As fighting rages, investigators find 63 bodies with signs of torture in Kherson region
Fierce fighting is raging in eastern Donetsk province, including the towns of Pavlivka, Vukhledar, Mariyanka and Bakhmut, Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovich said.
Russian forces withdrew from the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson last week after the Ukrainian counter-offensive.
“These troops have now been partially redirected from the Kherson region and (…) are being deployed for the ‘liberation’ of Donetsk and Luhansk,” he explained.
Arestovich added that Russian forces that withdrew from Kherson have also launched an offensive in the southern Zaporizhia province and may be planning to attack Kharkiv in the north, from where they had been pushed back by the Ukrainians.
As the battles rage, investigators found 63 bodies with signs of torture in the region of Kherson, after the withdrawal of the Russians from there, as announced early this morning by the Ukrainian Ministry of the Interior.
The Ukrainian Minister of Internal Affairs, Denis Monastirskistated that “the investigation is just beginning, so many more detention and burial sites will be identified.”
The minister added that investigators have recorded 436 incidents of war crimes during the Russian occupation of Kherson, while eleven detention facilities have been found so far, including four where torture was carried out.
Biden: Ukrainian missile
The American president Joe Biden disputed the statements of his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskythat the missile that fell in Poland was not Ukrainian.
“That’s not the evidence,” Biden told reporters from the White House after returning from a trip to Asia.
Despite the fact that the Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, Washington and Poland itself pointed out that the explosion in the Polish village of Sevodov was caused by a Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile, Zelensky reiterated yesterday that “I have no doubt that it was not our missile”. He explained that he is basing his conclusion on reports from the Ukrainian military, which “I can only trust.”
“According to the information we and our allies have, it was an S-300 missile made in the Soviet Union, an old missile, and there is no evidence that it was fired from the Russian side,” the Polish president said yesterday Andrei Duda. “It is very likely that it was shot down by Ukrainian air defenses,” he added.
However, Stoltenberg stressed that the ultimate responsibility lies with Russia, since it started the war in Ukraine in February.
The incident occurred on Tuesday as Russia launched a barrage of missile attacks on Ukrainian cities, targeting energy infrastructure and causing blackouts that are now affecting millions of Ukrainians. Kyiv reported the heaviest bombardment in nine months of war.
According to Zelensky, technicians are working nonstop to restore power. “We are talking about millions of customers. We are doing everything we can to restore power. Both production and supply” explained the Ukrainian president.
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