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UKRAINIAN POLICE HAVE reported finding three bodies with their hands tied behind their backs as Russia continued shelling the east and Washington slammed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “depravity”.
The bodies were found on Friday in a pit near Bucha, a town close to Kyiv that has become synonymous with allegations of Russian war crimes.
“The victims’ hands were tied, cloths were covering their eyes and some were gagged. There are traces of torture on the corpses, the Kyiv region police said in a statement today.
All three men had been shot in the ear, it said.
Ukraine also reported that Russian shelling on Kharkiv, the country’s second biggest city, and in the eastern Donbas region had killed one person and injured 12 more.
“The situation in the Kharkiv region is tough. But our military, our intelligence, have important tactical success,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his latest televised address.
Ukrainian forces said they had recaptured the village of Ruska Lozova, near Kharkiv, that had been occupied by Russian troops for two months.
Hundreds of civilians were evacuated from the area.
“It was two months of terrible fear. Nothing else, a terrible and relentless fear,” Natalia, a 28-year-old evacuee from Ruska Lozova, told AFP after reaching Kharkiv.
“We were in the basements without food for two months, we were eating what we had,” said Svyatoslav, 40, who did not want to give his full name, his eyes red with fatigue.
Oleksandr Skachko, a resident of nearby Slatyne, which was also recaptured by Ukrainian troops, said 15 people from the village had been killed.
Addressing Russians, the 47-year-old said: “Your army has invaded our land and is killing our children. No matter what anyone says, no matter what Putin says, our people are dying here.”
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Putin’s ‘depravity’
Thousands have been killed and millions forced to flee their homes since the Russian invasion of its pro-Western neighbour began on February 24.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby on Friday briefly choked with emotion as he described the destruction in Ukraine and slammed Putin’s “depravity”.
Ukrainian prosecutors say they have pinpointed more than 8,000 war crimes carried out by Russian troops and are investigating 10 Russian soldiers for suspected atrocities in Bucha.
Russia is now intensifying operations in the eastern Donbas region, making some territorial advances, and tightening its stranglehold on the devastated southern port city of Mariupol.
Ukrainian authorities said they planned to evacuate civilians on Friday from the besieged Azovstal steel plant, the last holdout in Mariupol where hundreds are sheltering with Ukrainian troops.
But Denis Pushilin, leader of the breakaway eastern region of Donetsk, accused Ukrainian forces of “acting like outright terrorists” and holding civilians hostage in the steel plant.
From Mariupol’s badly damaged port zone, AFP on Friday heard heavy shelling coming from Azovstal during a media trip organised by the Russian army, with explosions only a few seconds apart.
‘Humiliation’ of the UN
Russia also on Friday confirmed that it carried out an air strike on Kyiv in which a journalist was killed during a visit by UN chief Antonio Guterres the previous day, the first such attack on the Ukrainian capital in nearly two weeks.
Russia’s defence ministry said it had deployed “high-precision, long-range air-based weapons” that “destroyed the production buildings of the Artyom missile and space enterprise in Kyiv”.
Zelensky called for a stronger global response to Thursday’s strikes, which immediately followed his talks in the city with the UN’s secretary general.
“It is unfortunate, but such a deliberate and brutal humiliation of the United Nations by Russia has gone unanswered,” he said.
Guterres had also toured Bucha and other Kyiv suburbs where Moscow is alleged to have committed war crimes. Russia denies killing civilians.
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“I was moved by the resilience and bravery of the people of Ukraine. My message to them is simple: We will not give up,” Guterres tweeted Friday.
“The UN will redouble its efforts to save lives and reduce human suffering. In this war, as in all wars, the civilians always pay the highest price.”
‘Minor’ advances
Kyiv has admitted that Russian forces have captured a string of villages in the Donbas region.
But a senior NATO official said Russia had made only “minor” and “uneven” advances.
The Pentagon also said the Kremlin’s eastern offensive was “behind schedule”.
But Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the “special military operation… is proceeding strictly according to plan”, China’s official Xinhua news agency reported.
