It comes as world leaders push for an investigation of the Kremlin's repeated attacks on civilian targets. 9News
Russian President Vladimir Putin has appeared at a huge flag-waving rally in Moscow and praised his country's troops on Friday as they pressed their lethal attacks on Ukrainian cities with shelling and missiles.
In city after city around Ukraine, hospitals, schools and buildings where people sought safety have been attacked. Rescue workers searched for survivors in the ruins of a theatre that served as a shelter when it was blasted by a Russian airstrike Wednesday in the besieged southern city of Mariupol.Ludmyla Denisova, Ukrainain parliament's human rights commissioner, said at least 130 people had survived the theatre bombing.
Lviv lies not far from the Polish border and well behind the front lines, but the area has not been spared Russia's attacks. In the worst, nearly three dozen people were killed last weekend in a strike on a training facility near the city. In Kharkiv, a massive fire raged through a local market after shelling Thursday. One firefighter was killed and another injured when new shelling hit as emergency workers fought the blaze, emergency services said.
She said many of the daily attacks battering Ukrainian cities "are reportedly indiscriminate" and involve the use of "explosive weapons with a wide impact area." DiCarlo said the devastation in Mariupol and Kharkiv "raises grave fears about the fate of millions of residents of Kyiv and other cities facing intensifying attacks.
In a joint statement, the foreign ministers of the Group of Seven leading economies accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of conducting an "unprovoked and shameful war," and called on Russia to comply with the International Court of Justice's order to stop its attack and withdraw its forces.
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