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Sri Lankan troops ordered to open fire on looters and vandals as protests continue - BBC

Sri Lankan soldiers walk past a burned out vehicle

Sri Lankan security forces have been ordered to shoot law-breakers on sight in a bid to quell anti-government protests on the island.

Demonstrators are calling for the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa over the island's worst economic crisis in history.

On Monday, his brother, Mahinda Rajapaksa, stepped down as prime minister amid violent street clashes.

But the resignation failed to bring calm and violence continued overnight.

On Tuesday, the government ordered troops to open fire on anyone looting public property or causing "harm to life".

It also deployed tens of thousands of army, navy and air force personnel to patrol the streets of the capital Colombo.

Despite their presence, the city's top police officer was assaulted on Tuesday afternoon by a mob accusing him of not doing enough to protect peaceful protesters.

At Colombo's Galle Face Green, on the sea front, crowds also continued to gather.

Police say eight people have died and the capital's main hospital says more than 200 people have been wounded since Monday.

Some were injured by pro-government mobs, others when police fired tear gas into crowds. Lawyers acting for the protesters told the BBC they were filing cases against supporters of the prime minister.

An island-wide curfew has been extended to Thursday morning as authorities seek to end the violence.

Evidence of last night's rioting is everywhere across Colombo - buses thrown into the lake, others with windows smashed out and tyres still burning.

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In the north-east, protesters gathered in front of Trincomalee Naval Base after unconfirmed reports that Mahinda Rajapaksa had gone there with family members after escaping from his Colombo residence.

More than 50 houses of politicians were burned overnight, reports say. Crowds remain outside the office of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, brother of Mahinda, calling on him to quit.

From war heroes to villains

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa (L) and Prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa (R), attend a session at the Parliament in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 07 April 2022.

Anbarasan Ethirajan, BBC News, Colombo

Sri Lankans are still reeling from the violence that has erupted. Many politicians are sheltering in safe houses or avoiding appearing in public.

"It is not at all safe, particularly for politicians on the government side," Nalaka Godahewa, until recently media minister, told the BBC. His house was among those torched.

Mahinda Rajapaksa, once celebrated by the majority Sinhalese as a war hero for defeating the Tamil Tiger rebels, has suddenly become a villain. Many blame his supporters for targeting anti-government protesters, which then set off a chain of violent events.

The Rajapaksas have always stood together but this time their differences are out in the open. The problem appears to have started after Gotabaya asked the family patriarch Mahinda to "take one for the team" and resign.

How the family, who have dominated Sri Lankan politics for years, overcome this crisis is now an open question.

Since last month Sri Lanka has been gripped by escalating demonstrations over soaring prices and power cuts.

On Monday, government supporters clashed violently with protesters in Colombo outside Mahinda Rajapaksa's Temple Trees residence, and then at the main protest site at Galle Face Green.

Anti-government demonstrators set fire on the house owned by minister Sanath Nishantha of resigned Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa"s cabinet after ruling party supporters stormed anti-govt protest camp, amid the country"s economic crisis, in Arachchikattuwa, Sri Lanka, April 9 May 2022.

Police and riot squads were deployed, and tear gas and water cannon were fired at government supporters after they breached police lines and attacked protesters using sticks and poles.

Angry demonstrators retaliated, attacking government supporters and targeting ruling party MPs, including one who shot two people after a mob swarmed his car and then killed himself, according to police.

As the night went on, mobs of protesters across the country torched houses belonging to the Rajapaksas, various ministers and MPs. This included a house turned into a controversial museum by the Rajapaksas in the family's ancestral village in Hambantota in southern Sri Lanka.

Areas near the president's official residence were also set ablaze, according to reports. A municipal lawmaker died in hospital after an attack on his house.

Following Mahinda Rajapaksa's resignation, protesters attempted to breach the inner compound of Temple Trees where he was staying along with several loyalists, and set fire to a bus outside the home. Police fired shots in the air and tear gas in an attempt to disperse them.

Mr Rajapaksa was flown out of Colombo to an undisclosed location on Tuesday morning.

Elsewhere in Colombo, tensions remained high. Men armed with sticks and rods had established road blocks on the routes leading to and from the airport, and police and security forces - usually a common sight in the area - were nowhere to be seen.

