According to Ukrainian sources, the Russian army has intensified its attacks in the east of the country and gained ground in some areas in the Donbass region. “The enemy is continuing its offensive efforts in the Eastern Operation Zone with the aim of establishing full control over Donetsk, Luhansk and Kherson and maintaining the land corridor to the temporarily occupied Crimea,” the Ukrainian General Staff said yesterday.
In Luhansk, Ukrainian troops say they destroyed Russian military floating bridges across the Donets River. “Bilohorivka is just withstanding the Russian onslaught, our defenders have destroyed two pontoon bridges,” the military governor of the region, Serhiy Hajday, wrote yesterday in the Telegram news service. A third bridge will surely follow soon. He also presented drone footage of several dozen destroyed vehicles and armored vehicles.
UN deplores mass executions
According to the UN, “enormous human rights violations” have been committed in Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression. “The scale of illegal executions, including evidence of mass executions, in the areas north of Kyiv is shocking,” said Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, yesterday at the start of a special session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. There is now information about 300 cases. According to the UN Human Rights Council, around a thousand bodies have been recovered in the region of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.
Many of the human rights violations reviewed could be classified as war crimes. The scale of unlawful killings, including evidence of executions in areas north of Kyiv, is shocking, Bachelet said.
The Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Emine Japarova joined the special session in Geneva via video: “Thousands have lost their lives in my country. The bombardments and the Russian shelling have become part of our daily lives,” said Japarova. “Torture, kidnappings, sexual violence – the list of Russian crimes is endless.”
Source: Nachrichten
