Cars are moving near a damaged bridge after a Russian attack on Makarov, near Kyiv. LVIV, Ukraine – The mayor of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol tells the Associated Press that more than 10,000 civilians have been killed in the southeastern city by the Russian invasion in February. Mayor Vadym Boychenko told the Associated Press by telephone on Monday that the bodies had been “carpeted on the streets of our city” and that the death toll could exceed 20,000. Boichenko also said Russian forces had brought mobile crematoria to the city to dispose of the bodies, and accused Russian forces of refusing to allow humanitarian convoys to enter the city in a bid to cover up the massacre. UNITED NATIONS – The United Nations Children’s Fund says nearly two-thirds of all Ukrainian children have fled their homes in the six weeks since the invasion of Russia, and the United Nations has confirmed that 142 children have been killed and 229 injured. although these numbers are probably much higher. Manuel Fontaine, UNICEF director of emergency programs who returned from Ukraine last week, told the UN Security Council on Monday that of the estimated 3.2 million children left in their homes, “almost half could be at risk. not to have enough food “and attacks. on water supply infrastructure and power outages have left about 1.4 million people in the country without access to water. He said the situation was worse in cities such as Mariupol and Hersonissos in the south, which have been besieged by Russian forces, where children and their families have spent weeks without running water, sanitation or regular food supplies. “Hundreds of schools and educational facilities have been attacked or used for military purposes,” Fontaine said. “Others serve as civilian shelters.” He said the closure of schools affected the education of 5.7 million school-age children and 1.5 million students in higher education. SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina – Relatives of Srebrenica genocide victims worry that history is repeating itself in the war in Ukraine. Hundreds of women who lost their sons, husbands and other relatives in the 1995 massacre of about 8,000 people in the eastern Bosnian city on Monday called for all those who committed war crimes to be brought to justice. An association of relatives of the Srebrenica victims, the Srebrenica Mothers, has been active in keeping alive the memory of the Bosnian Serb execution of Bosnian Muslim men and boys – mostly Muslims – in the last months of the 1992-95 WWII war. Sehida Abdurrahmanovic says that “we spent all these years working to prevent this Srebrenica (murder) from happening to anyone else.” But, he adds, “we are really sad to say that, but in today’s Europe it is happening again – Srebrenica is happening again.” LONDON – The World Bank says Ukraine’s economy will shrink by 45% this year due to the Russian invasion, which has shut down half of the country’s businesses, stifled imports and exports and damaged a huge amount of vital infrastructure. Meanwhile, unprecedented sanctions imposed by Western allies in response to the war are plunging Russia into a deep recession, reducing more than a tenth of its economic growth, the Washington-based lender said in a report Sunday. The report said economic activity was impossible in “large areas” of Ukraine because productive infrastructure such as roads, bridges, ports and railways had been destroyed. Ukraine plays an important role as a global supplier of agricultural exports such as wheat, but this is now being called into question because planting and harvesting have been disrupted by the war, the report said. The war cut off access to the Black Sea, a major export route, including 90% of Ukraine’s grain shipments. WARSAW, Poland – The mayor of Warsaw says a controversial group run by Russia’s diplomatic mission is being taken over by the city and will be made available to the Ukrainian community. Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski was at the scene on Monday and said a bailiff had entered the two seemingly empty buildings, named “spyville” by Warsaw residents, to check on their condition and identify them as being seized by City Hall. “It’s very symbolic that we are closing this process for many years now, at the time of the Russian invasion of Ukraine,” Trzaskowski said on Twitter. The Russian Embassy, ​​which built the high-rise buildings in the 1970s, refuses court orders to pay the rent or hand it over. When it was busy, the buildings were vacated in the 1990s, after Poland lost communist rule and dependence on Moscow after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Since then, Poland says the lease of the plot had expired and asked for it to be returned. COPENHAGEN, Denmark – The Danish Health Authority announced on Monday that it would purchase 2 million iodine tablets in the event of a “nuclear accident in our immediate area”. The COVID-19 pandemic “showed us that it is important to be prepared”, while the war in Ukraine shows that “the world is unpredictable”, said the health authority, adding that it had based its recommendation on the advice of the Danish Emergency Management Agency as well as impact assessments for the risk of a nuclear accident in the immediate vicinity of Denmark. The tablets will cover the risk group which includes people up to 18 years old, health and emergency personnel under 40 years old and pregnant and breastfeeding women. BRATISLAVA, Slovakia – Slovakia has denied that the S-300 air defense missile system it was carrying to Ukraine was destroyed by the Russian armed forces. “Our S-300 system has not been damaged,” Lubica Janikova, a spokeswoman for Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger, told the Associated Press. He said that any other claim is not true. Earlier Monday, the Russian military said it had destroyed a Western-backed missile launcher in the southern suburbs of Dnipro. The Russian side said Ukraine received the air defense system from an unnamed European country. Last week, Slovakia said it had delivered Soviet-designed S-300 air defense systems to Ukraine, which had asked the West to provide it with more weapons, including long-range air defense systems. MOSCOW – The Russian military says it has destroyed a Western-backed missile launcher. Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Lt. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said the army used Kalibr cruise missiles to destroy four S-300 anti-aircraft missile launchers in the southern suburbs of Dnipro. He said about 25 Ukrainian soldiers were also killed in the attack on Sunday. Konashenkov said in a statement Monday that Ukraine had received the air defense systems from an unnamed European country. Konashenkov’s claim could not be independently verified. Last week, Slovakia said it had delivered Soviet-designed S-300 air defense systems to Ukraine, which had asked the West to provide it with more weapons, including long-range air defense systems. The office of the Prime Minister of Slovakia issued a statement late Sunday describing the news that the S-300 system given to Ukraine was destroyed “misinformation”. It was not clear, however, whether both sides were referring to the same airstrike. The Russians have been targeting missile defense systems in three different locations in recent days.