A vehicle belonging to the security personnel and a bus set alight is pictured near Sri Lanka's outgoing Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa's official residence in Colombo 9 May 2022.

Sri Lanka is facing its worst economic crisis since gaining independence from Britain in 1948, and people are furious because the cost of living has become unaffordable.

The country's foreign currency reserves have virtually run dry, and people can no longer afford essential items including food, medicines and fuel.

The government has requested emergency financial help. It blames the Covid pandemic, which all but killed off Sri Lanka's tourist trade - one of its biggest foreign currency earners.

But many experts say economic mismanagement is also to blame.

Additional reporting by Tessa Wong in Singapore and Simon Fraser in London.

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Ukraine War: UK, US, and EU officially blame Russia for cyber attack targeting satellite company - Sky News

The UK, US and EU have formally accused Russia of being behind a cyber attack targeting a satellite communications network used in Ukraine.

Businesses and individuals using routers made by Viasat, an American business that provides broadband-speed satellite internet connections, were knocked offline just before tanks began to roll into the country.

"The cyberattack took place one hour before Russia's unprovoked and unjustified invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, thus facilitating the military aggression," the EU said in its statement.

"Although the primary target is believed to have been the Ukrainian military, other customers were affected, including personal and commercial internet users," the Foreign Office added.

As a result of the attack 5,800 wind turbines in Germany were knocked offline as they depended upon Viasat routers for remote monitoring and control.

The company said in total tens of thousands of its terminals were effectively destroyed and needed to be replaced.

UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said: "This is clear and shocking evidence of a deliberate and malicious attack by Russia against Ukraine which had significant consequences on ordinary people and businesses in Ukraine and across Europe.

"We will continue to call out Russia's malign behaviour and unprovoked aggression across land, sea and cyberspace, and ensure it faces severe consequences."

Viasat previously stated that it was "working closely" with wholesale distributors to bring its customers back online.

"Because of the wholesale nature of the business, Viasat does not typically transact directly with end-users. Instead the distributors work directly with end-customers and can identify those affected to provide support for restoring service."

The company said that new modems are being provided as the most efficient way to restore service.

"Viasat has already shipped tens of thousands of replacement modems to distributors and is ready to ship additional modems as needed," it added.

The attack was described as "yet another example of Russia's continued pattern of irresponsible behaviour in cyberspace, which also formed an integral part of its illegal and unjustified invasion of Ukraine," in the EU's statement

"Such behaviour is contrary to the expectations set by all UN member states, including the Russian Federation, of responsible state behaviour and the intentions of states in cyberspace.

"Russia must stop this war and bring an end to the senseless human suffering immediately," the EU added.

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Sri Lanka: MP dies in stand-off with angry protesters as homes of politicians set on fire in escalating violence - Sky News

An MP in Sri Lanka's ruling party has died after a stand-off with anti-government protesters and the homes of a number of other politicians have been set on fire as violence escalated in the country.

The prime minister has quit and his younger brother, who is the president, is also under pressure to go as the country grapples with its worst economic crisis in decades.

Mahinda Rajapaksa says he wants to help form an interim, unity government, and his resignation came after police used tear gas and a water cannon on his supporters who had attacked protesters outside the president and PM's offices in the commercial capital Colombo.

At least nine people were taken to Colombo's National Hospital for treatment relating to injuries or tear gas inhalation, according to a health official.

As many as 150 people were wounded throughout the day, reports said.

It was the first time the opposing sides had clashed since an unprecedented wave of demonstrations began in late March.

MP Amarakeerthi Athukorala died after a stand-off with anti-government demonstrators in the town of Nittambuwa near Colombo, a police source told Reuters.

At least three other people were injured and the area remained tense with dozens of protesters still at the site.

In Colombo, protesters hijacked a bus used to transport pro-government supporters, according to a witness, one of several incidents reported in the city.

There were also reports of multiple attacks on the houses and election offices of politicians. The residences of MPs Sanath Nishantha and Ramesh Pathirana were set ablaze.

Pro-government supporters were attacked in at least four locations as they were returning from Colombo, it was reported.

And the houses of at least two mayors were also set on fire, according to police sources.

