The situation in Borodianka, near Kiev, is “much more horrible” than in Bucha. This was stated by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“The embassies are returning to Kiev. We need your support, even at the level of diplomatic symbols and gestures. Please return to our capital and continue your work.” This is the appeal launched by Zelensky to the diplomatic missions in the country that had moved from Kiev after the Russian attack. The return of the ambassadors to the capital is “a signal to Russia that Kiev is ours”, he added, quoted by CNN, thanking Turkey and Lithuania for returning.
Joe Biden welcomes the UN decision to expel Russia from the Human Rights Council. “It is a significant step by the international community to further demonstrate how Putin’s war has made Russia an international pariah,” Biden said, noting that “Russian forces are committing war crimes. Pictures of Bucha and others. areas of Ukraine are horrible. ”
New political and media outburst by the Ukrainian government, which asks NATO and the entire West for more incisive actions to support itself and to counter the Russian attack, starting with the supply of weapons to its own army, to be accompanied by heavier sanctions against the Moscow regime. “I have three requests today for the Atlantic Council: arms, arms, weapons”,Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told the Atlantic Council. And the UN General Assembly approved the US request to suspend Russia from the Geneva Human Rights Council with 93 votes in favor. The draft resolution – Italy also includes co-sponsors – calls for the “suspension of Russia’s right to be part” of the Council expressing “grave concern for the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, in particular for the news of violations and abuses of international humanitarian law by Moscow “. SANCTIONS –The European Parliament, in a resolution intended to create a watershed in the path of sanctions against Moscow, has asked Brussels to apply the “total and immediate” embargo on Russian energy. To all the sources that Europe imports: coal, oil and above all gas. The yes in Strasbourg came just as the meeting of the ambassadors of the 27 member countries was taking place a new slowdown on the ok to the fifth package of sanctions, which includes coal. The approval, however, came in the evening at the end of a new Coreper meeting. In the next few hours Ursula von der Leyen will thus be able to bring the step forward made by Brussels to Volodymyr Zelensky. The president of the EU Commission will be in the Ukrainian capital with the High Representative for Foreign Policy Josep Borrell. “I want to send a message of unwavering support to the Ukrainian people and their courageous struggle for our common values,” stressed von der Leyen from Sweden, where he started the long journey to Kiev. Thus, while the G7 has announced new economic and financial sanctions “in key sectors of the Russian economy, including energy”, in Brussels the technicians of the European capitals have been busy hours to polish all the knots of the fifth package of measures. Two, first of all. The one relating to the exceptions included in the ban on access to European ports for Russian ships, which met with the doubts of Greece and Poland. And the one relating to the existing contracts between European companies and Moscow on the import of coal. L’ The EU has realized that a total and immediate embargo would have entailed significant penalties. Germany, the largest importer of Russian coal in the EU, has requested and obtained a postponement of the beginning of the embargo. So the start, for those with existing coal contracts, will be in August.RUSSIA ACCUSES KIEV, ISTANBUL DRAFT MODIFIED– Kiev’s inability to make agreements implies a plan to go on and jeopardize the dialogue with Russia, meanwhile the Russian Foreign Minister quoted by TASS says, adding however that Moscow will continue to have talks with Ukraine by presenting its proposal for an agreement despite the provocations. Tass reports it. Ukraine has presented a new draft agreement with Russia, which Moscow considers a deviation from the agreements reached in Istanbul. “Ukraine yesterday presented its draft agreement with Russia to the negotiating team, which obviously deviates from the key provisions recorded at the Istanbul meeting on March 29,” Lavrov said. “Furthermore,
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‘Entry with tourist visa’. They are in Tijuana (ANSA) THE SITUATION ON THE FIELD – Mariupol will be “liberated” by Russian forces “soon”. The Kremlin spokesman said this in an interview with Sky News Uk, during which he once again called the reconstruction of the attack on the city hospital “false”. Peskov insisted on labeling the accusations against the Moscow troops based on the images taken in Bucha as the result of “fake news” and “lies” passed off by the Ukrainians: among other things, raising suspicions about the date of the satellite images, disseminated by a a company that – he argued in the face of complaints from the British journalist who showed them to him – has ties “with the Pentagon”.Ukraine’s internal affairs minister advisor Anton Gerashchenko said some 200 residents of Borodyanka, a town north of Kiev devastated by Russian bombings, are currently missing. Ukrinform reports it. “According to the village chief of Borodyanka, there are currently about 200 residents missing. And we understand that many, many of them are gone forever. We will never forgive this crime: both the Russian occupiers and their leaders will be responsible for the killings of the Ukrainians,” he said. said Gerashchenko.
