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All the latest updates and news from Ukraine today.
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The United Nations said Friday it was "deeply concerned" by what it described as summary executions of prisoners of war carried out by Russian and Ukrainian forces on the battlefield.
The head of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, Matilda Bogner, said her organisation had documented the killings of "up to 25 Russian prisoners of war" by Ukrainian armed forces as well as "the summary execution of 15 Ukrainian prisoners of war shortly after being captured by Russian armed forces".
A Russian strike on a humanitarian support centre in eastern Ukraine killed three people, the emergencies service said Friday, revising their previous toll of five dead.
"The town of Kostyantynivka came under rocket fire during the night of March 24. One of the rockets hit a one-storey building," it said.
"Three people died and two people were injured as a result of the incident," the service said later. It published images of a building with its roof caved in and debris all around.
It said the victims included "three internally displaced women from Bakhmut, Chasiv Yar and Opytne", nearby towns at the centre of the conflict.
The Russian army said in its daily report Friday that it had hit an "ammunition depot of foreign legion mercenary units" in Kostyantynivka. Kostyantynivka is about 25 kilometres (15 miles) west of Bakhmut, an industrial city that has seen the longest and bloodiest battle of the Russian invasion.
A statement by the regional prosecutor said the Russian military had fired S-300 anti-aircraft missiles at Kostyantynivka. Authorities in the southern region of Kherson, partly controlled by Russian forces, said one civilian had been killed in Russian strikes in the past 24 hours.
China's President Xi Jinping's three-day visit to Moscow came to an end on Wednesday. During the meeting, Putin and Xi discussed China's twelve-point plan for Ukraine, which Russia's president praised as the basis for a peaceful solution. Xi had previously said China would continue to work with Russia in the name of "true multilateralism". Europe's press takes stock.
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A Russian strike on a humanitarian support centre in an eastern Ukraine town killed three people, the emergencies service said on Friday, revising their previous toll of five dead.
"The town of Kostyantynivka came under rocket fire during the night of March 24. One of the rockets hit a one-storey building," it said. "Three people died and two people were injured as a result of the incident," it said later.
The emergencies service published images of a one-storey building with its roof caved in and debris all around. It said the victims included "three internally displaced women from Bakhmut, Chasiv Yar and Opytne" -- nearby towns at the centre of the conflict.
Kostyantynivka is about 25 kilometres (15 miles) west of Bakhmut, an industrial city that has seen the longest and bloodiest battle of the Russian invasion. A statement by the regional prosecutor said the Russian military had fired S-300 anti-aircraft missiles at Kostyantynivka.
Authorities in the southern region of Kherson, partly controlled by Russian forces, said one civilian had been killed in Russian strikes in the past 24 hours.
A Russian strike on a humanitarian support centre in an eastern Ukraine town killed five people, emergency services said on Friday, as Moscow’s forces push to capture the entire industrial Donetsk region.
“The town of Kostyantynivka came under rocket fire during the night of March 24. One of the rockets hit a one-storey building,” the emergency services said on Telegram, specifying that three women and two men had died.
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Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday told European leaders that “delays” sending fighter jets and long-range missiles could extend the war, after he paid a visit to the frontline southern region of Kherson.
On the train home from the war-ravaged areas, Zelensky gave an emotional account of what he had seen as he addressed a summit of his EU counterparts gathered in Brussels via video link, an EU official said.
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The General Staff of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense had some great news to announce on Thursday – Russian forces had withdrawn from the southern city of Nova Kakhovka, in the Kherson region.
Only they hadn’t.
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Good morning from Kyiv.
Russia continues to launch overnight drone attacks against Ukrainian cities. Air raid sirens sounded in the capital at midnight last night and while the city escaped attack, Kryvyi Rih to the south was less fortunate.
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