The prime minister's supporters attacked protesters who had been demonstrating outside his official residence for weeks, hitting them with wooden and iron poles.

They then marched to the president's office, where they attacked protesters there and set their camps on fire. Police used tear gas and a water cannon at the protest site, but not forcefully enough to control the mob.

A nationwide curfew has been imposed, on top of the state of emergency that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa declared last week in the face of escalating protests.

A government spokesman said all cabinet members had stepped down as well as the PM.

The island nation of 22 million people has suffered prolonged power cuts and shortages of essentials, including fuel, cooking gas and medicines.

It is on the brink of bankruptcy and has suspended payments on its foreign loans.

Hit hard by the pandemic, rising oil prices and tax cuts, Sri Lanka has as little as $50m (£40m) of useable foreign reserves, finance minister Ali Sabry said last week.

The government has approached the International Monetary Fund for a bailout, and has been holding a virtual summit with officials from the multilateral lender aimed at securing emergency assistance.

Long queues for cooking gas seen in recent days have frequently turned into impromptu protests as frustrated consumers blocked roads.

Domestic energy companies said they were running low on stocks of liquid petroleum gas mainly used for cooking.

Sri Lanka needs at least 40,000 tonnes of gas each month, and the monthly import bill would be $40m (£32m) at current prices.

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Ukraine war: Russian ambassador has red paint thrown in face by protesters in Poland - Sky News

Russia's ambassador to Poland had red paint thrown in his face by protesters opposed to the war in Ukraine.

Sergey Andreev's face was covered with the substance as he arrived to pay his respects at a Warsaw cemetery to Red Army soldiers who died during the Second World War.

He had been due to lay flowers on Victory Day, a Russian holiday marking the defeat of Nazi Germany by the Allies, which was celebrated with pomp in a parade at Red Square in Moscow.

'Rational' Putin emerges in Victory Day address - Ukraine news live

But his arrival at the Soviet Soldiers Cemetery in the Polish capital saw him met by hundreds of activists.

Video shows red paint being thrown from behind Mr Andreev before a protester standing beside him throws a big blob of it in his face.

The demonstrators prevented the ambassador and others from laying their flowers at the cemetery.

The protesters carried Ukrainian flags and chanted "fascist" and "murderer" at Mr Andreev, while some were dressed in white sheets smeared with blood, symbolising the Ukrainian victims of Russia's war.

Other people in his entourage were also splattered with what appeared to be red paint.

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Police arrived at the scene to help the ambassador and other members of his delegation leave the scene.

It came as protesters also marched in Warsaw to protest against the war, parking a tank on a tractor in front of the Russian embassy on Sunday evening.

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Since the war began in February, images of Ukrainian tractors hauling off Russian tanks have been symbols of Ukrainian resistance.

The Soviet cemetery is the final resting place of more than 20,000 Red Army soldiers who died fighting while helping to defeat Nazi Germany.

While Poland has removed some monuments to the Red Army in the years after it ended Moscow-backed communist rule, it has allowed the cemetery to remain undisturbed.

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Ukraine war: Vladimir Putin tells Victory Day parade military action was necessary due to West 'preparing for invasion of our land' - Sky News

Vladimir Putin says Russia's military intervention in Ukraine was a pre-emptive move to ward off aggression, accusing the West of "preparing for the invasion of our land, including Crimea".

The Russian president made the false claims about NATO expansion and also Kyiv's desire to acquire nuclear weapons in a speech while leading anniversary celebrations in Moscow of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in 1945.

Victory Day in Russia - an annual commemoration - is the country's most important holiday and a source of national pride, marked by a huge parade of soldiers and military hardware through Red Square.

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But the backdrop of this year's spectacle of tanks, planes, rockets and missiles is different.

Russian soldiers are fighting in Ukraine - one of the deadliest conflicts in Europe since the Second World War, which Mr Putin has described as a "special military operation".

Intense attacks from Russian forces continue across the war-ravaged country, with ordinary Russians being told they are once again fighting against "Nazism".

Today's celebrations kick-started with Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu being driven around Red Square, saluting troops.

Then President Putin took centre stage and told his armed forces they were fighting for their country now.

