2023-09-04 22:14:24
Ukraine continues with its counteroffensive to recover territory occupied by Russia (REUTERS / Oleksandr Ratushniak)
A Ukrainian attack on Monday left two civilians dead and eight injured, including two minors, in the town of Mironovsky, in the Donetsk region, partially occupied by the Russian Army, according to local authorities imposed by Russia.
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“The town of Mironovsky: a man born in 1978 and a woman born in 1965 died. Eight civilians, including two minors, received injuries of varying severity,” both born in 2012, a spokesman for the Donetsk People’s Republic said on Telegram. .
In addition, he reported on damage caused to homes, schools and other institutions by the Ukrainian attacks in both Mironovsky and Makiivka.
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The towns of Donetsk closest to the front line periodically become targets of Ukrainian artillery and missile attacks.
Last Friday, the pro-Russian authorities denounced the death of a six-year-old girl in the city of Donetsk, as a result of a bombardment with multiple launchers that injured more than ten people.
Russian soldiers walk past a burned-out car after a shelling in Donetsk, in Russian-controlled Ukrainian territory (REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko)
Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin described the Ukrainian counteroffensive, which is now three months old, as a “failure” after meeting with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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“This is not a traffic jam, it is a failure,” said the Russian president during the joint press conference.
Since its start on June 4, the head of the Kremlin has played down the importance of the counteroffensive in which the Ukrainian army has recovered several hundred square kilometers of territory and has caused significant casualties to the invading troops.
“In any case, today it is just what it seems (a failure). We’ll see how it progresses. I hope it stays exactly the same,” she stated.
Putin estimated the casualties suffered by kyiv in its attempt to regain territory at tens of thousands, mainly on the southern front to break the corridor linking Donbas with the annexed Crimean peninsula.
In turn, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu stressed today that only on Sunday the Russian army destroyed 11 Ukrainian tanks and during the last week seven aquatic drones.
Meanwhile, the outgoing Ukrainian Defense Minister, Oleksiy Reznikov, assured that kyiv has liberated more than 50% of the territory occupied by Russia in the first phase of the war.
For its part, a year and a half after it was created, the UN Commission of independent experts investigating the Russian invasion is working to establish whether Putin’s troops have perpetrated three types of abuses in Ukraine that can legally be considered crimes against humanity.
“The Commission mentions the possibility that the Russian Armed Forces have committed crimes against humanity in three types of situations,” explained one of the three commissioners of this investigative body, the Colombian academic and human rights activist, to the EFE news agency. , Paul deGreiff.
During the conference he gave together with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Vladimir Putin said that the Ukrainian counteroffensive is a failure (Turkish Presidential Press Office / Handout via REUTERS)
The first type of crimes against humanity, which together with genocide are the most serious crimes recognized by international law, could have been committed by Russian troops by using “systematically torture against detainees, both military as Ukrainian civilians.”
Other actions that the Commission is investigating as possible crimes against humanity are “the 13 waves” that Russia launched “against the electrical and thermal infrastructures” of Ukraine starting in October of last year and throughout last autumn and winter.
“The cumulative effects of these attacks on the civilian population may be equivalent to some of the crimes listed as constituting crimes against humanity,” said the Colombian academic from New York University.
The Commission is studying the consequences of being without heating or electricity for days on end due to the deliberate impact of Russian missiles and drones on energy infrastructure on the health and even the lives of millions of Ukrainians when it comes to driving through the streets, receiving medical treatment or earn a living with a professional activity.
(With information from EFE)
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