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Added on the 29/04/2022 16:11:19 - Copyright : France 24 EN
The EU believes Russia's missile attacks on civilians in Ukraine "amounts to a war crime," according to a spokesman for the bloc, after Russian forces carried out a wave of strikes on Ukraine cities that killed at least five people and knocked out energy infrastructure nationwide. SOUNDBITE
Images of smoke rising over the front line in Ukraine's Donbas region. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made his first trip to the country's war-torn east since the launch of Moscow's invasion, as Russian forces tighten their grip around key cities in the Donbas region. IMAGES
Ukrainian refugees continue to pour across the Polish border to escape the Russian invasion. More than two million Ukrainians have already entered Poland since 24 February. IMAGES
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken accuses Russia of committing war crimes by attacking civilians in Ukraine. "Intentionally targeting civilians is a war crime. After all the destruction of the past few weeks, I find it difficult to conclude that the Russians are doing otherwise," Blinken says. SOUNDBITE
Ukrainian and Russian-backed rebels swap hundreds of prisoners in the war-torn East of the country, one of the largest such exchanges since the outbreak of an insurgency almost four years ago. IMAGES
Patients with mental disorders or other diseases remain in the hospital suffering precariousness of war, while being dependent of their daily medication, as most of the medical staff has already fled.
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