Together with Slavutych and Chernihov, Moscow announced on Friday that other cities were encircled by Russian troops. However, Mariupol remains one of the most difficult cities in the war in Ukraine. There are still tens of thousands in the city. It also turned out that around 300 people may have been killed last week in the Russian attack on the Mariupol theater.
Simone Leonhartsberger (text), Viviane Koth (photo), Birgit Samer (video), Harald Lenzer (editing), all ORF.at
They want to continue to believe that everyone is safe, but the testimonies of witnesses suggest otherwise, according to the Ukrainian authorities. Ukraine also accuses Russia of forcibly relocating hundreds of thousands of people from devastated Ukrainian cities to Russia in order to use them as “hostages” to force Kiev to surrender.
According to Ludmila Denisova, from the Ukrainian Ombudsman, 402,000 people, including 84,000 children, have been abducted to Russia. The Kremlin gave almost the same figures for the displaced, but said it wanted to go to Russia voluntarily. More than 1,000 civilians have died since the beginning of the war, according to the United Nations.
The United Nations investigates war crimes
The European Union accuses Russia of committing war crimes in Ukraine. Russia is attacking the civilian population by attacking, inter alia, hospitals, schools and shelters. The UN Human Rights Office also investigates reports of war crimes on both the Russian and Ukrainian sides.
US President Joe Biden wants to find out about the situation during his visit to Poland. A speech in Warsaw is scheduled for Saturday.
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