Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned the northeastern metropolis of Izium has grow to be the most recent location the place the Russians have left behind mass graves.
Zelenskyy mentioned Thursday that Ukrainian authorities have discovered a mass burial web site close to Izium within the not too long ago recaptured Kharkiv area.
“Bucha, Mariupol, now, sadly, Izium,” Zelenskyy mentioned in his nightly televised tackle, including that affirmation would doubtless come Friday. “Russia leaves demise in every single place. And it should be held accountable for it. The world should carry Russia to actual duty for this battle.”
The Related Press reported that its journalists noticed the positioning in a forest outdoors Izium on Thursday. A mass grave had a marker saying it contained the our bodies of 17 Ukrainian troopers. It was surrounded by a whole bunch of particular person graves with solely crosses to mark them.
Sergei Bolvinov, a senior investigator for Ukrainian police within the Kharkiv area, instructed Sky Information of Britain {that a} pit with greater than 440 our bodies was discovered close to Izium after the Russians have been pushed away. He described the grave as “one of many largest burial websites in anyone liberated metropolis.”
TURNING POINT IN UKRAINE WAR:As Russia admits defeat in Kharkiv, Ukraine regains land, confidence
Newest developments:
►The Biden administration mentioned it’s going to ship one other $600 million in navy support to Ukraine, making an attempt to spice up Kyiv’s counteroffensive with a few of the similar weapons which have helped defeat Russian forces in components of the east and south.
►Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky didn’t maintain any severe accidents when his car was struck by one other one early Thursday after a battlefield go to, his spokesman mentioned. The motive force of the opposite car acquired first support and was taken away by ambulance, the spokesman mentioned.
►Air raid sirens went off twice in Kyiv whereas Zelenskyy met Thursday with Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Fee, who reiterated the EU’s assist for Ukraine.
►The U.N. atomic company’s 35-nation Board of Governors handed a decision Thursday calling on Russia to right away finish its occupation of the Ukrainian nuclear energy plant in Zaporizhzhia, the place shelling of the power and close by areas in current weeks heightened fears of a potential radiation catastrophe.
►Celebrity guard Stephen Curry of the NBA champion Golden State Warriors mentioned his “contacts within the Biden administration rebuffed a proposal to assist” the efforts to free WNBA star Brittney Griner from Russian captivity.
Russians flee to the border close to Kharkiv
Tensions have been rising in Russian villages bordering the Kharkiv area Thursday because the roar of the Ukraine navy’s firepower edged nearer to the border.
The governor of Russia’s Belgorod area mentioned residents have been wounded when Ukraine shells slammed into one border village, and personal homes, farm buildings and energy strains in one other have been partially destroyed. Vyacheslav Gladkov additionally ordered the evacuation of a number of villages.
Ukraine has retaken hundreds of miles and greater than 300 villages and cities this month. The Ukraine Protection Ministry mentioned Russian troops fleeing the Ukraine advance are massing on the Belgorod border, the place different Russian troops are holding them from crossing over.
“They don’t have any communication with the command,” the ministry mentioned in a press release. “There is no such thing as a provide of meals and ammunition.”
Some residents have fled to Belgorod from villages in Ukraine after working for Russian administrations – solely to have the Russians abandon the Ukraine cities. Now they worry payback from Ukrainian authorities who view them as traitors.
Biden to fulfill relations of Brittney Griner, Paul Whelan at White Home
This would be the first in-person contact between the president and members of the family of the 2 Individuals being held captive in Russia, thought of by the U.S. authorities to be “wrongfully detained.”
The Biden administration mentioned in July that it had made a “substantial proposal” to get them house in a prisoner change, however these efforts to this point have proved fruitless.
Griner has been held in Russia since February on drug-related prices. She was sentenced final month to 9 years in jail after pleading responsible, and has appealed the punishment. Whelan is serving a 16-year sentence on espionage-related prices that he and his household say are false. Invoice Richardson, the previous U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, visited Moscow this week to debate their launch.
Putin acknowledges China’s ‘issues’ about battle in Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged China has “questions and issues” about Moscow’s battle in Ukraine as he met together with his Chinese language counterpart, Xi Jinping, on Thursday in Uzbekistan.
“We extremely recognize the well-balanced place of our Chinese language mates in reference to the Ukrainian disaster,” mentioned Putin, who took the chance to blast the West. “We perceive your questions and issues on this regard.”
Putin’s uncommon point out of Chinese language worries comes as Beijing has been anxious in regards to the influence of unstable oil costs and financial uncertainty ensuing from a battle that has lasted practically seven months and has seen Russia expertise some embarrassing battlefield setbacks.
Xi didn’t make any references to Ukraine in his public feedback throughout the assembly on the sidelines of the eight-nation Shanghai Cooperation Group, a safety alliance created as a counterweight to U.S. affect. The alliance additionally consists of India, Pakistan and 4 ex-Soviet nations in Central Asia.
Some Russian troops in Kharkiv ‘fled in obvious panic,’ British ministry says
The Russian retreat from the Kharkiv area, the place Ukrainian forces have been consolidating their not too long ago recaptured territory, was in some cases orderly however at different instances the troops “fled in obvious panic,” the British Ministry of Protection mentioned in an intelligence replace.
Within the course of, the Russians left behind worthwhile tools “important to allow Russia’s artillery-centric fashion of warfare,” the ministry mentioned, concluding that such abandonment illustrates “localized breakdowns in command and management.”
Contributing: The Related Press
