More than 1,500 civilians were killed in the Kiev region alone during the Russian occupation, to date
1,200 bodies have not been identified
: 75% of them are men, 2% children and the rest women.
This was stated by the head of the Ukrainian National Police (Npu) Igor Klymenko in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.
"We have received reports from all over the country and
opened criminal proceedings for the deaths of over 12 thousand people
found mainly in mass graves", he explained, "a large number of victims were discovered at home, death due to injuries", but precisely on the mass
graves
Klymenko stressed that it is too early to talk about definitive figures, "because every week the police find bodies".
"In
Bucha
, Irpin, Gostomel and Borodyanka there were many killed people lying on the street: snipers fired from tanks, from armored vehicles, despite the white bands that people wore on their arms as the Russians had imposed," he added. Klymenko.
THE PHILORUSSI: RESCUE OR DEATH IN SEVERODONESTK
The Ukrainian forces are blocked in Severodonetsk and "those Ukrainian military units that are there have
two options: follow the example of their colleagues and surrender, or die
. They have no other option".
He said this in a press meeting, as reported by Ria Novosti, the deputy head of the People's Militia Department of the self-styled Donetsk People's Republic Eduard Basurin.
According to him, yesterday the soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces blew up the last bridge connecting Severodonetsk with Lysychansk, and now they cannot leave the city.
According to the Ukrainians, Russian forces destroyed the bridge between Severodonetsk and the nearby twin city of Lysychansk.
thus effectively preventing the possible evacuation of many civilians
along that trajectory.
In particular, the governor of the Lugansk region, Serhiy Gaidai, said that the Russian military destroyed a bridge connecting the two cities and that at the moment only one of three bridges connecting the two cities remains viable.
ANSA agency
'Lugansk will fall soon', civilians fleeing Azot - World
Russia is making its superiority of men and means weighed on the field and within a few weeks can successfully conclude the offensive in Lugansk.
(HANDLE)
According to Gaidai
, the Russians currently control 70% of Severodonetsk
and the mass evacuation and transport of rubber goods due to the bombing are impossible.
"The Russians totally control most of Severodonetsk. The fighting is so fierce that the fight can last a day, not even on the street, but only for a skyscraper.
Azot has about 500 residents, 40 of whom are children
. The industrial zone it is heavily bombed by large-caliber enemy artillery, "wrote Gaidai.
Gaidai added that the refugees in Azot are not as strong as those in Mariupol's Azovstal, so "the authorities and the military are trying to carry out an organized evacuation with security guarantees".
KIEV: HEAVY WEAPONS EQUALITY NEEDED
To end the war, Ukraine needs heavy weapons parity with Russia.
The advisor to the head of the Ukrainian President's Office Mykhailo Podolyak said on Twitter, indicating the type of weapons needed:
1,000
155mm howitzers,
300
Mlrs multiple rocket launchers, 500 tanks, 2,000 armored vehicles, 1,000 drones.
And he added that
the decision on the number of weapons that the West will send is expected for Wednesday
, when defense ministers from around the world will meet at NATO headquarters in Brussels.
THE ZELENSKY ALARM
Russia is deploying reserve forces in Donbass to support the assault on the city of Severodonetsk, "where very fierce fighting is going on literally every meter", as well as in Lysychansk, Bakhmut and other areas.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr
Zelensky
said
this in his traditional video speech in the night, as reported by the BBC
.
For Zelensky, Russia can cross the milestone of 40,000 troops lost as early as June.
"In no other war in many decades have they lost so much", stresses the Ukrainian leader, accusing the Russian generals of considering their people as "
cannon fodder
".
Since February 24, Russia has launched
2,606 cruise missiles
in Ukraine.
This is stated in the traditional night video Volodymyr Zelensky stating that on the 109th day "of a full-scale war" Ukraine asks "one simple thing from our partners: Ukraine needs modern missile defense systems".
PUTIN REMOVES POKLONKAYA
Russian President Vladimir
Putin
, meanwhile, has signed a decree
relieving Natalya Poklonskaya
from the post of deputy director of the Federal Affairs Agency of the Commonwealth of Independent States, compatriots abroad and international humanitarian cooperation.
Interfax reports it.
The presidential decree, published on the official Internet portal for legal information, orders that "Natalya Vladimirovna Poklonskaya be relieved of the post of Deputy Director of the Federal Affairs Agency of the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation ".
Poklonskaya, a Ukrainian naturalized Russian, was the prosecutor general of Crimea and was elected in 2016 with United Russia to the State Duma.
In April, you criticized the Russian invasion of Ukraine, arguing that "the letter 'Z' symbolizes the tragedy and pain for both Russia and Ukraine".
MOSCOW: OPEN DIALOGUE WITH THE VATICAN
Russia welcomes the mediation efforts of the Holy See in the conflict in Ukraine.
This was stated in an interview with Ria Novosti by the director of the First European Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Alexey Paramonov.
"The Vatican leadership has repeatedly declared its readiness to provide any possible assistance to achieve peace and end hostilities in Ukraine. These statements are confirmed in practice. We maintain an open and confidential dialogue on a number of issues, mainly related to the situation. aid in Ukraine, "Paramonov said.