Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the northeastern city of Izium had become the last place Russians left mass graves.
Zelenskyy said Thursday that the Ukrainian government had discovered a mass burial near Izium in the recently recovered Kharkiv region.
“Bucha, Mariupol, now, unfortunately, Izium,” Zelenskyy said in his televised speech every night, adding that confirmation is most likely to come on Friday. “Russia leaves death everywhere. And it will be held accountable. The world will have to make Russia assume a genuine duty in this war. “
The Associated Press reported that its reporters saw the site in an outdoor forest in Izium on Thursday. A mass grave had a marker indicating that it contained the bodies of 17 Ukrainian soldiers. It was surrounded by piles of individual graves with only crosses to mark them. .
Sergei Bolvinov, a senior investigator for Ukrainian police in the Kharkiv region, told Sky News of Britain that a well containing more than 440 bodies was discovered near Izium after the Russians were expelled. He described the tomb as “one of the largest burial places of all the liberated cities. “
TURNING POINT IN THE UKRAINIAN WAR: while Russia admits defeat in Kharkiv, Ukraine regains territory and confidence
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Biden’s leadership said it would send another $600 million in military aid to Ukraine to bolster Kyiv’s counteroffensive with some of the same weapons that helped defeat Russian forces in parts of the east and south.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was not seriously injured when his vehicle collided with another early Thursday after a stopover on the battlefield, his spokesman said. The motive force of the other vehicle received first aid and was taken away by ambulance, the spokesman said.
The sirens of the airstrikes sounded twice in Kyiv when Zelenskyy met with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Thursday, who reiterated the EU for Ukraine.
The 35-nation board of governors of the U. N. atomic firm on Thursday followed a solution calling on Russia to immediately end its run at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, where bombing of the facility and nearby spaces in recent weeks has raised fears of an imaginable radioactive catastrophe.
► Goalkeeper Stephen Curry of Golden State Warriors superstar NBA champion Stephen Curry said his “contacts in Biden’s management had turned down an offer of help” to efforts to free WNBA star Brittney Griner from Russian captivity.
Tensions erupted Thursday in Russian villages bordering the Kharkiv region as the roar of Ukrainian army firepower approached the border.
The governor of Russia’s Belgorod region said citizens were injured when Ukrainian shells hit a border village, and that personal homes, agricultural buildings and power lines were partially destroyed. Vyacheslav Gladkov also ordered the evacuation of several villages.
Ukraine has recovered thousands of kilometers and more than three hundred villages and towns this month. Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said Russian troops fleeing Ukraine’s advance are concentrating on the Belgorod border, where other Russian troops are preventing them from crossing.
“They have no communication with the command,” the ministry said in a statement. “There is no food or ammunition. “
The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, which reported from Belgorod in recent days, discovered citizens who expressed concern and concern. One instructor said she told academics who heard missiles that the noise was just thunder.
Some citizens fled to Belgorod from Ukrainian villages after running for Russian administrations, only for the Russians to leave the Ukrainian cities. Now they are worried about the revenge of the Ukrainian government that betrayed them.
President Joe Biden will meet separately Friday at the White House with relatives of WNBA star Brittney Griner and Michigan security leader Paul Whelan, The Associated Press reported, citing senior management officials.
This will be the first face-to-face contact between the president and the circle of relatives of the two Americans held captive in Russia, through the U. S. government. The U. S. to be “unjustly detained. “
Biden’s management said in July that it had made a “substantial proposal” to take them home in a prisoner exchange, but so far the efforts have been unsuccessful.
Griner has been detained in Russia since February on drug-related charges. She was sentenced last month to nine years in prison after pleading guilty and appealing the sentence. Whelan is serving a 16-year sentence on espionage-related charges that he and his family circle say are false. Bill Richardson, a former U. S. ambassador to the United Nations, traveled to Moscow this week to talk about his release.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said China had “questions and concerns” about Moscow’s war in Ukraine at his meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Thursday in Uzbekistan.
“We very much appreciate the balanced position of our Chinese friends in the context of the Ukraine crisis,” said Putin, who took the opportunity to criticize the West. “We get your questions and considerations about it. “
Putin’s occasional mention of China’s considerations comes as Beijing worries about the effect of oil price volatility and economic uncertainty resulting from a war that has lasted only about seven months and has seen Russia suffer embarrassing setbacks on the battlefield.
China’s economy has already experienced a slowdown this year, largely due to its strict anti-COVID measures. Russia has particularly increased its energy sales to China in recent months, as European purchases have declined due to sanctions.
Xi made no reference to Ukraine in his public remarks at the assembly on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a security alliance created to counter U. S. influence. The alliance also includes India, Pakistan and four former Soviet countries in Central Asia.
Russia’s withdrawal from the Kharkiv region, where Ukrainian forces have consolidated its newly regained territory, has in some cases been ordered, but at times troops “fled in obvious panic,” the British Defense Ministry said in an intelligence update.
In the process, the Russians left valuable apparatus “essential to allow the taste of war centered on Russia’s artillery,” the ministry said, concluding that such abandonment illustrates “localized failures in command and control. “
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