Zelenskyy Condemns Russian Attacks On Civilians

Russia has been charged with war crimes in Ukraine. Here’s what we know now. Russian attacks on Ukrainian civilians, including the attack on Bucha and Friday’s attack on a train station in Kramatorsk, are war crimes, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He told CBS’s “60 Minutes” that Ukraine’s security services had intercepted Russian communications involving talks targeting civilians. “There are pilots in the prison who had maps with political targets to bomb,” Zelenski said in an excerpt from the interview, which will be broadcast throughout Sunday. Zelensky said that “anyone who made a decision, issued an order, fulfilled an order” is guilty of war crimes. Asked if he blamed Vladimir Putin, Zelensky said: “I think he’s one of them.” PROPERTY DISCLAIMER: US, allies seize luxury yachts of Russian oligarchs in sanctions over Ukraine war This week, Ukrainian forces recaptured territory around the capital Kiev after the withdrawal of Russian troops discovered evidence of atrocities against civilians. In the suburb of Bucha, corpses were left on the streets, some with their hands tied behind their backs, and corpses were found in a mass grave. “This means that they killed civilians, they shot them,” Attorney General Iryna Venediktova said on Friday. President Zelenskyy calls rocket attack on railway station a war crime At least 50 people were killed and dozens more injured in a rocket attack on a train station in Kramatorsk. Staff Video, USA TODAY At least 50 people have been killed and dozens injured in a rocket attack on a train station in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk. Five children are among the dead, officials said. “Like the Bucha massacre, like many other Russian war crimes, the Kramatorsk rocket attack should be one of the charges against him in court,” Zelensky said in a video overnight speech on Friday. World leaders rushed to condemn the strike at the train station, where civilians were trying to flee. “We are here now to support efforts to investigate the attack, as we document Russia’s actions, hold them accountable,” White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters, calling the attack “another horrific atrocity.” TELEGRAM USA TODAY: Subscribe to our new Russia-Ukraine war channel to receive updates directly on your phone. LAST VISUAL EXPLANATIONS: Mapping and monitoring the Russian invasion of Ukraine Latest developments . Russian naval forces are launching cruise missiles at Ukraine to support military operations in the eastern Donbass region, according to the British Ministry of Defense. The attacks also targeted the cities of Mariupol and Mykolaiv. Russia and Ukraine agreed on Saturday on 10 humanitarian corners in three regions, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk told the Telegram. The list includes one corner in the Donetsk region, four in the Zaporizhia region and four in the Luhansk region. ΓραφείοThe Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine reports that about 67 bodies were buried in a mass grave near a church in Bucha, a northern suburb of Kiev, where journalists and returning Ukrainians found dozens of bodies on the streets and elsewhere after Russian troops left. ΕυρωπαϊThe European Union has approved a fifth package of restrictions against Moscow. The latest measures, announced on Friday by the European Commission, include a ban on the import of all Russian coal and other materials. . More than 6,600 Ukrainians were evacuated along humanitarian corridors in three areas on Friday, said Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk. . Ukrainian forces have “exterminated” some of the Russian units that invaded the country in late February, according to a senior Defense official. Some Russian units have only a handful of troops and vehicles left, the official said. The Ukrainian official in charge of the nation’s integration into Europe said on Saturday that he expects Ukraine to be a candidate for the European Union by June. “Ukraine has received the questionnaire on EU membership,” said Olga Stefanishyna, Deputy Prime Minister for Ukraine’s European and Euro-Atlantic Integration. “We have already done a lot of preparatory work, so we are ready to move quickly. It is part of our recovery and victory over the RU attacker who wants to overthrow the democratic course of Ukraine.