DECEMBER 30, 2022:
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ten months into Russia’s latest invasion of Ukraine, overwhelming evidence shows the Kremlin’s troops have waged total war, with disregard for international laws governing the treatment of civilians and conduct on the battlefield. Ukraine is investigating more than 58,000 potential Russian war crimes — killings, kidnappings, indiscriminate bombings and sexual assaults. Reporting by The Associated Press and “Frontline,” has verified more than 600 incidents that appear to violate the laws of war. Some of those attacks were massacres that killed dozens or hundreds of civilians and as a totality it could account for thousands of individual war crimes. Karim Khan, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, told the AP, “Ukraine is a crime scene.”
DECEMBER 29, 2022, UPDATE:
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian missiles struck Ukraine in the biggest wave of strikes in weeks, hitting power stations and other critical infrastructure Thursday (Dec. 29, 2022) during freezing winter weather. Russia fired 69 missiles at energy facilities and Ukrainian forces shot down 54, Ukrainian military chief Gen. Valerii Zaluzhnyi said. Local officials said attacks killed at least two people around Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city. The strikes also wounded at least six people across the country, although the toll of the attacks was growing as officials treated the hurt and got a sense of the day’s damage. Russia dispatched explosive drones to selected regions overnight before broadening the barrage, the Ukrainian air force said.
DECEMBER 29, 2022:
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Authorities in Ukraine say multiple regions of the country have come under another massive Russian missile attack. Air raid sirens rang out across the country on Thursday morning (Dec. 29, 2022), including in the capital. In Kyiv, the regional administration said air defense systems were activated to fend off the missiles. The mayor of Kharkiv said numerous explosions took place in Ukraine’s second-largest city. Ukrainian authorities in several regions said some Russian missiles were intercepted. The attack is the latest in a series of Russian strikes targeting power and water supplies that have increased the Ukrainian population’s suffering in freezing weather. Moscow has launched such attacks on weekly basis since October while its ground forces struggle to advance.
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