More Western armaments are due to arrive in Ukraine, with US President Joe Biden on Thursday seeking billions of dollars from Congress to boost supplies.
Following a conversation with Zelensky, President Emmanuel Macron said today that France would “intensify” its supply of military and humanitarian support.
Russia’s defence ministry in recent days has said its forces have struck Ukrainian military sites hosting Western-supplied weapons and ammunition, a claim denied by a senior NATO official.
Russia has warned Western countries against sending military aid.
“If the US and NATO are really interested in resolving the Ukraine crisis, then first of all, they should wake up and stop supplying the Kyiv regime with arms and ammunition,” Lavrov said.
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another good means of prevention would be to stop eating monkeys. some will think that is a racist remark but it isnt. Bush meat has been proven to be the cause of the outbreaks.
Thats actually just a theory the reservoir of ebola is still a mystery. One would think though, if someone said to you “a virus may begin in that food you are eating that melts your organs and has a 70pc fatality rate, people would give that food a miss.
There is also a belief bats are a major contributor to the spread. Fruit plants kept near pigs attract bats and spread to pigs to humans.
I wouldn’t be too cocky about it as mad cow was spread and produced by western farming. We also had horse meat issues.
The first theory was bats have it (as they were res for Marburg a similar virus), they eat stuff, drop it half finished, their saliva maybe has high enough concentration of virus (unlike human saliva in an ebola victim) to infect the gorillas who eat the leftovers…Africans preparing bush meat get infected.
It wasnt so much them eating it that might infect them (ebolas vv weak and would not survive cooking) its the people preparing it getting cut on bones etc or eating bits raw that might do it…they’re crazy..and stupid. Theres a youtube doc where you can see them munching away even after theu’re told..
Crazy is strong. They don’t have the same education or belief in medicine we have. From their point of view something they did for generations isn’t suddenly now fatal.
Page 11 of the Tripedia vaccine on the FDA website lists autism and sudden infant death syndrome as adverse effects because of “seriousness or frequency of reporting”. So to say there is no truth in this whatsoever is a bit naive.
Jimmy, I gift to you a tinfoil hat. The fda website does not state that autism and sids are adverse effects. It states that these are post approval reports. Basically, vaccine side effect follow up is so detailed that doctors are supposed to notify of anything that happens to a child that received the vaccine, even if there is no relation. But hey, I’m not one to let facts get in the way of a good debate.
Jimmy, your sentence is written incorrectly, your friend got autism AND vaccinated, not BECAUSE. Autism is devastating, but there is no scientific evidence at all that shows a link between the two. One anecdote does not mean causation, in the same way that I cannot say that my kids got vaccines and didn’t get autism means vaccines are safe. It is only by analysing thousands of cases. Kids get autism irrespective of vaccination.
So you think that you know about this child more than his parents? Rates are soaring since the 80s and getting worse, so i don’t believe this should be passively dismissed. A quick google search of “cdc fraud” will show you there has been a cover up of the reports.
1 in 2000 children in the 80s to 1 in 150 today in the US today. What are you on about woman, criteria widening. There seems to be no end to this widening criteria.
People really need to check their conspiracy theories and assumptions on racist reasons at the door. The disease was first identified in 1976 and it scared the hell out of the medical community. Real fear it would spread so research started. Nearly 40 years later they found a vaccine.
It was and is really only a risk in Africa. The recent outbreak was still only a risk in Africa and required quarantine and other precautions. The vaccine was not suddenly studied because it was a risk outside of Africa. The outbreak did spur more study because there was a sudden huge outbreak.
I know all vaccines take money and serious labour to produce. But look how quickly they developed a vaccine when they put their minds to it.
How long has Ebola been around? How long has it been killing people? But it’s only when it threatened the western world that pharmaceutical companies decided to try to prevent it…
Yeah. Fair point. This isn’t about not giving a hoot about Africans. It’s just about when they really put their minds to it in research – they can come out with results.
It was never a threat to the western world for a long list of reasons, that was all mass hysteria based on public misunderstandings of how its transmitted, and conspiracy theorists, as the fact that the much predicted huge western outbreak never happening proved.
