More than 1,200 bodies have been discovered to date in the kyiv region, partly occupied for several weeks by Russian forces, announced Sunday April 10 the general prosecutor of Ukraine, Iryna Venediktova, on the British channel Sky News. “To date, we have 1 222 people killed only for the Kyiv region”, she said. Follow our live.
At least $1 trillion in damage. LThe damage caused by the war in Ukraine will amount to at least $1 trillion for the country, according to Ukrainian Deputy Economy Minister Oleksandr Hryban. who was speaking during a continuous broadcast devoted to the Russian invasion. The deputy minister talks about the loss “infrastructures” of the country at several levels: “state, municipal and private”. At the end of March, this estimate was $500 billion.
Over 5,000 war crimes investigations. Ukraine has opened 5,600 investigations for alleged war crimes on its territory since the beginning of the Russian offensive, announced the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Iryna Venediktova, on UK channel Sky News (in English). The magistrate called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “main war criminal of the 21st century”and added to have identified 500 Russian war criminals.
Dnipro airport bombed again. The airport of this major city in eastern Ukraine is “completely destroyed”according to regional governor Valentin Reznitchenko. “New attack on Dnipro airport. Nothing remains of it. The airport itself and nearby infrastructure have been destroyed. And the missiles continue to fly”he wrote on Telegram.
Pope Francis calls for an “Easter truce” to “achieve peace”. “Let an Easter truce begin, but not to reload the weapons and resume the fight. No. A truce to achieve peace through real negotiations”said the sovereign pontiff on Sunday, after celebrating Palm Sunday Mass in public, in St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican. “What kind of victory will be that of planting a flag on a pile of ruins ?” asked the pope about‘”a war that every day brings before our eyes heinous massacres and atrocious cruelties committed against defenseless civilians”.
Bombings kill five people in the east of the country. Bombing left five dead and five injured, according to a report communicated by Ukrainian regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko on Telegramin Vougledar, 60 kilometers south-west of Donetsk, in the east of the country, as well as in Novomikhailivka, a neighboring village, on Saturday evening. It must be said that thehe fighting is getting tougher and tougher in this region, which has become a priority for the Russian army. For the time being, Moscow has not communicated a toll and it is not known what nationality the injured are, or whether they are civilian or military losses. For its part, the Ukrainian army announced on Facebook that it had “destroyed four tanks, eight armored vehicles and seven enemy vehicles”as well as’“an airplane, a helicopter” and drones.
Ukraine says it is ready for the “big battle” in the east of the country. Ukraine is “ready for big battles” and she “must win them, including in the Donbass”, eastern region of the country, Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhaïlo Podoliak said on Saturday, quoted by the Interfax-Ukraine news agency. Earlier in the dayPresident Volodymyr Zelensky had underlined during a press conference with Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer, who visited kyiv: “We are ready to fight, and at the same time to seek diplomatic ways to stop this war”.