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Any update on the refinery attack? False flag? Ukraine is saying they didn’t do it. Sabotage?
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Veteran war crimes prosecutor urges ICC to issue Putin arrest warrant
Former war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte has called for the International Criminal Court to quickly issue an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin over actions in Ukraine.
"Putin is a war criminal," Ms Del Ponte, who came to prominence investigating war crimes in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, said in an interview with the Le Temps daily, published today.
The 75-year-old Swiss national said that international arrest warrants for Putin and other high-level Russian officials were needed to hold them responsible for the war crimes committed since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. -
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Great, but issuing a warrant is easier than executing it.Veteran war crimes prosecutor urges ICC to issue Putin arrest warrant
Former war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte has called for the International Criminal Court to quickly issue an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin over actions in Ukraine.
"Putin is a war criminal," Ms Del Ponte, who came to prominence investigating war crimes in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, said in an interview with the Le Temps daily, published today.
The 75-year-old Swiss national said that international arrest warrants for Putin and other high-level Russian officials were needed to hold them responsible for the war crimes committed since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
[Ding-dong] Hi, we are with the international criminal court police. Is Vladimir home? No? Well when he gets in could you tell him that Carla is looking for him, please? -
Belfast-made missile downs Russian chopper in Ukraine
LASER-GUIDED missiles made in Belfast have been used by Ukrainian forces to shoot down a Russian helicopter.
Now Russia has threatened to target British weapons as they are shipped to the war-torn country.The Starstreak missile is made by arms manufacturer Thales Air Defence in east Belfast.
It’s understood to be the weapon’s first use in Ukraine as the country’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed the ‘occupiers are withdrawing’.
The Starstreak is a laser-guided missile that travels at triple the speed of sound to take down low-flying enemy jets and helicopters.
The UK is supplying and training Ukrainian troops in the use of such high-velocity anti-air missiles as well as providing helmets, body armour and combat boots.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson insists the UK will provide further defensive support to Ukraine including a new package of 6,000 more missiles.
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Footage has now emerged showing a Russian Mi-28N helicopter being shot out of the sky in the Luhansk region and cut in two as its tail is struck by the portable missile.
The video released on Friday shows the Starstreak in action during its first week of use in the war, a source at the Ministry of Defence (MoD) told The Times.
Russian ambassador to the UK Andrey Kelin said weaponry that the UK sends to Ukraine could be targeted by Russian forces as they enter the country from the West.
He said: "All arms supplies are destabilising, particularly those mentioned by [Ben] Wallace.
“They exacerbate the situation, making it even bloodier. Apparently, those are new, high-precision weapons. Naturally, our armed forces will view them as a legitimate target if those supplies get through the Ukrainian border.”
The high-velocity surface-to-air missile used in the helicopter attack is designed to defend against conventional air threats like fixed wing fighter planes and helicopters.
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Ukraine retakes areas around Kyiv
Ukrainian forces were advancing today into areas north of Kyiv littered with debris and destroyed Russian tanks as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused departing Russian soldiers of leaving behind mines.
Ukrainian presidential adviser Okeksiy Arestovych said Ukrainian troops had retaken more than 30 towns and villages in the region since Russia announced this week it would scale down operations around the capital to focus on battles in the east.
British military intelligence said Russian troops had abandoned Hostomel airport in a northwestern suburb of the capital, where there had been fighting since the first day of the invasion. -
Russia 'verbally' agreed to Ukrainian peace proposals
Ukraine's top negotiator in peace talks with Russia said on Saturday that Moscow had "verbally" agreed to key Ukrainian proposals, raising hopes that talks to end fighting are moving forward.
Negotiator David Arakhamia told Ukrainian television channels that any meeting between Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin would "with a high probability" take place in Turkey.
"The Russian Federation has given an official answer to all positions, which is that they accept the (Ukrainian) position, except for the issue of Crimea (annexed by Russia in 2014)," Arakhamia said.
He said that while there was "no official confirmation in writing", the Russian side said so "verbally". -
Arakhamia said Moscow had agreed in talks that a referendum on the neutral status of Ukraine "will be the only way out of this situation".
Asked what would happen if Ukrainians voted against a neutral status for the country, Arakhamia said "we will either return to a state of war, perhaps, or return to new negotiations".
The Kremlin has insisted that Ukraine adopt a neutral status.
Arakhamia said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan "called both us and Vladimir Putin" Friday, saying he would host the meeting.
"Neither the date nor the place is known, but we believe that the place will most likely be Ankara or Istanbul," he said. -
For example, the Rada states that anyone who gives the Ukrainian military a Russian warship or a combat aircraft (either a fighter or an assault aircraft) can receive up to a $1 million reward.
A military vehicle, such as a specialized truck, will receive a reward of up to $10,000.
As well as money, the statement also says that anyone who gives up Russian equipment will get "secrecy, a safe stay in Ukraine and support in obtaining new documents and leaving for a third country."