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed Ukraine’s application for EU membership in February, appealing to the group and the world in a video the same day. “Europeans are witnessing how our soldiers are fighting not only for our country, but for all of Europe, for peace, for peace for all, for all the countries of the European Union,” Zelenski said. In response to Zelenskyy’s appeal, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said any country’s bid could take “many years”, but did not close the door on Ukraine’s possible candidacy. The EU website also states that the negotiation and accession to the EU “takes time to complete”. – She is reading In her first in-depth interview since the invasion began, Ukraine’s first lady, Olena Zelenska, said in the early days of the conflict that the possibility of war was unknown. “There has been a lot of talk everywhere about a possible invasion,” Zelenska told Vogue. “But until the last moment it was impossible to believe that this would happen… in the twenty-first century?” As the war continues, Zelenska said Russian President Vladimir Putin underestimated the persistence of Ukrainian civilians. “He [Putin] “He wanted to divide us, to crush us, to provoke an internal confrontation, but it is impossible to do that with the Ukrainians,” he said. Zelenka also said she and her children were not allowed to stay with her husband, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, when the war broke out and they were taken to safety. Now they contact him by phone. But Zelenska has moments that give her hope. “My family – like any Ukrainian – and my compatriots: incredible people organized to help the army and help each other,” he said. – Mabinty Quarshie Name a new chapter in the relentless propaganda war in Moscow. The Museum of Modern History in Russia on Tuesday unveiled a new report exposing the alleged barbarity of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, an intergovernmental military alliance involving 28 European nations, including the United States and Canada. The report, entitled “NATO: A Chronicle of Cruelty”, examines events including the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombings (which preceded the creation of NATO four years ago). the bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999. the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the conflict in Syria. It also includes the war in Ukraine, which the museum describes as “current events in Ukraine” that “led to cooperation between Ukraine and NATO”. The exhibition is based on photographs by Russian state media and the museum’s collection of objects and documents related to the Cold War period. It is one of the last attempts by Russia to control the narrative of the war in Ukraine. – She is reading The European Union has approved a fifth package of sanctions against the Russian regime for its invasion of Ukraine. The latest measures, announced by the European Commission on Friday, include a ban on the import of all Russian coal, a ban on transactions and the freezing of assets of four additional Russian banks, and a ban on Russian and Belarusian freight companies operating in the EU. The measure also extends bans on the import of cement, spirits, rubber, wood and high-quality seafood. The sanctions are the European Commission’s latest attempt to increase economic pressure on the Kremlin and limit the regime’s financial ability to further invade Ukraine. The coal ban alone is expected to cost Russia about 8 billion euros in annual lost revenue. Targeted export bans on other items, such as special catalysts used in the refinery industry to advanced semiconductors to quantum computers, are expected to cost Russia an additional 10 billion euros. The European Council also banned Russian nationals and entities from being awarded EU contracts. – Ana Faguy LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s defense ministry says Russian naval forces are launching cruise missiles into Ukraine to support military operations in the eastern Donbass region and around the cities of Mariupol and Mykolaiv. In a briefing Saturday morning, the ministry said that the Russian air force is expected to increase operations in southern and eastern Ukraine to further support these operations. The ministry said the move comes as efforts to build a land corridor between Russia, which was annexed by Russia in 2014, and Russian-controlled areas of the Donbas region “continue to be thwarted by the Ukrainian resistance.” The mayor of the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol said earlier this week that more than 5,000 civilians, including 210 children, had been killed during the month-long Russian siege. Vadym Boichenko said Wednesday that Russian forces had bombed hospitals, including one where 50 people had been burned to death, and had destroyed more than 90 percent of the southern port city’s infrastructure. – Associated Press The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Executive Board on Friday approved a Managed Account for countries wishing to secure direct financial assistance to Ukraine. In a statement issued Friday, the IMF said several member states had called for a safe haven to help the war-torn country. Member countries are not alone, but so can intergovernmental services and organizations that want to use the account. The Canadian government is already considering using the Managed Account to disburse a billion CAD allocated to Ukraine in its federal budget. The announcement comes a month after the IMF Board of Directors approved $ 1.4 billion in emergency funding to help with the financial implications …