"You are fighting for our people in Donbas, for the security of our motherland, its future," he said, attempting to justify the battle in Ukraine.

However, he did not take the opportunity to officially declare war or further mobilise the Russian military.

"The death of every soldier and officer is painful for us," he said. "The state will do everything to take care of these families."

He finished his speech with a rallying cry to the assembled soldiers: "For Russia, For Victory, Hurrah!"

Sky's defence analyst General Lord Dannatt described the parade as "ridiculous - in the context of what is going on in the battlefields of Ukraine today".

"We know how poorly the Russian military has done," he said. "This pomp and circumstance looks very professional, but when it came to the mud and the blood in Ukraine, they were found wanting."

Britain's defence secretary Ben Wallace said: "Really what President Putin wants is the Russian people and the world to be awed and intimidated by the ongoing memorial to militarism.

"I believe the ongoing und unprovoked conflict in Ukraine does nothing but dishonour those same soldiers."

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'Potential craziness of Putin'

The Russian leader's performance could be a sign there will be an end to the war, Sir Tony Brenton, former UK ambassador to Russia, said.

Speaking to Sky News, the top British diplomat said Mr Putin had recently shown "disturbing signs" of "losing it". But he said his speech today was "coherent" and a "very professional performance".

While Sir Tony said he did not agree with the message - which sought to justify Russia's invasion and hit out at NATO - he said it had "pushed all the right patriotic buttons".

"It is rather encouraging that it leaves me with the feeling that we are dealing with a rational individual there with whom hopefully in time it will be possible to do a sensible deal to bring this whole mess to an end," he said.

Lord Dannatt agreed, saying the issue of Mr Putin's rationality is important because any conflict with a nuclear power like Russia carries the risk that nuclear weapons could be used.

"It's the irrationality of the potential craziness of Putin that is the real worry, particularly if he's not well. Now, he looks pretty healthy to me this morning," said the former British Army chief.

He noted President Putin appeared rather "puffy" and struggling to move "freely" as he walked around the parade.

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Ukrainian commanders lash out at Kyiv over Mariupol resistance - Financial Times

The commanders of the Ukrainian forces holding out against Russian troops in the Azovstal plant in Mariupol lashed out at the government in Kyiv for not doing enough to help them defend the city.

“Our government failed in the defence of Mariupol, failed in the preparation of the defence of Mariupol,” said Ilya Somoilenko, a lieutenant in the Azov regiment, the military unit that has been leading the Ukrainian resistance from a last redoubt at the vast steel works on the edge of the city.

The “authorities have been sabotaging the defence of Ukraine for eight years,” he said.

Sviatoslav Palamar, deputy commander of the Azov regiment, accused the government of “cynicism” for celebrating the evacuation of small groups of civilians when so many people had been killed in Russia’s assault on the south-eastern port city.

The two officers were speaking to reporters via Zoom from one of the bunkers at the besieged Azovstal facility.

Their comments are the first public display of dissent within the Ukrainian military which has otherwise celebrated its battlefield achievements in fending off Russia’s full-scale invasion over 10 weeks. It is also a sign of the desperation of the Ukrainian forces who are under constant artillery bombardment and repeated attempts by Russian forces to storm their redoubt underneath the steel plant.

All remaining women, children and seniors were evacuated from the steelworks in the south-eastern port city on Saturday, according to the deputy prime minister Iryna Vereshchuk. In total 300 civilians have been freed from the plant.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian authorities, in conjunction with the UN and International Committee of the Red Cross, were planning to evacuate all medical staff and wounded soldiers.

Zelensky has also called for Ukrainian military personnel — thought to number between several hundred and 2,000 — to be allowed to leave the vast facility. He said on Friday international diplomatic efforts were under way to secure their safe passage.

The next phase of the evacuation would be “extremely difficult” but “we do not lose hope,” Zelensky said.

Somoilenko said “surrender was not an option because Russia is not interested in our lives, is not interested in letting us live”. He appeared to criticise what he said was an attempt to negotiate with Russia over their release and said they need a “third party to intervene to extract the garrison”.

“The evacuation could be done if some people did their jobs better,” Somoilenko added.

He claimed that the defenders of Mariupol had killed 2,500 Russian soldiers and had “blocked” 25,000 troops and therefore accounted for a disproportionate share of Ukraine’s success against the invaders.

