Volodylyr Zelensky condemns again. On Thursday, as Russian strikes killed at least 20 people in a city in central Ukraine, the Ukrainian president called for the creation of a “special court” to judge “Russian crimes of aggression against Ukraine.”
This request came during a videoconference intervention at an event organized by the International Criminal Court (ICC), the European Commission and the Netherlands.
“Russian War Crime”
In Vinnytsia, images released by Ukraine’s Emergency Situations Service showed dozens of charred corpses and a 10-story building devastated by the explosion and ensuing fire. Previously, he called the attacks an “openly terrorist act.”
Before the conference in The Hague, in which the ministers of Justice and Foreign Affairs of the EU countries participated, he specified that “at this time 20 people have died, including three children. And many, many wounded.” The head of Ukrainian diplomacy, Dmytro Kouleba, present in The Hague, denounced a new “Russian war crime”.
The editor-in-chief of the state media group Russia Segodnya, Margarita Simonian, claimed on Telegram that the Russian army told her that they had attacked “the Chamber of Officers, where the nationalists had been deployed.”
strikes in the south
For several weeks, Russian attacks away from the front lines had been relatively rare.
But the war is now being waged in cities such as the strategic port of Mykolaiv (south), near the Black Sea, which was attacked early Thursday by a “massive missile attack” for the second day in a row.
“Two schools, transport infrastructure and a hotel were damaged,” the presidency said at its daily morning briefing.
Images released by local authorities show the remains of a building destroyed by shelling, with municipal workers picking up rubble scattered by the attack.
Ukraine, for its part, has launched a counteroffensive for several weeks to retake Kherson, the only regional capital captured by Moscow since February 24. While the front line remains relatively stable, these attacks are becoming more powerful, with new US and European rocket systems targeting weapons depots.
Source: BFM TV
