The NGO’s press release refers to shortcomings committed by the Ukrainian army. But, critics say, he ignores the realities of Russia’s artillery warfare.
In Kyiv
In a village near the front line in northern Ukraine, a Russian shell fell in a vegetable patch. “I don’t understand: there is no military heresays Oleksandr, who lives in the adjacent house. His daughter and his wife had taken refuge in the house at the first explosions and narrowly avoided injuries, the windows having been blown by the explosion. However, half a word, a village official recognizes that the premises of a crèche which has ceased to operate for a long time, about twenty meters opposite, are used as a canteen by Ukrainian soldiers.
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