Officials in recaptured Kherson area released a video of what appeared to be a Russian torture chamber, with 63 more bodies found in mass grave
Russian forces kept up a barrage of shell and missile attacks on various regions of Ukraine, many hitting power infrastructure, while heavy fighting persisted in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions in the east of the country.
Ukraine’s energy infrastructure came under renewed heavy attack on Thursday, from the capital Kyiv in the north to Dnipro in central Ukraine and Odesa in the south, the military said in a statement. In Donetsk and Luhansk regions, Russian forces have been reinforced by troops pulled from Kherson city in the south which Ukraine recaptured last week.Investigators in recaptured territory in the Kherson area uncovered 63 bodies bearing signs of torture after Russian forces left, Ukraine’s interior minister was quoted as saying.
Mass burial sites have been found in other parts previously occupied by Russian troops, including some with civilian bodies showing signs of torture. A Reuters witness in Kherson heard explosions in the center of Kherson on Friday morning and saw black smoke rising from behind buildings. Police blocked off access but the commotion did not seem to faze hundreds of people on the central square as they queued for humanitarian aid.
The board of the U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency , again urged Russia to withdraw immediately from Zaporizhzhia, Europe’s largest atomic plant, and to end all actions at Ukraine’s nuclear power plants.two Russian men and a Ukrainian man in absentia of murder for their role in the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014.
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