Attacks on civilians continue in the third week of war as the Russia and Ukraine negotiations to agree on a ceasefire they move very slowly.
In the last day, Ukraine has denounced that Russia has bombed a theater in the besieged city of Mariupol. A building that was precisely the largest refuge that the Ukrainian city had, and thousands of residents were sheltered in it. Russia has denied the attack.
According to estimates by the Mariupol Mayor’s Office, in the words of the deputy mayor, between 1,000 and 1,200 people were sheltering at the time of the bombing in that theater. Satellite images show how the word “children” was painted in Russian in the courtyard of the theater for the building as a special protection zone.
The scope of the attack and the number of fatalities are still unknown. The latest figures for civilians killed in the city of Mariúpol (without counting this latest attack) spoke of more than 2,400 dead.
In addition, Ukraine has also communicated the attack of Russian troops on a bread queue in Chernigov, in which 10 people would have died. Russia also denies authorship.
In the capital, in kyiv, at least one person has died and three have been injured in the early hours of this Thursday after debris from a downed missile hit a residential building, according to the emergency service of Ukraine. The 16-storey building was attacked around 5:00 a.m. and 30 people have been evacuated so far. Rescue teams continue to search for people who may have been trapped under the rubble, according to several local media.
New attacks on civilians after which President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyhas assured in an interview with the American chain NBC that Russia has already crossed “all the red lines” and has warned that the Third World War could have begun. “If they are intentionally launching those missiles at kindergartens, at schools or universities, that is a crossing of every line,” Zelensky stressed.
From the United States, the president Biden has called Vladimir Putin a “war criminal” for the first timesome words that the Kremlin has described as “unacceptable and unforgivable”.
Source: Lasexta
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