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Russian invasion in disarray as Putin’s top brass ‘scared to tell him the truth’
With Ukraine retaking lost territory and his elite tank division routed, experts fear the Russian president will turn to using weapons of mass destruction to save face
Last week may go down as the one in which Russia started losing its war on Ukraine.
Vladimir Putin’s forces suffered a series of shocking reverses on the battlefield. For the first time, Ukraine recaptured more territory than it lost every day for an entire week, pushing Russian forces 20 miles back from Kyiv.Russia’s famed 4th Guards Tank Division, noted for its victories at Stalingrad and Berlin, was routed in a small, little-known Ukrainian town called Trostyanets.
By the end of the week, Ukraine appeared to have taken the war to Russia as Kyiv refused to confirm whether it had ordered a cross-border helicopter raid that left an oil depot burning out of control in the Russian city of Belgorod.
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In Moscow, Putin seemed ever more isolated, as Western intelligence officials claimed he was being told lies by ministers and generals too scared to tell him the truth.
But there were warnings the most dangerous days may lie ahead, as Ukrainian forces waited in World War I style trenches for a renewed Russian onslaught in the Donbas and western capitals weighed up the risks of Putin turning to weapons of mass destruction.
The week’s most stunning dispatches came from Trostyanets, a small town of some 20,000 people near Sumy in north-eastern Ukraine.
Pictures taken in the town last weekend showed the tanks of Russia’s 4th Guards Kantemirovskaya division reduced to twisted wrecks. -
Pictures taken in the town last weekend showed the tanks of Russia’s 4th Guards Kantemirovskaya division reduced to twisted wrecks.
The 4th Guards is so synonymous with Russian military prowess a Moscow metro station is named after it. It played a key role in two of the most momentous battles in modern history: the great Soviet defence of Stalingrad, which turned back the Nazi advance a cost of more than a million lives; and the Battle of Berlin where the Nazis were finally defeated.
Yet last weekend Ukraine humbled the legendary division in a shocking illustration of how badly the war is going for Russia.The bad news kept coming for Moscow, as Ukraine pushed its forces 20 miles back from Kyiv.
On Wednesday, Ukraine clawed back the devastated remains of the key suburb of Irpin, and on Thursday it recaptured Hostomel airport, which Russia seized at the start of the war, when Moscow believed it could take Kyiv in a matter of days.
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Zelensky says Russian forces committing 'genocide'
President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview due to air in the US today that Russian forces are committing genocide in Ukraine.
"This is genocide. The elimination of the whole nation and the people," Mr Zelensky told the CBS program Face the Nation, according to a transcript provided by the network, a day after new evidence of atrocities by Russian invasion forces emerged.
"We are the citizens of Ukraine. We have more than 100 nationalities. This is about the destruction and extermination of all these nationalities," Mr Zelensky said. -
US, NATO express shock over civilian killings in Ukraine
US and NATO leaders voiced shock and horror today at new evidence of atrocities against civilians in Ukraine, and warned that Russian troop movements away from Kyiv did not signal a withdrawal or end to the violence.
Evidence of possible civilian killings around Kyiv has emerged as the Russian army has pulled back from the capital in the face of ferocious resistance from Ukrainian forces.
AFP reporters saw at least 20 bodies, all in civilian clothing, strewn across a single street in the town of Bucha on Friday. One had his hands tied behind his back with a white cloth, and his Ukrainian passport left open beside his body.
And a Ukrainian official said 57 bodies had been buried in a mass grave in the town outside the capital, showing AFP a slit trench were the bodies lay.
Roughly ten bodies were visible, either unburied or partially covered by the earth. -
Russia must be held accountable for Bucha crimes - Italy
Italy has condemned as "appalling and unbearable" Russia's alleged killings of civilians in the Ukrainian town of Bucha and said Moscow must be held accountable.
"The images of the crimes committed in Bucha and other areas liberated by the Ukrainian army are astonishing," said Prime Minister Mario Draghi in a statement.
"The cruelty of the massacres of unarmed civilians is appalling and unbearable. The Russian authorities must immediately cease hostilities, stop the violence against civilians, and be held accountable for what has happened," he added. -
Outrage at Russian 'war crimes'
Global outrage and accusations of Russian war crimes mounts after the discovery of dozens of bodies, some with their hands bound, near Kyiv.
Ireland, Britain, France, Germany, the United States, NATO and the United Nations all voiced horror at the reports of civilians being murdered in Bucha, northwest of the Ukrainian capital.
Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba called it a "deliberate massacre" while President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian forces are committing "genocide".In a later address, Mr Zelensky said Russian troops are "murderers, torturers, rapists, looters, who call themselves the army and who deserve only death after what they did".
The EU has called for those responsible for the Bucha killings to be brought to justice at the international tribunal in The Hague.
