Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine three months ago, the mutilated bodies of 200 people have been found in the basement of an apartment building in Mariupol, officials said Tuesday.
Mayor’s adviser Petro Andryushchenk said locals had refused a Russian request to collect the bodies of the dead, so Russia’s emergency ministry left the bodies in the rubble.
Mariupol has been trapped in the rubble by missile strikes for weeks. The last Ukrainian militants surrendered last week, giving Russia full control of the city, which had a population of 450,000 before the war. It is estimated that there are 100,000 left. Mayor Vadim Boychenko says a Russian bombing of the city has killed thousands of civilians.
Earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zhelensky accused Russia of trying to inflict as much death and destruction on his country as possible.
“There has been no such war on the European continent for 77 years,” Zhelensky said in his nightly speech.
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Military spokesman for the Donetsk People’s Republic, Edward Pazurin, said work was underway to clear landmines in the port of Mariupol and restore its operations. Mariupol is Ukraine’s largest port in the Sea of Azov.
Vladimir Salto, who was established by Russia as governor of Ukraine’s southern Kersen region, said on Monday that the region would have a double currency – the Russian ruble and the Ukrainian hryvnias.
அதிபர் Russian troops continue to block about 22 million tons of grain intended to be exported to Ukrainian ports, which could exacerbate the global food crisis, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zhelensky.
Austin: ‘This is not America’s fight’
But the US is avoiding sending US troops to the war-torn country. Defense Minister Lloyd Austin told a news conference Monday that “the president’s decision” would be needed to bring US troops back to Ukraine.
“I think this is the Ukrainian war,” Austin said. “This is not a US war. We do everything we can to ensure that we support their efforts to protect their sovereignty.
Biden, meanwhile, told fellow Indo-Pacific leaders at the four-nation summit on Tuesday that they were traveling “a dark time in our shared history” because of Russia’s brutal war on Ukraine, and urged the group to do more to prevent Vladimir. Putin’s aggression.
“This is more than a European issue. It is a global issue,” Biden said as the “quad” summit with Japan, Australia and India unfolded. Although he did not call any countries directly, Biden’s message seemed to point at least to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is at odds over how to respond to the Russian invasion.
The United States and Britain have accused Russia of using cyber-attacks to spread false information
The United States and Britain have accused Russia of manipulating public opinion by spreading misinformation about the war in Ukraine through cyber-attacks and censorship of content. British Deputy High Commissioner to the UN James Roscoe He told the Security Council that Russia had “used the online troll factory to spread false information about cyber-attacks and their war and to manipulate public opinion.”
U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said the Russian government “continues to shut down, restrict and corrupt the Internet, censor content, spread false information online and intimidate and arrest journalists who report the truth about its invasion.”
Contributed by: Associated Press
