Euromaidan Press on Twitter - 6 hrs ago
"There is a slight hope of an operation with Turkey that develops a plan to evacuate its citizens from Mariupol; and with them Ukrainian women and children"–Deputy PM,UA TV Russia continues to shell Mariupol port which houses foreign ships with crews–Azov
https://t.me/polkazov/4373
NEXTA on Twitter
#Ukrainian Commissioner for Human Rights, Lyudmyla Denysova, spoke about "new evidence of
#Russian violation of Geneva Convention on Treatment of Prisoners of War." According to her, among 86 servicemen released from captivity, there were women who were tortured and ill-treated.
NEXTA on Twitter
"Prisoners were stripped naked in the presence of men, forced to squat down, had their hair cut and were constantly interrogated to break them down. Also, some were forced to take part in the filming of propaganda videos, demanding to switch to Russian language," she wrote.
Euromaidan Press on Twitter - 4 hrs ago
"Russia is not serious about peace. We still don't know how long the war will last until the world does everything needed for peace. Really powerful sanctions are needed Europe must simply stop being afraid and weak.Become strong"–Zelenskyy at Spanish Parliament
NEXTA on Twitter - Video
New U.S. sanctions against
#Russia will be imposed tomorrow. They will affect financial institutions and officials.
Euromaidan Press on Twitter
This is Vira Makovii. Her mother wrote her name and contacts of relatives on her back, in case the Russian Army will kill Vira's family but Vira would survive. This is Ukraine, today. It is the 21st century. Russia still has veto power in UNSC. Europe still buys Russian gas.
APR 5, 2022
Zelenskyy criticizes United Nations for inaction, details atrocities in Ukraine (nbcnews.com)
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"They shot and killed women outside their houses," Zelenskyy said. "They killed entire families, adults and children, and they tried to burn the bodies."
The Ukrainian leader said civilians were fatally shot in the back of the heads after being tortured. Some were shot in the streets and thrown into wells and others were killed in their own apartments by grenades, he said.
“The civilians were crushed by tanks while sitting in their cars in the middle of the road,” he continued. “They cut off limbs, cut their throats, slashed their throats. Women were raped and killed in front of their children. Their tongues were pulled out only because the aggressor did not hear what they wanted to hear from them.”
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Zelenskyy suggested that the Security Council cannot work effectively when Russia is one of its permanent members. “The world has yet to see what they have done in other occupied cities and regions of our country,” he said.
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Russian soldiers are deliberately blocking cities, creating mass starvation, Zelenskyy said. He said they also shoot columns of civilians on the road who are trying to escape and blow up shelters where innocent people hide from airstrikes. Zelenskyy also said the Russian military had abducted more than 2,000 children and has been looting cities and villages it has captured.
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He said the Security Council can remove Russia from its body so that “it cannot block decisions about its own aggression, its own war and then do everything that we can do to establish peace.” Or, he said, the U.N. can reform itself or dissolve itself altogether.
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