Posted in: 28/04/2022 – 10:15
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday, who is on a visit to the suburbs of Bucha, Irbin and Borodianka near the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, which has witnessed violations attributed by Ukrainians to the Russian army, called on Moscow to cooperate with the International Criminal Court over possible war crimes in Ukraine.
- 10:30 Guterres calls on Moscow to cooperate with the International Criminal Court on possible war crimes
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on Moscow to “accept cooperation” with the International Criminal Court’s investigation into possible war crimes that may have been committed in Ukraine.
“When we see this terrible site, I see how important it is for a full investigation and identification of responsibilities,” he said during a visit to Bucha in the Kyiv suburb, where Ukrainians accuse the Russians of committing massacres against civilians during their occupation of the city in March. with the International Criminal Court.
- 10:15 Russia says it destroyed two weapons depots in Ukraine at night
The Russian Defense Ministry said that its missiles bombed four Ukrainian military targets during the night and destroyed two stores of missiles and ammunition near the Parvenkov and Ivanivka regions in the east of the country.
It added that Russian forces had also shot down a Ukrainian Su-24 near Lugansk.
- 9:30 Arrival of Antonio Guterres in Borodianka in the Kyiv suburb
“The war of the twenty-first century is absurd,” said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres upon his arrival in Borodianka on the outskirts of Kyiv, where Ukrainians accuse the Russians of committing atrocities during their occupation of the region in March.
“I imagine my family in one of these houses, I see my grandchildren running in terror. War is absurd in the 21st century, an unacceptable war in the 21st century,” Guterres, who is on his first visit to Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion, said in front of the destroyed buildings.
- 7:30 Britain says the Russian Black Sea fleet can still strike Ukraine
The British Ministry of Defense said that the Russian Black Sea Fleet is still able to hit Ukrainian and coastal targets, despite the loss of the landing ship Saratov and the cruiser Moskva.
The ministry said on Twitter that about 20 parts of the Russian Navy, including submarines, are in the Black Sea area of operations.
“The Bosphorus is still closed to all non-Turkish warships, which makes Russia unable to replace the cruiser Moskva, which it lost in the Black Sea,” it added in its periodical.
- 7:00 Guterres visits Bucha and Irben, where allegations of war crimes have been committed
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will visit Thursday the suburbs of Kyiv-Pucha, Irbin and Borodianka, which have witnessed violations attributed by Ukrainians to the Russian army, which continues its offensive in eastern and southern Ukraine.
Guterres arrived in Ukraine from Moscow, where Vladimir Putin appealed for a ceasefire “as soon as possible”. He also said he was “concerned by repeated reports of possible war crimes,” stressing that they “require an independent investigation.”
Kyiv accuses the Russian forces of committing massacres after discovering the bodies of dozens of people in civilian clothes in those areas occupied and then abandoned by the Russian army.
On April 2, journalists discovered horrific scenes in Bucha, on a street full of corpses. After a mission in the city, the United Nations documented “the killings, including the summary execution of some civilians.”
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On Wednesday, Canadian lawmakers adopted a memorandum condemning “the Russian genocide against the Ukrainian people,” stressing that there is “clear and abundant evidence of systematic and massive war crimes and crimes against humanity.”
- 1:00 Russian forces disperse a pro-Ukrainian rally in the occupied city of Kherson
Ukraine’s Prosecutor General said that Russian forces used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse a pro-Ukrainian rally in the occupied city of Kherson on Wednesday, as Moscow tightened its grip on the area in southern Ukraine.
Local authorities say Russia appointed its own mayor for Kherson on Tuesday after its forces seized the administration’s headquarters in the regional capital, the first major urban center to seize after it invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24.
Residents staged separate anti-occupation rallies in Kherson and crowds gathered in the city center again on Wednesday, when Kyiv said Russia was planning a referendum to create a breakaway region like the one in eastern Ukraine.
France 24