Artillery shells lie on the ground next to destroyed Russian military vehicles in a field not far from the southern city of Mykolaiv on Sunday.
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Artillery shells lie on the ground next to destroyed Russian military vehicles in a field not far from the southern city of Mykolaiv on Sunday.
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As the weekend draws to a close in Kyiv and in Moscow, here are the key developments:
Ukrainian officials say 23 people were injured after a Russian Missile Attacked Chortkiv in the Ternopil region, western Ukraine. “There is no tactical or strategic significance in this attack, as in most other Russian attacks,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. speak on Sunday. “This is terrorism, just terrorism.”
Family of a 48-year-old British man detained by Russian-backed rebels calling for his release on Saturday after he was sentenced to death In a trial in the Donetsk People’s Republic by Ukraine’s separatists. Shaun Pinner, who had lived in Ukraine for four years, served in the Mariupol defense division before it fell to Russian forces. Another Briton and a man from Morocco were also sentenced to death in what the Pinner family described as “a demonstration trial”.
Russian forces are using incorrect ordinance, more deadly when ammo runs low, Ukrainian and UK officials said on Saturday. With the supply of modern weapons in short supply, Russia used old anti-ship missile designed to take down aircraft carriers. However, bullets are very accurate and can deal heavy damage.
A former British soldier was killed fighting in eastern Ukraine. Jordan Gatley, a former rifleman in the British army, is fighting on the front lines in Severodonetsk in the Donbas region of Ukraine. Both Ukrainian and Russian forces suffered heavy casualties in the fierce fighting around Severodonetsk, an important city that Russia wants to capture.
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Russia has achieved at least one of its war goals: return to Ukraine to Crimea.
Evgenia Kara-Murza, wife of jailed Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza, told NPR on Saturday that she had not contacted him directly for two months.
Open source intelligent methods is being used to investigate war crimes in Ukraine.
Previous developments
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