The world is still shaken by the images.
Since the Russian troops left the cities of the Kyiv region, the discoveries of corpses and destroyed homes have multiplied, suggesting the "crimes against humanity" suspected of having been committed.
To show support for the Ukrainian people, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and EU Foreign Minister Josep Borrell are traveling to Kyiv on Friday.
Rockets fired at Kramatorsk station
At least 30 people were killed and around 100 injured after two rockets fell Friday morning on the Kramatorsk station in eastern Ukraine, through which thousands of people have been evacuating for several days to the rest of the country.
An AFP reporter saw the bodies in body bags of at least 20 people.
Present there earlier, he had noticed that hundreds of people still hoped to find a train there to leave the city, under threat of a major Russian offensive.
“Two rockets fell on Kramatorsk station,” said the Ukrainian railway company.
Evacuations to the East
This Friday again, the local authorities are trying to organize the evacuation of the population to the east of the country - and in particular in the Donbass - where they fear a particularly violent Russian offensive.
Departures, partly organized by train, had to be interrupted due to damage to part of the track.
They were able to resume overnight from Thursday to Friday, said the governor of the Lugansk region, Sergei Gaïdaï.
“Three evacuation trains carrying residents of the Lugansk and Donetsk region were able to leave for the West.
The track has been repaired,” he said early Friday.
“All the horrors we have experienced are likely to get worse.
Do not condemn yourselves to death!
Go!
The next few days will be the last chance “for an evacuation, he had launched the day before.
A “large number” of evacuees have already arrived in Dnipro, announced Thursday the mayor of this industrial city of one million inhabitants on the Dnieper, the river which marks the limit of the eastern regions of the country.
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According to the British Ministry of Defence, Russian forces which had been deployed in northern Ukraine have "completely withdrawn" to Belarus or Russia.
"At least some" will be "redeployed to the east to fight in Donbass, but need "significant resupply" and such an operation would take "at least a week", the ministry said in a statement released on Friday. on Twitter.
Sumy “liberated”
In addition to the region of kyiv, that of Sumy, in the north-east of Ukraine, on the border with Russia is "totally liberated", according to its governor.
"The territory of the region is liberated from the Orcs," Dmytro Jivitsky said on Telegram, using the nickname, taken from the book "The Lord of the Rings," which is frequently given to Russian soldiers in Ukraine.
He added, however, that the area was "not safe" and that clearance operations were underway.
No end to fighting before May 9
According to Emmanuel Macron, the war in Ukraine will not end "in the days to come", in particular because Vladimir Putin has his eyes riveted on the date of May 9, which corresponds to the capitulation of Nazi Germany in 1945 in the face of the Allies (including the USSR) - May 8 in France.
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"It's pretty sure that, for President Putin, May 9 must be a day of victory", so "I think the next few weeks will not see many diplomatic concessions from Russia", predicted Emmanuel Macron on RTL, fearing in passing "very difficult scenes in the coming days and weeks in the Donbass".
Ukrainian soldiers accused of abuses
Several media, including Le Monde, report the existence of videos - some of which have been authenticated - showing Ukrainian soldiers committing abuses against Russian troops.
On one of them, we see them shooting in the legs of Russian soldiers whose hands are tied.
On another, men are finishing off a visibly unconscious Russian.
Asked about the subject this Friday on BFMTV, Oleksiy Arestovitch, military adviser to Volodymyr Zelensky, assured that if the facts were proven, they had been committed “outside the official military framework”.
From the start of the war, "I signed documents specifying that each soldier had to respect the Geneva Convention", he assured.
Borodyanka “worse” than Butcha
After Boutcha, the horror in Ukraine could take on a new face: that of the city of Borodianka, where the situation would be "even worse", in the words of President Volodymyr Zelensky.
As he explained in a video on Telegram, there would be "more victims" in this city northwest of kyiv.
Twenty-six bodies have been extracted by Ukrainian rescue workers from the rubble of two apartment buildings in Borodianka, northwest of kyiv, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova announced on Facebook on Thursday.
This Friday morning, Oleksiy Arestovitch, military adviser to Volodymyr Zelensky, explained on BFMTV that there were “many more destroyed buildings” in Borodianka than in Boutcha.