They’ve been working on ebola for’ decades, a bigger outbreak = bigger study sample + more data thats why they made breakthroughs.
Okay – but how come a vaccine is developed within six months of the biggest outbreak?
I know vaccine development takes a long time. But as proven with swine flu (yes – virus, different, I know) but there, they also managed to develop a vaccine within six mths.
Just to add upon reading ispr’s comment above – I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don’t think drug companies breed disease to make money from. I know they are money making organisations – not charities.
Still I’m just saying: when they put their minds to it – they can really get some good and hopeful results
You are confusing, I think anyway, when they started working on it with when the news started reporting on it. Like I said the later breakthroughs are easier when you have more people to study this was way way bigger than any previous outbreak thats why everyone was so worried.
Local cultural practices like washing of the dead and, its theorized, bush meat , were driving it thats among reasons wjy it was never a threat to the west. Worst case scenario Ireland might have got 5-10 cases on a really really bad day, and we’ve had a viral hemmoragic fevers plan since 2000 since b4 even the Office of Emergency Planning was created and we stockpiled all those influenza and smalox vaccines.
Sorry Mary I read your stuff during the outbreak I know youre mot was referring to our 4-5 resident truthers on here who predicted this would be rampaging through Europe by now if we didnt ban flights from Morocco which was 4500 miles from the outbreak, and hurling abuse at me when I countered their nonsense about it already being airborne. Obviously they were wrong
I never went along with theorists belief of it being airborne/transcontinental etc. And like u read my stuff, I read urs. And ur constant ‘mammy-ing’ irked me too. The ‘everything will be fine’ attitude annoyed me.
I am not for mass chaos but nor was I for ur stuff. I am glad they were vigilant about travel from Africa and about workers being quarantined. And we will never know if it was right or wrong to implement those measures.
I accept the point about a larger sample group to study from. But your tone is patronising and condescending.
Mary I do not think that Ryan’s tone can be construed as patronising and condescending. Knowledgeable, rational, direct, no BS, but patronising and condescending I think not. And he was absolutely right to call it as he did and the facts and the outcome have proven him to be correct. Reason is a far better approach to these issues than emotion. The outcomes are also better. I am not accusing you of being emotional btw! I simply think that the hysteria and paranoia which passed for debate by some commentators on The Journal during the outbreak has been proven to be embarrassingly wrong. They are very silent now but it won’t stop them from behaving in exactly the same way in the future. This is a victory for reason and medical science and for Governments who held their nerve.
@Viking one problem with your conspiracy theory . in terms of global population the virus has killed f all . and now they’re producing a vaccine . explain that one
So you and the nut brigade have stopped predicting ijts gonna cause a western outbreak as a pretense for martial law and world govt then? Maybe when yoir v specific hysterical predictions are proven wrong ypu could I dunno change your mind maybe?
You lunatics had the public terrified with your ignorance and you lamasted tjose of us myself included who tried to provide them with proper information, best you can do is slink away
Ryan, do not demean your intellect engaging with the likes of The Viking. If this were medieval times he’d be out burning witches at the stake and eating bat poo as a cure for ailments.
There is no doubt in my mind that there is a cure out there for cancer. Overnight they have found a cure for Ebola, yet our loved ones are allowed to die from a disease that’s been around for years. Just doesn’t make any sense!
problem is there isnt just one type of cancer there are more than 200 so one cure does not suit all . if there was a cure out there it would be out . its too big a thing to hide . and plenty of CEOs of pharma companies die or jave family members die from cancer aswell . if they had a cure available fo you think they would leave it sitting on the shelf for the sake of company profits
Also if they had a cure for cancer people would be willing to pay far more for it, these ridiculous theories that the big pharma is holding back the cure because current treatment is more profitable makes no sense whatsoever a cure would be way more profitable.
Ah Gemma, the naturalistic fallacy. So how far do you want to are your argument? Does that mean that any medical intervention that alters nature is wrong? Sooooo meningitis, broken bones, heart attacks, should we not treat those also? Or where do you draw the arbitrary line in the sand.
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