A mass grave was discovered in Buzova, a small liberated town a few kilometers west of the capital Kiev.
"On March 31 we found about fifty bodies along a 6-kilometer stretch of the main road leading to Kiev. Another 60 people are not found at the moment":
this was reported by the head of the village of
Buzova, Taras Didich, to the envoy of ANSA on the spot
.
Didich speaks from the gas station, where two bodies have been taken from a pit.
"The other corpses are in the hospital or in the morgue, they were picked up a few days ago on the street by the same relatives of the victims. The bodies have gunshot marks and have been on the street for more than ten days", adds the Ukrainian official. .
Buzova
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the village's landmark hospital, which was totally destroyed, was also hit, as well as the village school.
This was confirmed by the correspondent of ANSA on the spot.
During the bombing of the school, there were 150 people inside the building - explains the principal - who were all saved by running to the shelter below.
It is not yet clear whether there were people inside the hospital during the attack.
ANSA agency
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Pictures of April 8.
Moving south (ANSA)
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer will travel to Moscow tomorrow to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin.
He makes it known to an official source.
Yesterday Nehammer met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kiev.
THE STORY OF THE ENVIENT
"Nobody wants to negotiate with a person or people who have tortured our nation. This is understandable. As a man, as a father, I understand it very well":
so Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelensky in an interview with the PA relaunched on his Telegram profile .
But "we don't want to miss the opportunities, if we have them, of a diplomatic solution," he added.
"We have to fight, fight for life. You cannot fight for dust when there is nothing and there are no people. This is why it is important to end this war," he said again.
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In Mariupol, the Russian occupiers have organized a 'cleanup operation' among civilians ,"
Mariupol Mayor Petr Andryushchenko's adviser
announced
on Telegram, according to UNIAN news agency.
"This is a search for 'Nazis'. A Nazi to the Russians is anyone who loves his Ukraine and has not submitted to the occupier," he said, explaining that this 'cleansing' takes place throughout the city and for this purpose the Russians they have set up several checkpoints.
"In the cleaning process, the occupants don't hesitate to kill civilians right on the street, then take pictures, bragging about 'victory'," he explains.
According to the Ukrainian Attorney General, Irina Venediktova, Russia - he told Sky News - has committed war crimes throughout Ukraine.
"Overall there are 1,222 deaths in the Kiev region alone
. Of course, what we have seen on the ground in all regions of Ukraine are war crimes, crimes against humanity and we will do everything to prosecute them."
Referring to the missile attack on a train station in the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, Veneditktova said it was "a war crime. It was a Russian missile".
The governor of Dnipropetrovsk oblast reports a new Russian bombing that hit the Dnipro airport in eastern Ukraine.
The airport, he said, was "completely destroyed".
The plan to "terrorize" and "brutalize" civilians in Ukraine goes from the "highest levels" of the Kremlin to Vladimir Putin,
says White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan.
"The question of war crimes and atrocities in Ukraine" falls on the "Kremlin and the Russian president".
Russian Patriarch Kirill, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin,
called on supporters to unite to fight "Moscow's internal and external enemies".
"In this difficult period for our homeland, may the Lord help each of us to unite, even around power," he said.
"This is how true solidarity in our people will emerge, as well as the ability to reject external and internal enemies and to build a life with more good, truth and love."
Tass reports it.
Kirill, whose church has about 150 million followers, has repeatedly supported the military operation in Ukraine in his sermons.
Meanwhile, NATO is elaborating plans to deploy a permanent military presence on its borders to counter a future aggression by Russia
.
This is said by the secretary general of the Atlantic Alliance,
Jens Stoltenberg, in an interview with the British Telegraph
.
NATO is "in the midst of a fundamental transformation" that reflects "the long-term consequences" of the actions of Russian President Vladimir Putin, explained Stoltenberg, according to which "what we now face is a new reality, a new normal. for European security ".
"The whole of Europe - said Ukrainian President Zelensky in a video quoted by Ukrinform - is a target for Russia"
.
And "Russian aggression was not to be limited to Ukraine alone, to the destruction of our freedom and our lives," he said, calling on the West to take action to restore peace.
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"Put away your arms, begin an Easter truce. But not to reload your weapons and resume fighting, no. A truce to achieve peace, through real negotiations, also willing to make some sacrifices for the good of the people. In fact, what victory will it be that plant a flag on a pile of rubble? ".
This is the appeal launched by Pope Francis to the Angelus in St. Peter's Square.
THE CHRONICLE FROM THE CITIES
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Meanwhile, Bucha's civilian death toll is worsening: they are 360
, including at least 10 children, according to Kiev.
In Makariv, in the north of the country, 133 civilians were tortured and killed.
Meanwhile, as announced by Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk, another 4,532 people were evacuated yesterday, almost all from Mariupol and Berdiansk.
Satellite images show the presence of a Russian military convoy east of Kharkiv,
CNN writes.
The images, collected and analyzed by Maxar Technologies, for 8 April, show a military convoy about 12 km long moving south through the town of Velykyi Burluk, east of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine.
The images show a convoy made up of "armed vehicles, trucks with artillery trailers and support equipment," explains Maxar.
ANSA agency
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Pictures of April 8.
Moving south (ANSA)
Russian troops continue to use improvised explosive devices (IEDs) to cause casualties, lower morale and limit the freedom of movement of Ukrainians:
the British Ministry of Defense reports in its usual intelligence update
, in which it confirms the use by Moscow part of nitric acid in Rubizhne, in the Lugansk region (east).
Furthermore, Russian soldiers continue to attack infrastructure targets with a "high risk" of inflicting collateral damage on civilians.
The ministry then underlines that the departure of the Russians from the north of Ukraine shows mass graves, the "deadly" use of hostages as human shields and the practice of undermining civilian infrastructure.
"A school and two apartment buildings were bombed by the Russians in Severodonetsk in the morning"
, in Lugansk, and
"two elderly people were saved",
said the head of the Lugansk regional military administration, Serhi Gaidai, on Telegram.
"Two apartment buildings in the new district of the city, as well as a building of a high school, were the subject of a heavy fire by the Russian army," explains Gaidai.
The Russian forces have launched seven missiles in the area of Mykolayiv,
in southern Ukraine in the last hours: the southern Ukrainian operational command announced this on its Facebook page indicating that so far
no casualties have been reported
.
The Kyiv Independent reports it.
As Moscow seeks to strengthen the positions of its troops in the Mykolaiv and Kherson regions, the command notes, it also uses missile strikes to demoralize the population.
ANSA agency
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The direct from the cities (ANSA)