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Ukrainian Missing Persons Officer Oleg Kotenko at the mass grave in Izyum
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Ukrainian authorities are looking for more dead
8.40 a.m .:
According to Ukrainian information, the grisly discovery of a mass grave was made in Izyum.
Ukrainian authorities now fear more: According to the Ukrainian missing persons commissioner Oleg Kotenko, according to the agency Unian, in the Kharkiv region in recently recaptured areas for more bodies are being searched for.
The search is made more difficult by mines, but every effort is made - especially to be able to hand over the bodies of fallen soldiers to their families.
In addition to Isjum, the Russian army had fled other towns over the weekend.
Ukraine wants to show journalists newly discovered mass grave
8:27 a.m .:
After reports of a mass grave being found in Izyum in eastern Ukraine, journalists are to be brought to the city on Friday.
"We want the world to know what really happened and what the Russian occupation led to," President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a video message on Thursday evening.
According to information from Kyiv, the Russians fled the area on Saturday after a counter-offensive by Ukrainian forces.
The Ministry of Defense in Moscow had spoken of a "regrouping" of its troops, while even sources close to the Kremlin spoke of a devastating defeat.
It would not be the first mass grave discovered in the Ukraine war.
After the withdrawal of Russian troops from the Kiev suburb of Bucha in the spring, the Ukrainian side complained about the most serious war crimes there and in numerous other places, including the port city of Mariupol, which was occupied by Moscow.
"Bucha, Mariupol and now, unfortunately, also Izyum: Russia leaves death everywhere and has to answer for it," Zelenskyj said.
"The world must hold Russia to real responsibility for this war."
Federal government places Rosneft refineries under trusteeship
6:35 a.m .:
To ensure the operation of the refineries in Schwedt, Karlsruhe and Vohburg, the federal government places the crude oil importers Rosneft Germany (RDG) and RN Refining & Marketing GmbH under trusteeship of the Federal Network Agency.
This was announced by the Federal Ministry of Economics in Berlin.
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