Eight civilians were killed and 17 injured in Russian airstrikes on the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakmut on Thursday, regional governor Pavlo Kirilenko said on Friday.
“The city most affected was Bakmut: eight people were killed and 17 injured,” Kirilenko said on Telegram.
Twenty houses, six buildings, four shops, the Casa da Cultura and the city’s administrative center were damaged in the bombings,” he said.
In Donbass, a mining region in eastern Ukraine that has seen the most intense fighting in recent months, Kyiv announced on Thursday that it had advanced 2 to 3 kilometers near Kramatorsk and Sloviansk and recaptured the town of Ozerne, 45 kilometers to the north. From .Bakmut.
Ukraine has also had some success in the north-east, east and south of the country and has claimed to recapture regions and especially many cities around Kharkov.
These achievements are the most significant for Ukraine since the withdrawal of Russian troops from the outskirts of Kiev in late March. Ukrainian authorities did not disclose the names of the conquered territories.
The Kremlin declined to comment on the Ukrainian ads.
Russian news agencies said on Friday, based on footage released by the Ministry of Defense, that the Russian army is sending armored vehicles and weapons as reinforcements to Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, where Kiev is leading the counterattack.
Vitali Gantchev, an official from Moscow’s occupation administration in the region, told Russian television that “violent fighting” was ongoing around the town of Balaklia, which Kiev said it had liberated.
“Reinforcements were sent there from Russia,” the official said.
arbitrary arrests
Hundreds of arbitrary detentions and enforced disappearances by Russian forces and 51 arbitrary detentions by Ukrainian forces have been documented in Ukraine, the UN said on Friday.
Since the beginning of the invasion, ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin, the High Commissioner for Human Rights has gathered information on a number of abuses suffered by prisoners of war.
Matilda Bogner, who heads the human rights monitoring mission in Ukraine, explained in a video conference from Odessa that torture “would be a war crime” if proven in court.
The United Nations has so far confirmed that at least 416 people have been victims of arbitrary detention and enforced disappearance in Russian-occupied territory or in areas controlled by the Russian armed forces and affiliated armed groups at the time of the events.
Of these, 16 were found dead and 166 were released.
The mission also documented 51 arbitrary arrests and 30 cases of enforced disappearance by Ukrainian law enforcement agencies.
Bogner said that while the UN was given “unrestricted access” to places of detention under Kyiv control, Moscow did not allow access to prisoners of war held on its territory or in areas controlled by pro-Russian forces.
“This is even more worrying because we have documented prisoners of war who were tortured and ill-treated at the hands of the Russian armed forces or affiliated armed groups. In some places of detention, adequate food, water, sanitation and sanitation facilities are inadequate.” he added.
The United Nations is also aware of at least four pregnant POWs held by Moscow and affiliated armed groups.
The delegation also learned about the dire situation in the Olenivka prison in the separatist region of eastern Ukraine, where many Ukrainian prisoners of war are believed to be suffering from infectious diseases such as hepatitis A and tuberculosis.
In the Ukrainian-controlled territory, the UN has also documented cases of torture and ill-treatment of prisoners of war, usually during their capture, initial interrogation or transfer to concentration camps.
source: Noticias
