Mayor of northern Ukrainian city says there is no evidence of any withdrawal of Russian forces
, responded that while there had been “positive” signals from the latest talks, “they do not drown out the explosions of Russian shells”.
He said: “The locals live in a real humanitarian crisis for weeks with no electricity, no heating, no water, only in some areas of the city there’s gas [natural gas, not petrol]. Thousands of buildings are destroyed. Yesterday, our district, Liotka, was shelled especially heavily, where a few people died and dozens were injured.
Ukraine’s general staff of the armed forces has said that while Russian troops were partly withdrawing, it appeared to be merely “a rotation of individual units” and that Moscow was seeking to “mislead the military leadership” of Ukraine. Speaking on a visit to Morocco, Blinken said there was “what Russia says, and what Russia does, and we’re focused on the latter. What Russia is doing is the continued brutalisation of Ukraine.”
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