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Added on the 31/08/2021 14:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
Explosions ring out and smoke rises in the area of Ocheretyne, a village in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region which, according to observers, is now mostly controlled by Russian forces. On Sunday, the commander-in-chief of Ukraine's armed forces said the situation on the frontline had "worsened", with Moscow's troops making a number of notable gains. IMAGES
Images show the aftermath of a missile that hit near a kindergarten in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine. The missile carved a huge crater in front of the kindergarten, which had some 250 pupils and 70 staff before the war broke out. Debris from the strike, which sparked a small fire in the building and smashed windows, was strewn around the playground and lay near colourful murals on a school building. IMAGES
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says he is "disturbed" by "barbaric activity of Russia in bombarding the Ukrainian people", speaking to the press alongside Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau on the last day of the G20 summit in Bali. SOUNDBITE
Images show police and soldiers searching through debris following a strike on a residential area of Eastern Ukraine's Kramatorsk on Tuesday. The head of the Donetsk administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko, wrote on Telegram that 'enemy fire' had hit the city wounding a young boy. He called on locals to evacuate. IMAGES
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