Ukraine braced for a battle for control over the besieged country’s industrial east as Russian forces withdrew from the shattered outskirts of Kyiv to regroup. The Russians are expected to intensify their offensive across the Donbas region.
Ukrainian authorities urged people living in the Donbas to evacuate immediately.
Meanwhile, the U.S. and its Western allies have moved to impose new sanctions against the Kremlin over killings they labeled as war crimes. Capturing Mariupol would allow Russia to secure a continuous land corridor to the Crimean Peninsula, which Moscow seized from Ukraine in 2014.In the north, Ukrainian authorities said the bodies of least 410 civilians have been found in towns around Kyiv, victims of what Zelenskyy has portrayed as a Russian campaign of murder, rape, dismemberment and torture. Some victims had apparently been shot at close range. Some were found with their hands bound.
He called on Russians to demand an end to the war, “if you have even a little shame about what the Russian military is doing in Ukraine.” The Kremlin has insisted its troops have committed no war crimes and alleged the images out of Bucha were staged by the Ukrainians. “First we were scared, now we are hysterical,” said Valentyna Klymenko, 64. She said she, her husband and two neighbors weathered the siege by sleeping on stacks of potatoes covered with a mattress and blankets. “We didn’t cry at first. Now we are crying.”
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