The Ukrainian army found a torture room in the basement of a local hospital in Bucha, used by the Russians to hide the bodies of five civilians found bent forward and with their hands tied behind their backs. “It is nothing but the tip of the iceberg,” assures the head of Ukrainian diplomacy Dmytro Kuleba. Because the cities martyrs of an ever more atrocious war are multiplying: Odessa, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv, Kherson. In Mariupol, there is insistent testimony on hundreds of civilians forcibly taken from shelters and forced to flow into transition camps before being deported to Russia. Moscow denies and speaks of hundreds of inhabitants who voluntarily wanted to enter Russian territory.
More missiles also on Odessa. The situation was worse in nearby Mykolaiv, on which the Russians would continue to drop the notorious cluster bombs on civilian buildings and among people queuing at a bus stop. A massacre. A few kilometers away, in the center of Kherson now completely occupied by the Russians, the desperate appeal of the local authorities arises: “All the supplies of food, medicine and fuel are running out.” And in Kharkiv there are dramatic hours waiting for the final attack.
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00.45 – The Russians aim to “surround and conquer Kharkiv”
In Ukraine, Russian troops are concentrating on an offensive operation to “surround Ukrainian troops and conquer Kharkiv”: Oleksandr Motuzyannyk, spokesman for the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, is convinced of this.
00.36 – Zelensky: Russians will try to hide traces of crimes
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky believes that now that the world has learned of the crimes committed in the Kiev region, Russian soldiers will try to hide the traces of their actions. He said it in the new video message to the country. “We must also be aware that after the announcement of the mass murder of civilians in the Kiev region, the occupiers may have a different attitude towards their crimes in another part of our country. They are already trying to hide their faults in the mass murders in Mariupol. They’ll do dozens of interviews, re-edited tapes, kill people on purpose so that it looks like someone else killed them. Probably now the occupiers will try to hide the traces of their crimes. They didn’t do it to Bucha when they retired, but in another area it’s probably possible. ‘
00.29 – Medvedev: response to destructive diplomatic expulsion for bilateral relations
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says his country is not affected by the expulsion of its diplomats by various European countries, while Moscow will respond in a similar way. On Telegram, he wrote that “everyone knows the answer: it will be symmetrical and destructive for bilateral relations”.
00.21 – Zelensky: I will speak to the UN Security Council
00.13 – New York Times shows images that disprove Moscow about Bucha
The New York Times has published some satellite images that apparently contradict the Russian version of the Bucha massacre. The images, recorded by a satellite of the specialist company Maxar Technologies, date back to 11 March – the date on which Russian troops still occupied the city – show eleven bodies on the ground, all in the same street, called Yablonska. The New York daily maintains that from subsequent comparisons and checks it can be deduced that the bodies appeared on the streets between 9 and 11 March. Furthermore, their position – and the distance from other objects on the same road such as abandoned cars and trees – seems to coincide with the images recorded and transmitted last Saturday by a city councilor and in which a circular vehicle is seen along Yablonska Street avoiding running over the corpses. which lie left and right. Moscow denied that its soldiers had executed civilians before their withdrawal and today the permanent representative to the UN, Vassily Nebenzya, assured that the bodies appeared on the streets a few days after his soldiers left the city.
00.02 – Doctors Without Borders sets up the first train used as an emergency clinic
Doctors Without Borders, in collaboration with the Ukrainian railways and the Ministry of Health, has set up the first train used as an emergency clinic for the transfer of patients in serious but stable conditions from a hospital in Zaporizhzhia to the main reference hospitals in Lviv, where they will be able to receive specialized care away from the front line. This was announced by the non-profit organization, explaining that the first 9 transfers took place in these days. After nearly 24 hours of traveling by train, the mostly injured patients trying to escape Mariupol have arrived at Lviv hospitals where they will receive specialized care. With the aim of increasing the number of transfers, MSF is setting up a larger and highly medicalized train, with an intensive care unit on board, to meet the needs of patients who can be transferred to safer places to receive the best possible treatments and at the same time reduce the burden on hospitals close to the most critical areas of the conflict.
00.01 – Pentagon, $ 800 million package military shipments arrived over the weekend
Shipments of military aid related to the US $ 800 million security assistance package for Ukraine arrived in Kiev “over the weekend”. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said so. Another package will arrive “in the next 24 hours,” he added. This was reported by CNN.
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Bucha, the Ukrainian army releases images of the “torture room” used by the Russians
