War in Ukraine: Shocking Images from Borodyanka – Zelensky’s Dramatic Message

Images of the Borodyanka disaster in Ukraine with the president are shocking Volodymyr Zelensky to note that they are even worse than those recently found in the suburbs of the capital that were recaptured after the withdrawal of Russian troops. The same time, Ukrainian authorities are trying to evacuate civilians from regions in the east of the country, which are threatened with an imminent large-scale attack by the Russian army.

As Russia is multiplying the blows in the south and east of the countryKyiv – where European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and EU foreign policy chief Giuseppe Borrell are expected today – is noting the true extent of the damage in the areas from which Moscow’s forces recently withdrew.

Ukrainian President Zelensky said that the disasters in Borodyanka are worse than those in Boutsa, where images of civilian bodies on the streets caused an international outcry.

Twenty-six bodies were retrieved by Ukrainian rescue teams in the wreckage of two apartment buildings in Borodyanka, northwest of Kiev.Ukrainian Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova said via Facebook on Thursday.

In his sermon on the night of Thursday to Friday Ukrainian President Zelensky described the situation in Borodyanka as “much more horrific” than in Bukka: “There are more victims.”

In the east of Ukraine the focus is on

Attention is also focused on the eastern part of the country, now a priority target for Moscow forces. A Kremlin spokesman acknowledged yesterday that Russian forces had already suffered “heavy losses” in warreferring to a “huge tragedy” for Russia.

In anticipation of the large-scale attack there, the Ukrainian authorities again called on the civilian population to leave, as broadcast by the French Agency and relayed by the Athenian News Agency.

Russian forces “caused damage to the railways in Sastia. “Now the evacuation will be done exclusively by buses,” said Luhansk region governor Serhiy Gaidai.

“All the horrors we have experienced are in danger of getting worse. Do not condemn yourself to death! Leave! “The next few days will be the last chance” for the evacuation of civilians, “he said via Facebook.

In Danieck, the head of the regional military administration Pavel Kirilenko said that three trains carrying civilians were temporarily stopped after a Russian air strike on railways.

“Everywhere” bombings

In Severodonetsk, the easternmost city in the hands of Ukrainian forces, pounded by Russian troops, French Agency reporters saw civilians fleeing in cars on Thursday amid explosions.

Fire “falls everywhere. It is impossible now “, summed up the forty-year-old Dennis, pale, with a bony face, which gives the impression that he is much older.

A “large” number of displaced people have arrived in Dnipro, the mayor of the industrial city of one million people said yesterday on the Dnieper, the river that forms a natural border with the eastern part of the country.

Russia, accused of “war crimes” in Ukraine, An EU carbon embargo was imposed on Thursday. This is the first time that Europeans have targeted the Russian energy sector, on which they remain highly dependent.

The EU imports 45% of the coal it consumes from Russia, at a cost of € 4 billion a year. The embargo will take effect in early August.

Brussels has also announced a ban on exports to Russia of more than 10 billion euros, new sanctions on Russian banks and the closure of European ports on Russian ships.

At the same time, the EU is preparing to release another 500m euros to supply arms to Ukraine. With this amount, European spending on military aid to Ukrainian forces will reach 1.5 billion euros since the outbreak of war on February 24.

For their part, the G7 countries also announced additional sanctions, including a complete ban on any new investment in key sectors of Russia.

In Washington, the way was opened for the imposition of punitive tariffs on Russia and Belarus: the US Congress revoked their preferential trade regime.

“Insult to humanity”

Joe Biden estimated that “her lies Russia “They can not stand the indisputable evidence of what is happening in Ukraine,” he said, referring to indications that “rapes, tortures, executions” were committed, which he described as “an insult to humanity”.

The new sanctions came after dozens of corpses were found politically, some handcuffed, in areas where Russian troops had withdrawn, particularly in Bhutan, a suburb of Kiev. Ukraine, West accuse Russian military of “war crimes”. Russia denies that its forces are responsible for the deaths of civilians and speaks of a Ukrainian “provocation”.

Last night, a Russian missile hit infrastructure in the Odessa region, the city council of the city of this southern Ukraine reported via Telegram, without mentioning any casualties.

In Mariupol (southeast), another port of strategic importance that has been besieged and badly damaged by the Russian army since the end of February, and where an estimated 100,000 inhabitants are trapped, the new “mayor” named by the pro-Russian forces announced yesterday “about 5,000” civilians have been killed.

“About 60 to 70 percent of the buildings have been completely or partially destroyed,” added Konstantin Ivachenko, who was named “mayor” of the city on Wednesday by Denis Pushilin, the leader of the Danetsk separatists. Ukrainian authorities have announced a much heavier death toll.

“Support” and weapons

As it prepares for the attack on Donbass, Kyiv is demanding help from the West. The Ukrainian Foreign Minister went to Brussels to demand immediate arms deliveries from his counterparts in the Atlantic Alliance.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has promised “significant assistance”, saying it was “preferable” not to “look too specific about the weapons” to be sent to the Ukrainian army.

In the diplomatic aspect of the crisis, there is not the slightest sign of progress. Russia complained on Thursday that Ukraine had withdrawn its consent to some of Moscow’s proposals in the March talks in Istanbul. Kyiv responded immediately, demanding that Moscow reduce its “degree of hostility” in the talks, while Dmitry Kuleba accused his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov of becoming an “accomplice to the crimes” committed by the Russian military by justifying them.