Kiev (EFE)
According to official sources, Russian troops launched a missile attack on Tuesday against the city of Kramatorsk, just 50 kilometers from Bakhmut, where the Russian offensive led by the assault forces of the Wagner mercenary group is currently concentrating.
In this attack one civilian died and at least three others were injured, said the regional governor, Pavlo Kyrylenko, who also confirmed that the missile offensive caused damage to six high-rise buildings in the city.
Previously, Kyrylenko reported that the Russians had killed three other civilians at different points in the Donetsk region, in attacks that injured more than 14 people.
Russian forces have also launched attacks in recent hours against the Kherson region, including the capital, in which one person was killed and six others injured.
The spokeswoman for the Ukrainian Southern Command has assured this Tuesday that the representatives that Moscow has installed in this region of southern Ukraine are preparing to leave the territories they still occupy in what appears to be the beginning of a withdrawal.
Jerson is one of four Ukrainian regions, along with Zaporiyia, Lugansk and Donetsk, that Russia unilaterally annexed last September, without achieving total control of the territory.
The International Criminal Court will open two cases of war crimes against Russia
The International Criminal Court (ICC) will open two war crimes cases against Russia linked to the invasion of Ukraine and will process arrest warrants against several people, according to The New York Times.
The newspaper assures, with sources of officials related to these decisions but without authorization to speak publicly about them, that two accusations are expected against Russia for kidnapping Ukrainian children and deliberately attacking the country’s civilian infrastructure.
These would be the first international charges to be filed since the beginning of the conflict, on February 24 of last year, and come after months of work by special teams to investigate war crimes, according to the newspaper.
The investigations allege that Russia kidnapped Ukrainian children and teenagers and sent them to Russian re-education camps, and deliberately targeted civilian infrastructure.
The Kremlin, which has denied the accusations of war crimes, recalled today that Russia does not recognize the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Although Ukraine has already brought proceedings against Russia at the ICC, this Hague-based court can try war crimes that Russian forces may have committed in that country, but has no jurisdiction to prosecute the decision to invade Ukrainian territory.