In the town of Pologi in the Zaporizhia region of southeastern Ukraine Russian soldiers seized and undermined a district hospital, the Central District Hospital. This was reported by the Zaporozhia Regional Military Administration, quoted by the UNIAN agency. “Medical staff and patients were not allowed to return to the facility,” the statement reads, “the wounded Russian soldiers remained in the hospital.”
“Slovenian diplomats will be accompanied by Lithuanian diplomats in Kyiv. The EU mission is also returning to Kyiv with the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and EU High Representative Josep Borrell, who will travel to Kyiv later this week. Slovenia has shown the way this time. Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa wrote on Twitter.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will address the United Nations Security Council today to denounce the Russian killings of civilians in Bucha and other parts of the country. “Currently, more than three hundred people have been killed and tortured in Bucha alone. It is likely that the list of victims will be much larger when the whole city is inspected. And that’s just one city,” Zelenskyy said in a night of video intervention, adding that “there is already information that the death toll of the occupiers in Borodyanka and some other liberated cities could be even higher.” And his commitment is “to identify as soon as possible all the people involved in these crimes in the Russian army. And to punish them all”, in “joint work with the European Union and international institutions, especially the International Criminal Court”. .
In his latest video, Zelenskyy denounces that “there is already information that Occupier casualties in Borodyanka and some other liberated towns may be even higher than in Bucha. In many villages in the liberated districts of Kyiv, Chernihiv and Sumy, the occupiers did things that local people didn’t even see during the Nazi occupation 80 years ago, he adds.
For the day of Seven humanitarian corridors are planned in Ukraine today, including the besieged city of Mariupol. This was announced by Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshcuk via telegram. The route from Mariupol leads to Zaporizhia (about 200 kilometers northwest) by its own means, Vereshchuk explains The Russian Armed Forces “despite promises, do not allow anyone to go to Mariupol“Moreover, he adds:” The occupiers blocked representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Mangush. After the negotiations they were released at night and sent to Zaporizhia.
Russia is trying to cover up its soldiers’ war crimes in Ukraine. That’s what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says in a latenight video, in which he accuses Moscow of conducting a “propaganda” operation. “After the discovery of the mass killings of civilians in the Kyiv region, the occupiers in other parts of the country may adopt a different attitude,” he said. “They are already launching a sham campaign to hide their guilt in the mass killing of civilians in Mariupol. They will conduct dozens of staged interviews, record new tapes, and kill people to make them believe they were killed by others. (HANDHABEN).
Zelenskyj will also address the Spanish Parliament today. Moscow rejected such accusations: “They are just a provocation, a staging, our military did nothing of what they are accused of. That did not happen and we have evidence that we will propose to the Security Council,” he said. said the Ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia. Moscow has claimed the civilian killings took place after its troops withdrew from Bucha, but many civilians were killed more than three weeks ago when the Russians controlled the city, according to an analysis of satellite imagery conducted by the New York Times. So much so that President Joe Biden has called for a war crimes trial against Vladimir Putin, while US Ambassador to the UN Linda ThomasGreenfield has joined London in proposing to exclude Russia from the Geneva Human Rights Council. Germany and France have decided to expel dozens of Russian diplomats, and Moscow has responded by announcing “proportionate measures.” As for the ground offensive, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan estimated it “could take two months or more.” While Ukraine’s general staff said in the mission report released this morning that the Russians are “amassing troops and focusing their efforts on preparing an aggressive operation in the east. Replenish supplies with food, fuel, lube, and ammo. In order to gain full control over the territory of Donetsk and Lugansk Oblasts”. Russian forces continue to blockade the city of Kharkiv and try to gain full control of Mariupol, with continued artillery bombardments destroying residential areas and city infrastructure, the report added It also denounced that “Russian troops have carried out attacks on Mykolayiv with cluster munitions prohibited by the Geneva Convention. Civilian shelters and medical facilities, including a children’s hospital, were hit. And there were dead and injured, including children.” In the meantime, the sirens have started again in large parts of the country as the bombings resumed.