News of the day - 'Russia is mobilizing another 60,000 soldiers'

7.34 am -

Over 585,000 civilians have been evacuated to Russia from the self-proclaimed people's republics of Donetsk and Lugansk since the beginning of the war: the commander of the Russian National Defense Control Center, Mikhail Mizintsev, announced yesterday.

Interfax reports it.

On Saturday alone, Mizintsev added, 27,893 people were evacuated, including 5,535 children.

Overall, 117,405 minors evacuated from Donetsk and Lugansk so far.

6.29 am -

Russia is mobilizing another 60,000 soldiers.

This was stated by the Ukrainian army, according to the Guardian.

Kiev forces released their operational report at 6 am this morning, stating that Moscow has launched a "covert mobilization" of some 60,000 troops to replenish lost units in Ukraine.

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation therefore plan to involve around 60,000 people during the mobilization, "the Ukrainian Army General Staff said. Officials added that Kiev forces have foiled seven attacks in Donetsk and Luhansk Territory in the last 24 hours.

3.53 am -

From 4 am on February 24, 2022, when the armed attack by the Russian Federation against Ukraine began, to midnight on April 2, 2022 (local time), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for human rights (Ohchr) recorded 1,417 dead and 2,038 injured.

The dead included 293 men, 201 women, 22 girls and 40 boys, as well as 59 children and 802 adults whose sex is still unknown.

There are also 92 children among the injured.

2.13 -

The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, addressed the Russian forces as "murderers", "torturers" and "rapists" after hundreds of bodies of Ukrainian civilians were found in the streets of the cities around Kiev.

In a late night speech, the Ukrainian leader said that "hundreds of people were killed" and that "civilians were tortured and executed".

The Guardian reports it.

"I want every mother of every Russian soldier to see the bodies of the people killed in Bucha, in Irpin, in Hostomel," he added.