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Added on the 18/03/2022 12:18:04 - Copyright : France 24 EN
Friday's attack on a barracks housing Ukrainian prisoners of war left at least 50 people dead - while Russia's Embassy in London gets a Twitter warning for 'executions' call.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky calls Friday's bombardment of a prison in eastern Ukraine a "deliberate Russian war crime", which he says killed "more than 50."
At least 18 people were still missing on Friday after the Kalibr missile strike on the central Ukrainian city that killed more than 20 civilians the day before.
In the Kiev region, where Russian troops withdrew at the beginning of April, investigations are underway to document the war crimes committed by Russia. For the past six weeks, French experts from the Gendarmerie's criminal research institute have been working in destroyed buildings and have accumulated evidence that they have handed over to the Ukrainian justice system. FRANCE 24's Catherine Norris Trent and Pauline Godart report.
"From eyewitnesses, information appeared that about 300 people died in the drama theatre of Mariupol," said the city council in a statement. View on euronews