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news of the day
More than 1,200 bodies have been discovered so far in the kyiv region, partly occupied for several weeks by Russian forces, Iryna Venediktova announced on Sunday. “To date, we have 1,222 people killed just for the Kyiv region,” said the Ukrainian Prosecutor General who spoke in English in this interview with Sky News. Iryna Venediktova did not specify whether the bodies discovered were exclusively those of civilians. A week ago, Iryna Venediktova reported 410 dead civilians found in the liberated territories of the kyiv region. The prosecutor then suggested that there were probably many other corpses that had not yet been picked up and appraised.
sentence of the day
The Russian army continues to wage war on civilians, for lack of victories on the front. »
These are the words of the governor of Kharkiv Oleg Sinegoubov pronounced this Sunday while the air strikes and the Russian bombardments had made at least two dead in Kharkiv, second city of Ukraine, and in its suburbs. The day before, ten civilians were killed and at least 11 injured in strikes around and southeast of Kharkiv.
The number of the day
5,600. This is the number of investigations for alleged war crimes opened by Ukraine on its territory since the beginning of the Russian invasion, said this Sunday the country’s attorney general Iryna Venediktova on the British channel Sky News.
The trend of the day
And here we go for a new round of encounters and meetings. Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer is due to become tomorrow, Monday, the first European leader to meet President Vladimir Putin in Moscow since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on February 24. The conflict in Ukraine will also be on the menu of a virtual exchange on Monday between Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Finally, the foreign ministers of the European Union will discuss this Monday in Luxembourg a sixth package of sanctions against Moscow, while the cessation of purchases of oil and gas to stop financing the Russian war effort divide the 27.