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RAmerican army has entered the eastern region Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk – and immediately began the casual commission of war crimes, killing at least three civilians who were trying to Run from the invaders.
In footage shared with IndependentAn elderly woman is lying on the side of the road near a level crossing, a short distance from the railway track on the outskirts of the city. He was injured, and still is.
A few yards away, a body lay – inert, dead. Nearby, another victim lay fallen next to the bicycle on which they had loaded supplies, but the wheels began to hit the tracks as the enemy approached. Slow and awkward, he would have been an easy target for her Vladimir PutinLeader of.
Another body, a man wearing blue jeans, lies spread out on the tracks, while smoke billows from the ruins of a nearby house. One ray of light in that grim scene is an unidentified man rescuing the injured woman and carrying her out of the border RussiaThe gunmen of.
The photos were taken by a Ukrainian drone over Pokrovsk, which has been a strategic priority for Russia for more than a year – thousands of soldiers on both sides have been killed in fighting that will now become a house-to-house conflict as the city is reduced to rubble.
As the news filtered back ukraine that weekend donald trump reportedly said again Volodymyr Zelensky that he should hand over his province Donetsk as part of a Armistice agreement with KremlinPutin’s forces fired more missiles at civilian targets across the country.
Pokrovsk is in Donetsk. Like Kharkiv, which was attacked by a new guided missile on Sunday night, it was home to a mostly Russian-speaking population before the war. Similarly to the south was Mariupol, further north was Bakhmut and just down the road Avdeevka.
Now there is nothing left of Bakhmut or Avdeevka. More than 350,000 people fled the Russians in Mariupol, and according to Human Rights Watch, at least 8,000 civilians were killed there when Russia began its campaign to “save” Russian-speaking people from the Ukrainian government.
Trump and Zelensky met last Friday, with the Ukrainian president hoping to secure a US agreement to sell him its Tomahawk cruise missiles.
No decision was taken either way by the US President, but multiple media reports described the meeting as “tense” – Trump apparently swore repeatedly and told Zelensky that Ukraine was in danger of being destroyed.
It is not. Russia is making small, gradual gains at huge costs. The UK Ministry of Defence, which supports Ukraine, has estimated that it would take Russia another four years, and cost the lives of more than 2 million men, to capture the four Ukrainian provinces it already partially occupies in the east of the country.
Meanwhile, Ukraine is moving deeper into Russian territory to attack Putin’s logistics and energy infrastructure. He wants Tomahawk cruise missiles, which have a range of about 1,000 miles (1,600 km), to increase pressure on Putin.
The heads of Germany’s intelligence agencies recently warned that Russia was already involved in a hybrid war against Europe, which could escalate over the next five years. Germany produces the Taurus missile, which, unlike the Tomahawk, is capable of ground-based attack.
Norway and Italy produce similarly capable missiles, but so far neither of these countries, which claim to view Russia as a military threat, have agreed to supply Ukraine.
This week, Zelensky will undoubtedly reiterate his pleas for more European help, as it becomes clear again that Trump has been parroting Russian talking points in his meetings with the Ukrainian leader.
Zelensky is expected to join Willing’s European coalition for more talks led by Keir Starmer in the near future. He said Kiev is preparing a contract to buy 25 Patriot air-defense systems in the coming years, and he expects Europe to give priority to the supply of these weapons.
Trump and Putin are expected to meet in Budapest, Hungary in the next two weeks as the guests of Viktor Orban, whose agenda is largely pro-Putin. Many European countries have expressed dismay at the idea of Putin, who has been convicted as a war criminal by the International Criminal Court, setting foot inside the EU.