April 6, 2022 9:09 am
Kiev military: “400 civilians disappeared in Hostomel”
About 400 residents of the Kiev suburb of Hostomel are missing after 35 days of Russian occupation. The complaint comes from the head of the local military administration, Taras Dumenko, who spoke to a local radio station in a program quoted by Ukrainska Pravda. Authorities are currently inspecting basements in the area, she added, citing, for example, people missing the case of a local doctor’s husband and son who were taken away 12 days ago. Dumenko then spoke of the impossibility of finding the bodies of some people who apparently were killed. Hostomel is located northwest of the capital Kyiv and close to an airport. The suburb has been the subject of heavy fighting since the start of the Russian invasion in February. Most of its 16,000 residents fled. Several residents of Hostomel were found in Bucha. A few days ago, Ukrainian troops regained control of Hostomel along with the other Kyiv suburbs, Bucha and Irpin.
Apr 6, 2022 9:02 am
Turkey calls for an investigation into the events of Bucha and Irpin
“Our main expectation is that an independent investigation into the events will be launched to determine who is responsible,” Turkey’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement on the Bucha and Irpin massacres in Ukraine. “Targeting on innocent civilians is unacceptable,” read the statement, which said “Turkey shares the pain of the Ukrainian people.”
April 6, 2022 09:01
Kyiv: “Russians hit an oil depot in Dnipro”
“During the night, the Russian army launched several airstrikes on the Dnipropetrovsk region and hit an oil depot.” The head of the Dnepropetrovsk regional military administration Valentyn Reznichenko wrote it on Telegram recorded by Ukrinform. “The night was alarming and difficult. The enemy attacked our area from above, hitting the oil depot and one of the factories. The oil depot with the fuel was destroyed. Rescue workers are still fighting the flames at the facility. There’s a big fire. The fuel is burning, he wrote. It is unclear whether there were victims.
April 6, 2022 8:14 am
Moscow: “We will respond to any hostile action against us”
Moscow “will respond to any hostile act against Russia.” This was explained according to the Tass agency, the spokesman for the Kremlin’s foreign ministry, in connection with the expulsion of Russian diplomats from various European countries.
April 6, 2022 08:10
Intel is closing its operations in Russia
American electronics chip giant Intel Corp has announced an immediate halt to all of its operations in Russia. “Intel continues to join the global community in condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine and calling for a speedy return to peace,” the comrade writes, also adding that it has taken steps to minimize the damage to its global business .
April 6, 2022 08:05
Ukraine, Pentagon: “The risk of a widening of the conflict is increasing”
“We face two world powers: the China and the Russiaeach with significant military capabilities and both geared towards fundamentally changing the rules based on the current world order: We are entering a world that is becoming increasingly unstable and the potential for significant international conflict is increasing, not decreasing,” said the chief of the common staff Markus Milley in a parliamentary hearing. The Russian invasion of Ukraine, he added, is “the greatest threat to the peace and security of Europe and perhaps the world“In his 42 years of service in the US military. A position shared by Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin in the same hearing.
April 6, 2022 08:03
US will release 100 million additional aid to Ukraine
The US Secretary of State, Anton Blinken He said the United States would provide $100 million in additional security aid to Ukraine to help it respond to the Russian invasion. “I have approved $100 million following a Presidential delegation to address Ukraine’s urgent needs antitank systems‘ the Brusselsbased Secretary of State said in a tweet.
Apr 6, 2022 7:58 am
The mayor of Bucha: “I have witnessed several episodes. Russian troops killed at least 320 people”
the Mayor of Buka He told the BBC that Russian troops killed at least 320 of his fellow citizens while occupying the city, adding that he personally witnessed some of those executions. “I watched several episodes,” says ANatoly Fedoruk. “There were three civilian cars trying to evacuate towards Kyiv and they were brutally shot. There was also a pregnant woman whose husband yelled not to shoot her. But they shot and brutally killed her. Fedoruk also told the BBC that Russians in particular were looking for politicians. The mayor invited the Russian foreign minister, who publicly denied the crimes attributed to the Russians, “to come to the city of Bucha to see the bodies of those killed with my own eyes, to look their families, their mothers and husbands in the eye . or orphaned children.
Apr 6, 2022 7:55 am
Kyiv: “At least 5,000 war crimes by the Russians”
At least 5,000 war crimes committed by Russians are currently under investigation in Ukraine, Ukraine’s Prosecutor General said. Irina Venediktova, in a briefing in Bucha, which was reported by some media, including the Kyiv Independent. “Even in this cruel situation, war crimes are the first to appear in the order followed by crimes against humanity and genocide‘ said Venediktova.