According to the latest UN update, at least 3,309 civilians have been killed and 3,493 injured in Ukraine since Vladimir Putin ordered a military invasion. The organization pointed out that among the fatalities are 234 children, in addition to another 330 minors injured.
Bombings against the steel mill in Ukraine are on the rise as Moscow-backed separatists say they have already removed several Ukrainian-language road signs in the city and replaced them with Russian-language ones.
The Kremlin said on May 6 that “the time will come to celebrate Victory Day in Mariupol.” kyiv suspects that it would be May 9, the day that commemorates the triumph of the Soviet forces over the Nazi forces of Adolf Hitler.
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The increase in Russian attacks on Ukraine on the outskirts of kyiv have been deplored by the NGO Amnesty International, which asserted that they were war crimes.
Next Sunday, May 18, the G7 leaders will hold a videoconference to address the Ukrainian conflict. Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenszky will participate in the meeting, the German government announced.
According to Berlin government spokeswoman Christiane Hoffman, Chancellor Olaf Scholz “will hold the third video conference since the beginning of the year with the G7 partners.” He said that this date marks the end of the second world war in Europe.
The videoconference “will cover current issues, in particular the situation in Ukraine. Ukrainian President Zelensky will participate and report on the current situation in the country,” the spokeswoman added.
A scheme of aggression
Amnesty International accused Russia of the crime of “aggression” and warned that the aggressions against Ukraine are part of a plan, and not isolated cases.
“In Ukraine, Russia committed the crime of aggression, which must be prosecuted” by international justice, Agnes Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International, said at a news conference in kyiv.
“We know that the crimes committed by Russian forces in areas around kyiv were not incidental or collateral. They are part of a scheme,” added Callamard, who was referring to extrajudicial executions, the use of cluster bombs and the bombing of civilian settlements.
“The pattern of crimes committed by Russian troops that we have documented includes both unlawful attacks and the deliberate killing of civilians,” Secretary Callamard said in a statement.
The group said it collected evidence and testimonies in eight cities near kyiv, including Bucha. Following the withdrawal of Russian troops from the city in April, bodies were found lying in the streets, many with their hands tied behind their backs, and in mass graves. The governor of the capital region, Oleksandr Pavlyuk, stated that at least 1,235 civilian bodies had been found.
Meanwhile, the United Nations Organization warned that the situation experienced by civilians trapped in Mariupol is “horrible” and will leave “deep psychological scars” on those who manage to survive.
“In Mariupol there are still many civilians, men, women and children trapped, living in horrible conditions. We are trying to organize convoys with the Red Cross to evacuate them,” said Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for the UN Secretary-General.
Torture to Ukraine
This May 6, Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky affirmed that what is being experienced in the city of Mariupol is not a war, but a “bestial torture” by Russian forces. He accused Moscow of believing that it can get away with its war crimes because it is a nuclear state.
“The attack by Russian forces on Mariupol’s Azovstal steel mill is not a military operation, but torture by attempting to starve out the besieged,” Zelensky said in a video he sent to Chatham House, a notorious think tank. British tank.
The president’s statements were given almost simultaneously with reports on bombings in Odessa, from the territory of Crimea.
“Explosions can be heard in Odessa. Air defense is working. Stay safe », is the appeal of the authorities to the population.
Victims of the war in Ukraine
According to the latest update from the United Nations Office for Human Rights, at least 3,309 civilians have been killed and 3,493 injured in Ukraine since Vladimir Putin ordered 72 days ago. The organization pointed out that among the fatalities are 234 children, in addition to another 330 minors injured.
Most of the deaths were recorded from attacks with explosive devices, such as heavy artillery shelling and multiple launch rocket systems, the report said.
1,754 people, more than half of those who lost their lives, were in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine. And the remaining 1,555 civilians died in regions around kyiv, the capital Kharkov in the northeast and Mykolaiv and Odessa in the southwest of the country..
deportees from Russia
The human rights commissioner of the Ukrainian Parliament reported that “more than 1.1 million people, including 20 thousand children, have been deported to Russia.” She detailed that people “who do not pass the filtering procedure” are first taken to Tagarong, in the Rostov region, to then be “loaded on trains and transported throughout the territory of the Russian Federation.”
The data, the commissioner explained, was collected from family phone calls to the toll-free number opened for that purpose or “from these same people who had the opportunity to call from Taganrog.” Also, the Russians would have transferred another 30 thousand Ukrainians to Belarus, she reviewed ANSA.
It was learned on May 6 that the first lady of the United States (USA), Jill Biden, will take advantage of her trip to Europe to meet with Ukrainian refugees during the border visit.
“It is so important to the president (Joe Biden) and to me that the Ukrainian people know that we are with them,” the first lady told reporters traveling with her to Romania last night.
NATO allies Romania and Slovakia border Ukraine and have taken in some of the millions of women and children who fled after Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, triggering Europe’s biggest refugee crisis since the WWII.
Kremlin remarks
In the midst of the conflict that has been going on since February 24, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov asserted that Poland could pose a threat to Ukraine’s territorial integrity.
“The fact is that in recent months there was very hostile rhetoric from Poland, which has ceased to be friendly a long time ago, and it shows that a threat to the territorial integrity of Ukraine can come from Poland,” said the spokesman, who did not references to damage that has been caused by the attacks perpetrated on Ukrainian cities by the Russian army.
According to official statistics, some 3.8 million people left Russia in the first quarter of 2022, mostly for Georgia, Turkey, Kazakhstan and Finland. This was reported by the correspondent of the British newspaper Guardian in Moscow, who specifies that they are generally pro-Western people opposed to the government of Vladimir Putin.
A Moscow court issued an arrest warrant against journalist Alexander Nevzorov, whom they accuse of being a “foreign media agent”, based on the law that punishes the dissemination of so-called “fake news” about the activities of the armed forces Russians in Ukraine, reports the Interfax agency, reviewed ANSA
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