The Russian offensive continues in the Eastern regions, where the institutions aim to open new humanitarian corridors to allow the exodus of civilians and have launched a warning: it is “the last chance” to leave. Meanwhile, reports of new atrocities by Russian troops in various areas occupied and then returned to Kiev’s control are multiplying . Irpin Mayor Alexander Markushin said that the Russians in the city first shot people and then passed over the bodies with tanks.and “we had to pick up the remains with shovels”. “The occupiers started dividing families, taking men away and leaving children and women behind. The men were taken away in exchange for prisoners.” The mayor explains that the men who did not want to give up and follow the Russians “were shot”. The mayor noted that there have also been cases of rape of women. “In addition to killing and harassing women, the Russian invaders ruthlessly ransacked Irpin’s homes, taking everything from washing machines to underwear,” explains Maruskin.
In Mariupol, besieged for over a month and again under attack, the toll is over 5,000 civilians, including 210 children, killed since the invasion began. The city would be destroyed 90% and 40% of the urban territory “is no longer rebuildable”. The authorities, with a video, also denounce the deportation of the staff and patients of the city hospital, forced to get on Russian armored vehicles and then disappeared. Zelensky warned that now Odessa could be in the crosshairs: “We must save it from the destruction suffered by Mariupol”.
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The speech of the Ukrainian president to the Greek parliamentarians (ANSA) MORE BODIES IN BUCHA –An investigation into the circumstances of the deaths of people dressed in civilian clothes who were found dead in Bucha by the Ukrainian authorities after the withdrawal of the Russian army is “the next step”: a senior UN official said during a visit to the city ​​near Kiev. “The world is already deeply shocked,” said Martin Griffiths, the UN under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs, to a Butcha municipality official, assuring that “the next step is to conduct an investigation”.
“Until yesterday evening – says the mayor of Bucha Anatoly Fedoruk in an interview with Ukrainian TV Dw – 320 civilians were found killed. The specialists are now working on the bodies: forensic specialists, law enforcement agents, but the number of bodies discovered is growing every day. They are found in private estates, parks, squares, where it was possible, when there was no bombing, to bury the bodies. People tried to bury the dead so that the dogs would not take them away . Almost 90 percent of the cases are bullet wounds, not shrapnel. “Asked where the corpses were found, the mayor explains that “three places were found in Bucha: the territory of the Ukragrosnab enterprise, where the Russian invaders dumped the bodies of people with their hands tied like firewood. Then,” the streets of Vokzalnaya, Yablunskaya and the ‘Promenisty’ children’s camp, where they also found people with tied hands and bullet wounds “. Fedoruk says that “both before and during the occupation, I was with the community, as it should be. Personally I saw three episodes in one place. I was in a private house, next to which executions took place. This is Lech Kachinsky. Street, where the Yuzhteploenergomontazh enterprise is located, there it was just a checkpoint of the Russian invaders and they shot three cars at a certain time interval. There were four people in a car: a man, a pregnant woman and children, three of them were killed. The woman’s body was buried by her husband in the trench that the Russian occupiers had dug for shelter. Instead of a cross, she installed the license plate of the car they were traveling on and the bodies of the children were taken to the church and buried. I don’t know if that man survived and what his fate is. “As for the houses, the mayor lists:” 112 private houses have been razed and cannot be restored, a hundred others were damaged. In addition, 18 condominiums were severely damaged and burned due to the bombing “.
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Posted by the City Hall (ANSA) NEW CONDEMNATION OF MATTARELLA – The President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella expressed “appreciation for the commitment deployed in recent years” by the foundations of banking origin “in addressing the numerous criticisms that have arisen – so in the message sent by the Head of State to the XXV National Congress of Acri started in Cagliari -, at the territorial, social, generational, international crisis level, as in the case of migration and now the consequences of the unacceptable aggression against Ukraine by part of the Russian Federation “. THE MARKETS– Close up for the Moscow Stock Exchange. The Moex index rose 0.92% to 2,635 points. On the currency front, the ruble, which during the session returned to the levels of the beginning of March, ie in the 75 dollar area, closed at 79 against the American currency and at 86 against the euro. European stock exchanges closed down. Frankfurt loses 0.51% with the Dax at 14,079 points. Paris registers a -0.57% with the Cac 40 at 6,461 points while London marks a -0.53% with the Ftse 100 at 7,547 points.
