Ukraine War Day 100: Russia occupies 20%, children genocide investigation, British MP's son targeted

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Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 100 of the invasion

--Russian forces now occupy about 20% of Ukraine’s territory as Zelenskiy notes ‘some success’ in battles at Sievierodonetsk

 

--Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, marked the 100th day of war with a video message in front of the presidential office in Kyiv where he pledged that “victory will be ours”.

 

--The scale of destruction in Ukraine “defies comprehension”, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said in a statement to mark the 100th day of the conflict. Thousands of people “are living with the anguish of not knowing what happened to their loved ones”, ICRC’s director general, Robert Mardini, said.

 

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/03/russia-ukraine-war-what-we-know-on-day-100-of-the-invasion

 

 

 

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Ukraine's top prosecutor Iryna Venediktova poses after an interview with Reuters, in The Hague

 

Ukraine investigates deportation of children to Russia as possible genocide

 

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Prosecutors investigating war crimes cases in Ukraine are examining allegations of the forcible deportation of children to Russia since the invasion as they seek to build a genocide indictment, the country’s top prosecutor said in an interview.

 

International humanitarian law classifies the forced mass deportation of people during a conflict as a war crime.

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Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova, who is overseeing multiple war crimes inquiries in Ukraine, said "we have more than 20 cases about forcible transfer of people" to Russia from various regions across the eastern European country since the invasion began on Feb. 24.

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Venediktova declined to provide a number for how many victims had been forcibly transferred. However, Ukraine’s human rights ombudswoman Lyudmyla Denisova said in mid May that Russia had relocated more than 210,000 children during the conflict, part of more than 1.2 million Ukrainians who Kyiv said have been deported against their will.

 

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https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-ukraine-investigates-deportation-children-080454744.html

 

 

 

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Russia’s National Guard has confirmed that a Chechen commander was killed in a bloody firefight with foreign volunteers in Ukraine—and they singled out the son of a British lawmaker as one of those responsible.

 

Ben Grant, a 30-year-old former Royal Marine and the son of Helen Grant, a Conservative MP and Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s special envoy on girls’ education, joined British and U.S. servicemen fighting Russian forces in Ukraine back in March, telling British media at the time that he felt compelled to act after seeing footage of Russian troops bombing a home as a child screamed.

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Viral footage of fighting in the Kharkiv region published by The Daily Telegraph last week captured Grant and other Western volunteers, part of a Ukrainian counteroffensive to force Russian troops out of the region, under heavy Russian fire as they rescued a wounded fellow volunteer.

 

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https://news.yahoo.com/russia-goes-british-mp-son-115851410.html

 

 

[Bkk Brian]

8 hours ago, onthedarkside said:

Russia’s National Guard has confirmed that a Chechen commander was killed in a bloody firefight with foreign volunteers in Ukraine—and they singled out the son of a British lawmaker as one of those responsible.

Full video of the incident is here:

 

This shows the lead up where they are under heavy fire and taking serious casualties, despite this they carry on to ambush and destroy the Russian tank. and kill the commander.

 

Ben Grant: "I was terrified but driven to complete my most important goal, which at the time was getting him and my team members out of the danger"