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Moscow accuses Ukraine of staging Bucha events to undermine Russia - TASS
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Ukraine's version of what happened in the town of Bucha was a "fake attack" aimed at undermining Moscow, the TASS news agency reported.
Ukrainian authorities said yesterday that they were investigating possible crimes by Russian forces after finding hundreds of bodies strewn around towns like Bucha outside the capital Kyiv after the Russian withdrawal from the area.
Mr Lavrov said the dead bodies were "staged" and that images of them and what he said was Ukraine's false version of events had been spread on social media by Western countries and Ukraine.
Russia's top diplomat also called on Britain, which holds the presidency of the UN Security Council for April, to fulfil its responsibilities in that role after it rejected a Russian request to convene a meeting over Bucha. -
US to seek Russia's suspension from UN Human Rights Council
The United States plans to seek Russia's suspension from the UN Human Rights Council following apparent evidence of mass executions by Russian troops in Bucha, Ukraine, US ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said Monday.
"The images out of Bucha and devastation across Ukraine require us to now match our words with action," Greenfield said in a tweet. -
Bucha body count is 330-340. Satellite images appearing online of a trench dug out near a church in Bucha. Trench appears to have been used as a mass grave.
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BigAl! wrote:
International laws don't apply to nations with large nuclear arsenals. Js..༺ ᗪᗰᒪ ༻ wrote:
Great, but issuing a warrant is easier than executing it.Veteran war crimes prosecutor urges ICC to issue Putin arrest warrant
Former war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte has called for the International Criminal Court to quickly issue an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin over actions in Ukraine. ✂️
[Ding-dong] Hi, we are with the international criminal court police. Is Vladimir home? No? Well when he gets in could you tell him that Carla is looking for him, please? -
US seeking more sanctions
US President Joe Biden has called for a war crimes trial over the alleged atrocities against civilians in Bucha, Ukraine, and said he wants more sanctions imposed on Russia.
Calling President Vladimir Putin "a war criminal" and the killings "a war crime," Mr Biden told reporters there should be "a war crimes trial." -
EU ready to send Investigation Team
European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen has said the EU was ready to send a team of investigators to gather evidence of possible war crimes after the discovery of killed civilians near Kiev.
"The EU is ready to reinforce this effort by sending investigation teams on the ground to support the Ukrainian Prosecution Services. Eurojust and Europol are ready to assist," she said, referring to EU law enforcement organisations. -
Germany declares 'significant number' of Russian diplomats as undesirable
Germany has decided to declare undesirable a "significant number" of officials at the Russian embassy, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said, adding that Berlin would also boost its support to Ukraine's armed forces.
"The images from Bucha testify to an unbelievable brutality on the part of the Russian leadership and those who follow its propaganda," Ms Baerbock said in a statement, referring to civilian killings in north Ukraine.
Germany's Foreign Ministry lists 104 accredited Russian diplomats in Germany.
"We are launching further responses with our partners," she added.
"We will further tighten the existing sanctions against Russia, we will decisively increase our support to the Ukrainian armed forces and we will also strengthen NATO's eastern flank." -
WARNING! The attached news report contains information some may find upsetting.
https://publicnewstime.com/news/world/mother-repeatedly-raped-at-knifepoint-by-russian-soldier/?amp=1
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Countries who have now expelled diplomats for operating under diplomatic status as being identified as intelligence officers, military or spies include Estonia, Lativa, Lithuania, US, Bulgaria, Slovakia, and Montenegro.Netherlands, Belgium, Czech Republic & Ireland have all moved to expel Russian diplomats.
Denmark & Italy have joined this list of countries who have expelled diplomats. -
Russian Speaker
Russian parliament speaker Volodin says on dead bodies found in Bucha: this is a performance staged for a western audience
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Diplomatic Explusions
Countries that have now expelled Russian diplomats include: Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland, Czech Republic, Estonia, Lativa, Lithuania, USA, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Montenegero, Denmark & Italy.
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Spain now joins the list.Diplomatic Explusions
Countries that have now expelled Russian diplomats include: Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland, Czech Republic, Estonia, Lativa, Lithuania, USA, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Montenegero, Denmark & Italy.
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France opens 3 new probes into 'war crimes'
French anti-terror prosecutors said that they were opening three new investigations into suspected war crimes committed against French nationals during Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The cases took place in the southern city of Mariupol; in Hostomel, outside Kyiv; and in Chernihiv in northen Ukraine, the national anti-terror prosecutors' office said in a statement.
The prosecutors had already opened a war crime probe on 16 March into the death of Franco-Irish Fox News cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski, who was shot near Kyiv while covering the war. -
US to send drones with anti-armor warhead to Ukraine - Pentagon chief
The United States will send a variant of the Switchblade drone that has an anti-armor warhead to Ukraine as quickly as possible, US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said today.
"The Switchblade 600 and 300 will move as quickly as they possibly can," Mr Austin said during a House Armed Services Committee hearing.
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