A deadly rocket assault on Kharkiv triggered widespread alarm about the lengths to which the Russian President is willing to go to win the war.
Vladimir Putin has been accused of committing war crimes in Ukraine after the indiscriminate shelling of residential buildings in the country’s second-biggest city potentially killed dozens of civilians including three children.
Ukraine’s President says the country’s capital is “constantly in danger” as Russian troops advance slowly on Kyiv. A member of the Ukrainian territorial defence directs cars in a traffic jam ahead of a military checkpoint outside Kyiv.British intelligence, released by the Ministry of Defence on Tuesday, said the Russian advance on Kyiv had made little progress over the past 24 hours, most likely as a result of continuing logistical difficulties.
He described the current situation as under control. The mayor of Mariupol said on Tuesday morning that the southern port city was under constant shelling, which had killed civilians and damaged infrastructure. Ukraine’s leader Zelensky called for an international tribunal to investigate Russia for its actions in recent days, which he described as war crimes. The bombardment of a residential area, which may have included cluster munitions that are banned by most nations, killed at least nine civilians and wounded dozens.
Russia has previously deployed the banned weapon, also known as an aerosol bomb, in Chechnya and Syria. Cluster munitions scatter or release smaller munitions or bomblets over a wide area, increasing the potential for casualties and damage.
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