“We are in the process of determining the number of victims,” he continued. Dnipro airport had already been hit by a Russian bombing raid on March 15: the governor then claimed that the runway had been “destroyed” and the terminal “damaged”.
On April 10, 2022, Dnipro airport was bombed.
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It is in Dnipro that a “large number” of evacuees arrive from Donbass, further east, now a priority target of Russia who withdrew from the Kiev region and northern Ukraine.
For the foreseeable future, airstrikes and bombing raids on Ukraine continued: At least two people were killed on Sunday morning in Kharkov, the country’s second-largest city, and in the suburbs, regional governor Oleg Sinegoubov announced. “The Russian army continues to wage war against civilians, in the absence of victories at the front,” Kharkov’s governor accused.
5,600 cases of war crimes identified
Calling Russian President Vladimir Putin “the top war criminal of the 21st”and century,” the Ukrainian Attorney General claimed to have identified 5,600 cases of alleged war crimes, as well as 500 Russian war criminals. In particular, she mentioned theattack aimed at Kramatorsk station, in the east, in which 52 civilians, including five children, were killed in an attack attributed to a Russian missile. “Absolutely, this is a war crime,” said Iryna Venediktova, who claimed to have “evidence” that Russia was behind the attacke. “These people just wanted to save their lives, they wanted to be evacuated. †
1,222 bodies discovered in Kiev region
The attorney general also told British Sky News on Sunday that more than 1,200 bodies have been discovered to date in the Kiev region, which has been partially occupied by Russian forces for several weeks. “To date, we have killed 1,222 people just for the Kiev region,” she said in English, without specifying whether these were just civilian casualties.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (left) unannounced visit to Kiev on April 9, 2022. Here with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the center of the Ukrainian capital.
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She thanked the prime minister Boris Johnson who visited Kiev on Saturday as part of an unexpected trip where he met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and promised Ukraine new weapons. “What Putin did? Butcha and Irpin“These are war crimes that have permanently tarnished his reputation,” said Boris Johnson, referring to the two small towns near the Ukrainian capital that have become symbols of the atrocities of the Russian invasion.
Putin meets Austrian chancellor
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer will become the first European leader to meet President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Monday since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began on Feb. 24, the Chancellery announced. “He is going there after informing Berlin, Brussels and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky” to encourage dialogue, said a spokesman for the chancellor who was in Ukraine on Saturday.
President Zelensky had received Karl Nehammer in the Ukrainian capital on Friday, whom he thanked for visiting Kiev and Boutcha.
Evacuations
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said 4,532 civilians had been evacuated from fighting-threatened areas the day before. The majority left the Zaporizhzhya region (south), she added, adding that nearly 200 people had been able to leave the besieged port city of Mariupol (south) and more than a thousand had fled from towns in the Lugansk region to the east.
More than 4.5 million Ukrainians have fled their country since the start of the Russian invasion, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
