Mariúpol: the UN sees signs of war crimes and mayor denounces mass graves

The United Nations Office for Human Rights go “mounting evidence” of war crimes in Ukraine committed by troops sent by Russia. For his part, the mayor Mariupol denounces the existence in the city of mass graves with several thousand corpses.

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Through a statement, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Chilean Michelle Bacheletassured that in Ukraine the Russian armed forces “have indiscriminately bombed populated areas, killing civilians and destroying hospitals, schools” and other non-military infrastructure.

These are the indications of possible war crimes in these eight weeks of conflict, in which “international humanitarian law has not only been ignored, but totally abandoned”.

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The attack on the Kramatorsk railway station on April 8, which caused the death of 60 people and wounded another 111, symbolizes the lack of respect for international laws that prohibit indiscriminate military actions of this type, indicated the high commissioner.

The Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine has documented the death of at least 2,345 civilians and 2,919 wounded during the war, although Bachelet stressed that the real number of victims “it could increase much more when the horrors come to light in areas of intense fighting, such as Mariupol”.

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MASS GRAVES IN MARIÚPOL

The mayor of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, Vadym Boychenkohas denounced the existence of a large mass grave in which between 3,000 and 9,000 corpses have been buried and has shown images taken from a satellite by the technology company Maxar as proof of this.

The mayor’s complaint came shortly after the Russian president, Vladimir Putinannounced the capture of the city.

The mayor of this port city that the Russians say they have completely taken over, showed these images on his Telegram account: “In the photos (taken) by Maxar on April 9, the sector of the mass grave in Mangush (in the area of Mariupol) is 20 times larger” than that of Buchaexplains the message.

“Putin is destroying the Ukrainians. He has already killed tens of thousands of civilians in Mariupol. And this calls for a strong reaction from the entire civilized world. Something has to stop the genocide“said the mayor.

AZOV STEELWORKS, THE LAST FOCUS

With almost half a million inhabitants, Mariupol is the main port on the Sea of ​​Azov and is key in Russian attempts to link the self-proclaimed pro-Russian republics of Donestk and Luhansk with occupied Crimea.

Putin said yesterday that he was canceling the order to storm the Azovstal steelworks on the grounds of saving lives, while maintaining the blockade of the industrial zone.

The Kremlin leader maintained that there was “no need to go into these catacombs and crawl underground through these industrial facilities”, but demanded the closure of that industrial zone “so that not a fly passes, neither in nor out”. .

Ukraine has said that Russia is “physically incapable” of taking over the steelworks and the latest British intelligence report believes that Putin’s decision is intended to free up Russian forces to be deployed elsewhere in eastern Ukraine, as well as to avoid “Russian casualties”. significant”.

RUSSIA WANTS THE SOUTH AND EAST OF UKRAINE

Russia wants to control the south of Ukraine, as well as the east, not only to establish a land corridor from Donbas to the annexed Crimean peninsula, but also to create an access point to the breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria, the head of the Russian Central Military District.

“Since the beginning of the second phase of the special operation, which began literally two days ago, one of the tasks of the Russian Army is to establish full control over Donbas and southern Ukraine.”, said the head of that entity, Major General Rustam Minnekéyev.

According to this command, whose words are collected by Russian agencies, this control will allow Russia “establish a land corridor to Crimea and gain influence over vital facilities of the Ukrainian economy and the Black Sea ports serving deliveries of agricultural and metallurgical products to other countries”.

He also stated that control of the southern regions of Ukraine will give the Russian Army access to Transnistria, a pro-Russian separatist region of Moldova.

NO HUMANITARIAN CORRIDOR

Ukraine will not open humanitarian corridors this Friday due to the danger on the routes, Deputy Prime Minister and Head of Reintegration of Ukraine’s Temporarily Occupied Territories Iryna Vereshchuk reported today.

“I appeal to all those waiting for the evacuation: be patient, please hold on”, Vereshchuk said via Telegram.

On Thursday, the Russian troops did not cease fire, so there was no possibility of evacuating the population of the town of Vysokopilya and the villages of Novoznesenske and Mirolyubivka, in the Kherson region, the Ukrinform agency notes.

Russian troops also took the president of the territorial community hostage, it added. It was also not possible to open a humanitarian corridor from Mariupol due to the shelling.

Source: Elcomercio

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