupol and other cities, the government said in Kyiv.
Women, children and the elderly were evacuated to Zaporizhia, a city controlled by the Ukrainian army, Deputy Prime Minister Irina Verestsuk said.
“It’s still a small victory for us,” Ms. Verestsuk said on the Telegram platform, thanking the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross for their contribution.
The rescued people left Mariupol, Manchus, Berdyansk, Tokmak and Vasilifka yesterday. It is not clear how many of them had taken refuge in the basements of the vast Azovstal steel plant, the last sector under the control of Ukrainian forces in Mariupol, a port of strategic importance.
The Russian military announced yesterday that it intends to cease fire today, tomorrow Friday and the day after Saturday in order to leave the approximately 200 civilians who are estimated to remain in the factory.
Russian attacks are causing major problems for rail transport
The attacks of the Russian armed forces against the railway transport system have caused great problems in its operation, the public operation of the Ukrainian Railways announced on Wednesday.
About twenty long-haul services are delayed by up to 12 hours, according to the public company.
“Russia is trying to destroy our logistics lines because it can not defeat us on the battlefield,” the president’s chief of staff, Andriy Germak, told the Telegram.
He confirmed that a train station in the city of Dnipro had been attacked.
Videos uploaded to social networking sites, but impossible to verify independently, show that a bridge connecting the two banks of the Dnieper River was hit and according to local authorities, train traffic has been disrupted.
Russia is said to be cracking down on the railway system to prevent the shipment of weapons sent by Western countries to Ukraine.
Russian missile strikes were reported in various parts of Ukraine last night, particularly in the cities of Mykolaiv, Kyiv, Zaporizhia and Cherkasy.
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