According to the Ukrainian army cited by Guardian, Russia is mobilizing another 60,000 soldiers
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Missiles on Ternopil, in the west of the country
Missile attack in Ternopil, a city in western Ukraine, the capital of the region of the same name. This was announced on Telegram by the mayor of Ternopil Serhiy Nadal, quoted by Ukrainska Pravda, who added that he expected official data from the West operational command. An enemy missile – he reported – was shot down in Slavuta, in the Khmelnytsky region of western Ukraine. The mayor said the air alert was ongoing and asked citizens to stay in shelters.
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Macron favors new sanctions after Bucha “crimes”
Emmanuel Macron declared himself “in favor” of the European Union’s decision on new sanctions against Russia, citing oil and coal, after the discovery of hundreds of civilian bodies in the Kiev region. “There are very clear indications of war crimes” in the town of Bucha and it is “almost certain that the Russian army was present,” the French president added to France Inter radio.
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Zelensky, “Russian military are butchers and murderers, they have brought evil”
After the discovery of dozens of civilian corpses in the liberated areas around Kiev, Volodymyr Zelensky called the Russian military “butchers, murderers, torturers, rapists, looters”. In a harsh video message broadcast overnight, the Ukrainian president spoke of the “concentration of evil that has come to our land” and said that the Russian military “deserves only death after what they have done”. “I want the mothers of Russian soldiers to see the bodies of the people killed in Bucha, Irpin, Hostomel. I want all the leaders of the Russian Federation to see how their orders are carried out, ”Zelensky said again speaking in Russian. The Ukrainian president announced the creation of a special body to investigate the killings of civilians in the areas around Kiev from which Russian troops have withdrawn.