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Putin's Wagner mercenaries throw grenades into houses in Ukraine
Moscow has claimed to have destroyed a large stockpile of military equipment from the US and several European countries near the Bohodukhiv railway station in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region.
Russia’s defence ministry also said it had hit 18 Ukrainian military facilities overnight, including three ammunition depots in Dachne, near the port city of Odesa.
It comes afrer Amnesty International said on Friday there was compelling evidence that Russian troops had committed war crimes, including extrajudicial executions of civilians, when they occupied an area outside Ukraine's capital in February and March.
Civilians also suffered abuses such as "reckless shootings and torture" at the hands of Russian forces during their failed onslaught on Kyiv in the early stages of the invasion launched by the Kremlin on 24 February, the rights group claimed in a report.
Amnesty’s senior crisis response adviser Donatella Rovera told a news conference in Kyiv “these are not isolated incidents”.
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Show latest update 1651938777 UK pledges ￡1.3 billion in support for Ukraine’s fight against Putin’s Russia
The UK will provide an extra ￡1.3 billion in military support to Ukraine, in a dramatic escalation of assistance for Volodymyr Zelensky’s forces as they fight the Russian invasion.
It is the highest rate of UK military spending on a conflict since the height of the campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The ￡1.3 billion, drawn from the UK’s reserves, includes ￡300 million of military kit promised by Mr Johnson earlier this week, such as anti-battery radar systems to target Russian artillery, GPS jamming equipment and night vision devices.
Aisha Rimi 7 May 2022 16:52
1651937455 Watch: Entire children's cancer ward flees Ukraine conflict
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Entire children's cancer ward flees Ukraine conflict
Emily Atkinson 7 May 2022 16:30
1651935631 Mariupol road signs changed to Russian ahead of Victory Day parade
Pro-Moscow seperatists were pictured this taking down traffic signs in Ukrainian and English and replacing them with Russian ones outside the besieged city of Mariupol.
A statement from the Donetsk People’s Republic said on Thursday that “updated road signs” were set up outside the southeatern port city, that has been the focal point for some of the most fearsome Russian bombings.
“Work to change road signs across liberated territory will continue,” the statement added.
My colleague Joe Middleton reports:
Mariupol road signs changed to Russian ahead of Victory Day parade Pro-Russian seperatists pictured tearing down signs written in Ukrainian
Emily Atkinson 7 May 2022 16:00
1651935392 Kharkiv hit by three shelling attacks, says governor
Kharkiv’s governor has reported three shelling attacks overnight on the city and in the village of Skovorodinyvka, which caused a fire that nearly destroyed the Hryhoriy Skovoroda Literary Memorial Museum.
Oleh Sinegubov said the museum’s collection was not damaged as it had been moved to a safer place.
Writing on social media, he said: “The occupiers can destroy the museum where Hryhoriy Skovoroda worked for the last years of his life and where he was buried. But they will not destroy our memory and our values.”
Emily Atkinson 7 May 2022 15:56
1651934383 'It was not liberation, just plain murder': Mariupol midwife tells horrors of Russian attacks
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'It was not liberation, just plain murder': Mariupol midwife tells horrors of Russian attacks
Emily Atkinson 7 May 2022 15:39
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Images capture the visit of US first Lady Jill Biden and her Romanian counterpart Carmen Iohannis to a classroom at the Ecoala Gimnaziala Uruguay, or Uruguay School, in Bucharest, Romania, today.
Biden visited several classrooms to visit with children and the educators who are helping teach displaced Ukrainian children.
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Emily Atkinson 7 May 2022 15:13
1651931713 The Ukrainian gardener captured and tortured by invading Russian troops
fore Russian troops invaded Ukraine in late February, Igor Kurayan lived in the Black Sea city of Kherson, where he ran a shoe business and where, as a keen gardener, he relaxed by caring for his plants.
But now the 54-year-old Ukrainian is in a rehabilitation clinic in the centre of the country, recovering from the physical and mental trauma of being detained by the Kremlin’s forces for almost a month.
Speaking to Rory Sullivan days after he was released in a prisoner exchange, Kurayan claimed his captors abused him.
The Ukrainian gardener captured and tortured by invading Russian troops Captured and taken to Crimea, Igor Kurayan suffered brutally at the hands of Russian interrogators for almost a month before being released. He tells Rory Sullivan how he suffered
Emily Atkinson 7 May 2022 14:55
1651931012 Senior Russian lawmaker says US directly involved in Ukraine fighting
Mowcow has accused Washington of coordinating military operations in Ukraine which has amounted to direct US involvement in military action against it,
According Russia‘s most senior lawmaker said on Telegram today: “Washington is essentially coordinating and developing military operations, thereby directly participating in military actions against our country.”
Emily Atkinson 7 May 2022 14:43
1651928739 Two Russian missiles hit border villages in northern Ukraine, say local officials
Two locations in Ukraine’s Sumy region, near the Russian border with Ukraine, have been hit with Russian missiles today, the local governor has claimed.
A border guard was wounded by the strikes on the Myropilske and Khotin municipalities, Zhyvytskyi wrote in a post on the Telegram messaging app.
Reuters has said it was not able to immediately confirm details of the report.
Emily Atkinson 7 May 2022 14:05
1651926393 Why did Russia invade Ukraine? The conflict explained
Russia’s long-feared invasion of Ukraine continues to rage following Vladimir Putin’s announcement of his “special military operation” against the country in the early hours of 24 February, the Russian leader declaring, groundlessly, a need to “demilitarise and de-Nazify” the neighbouring state after eight years of fighting in the Donbas.
But what are the key issues behind the conflict, where did it all begin and how might the crisis unfold? My colleagues Thomas Kingsley and Joe Sommerlad have the details:
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Emily Atkinson 7 May 2022 13:26
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