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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said 2,00,000 children are among the Ukrainians who have been forcefully taken to Russia and dispersed across the vast country, including children from orphanages, children taken with their parents, and those separated from their families.
A Russian missile hit rail lines in the western Lviv region, a key conduit for supplies of Western weapons and other supplies, wounding five people, Ukrainian officials said.
Luhansk regional Governor Serhiy Haidai said 70 percent of Severodonetsk was held by Russian forces, 10-15 percent was a “grey zone”, and the rest was held by Ukraine.
Civilians are sheltering under a chemical plant in Severodonetsk as Russian forces advance on the key city in eastern Ukraine, Haidai said, raising concerns the facility may still have stocks of dangerous materials.
Haidai accused Russia of “simply destroying and plundering” the region, saying Moscow’s forces hit the Azot chemical plant in Severodonetsk on Wednesday, and damaged a hospital in Lysychansk.
Russian forces in the now-occupied Kherson region are scrambling to secure the vital ground line of communication threatened by Ukrainian forces, the Institute for the Study of War (SW) said.
Two monks and a nun have been killed in the shelling of a historic monastery in eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church said.
Ukraine’s Culture Ministry has documented 367 war crimes against Ukraine’s cultural heritage, including the destruction of 29 museums, 133 churches, 66 theatres and libraries, and a Jewish cemetery, the Kyiv Independent reported.
The White House said that any offensive cyber activity against Russia would not be a violation of US policy of avoiding direct military conflict with Russia.
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