He also called out oil and gas companies in the statement and urged them not to take "excessive profit." "Putin’s Price Hike hit hard in May here and around the world: high gas prices at the pump, energy, and food prices accounted for around half of the monthly price increases, and gas pump prices are up by $2 a gallon in many places since Russian troops began to threaten Ukraine," according to the statement. The Ukrainian presidency has described the number of civilians killed in the city as being in the "tens of thousands."
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Mayor Boychenko on Friday said "Unfortunately, the real numbers of those killed in the city may be much higher than we reported.ĬNN is unable to independently verify the number of people killed in Mariupol, with the free press now unable to access the city and those still inside too scared to speak openly. On May 25, an adviser to the mayor, Petro Andriushchenko - who has also moved to Ukrainian-held territory - told CNN that Mariupol town hall officials believe at least 22,000 residents of the city were killed during three months of war.
Almost 50 to 100 people were killed under almost every destroyed house, and 1,300 high-rise buildings were destroyed in Mariupol," Boychenko saidīoychenko said that because demolition of buildings has been carried out indiscriminately, the bodies of Mariupol residents killed in the fighting have been removed to landfill together with the concrete rubble. "The real number of bodies under the rubble of destroyed houses is frightening. Venediktova said she cannot report all the information regarding what is being done to save the lives of the three men and bring them back safely to Ukraine, but she said the Ukrainian government is doing everything under its authority to free them.
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The Geneva Convention fully covers them."Ĭondemning the trial of the men as "showing the faces of very wild, dark tribes," Venediktova said, "civilized people do not do that." They took part in the theatre of war quite legally.
Ukraine's Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova also commented on the plight of the men Friday, saying, "these people are the military who have the status of combatants. Kuleba tweeted on Friday, "As combatants, they are protected by international humanitarian law and must be treated accordingly," adding that Ukraine will keep working with the UK to ensure their release.
Russian state media said the three prisoners have a month to appeal their convictions before being executed. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Friday strongly condemned the "sham trial" of the three foreign prisoners of war who have been accused of being mercenaries and sentenced to death by a court in the pro-Russian so-called Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).ĭPR authorities have said the three individuals - British citizens Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner, and Moroccan national Brahim Saadoune - were foreign fighters who had been captured in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol by Russian forces in April. Having connection issues? Bookmark CNN's lite site for fast connectivity.The British government has condemned the death sentences of three men - two Britons and a Moroccan - by a pro-Russian court in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic.
Putin argued that Peter the Great was not conquering, but rather fighting over territory that rightfully belonged to Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin compared himself to Peter the Great, likening the 17th-century monarch's conquest of Sweden to his own invasion of Ukraine.The city of Mariupol is at risk of a cholera outbreak while Kherson faces a shortage of medicine, according to a new UK intelligence report. Drinking water, internet connection and phone services remain inconsistent in Russian-occupied territories, the report said.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the country's forces are "holding on" to frontline cities in Donbas. Intense fighting continues in the key eastern city of Severodonetsk, according to Ukrainian officials.
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