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A report by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights concluded that both Moscow and kyiv bear responsibility for an attack on a nursing home early in the conflict that left at least 50 civilians dead. Meanwhile, UK intelligence agencies say Russia is moving thousands of reservists to the Ukrainian border for more war operations.
For the United Nations (UN), Russia and Ukraine would have shared responsibility for the assault on the Stara Krasnyanka asylum, which left at least 50 people dead.
The events occurred in the province of Lugansk, on March 11, two weeks after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the war against his neighboring country.
A report by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights reached that conclusion, noting that a few days before the Russian attack, Ukrainian soldiers took up positions inside the building and effectively targeted it.
In that context, the UN does not consider Ukrainian soldiers or Moscow-backed separatist fighters to have committed a war crime. But he said the battle at the nursing home is emblematic and shows concerns about the possible use of “human shields” in military operations.
In addition to the fatalities, the attack left dozens of elderly and disabled patients trapped inside the building, without water or electricity. At least 22 people survived.
Russia mobilizes reservists from all over the country to Ukraine for new offensives
The Kremlin warned this week that it has only used a “small portion” of its force in Ukraine. And he would be close to showing it.
Information released on July 9 by the UK intelligence agencies, which monitors the conflict, maintains that Moscow is gathering reservist forces from across the country and moving them near the borders with Ukraine for future offensives.
A large proportion of Russia’s new infantry units are likely to be deployed with MT-LB armored vehicles, long stockpiled, the British Ministry of Defense has noted.
Meanwhile, kyiv tries to respond to Russian military might. London confirmed that defense drills have begun for the first batch of a group of up to 10,000 Ukrainian military recruits who will undergo training in the UK over the next few months.
The new program run by British soldiers has 1,050 members of its forces who will be tasked with training Ukrainian volunteers with little or no military experience.
“We will help Ukraine rebuild its forces and increase its resistance as they defend their country’s sovereignty and their right to choose their own future,” British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said in a statement after visiting the recruits this week. week.
The war in Ukraine turned 136 days this Saturday and the bombings do not stop. As Kremlin troops make major gains in the Donbass region, it is feared that they may proceed to seize more of the country’s territory.
With Reuters and local media
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