On the 12th day of the war in Ukraine, the Russian army continues its offensive. The country’s second city, Kharkiv, located 50 kilometers from the border with Russia, has been under heavy bombardment for several days. On Monday, March 7, the Kremlin army announced the opening of several humanitarian corridors and the establishment of a local ceasefire for the evacuation of civilians.
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For several days now, public organizations have been condemning the war crimes of the Russian army in Ukraine. The International Criminal Court and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe launched an investigation. On Sunday, during an interview with the American channel CNN, the head of American diplomacy, Anthony Blinken, considered these accusations against Russia “very credible.”
On the spot, Olga Guzva describes horrific scenes: every 15 minutes, bombs fall in her area. This 42-year-old scholar saw her university destroyed in just a few days, just like a stadium, a library, or a hospital. For her, there is no doubt that Russian forces are targeting civilians.
“They shoot at residential areas, at houses, at apartments, at hospitals where there are pregnant women. They even shoot at the queues in front of shops where people go to get water. So yes, the target is civilians. And they are aware. Because the Russians the captured soldiers say: they know that they came here to kill people, during the evacuation they shot people who tried to leave with children, the elderly, this is a terrorist attack on the entire population … There is no longer a place where you can be safe in this country “. It is difficult to give figures, but, according to Olga Guzva, there are at least a hundred dead in the city.
CERTIFICATE. “They came here to kill civilians”: in Kharkov, a Ukrainian woman condemns the war crimes of Russian soldiers pic.twitter.com/1DtniHNaKd
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The third negotiating session between representatives of Russia and Ukraine is scheduled for today. More than 1.5 million refugees crossed the border into neighboring countries in just 10 days, according to the latest UN figures, an unprecedented rate in Europe since World War II.