Police and municipal employees were carrying a body found in the garden of a house in the town of Vablia, outside Kyiv, on Friday. Photo: AFP
More than 900 corpses of civilians were discovered in the region surrounding kyiv following the departure of Russian forces from the Ukrainian capital. Most of them had gunshot wounds, police said Friday, in an indication that many people “just implemented “.
The number of deaths announced by Ukrainian authorities almost two weeks ago has doubled.
Andriy Nebytov, head of the kyiv regional police, said the bodies were abandoned in the streets or gave them a temporary burial. He cited police data indicating that 95% died from gunshot wounds.
“Because of this, we understand that under (Russian) occupation, people were just killed in the streets,” Nebytov said.
Every day more corpses are found, under rubble and in mass graves, he added. He said the largest number of victims were found in Bucha, where there are more than 350.
According to Nebytov, Bucha utility workers collected and buried the bodies in the kyiv suburb while the area remained under Russian control. Russian troops, he added, were “persecuting” people who expressed strong pro-Ukrainian views.
A lifeless body in the city of Irpin, outside kyiv, this Friday. AP
Kyiv missiles
Meanwhile, Russia’s Ministry of Defense has promised to increase missile strikes against the Ukrainian capital in response to the alleged Ukrainian invasion of Russian territory, a threatening warning that came after the loss of its flagship Black Sea.
The threat to intensify attacks on the Ukrainian capital came after Russian officials accused Ukraine of injuring seven people and destroying about 100 residential buildings with airstrikes in Bryansk, a region on the border of Ukraine.
Authorities in another region on Russia’s border also reported Ukrainian shelling on Thursday.
“The number and scale of missile attacks against targets in kyiv has intensified in response to the nationalist regime in kyiv committing any terrorist attack or diversion into Russian territory,” a Russian Defense spokesman said. Minister Igor Konashenkov.
Bags with corpses were taken to the morgue, in Bucha, Ukraine, a few days ago. Photo: AP
Russia has issued the warning as it continues to prepare a new offensive in eastern Ukraine. Meanwhile, residents of the city of Mariupol in the southeast of the country reported seeing Russian soldiers digging up corpses.
attack ship
In kyiv, the resumption of the bombing could mean the return of sirens against the aircraft heard in the early days of the invasion and of scary shelter nights at subway stations.
Shy signs of pre-war life are re-emerging in the capital after Russian troops failed to capture the city and retreated to focus on eastern Ukraine, leaving evidence of possible war crimes.
A cement plant outside kyiv, this Thursday. Photo: AP
Ukrainian officials have not confirmed attacks on Russian targets, and reports by Russian authorities cannot be independently verified.
However, Ukraine claimed an attack on a major Moscow warship the other day. If true, Wednesday’s attack on the Moskva guided missile ship, named after the Russian capital, represents a significant victory for Ukraine and a symbolic defeat for Russia.
The United States believes the Russian military ship sank the previous day in the northern Black Sea was hit by at least one Ukrainian missileas claimed by the kyiv government, a senior U.S. defense official said on Friday.
Senior U.S. defense officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to comment on an intelligence analysis, added that the Moskva ship was hit on Wednesday by at least one, and most likely two, Neptune missiles. , which provoked a big fire aboard the ship.
The official did not provide further details other than to say that the United States thought the Russians had suffered several casualties aboard the ship.
The warship sank while being towed to port on Thursday after sustaining serious injuries. Moscow acknowledged a fire on board, but not an attack.
Moskva has capacity for 16 long-range cruise missiles. If the attacks of Ukrainian forces reached the ship, it is likely that ehe was the largest warship to sink in battle since 1982.
A British submarine torpedoed an Argentine Navy cruiser named General Belgrano during the Falklands War, killing more than 300 sailors.
Blow up the Russian Navy
The sinking of a Russian ship greatly reduces Russia’s offensive capacity in the Black Sea.
Analysts disagree on the importance of the event for the course of the war. In any case, the loss was seen as a symbol of Moscow’s fate in a seven-week invasion, widely considered a historic mistake following its departure from the kyiv region and much of northern Ukraine.
“Russia’s ‘flagship’ warship is a worthy diving spot. Now we have another place to dive into the Black Sea. We will definitely visit the devastation after our victory in the war,” the Ukrainian tweeted. defense minister on Friday. , Oleksiy Reznikov, in a gesture of arrogance.
In his late-night address on Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told citizens that they should be proud that they survived 50 days under Russian attack when the occupiers “gave us the maximum and five. “
Russia’s warning to resume airstrikes has not prevented Kievans from taking advantage of a sunny and slightly warmer spring day as the weekend approaches. More people than usual took to the streets on Friday, walking dogs, riding electric scooters and walking hand in hand.
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