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Ukraine reports at least 50 dead in Kramatorsk During an evacuation operation in Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine, Russian rockets are said to have hit the train station. According to Ukrainian authorities, there were numerous victims. Dozens of people were killed and injured in a rocket attack on the Kramatorsk train station in eastern Ukraine, according to Ukrainian sources. According to the regional governor of Donetsk Oblast, 50 people were killed in the attack, five of whom were children. This was announced by Pavlo Kyrylenko on Telegram. Accordingly, 98 injured were taken to nearby hospitals, 16 of them children. The Ukrainian secret service SBU had previously spoken of 39 dead, the number of injured was initially given by the authorities as 87. The Russian side said there had been no deployment order in Kramatorsk. At the time of the attack, thousands of people are said to have been waiting at the train station to be evacuated. Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko published a photo showing sev...

Ukraine asks NATO in person for "weapons, weapons and weapons" before an offensive in Donbas "like those of World War II" He asks for heavy weapons "in days and not weeks" and says that "the deal is fair: we sacrifice our lives and the war is contained in Ukraine". "Weapons, weapons, weapons." Ukraine has been asking, begging, for weeks for more help from its neighbors, partners and allies. It has done so in every possible way, in writing, in television messages, by video conferences to national parliaments and at EU and NATO meetings. And he has done it once again this Thursday in Brussels, in person, through the mouth of his Foreign Minister, Dmitro Kuleba. "In recent weeks, the Ukrainian army and the Ukrainian nation have shown that we know how to fight and we know how to win, but without the sustainable and sufficient supply of weapons that we have asked for, these victories will be accompanied by enormous sacrifices (...) Or w...

Leading EU politicians see a coal embargo against Russia as just the next step. They expect decisions on gas and oil - and possibly soon. European Union leaders have openly advocated banning oil imports from Russia as well. "I think that action on oil and even gas will be needed sooner or later," said EU Council President Charles Michel at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. "Today we stop the coal, but that's only a very small part of the bill," said foreign affairs officer Josep Borrell. On Tuesday, the EU Commission presented a package of sanctions that included a coal embargo, the member states still have to vote on it. A three-month transitional period is planned. The coal trade with Russia has an annual volume of four billion euros - meanwhile, the EU has already paid 35 billion euros for energy imports to Russia since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, said Borrell. Most of it is oil and gas. The EU foreign policy representative compared...

United Nations experts are tasked with investigating what happened in Bucha, Ukraine. Independent lawyers should look for evidence of possible war crimes. The United Nations wants to send human rights experts to Bucha, Ukraine, to investigate the deaths of hundreds of civilians. This was announced by the spokeswoman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Geneva, Elizabeth Throssell. She did not give an appointment. A team from the UN office with around 50 employees is currently stationed in Uzhgorod in western Ukraine, around 800 kilometers from the capital Kiev and the suburb of Bucha. After the Russian troops withdrew, at least 330 bodies were discovered in the small town in the past few days. Throssell announced that an investigative commission made up of independent lawyers would also look into what was happening in Bucha. The body should collect evidence of possible war crimes on behalf of the UN Human Rights Council. "It's progressing on several levels,...

According to Moscow, the video material from Bucha cannot be trusted. There are pictures of a "fictitious attack". This is how they want to further discredit Russia. After the discovery of hundreds of bodies in Bucha, Ukraine, the Russian government has denied allegations against its troops. "We categorically reject all allegations," government spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, according to the Russian news agency Interfax. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused Ukraine of orchestrating the situation in Bucha. According to the news agency TASS, Lavrov said it was a "fictitious attack" with the aim of discrediting Russia. Hundreds of bodies were discovered in Bucha, a suburb of the Ukrainian capital Kiev, over the weekend after Russian troops withdrew. Ukraine's Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova said Sunday the bodies of at least 410 civilians had been found in areas outside the Ukrainian capital - many with their hands tied, gunshot wounds at cl...