Council of Europe Considers Forcible Transfers of Ukrainian Children to Russia as Genocide: Latest Updates on Conflict in Ukraine

2023-04-27 21:36:19

This Thursday, the Council of Europe, in a resolution adopted by its Parliamentary Assembly, considered that thehe forcible transfers of Ukrainian children to Russia fall under the “genocide“. President Zelenksy welcomed this decision, indicating on his Telegram account what “this decision will contribute significantly to our global efforts to bring Russia and its officials, including the terrorist head of state, to justice for genocide and genocidal policies once morest Ukraine“.

Moscow announced Thursday that it had refused a request for a consular visit to the American journalist imprisoned for a month in Russia, in retaliation for the refusal of the United States to issue visas to Russian journalists who accompanied Sergei Lavrov to the UN in New York.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has also ordered his government to work on creating museums dedicated to Moscow’s year-long offensive in Ukraine, according to instructions published on the Kremlin website.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Chmygal, visiting the Vatican, invited Pope Francis to visit his country and asked for his help in repatriating Ukrainian children taken to Russia by Moscow forces.

On the ground, the city of Bahmut was the subject of dozens of offensives on Thursday, leading to a near encirclement by the Russian army. Earlier in the day, uA Russian missile killed one person and injured more than 20 in the early hours of Thursday in Mykolaiv, a city in southern Ukraine, authorities said. An explosion also took place in Melitopol, one of the main cities of the occupied zones of southern Ukraine, announced the Russian administration. Several sources are of the death of a Ukrainian policeman passed to the enemy.

For his part, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said: “Allies and partners of the US-led contact group have sent 230 tanks, 1,550 armored vehicles and significant quantities of ammunition, 98% of the promised equipment, to Ukraine to equip nine new armored brigades“.

In its daily update on the situation, British intelligence shows a photo of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant which indicates that in March 2023, Russian forces had established battle positions with sandbags on the roofs. Russia has controlled the plant since March 2022.”However, this is the first time that reactor buildings have been integrated into tactical defense planning..”

In Poland, an intriguing affair. The remains of a “aerial military object” – an air-to-surface missile according to local media – were found in the north of the country. An investigation is underway. According to an expert quoted by a Polish radioit is unlikely to be a missile “came from Russia or from the front in Ukraine“.

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