The Azov battalion has far-right origins but was incorporated into the Ukrainian armed forces in 2014 and is considered one of the best trained parts of the military.

Ukrainian officials say Moscow has been trying to crush the resistance at Azovstal so that president Vladimir Putin could present a battlefield success when Russia celebrates the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany on May 9.

Russian forces continued to attack Ukrainian positions along the 1,000km frontline and struck targets over the weekend, including Odesa. Up to 60 civilians are feared dead after a Russian air strike on a school in eastern Ukraine.

A school in Belogorovka, a village in the Donetsk region close to the front line of fighting between Russian and Ukrainian troops, was hit by a bomb on Saturday, according to the regional administration. Residents of the village were thought to be sheltering in the building and an adjacent cultural centre when it was struck.

Serhiy Haidai, governor of the Luhansk region, said as many as 60 civilians were likely to have died in the blast and ensuing fire and another 30 were rescued from under the rubble. The Financial Times could not independently confirm the scale of the casualties.

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Ukraine war: 60 feared dead under rubble after Russian bomb hits school in Luhansk - Sky News

Sixty people are feared dead under rubble after a Russian bomb hit a school in eastern Ukraine.

About 90 people were sheltering in the building when the bomb struck, causing a fire to engulf it on Saturday, the governor of the Luhansk region said.

Two people have been confirmed dead and 60 others are "likely to have died under the rubble", Serhiy Gaidai wrote on the Telegram messaging app.

Thirty people have been rescued, seven of whom were injured, he added.

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Foreign Secretary Liz Truss responded to the attack saying she was "horrified" by the incident which resulted "in the deaths of innocent people sheltering from Russian bombardment".

"Deliberate targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructure amounts to war crimes. We will ensure Putin's regime is held accountable," she said.

The attack in the village of Bilohorivka came as Russian forces kept up their barrage of southern Ukraine, hitting the major Black Sea port of Odesa with cruise missiles.

They have also bombarded the steelworks on the coast in Mariupol where Ukrainian fighters remained trapped underground.

Vladimir Putin is aiming to complete the conquest of Mariupol in time for Russia's Victory Day celebrations on Monday, but his forces are still facing dogged resistance from within the bunkers beneath the factory.

In Russia, Victory Day on 9 May is one of the country's most important national events - a remembrance of the sacrifices made by the Soviet Union in defeating Nazi Germany.

'Evil has returned'

In an emotional address on Sunday for Victory Day, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said: "The evil has returned. Again.

"In a different form, under different slogans, but for the same purpose."

Mr Zelenskyy will hold talks with Boris Johnson, Joe Biden and leaders from other G7 nations on Sunday to discuss additional support.

It comes after the UK said it would provide a further £1.3bn in military support to Ukrainian forces.

In a sign of Ukraine's effective defence in the 11th week of the war, its military flattened Russian positions on a Black Sea island that was captured in the early days of the conflict, and has become a symbol of resistance.

Satellite photos showed Ukraine targeting Russian-held Snake Island in a bid to impede Moscow's efforts to control the Black Sea.

Snake Island, located some 20 miles miles off the coast, figured in a memorable incident early in the war when Ukrainian border guards stationed there defied Russian orders to surrender, purportedly using colourful language.

Meanwhile, Western military analysts also said a Ukrainian counteroffensive was advancing around the country's second-largest city, Kharkiv.

Ukraine's military said retreating Russian forces destroyed three bridges on a road northeast of the city to try to slow the Ukrainian advance.

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Russian troops on 'full combat readiness' in Moldova

In neighbouring Moldova, Russian and separatists troops are on "full alert", the Ukrainian military has warned.

The region has increasingly become a focus of worries that the conflict could expand beyond Ukraine's borders.

Pro-Russian forces broke off the Transnistria section of Moldova in 1992, and Russian troops have been stationed there since, ostensibly as peacekeepers.

Those forces are on "full combat readiness", Ukraine said, without giving details on how it came to the assessment.

Moscow has sought to sweep across southern Ukraine both to cut off the country from the sea and create a corridor to Transnistria, but it has struggled to achieve those objectives.

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