HORROR WITHOUT END Russia uses hunger as a weapon in his attempt to take over Ukraine, says Zelenskyj in a video message to the Irish parliament. And he says Russian measures will result in food shortages and skyrocketing costs for millions of people around the world. And he again calls for convincing the EU to step up sanctions against Moscow to stop Russia’s war machine, accusing the Europeans of “indecisiveness” on sanctions.
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“Since February 28, after the first days of Russian military occupation in Gostomel, we started collecting missing persons lists. We have counted over 400 so far: These are fellow citizens with whom we cannot establish contact. So far there are also below about fifteen children. Fifteen other civilians were kidnapped, as far as we know from investigative sources. Acting mayor of the city of Gostomel, Taras Dumenko, told the ANSA envoy in Gostomel. Dumenko replaces the mayor who was killed during the occupation.
25 girls said they had been raped by Russian troops in Bucha. This is what a senior Ukrainian official told the BBC. Lyudmyla Denisova, commissioner for human rights in Ukraine’s parliament, said a tollfree number that supports victims of sexual violence has received at least 25 reports of rapes of girls aged 14 to 24 by Russian soldiers. “The violence happened a month ago. We will continue to document these horrific crimes and every criminal will be punished,” Denisova said, as Moscow denies committing atrocities in Bucha.
In Mariupol Russian soldiers set up mobile crematoria to burn the corpses of the killed residents and to cover the traces of crimes against civilians. This was reported by the Municipality of Mariupol by telegram, quoted by UNIAN. Eyewitnesses said that the Moscow army recruited “local terrorists” and Donetsk into special units to collect and burn the bodies, that is, left the “collaborators” to do the dirty work. “The Russians have turned Mariupol into an extermination camp. The analogy is gaining ground. This is no longer Chechnya or Aleppo: it is the new Auschwitz.”
THE POPE AND THE UN While the war in Ukraine continues to claim civilian casualties, Kyiv denounces it Disappearance of more than 400 people from Gostomel who, with Bucha and Irpin, bore the brunt of the offensive on the Ukrainian capital. And he reports at least two deaths in a Russian bomb attack on a distribution center for humanitarian aid in the Donetsk region. The Pope with some children fleeing Ukraine displays a blue and yellow flag brought to him from Bucha and says ‘no more war’, which warns to save the world from a shipwreck that threatens everyone. “In the war in Ukraine we are witnessing the impotence of the UN,” says Francis.
THE SANCTIONS The EU states have expressed a Consensus on the fifth EU sanctions package against Russia, but in order to have time to study technical issues, the formal decision has been postponed until tomorrow. This was learned from European sources at the end of the committee meeting attended by the ambassadors of the 27 to the EU institutions, Coreper. In the afternoon, technical issues will be deepened and under the knots we will find out later the subject of the Fifth Package of Measures is the behavior with regard to the existing agreements between EU countries and Russia on the import of coal.
The US must demonstrate its commitment to solving the crisis in Ukraine Lifting of sanctions imposed on Russia: This is China’s position expressed by the Foreign Ministry spokesman. Beijing is also urging the parties to hold back until the results of the investigation into the Bucha atrocities are released, because Kiev’s accusations in Moscow about what happened must be based on facts. But Ursula von der Leyen is pushing from the EU, saying no one can be neutral: “China has a responsibility and he absolutely has to take a clear position“, emphasizes.
The Russian withdrawal from some parts of Ukraine “is like the ebb of a wave leaving uncovered the death and destruction they have left in their wake,” according to the phrase US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said upon his arrival in Brussels that night to the NATO meeting, he says the horror that Ukraine shares with the world for the massacres of civilians left behind by the Moscow military. Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova said after an evening visit to Bucha that the Moscow military is already investigating no fewer than 5,000 cases of alleged war crimes. War crimes, the judge added, would be the first to be investigated, “followed by crimes against humanity and genocide.” Blinken said he “sadly fears we’ll see more scares when the Russians pull out,” and announced that the United States has allocated an additional $100 million in additional military aid to Kyiv to “meet Ukraine’s urgent antitank needs.” cover up”. “, i.e. Javelin guided missiles, which the Ukrainian military has so far successfully used against Russian tanks.
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Francesco: “Today we often speak of ‘geopolitics’, but unfortunately the logic of the strategies of the most powerful states dominates, to assert their interests by expanding the economic, ideological and military sphere of influence” (ANSA)
Shock at the first images of the dead left in the streets of Bucha, later revealed to have been left there for days or weeks, according to images taken by US satellites nearly a month ago, then widened with the announcement of new horrors appearing in Irpin and Borodyanka. The horrifying images of corpses being charred or left to decay, being crushed by tanks or dumped like garbage in bins and manholes are shown in the video that captured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s “j’accuse” at the Security Council address of the U.S United Nations, they did the rest. But the mosaic of terror is gradually being enriched with new tiles. Like Bucha Mayor Anatoly Fedoruk, who said he estimated the Russians killed at least 320 people in his city and said he personally witnessed some executions. Like that of a pregnant woman who wanted to flee to Kyiv in a car with other people and was killed by Russian soldiers. Or like the video captured by a Ukrainian drone at the end of February and released in the last few hours, showing a cyclist riding alone along the road, which is later shot full of corpses and gunned down by gunfire as soon as it turns at an intersection by an armored Russian lurking on the crossbar. His body turns up a month later in the same spot, next to the bike. Or a photo posted in the Guardian showing a newly discovered mass grave next to a church in the city of martyrs. Or the denunciation of female prisoners of war by the later liberated Russians, who felt humiliated, intimidated and forced to undress. Today, on the 42nd day of the war, heralded in the night by air warnings in Zaporizhia and in distant Lviv, the international community is preparing for further pressure on Moscow: New sanctions are planned by the United States compared to other banks and stateowned companies.