Ukraine battle: Buses carrying corpses of Russian soldiers are filmed heading to Belarus

The corpses of Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine are being moved from Belarus again to Russia by prepare and planes within the lifeless of night time to keep away from attracting consideration, it has emerged.

Video posted by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty exhibits navy ambulances driving via the Belarusian metropolis of Homel in early March, with staff on the area’s scientific hospital claiming greater than 2,500 our bodies have already been shipped again to Russia as of March 13.

Ukraine’s navy says that greater than 14,000 Kremlin troops have been killed because the Russian invasion on February 24, whereas one US intelligence estimate has put the quantity at round 7,000. Moscow’s Defence Ministry says that lower than 500 soldiers have been killed.

Now Belarusian medical workers in Homel, in southeastern Belarus, have described ‘overflowing’ morgues, with one resident of town Mazyr claiming: ‘Passengers at the Mazyr train station were shocked by the number of corpses being loaded on the train. After people started shooting video, the military caught them and ordered them to remove it.’

A health care provider at Mazyr’s foremost metropolis hospital warned: ‘There are not enough surgeons. Earlier, the corpses were transported by ambulances and loaded on Russian trains. After someone made a video about it and it went on the Internet, the bodies were loaded at night so as not to attract attention.’

Officials at Hospital No4 in Homel are alleged to have begun discharging present sufferers on March 1 as a result of of the sheer quantity of wounded Russian soldiers to deal with.

One resident who was handled within the hospital mentioned: ‘There are so many wounded Russians there – it’s only a horror. Terribly disfigured. It is not possible to hear to their moans all through the entire hospital.’

Another physician described rising concern amongst locals that there might be a scarcity of on a regular basis treatment and of ‘problems with anti-tetanus drugs’. Tetanus is a standard ailment afflicting soldiers affected by shrapnel and bullet wounds.

Homel borders Russia to the east and Ukraine to the south. The metropolis of Homel is Belarus’ largest after Minsk, and a serious hub for commerce and transport. The nation’s despot Alexander Lukashenko helps Putin’s battle and allowed a deployment of main Russian navy models within the nation. An unknown quantity of Russian troops moved south in direction of Ukraine’s capital Kyiv from Homel.

In different developments:

• Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky urged Putin to negotiate with him straight, saying in any other case Russia will take ‘several generations to recover’;
• Russia used a hypersonic missile in its brutal battle in Ukraine;
• Putin’s lapdog Sergei Lavrov sneered that Russia’s ties to China would develop stronger because of this of Western sanctions;
• Joe Biden warned China’s despot Xi Jinping there could be ‘consequences’ if it supported Russia;
• Putin’s tub-thumping speech at an enormous stage pro-war rally in Moscow on Friday was ridiculed as ‘Billy Graham meets North Korea’;
• Kremlin workers have been allegedly compelled to attend the rally within the Luzhniki World Cup stadium in a bid to drum up help for Putin’s stalled invasion of Ukraine;
• One of Ukraine’s most well-known stage actresses has been killed in a Russian rocket assault whereas she slept in an house in southeast Kyiv;
• British Prime Minister Boris Johnson mentioned ‘barbaric’ Putin is ‘panicking’ and that he should be defeated in Ukraine;
• Foreign Secretary Liz Truss claimed that peace talks between Russia and Ukraine might be a ‘smokescreen’ for Kremlin forces to fortify their positions and advance.

Ukraine and the West declare that Russia’s invasion is floundering partly due to fierce Ukrainian resistance, poor planning and low morale amongst Russian forces. According to one US intelligence estimate, 7,000 Russian troops together with 4 generals have already been killed – greater than the quantity of American troops killed in both the Iraq or Afghanistan wars at 4,825 and three,576 respectively – and between 14,000 and 21,000 troops have been injured within the preventing. 

The estimated Russian dying toll is of a scale related to that of the Battle of Iwo Jima, the place 6,852 US troops have been killed and 19,000 have been wounded throughout 5 weeks of preventing Japanese forces in probably the most intense section of the Pacific theatre of World War Two. 

Ukraine’s navy has additionally suffered heavy losses, possible to be a lot increased than the 1,300 troops which Kyiv has confirmed as killed.

According to Ukraine’s navy, Russia has lost 466 tanks, 115 helicopters, 914 autos, 95 plane, 213 artillery methods, 44 anti-aircraft weapons and 60 gas tanks. Russia has not responded to Kyiv’s newest estimates, and the data couldn’t be independently verified.

It comes as Russia used its newest hypersonic missile for the primary time throughout its assault on Ukraine, a navy spokesman mentioned.

Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov mentioned the hypersonic missiles, often called Kinzhal, destroyed an underground warehouse storing missiles and aviation ammunition of Ukrainian troops within the western Ivano-Frankivsk area.

Konashenkov additionally mentioned the Russian forces used the anti-ship missile system Bastion to strike Ukrainian navy amenities close to the Black Sea port of Odesa.

Russia first used the weapon throughout its navy marketing campaign in Syria in 2016.

Ukrainian officers mentioned hospitals, colleges and buildings the place folks sought security have been attacked.

Ludmyla Denisova, the Ukrainian Parliament’s human rights commissioner, mentioned no less than 130 folks had survived Wednesday’s bombing of a Mariupol theatre that was getting used a shelter.

‘But according to our data, there are still more than 1,300 people in these basements, in this bomb shelter,’ Denisova advised Ukrainian tv. ‘We pray that they will all be alive, but so far there is no information about them.’

Satellite pictures on Friday from Maxar Technologies confirmed an extended line of vehicles leaving Mariupol as folks tried to evacuate.

One individual was reported killed in a missile assault close to Lviv, the closest strike but to town’s centre. Satellite pictures confirmed the strike destroyed a restore hangar and appeared to injury two different buildings.

Ukraine mentioned it shot down two of six missiles within the volley, which got here from the Black Sea.

Lviv has change into a crossroads for folks fleeing from different elements of Ukraine and for others getting into to ship assist or be a part of the struggle, with its inhabitants swelling by some 200,000.

Early morning barrages that hit a residential constructing within the Podil neighbourhood of Kyiv killed no less than one individual. Emergency providers mentioned 98 folks have been evacuated from the constructing and Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko mentioned 19 have been wounded.

Ukrainian officers mentioned a fireman was additionally killed when Russian forces shelled an space the place firefighters have been attempting to put out a blaze within the village of Nataevka, within the Zaporizhzhia area.

Two others have been killed when strikes hit residential and administrative buildings within the japanese metropolis of Kramatorsk, in accordance to the regional governor, Pavlo Kyrylenko.

Major General Oleksandr Pavlyuk, who’s main the defence of the area round Ukraine’s capital, mentioned his forces are well-positioned to defend town and vowed: ‘We will never give up. We will fight until the end. To the last breath and to the last bullet.’

Russian troops have continued to pound the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, and launched a barrage of missiles in opposition to an plane restore set up at an airport on the outskirts of the western metropolis of Lviv, shut to the Polish border. One individual was reported wounded.

Satellite pictures confirmed the strike destroyed a restore hangar and appeared to injury two different buildings. A row of fighter jets appeared intact, however an obvious influence crater sat in entrance of them.

Ukraine mentioned it had shot down two of six missiles within the volley, which got here from the Black Sea.

The early morning barrage of missiles on Lviv’s edge was the closest strike but to the centre of town, which has change into a crossroads for folks fleeing from different elements of Ukraine and for others getting into to ship assist or struggle.

In metropolis after metropolis round Ukraine, hospitals, colleges and buildings the place folks sought security have been attacked. Rescue employees have been nonetheless looking for survivors within the ruins of a theatre that served as a shelter when it was blasted by a Russian airstrike on Wednesday within the besieged southern metropolis of Mariupol.

Ludmyla Denisova, the Ukrainain parliament’s human rights commissioner, mentioned on Friday that 130 folks had survived the theatre bombing.

‘As of now, we know that 130 people have been evacuated, but according to our data, there are still more than 1,300 people in these basements, in this bomb shelter,’ Denisova advised Ukrainian tv. ‘We pray that they will all be alive, but so far there is no information about them.’

At Lviv, black smoke billowed for hours after the explosions, which hit a facility for repairing navy plane close to town’s worldwide airport, solely 4 miles from the centre. One individual was wounded, the regional governor, Maksym Kozytsky, mentioned.

Multiple blasts hit in fast succession round 6am, shaking close by buildings, witnesses mentioned. The missiles have been launched from the Black Sea, however the Ukrainian air pressure’s western command mentioned it had shot down two of six missiles within the volley. A bus restore facility was additionally broken, Lviv’s mayor, Andriy Sadovyi, mentioned.

Lviv lies not removed from the Polish border and properly behind the entrance traces, nevertheless it and the encircling space haven’t been spared Russia’s assaults. In the worst, almost three dozen folks have been killed final weekend in a strike on a coaching facility close to town.

Lviv’s inhabitants has swelled by some 200,000 as folks from elsewhere in Ukraine have sought shelter there.

Early morning barrages additionally hit a residential constructing within the Podil neighborhood of Kyiv, killing no less than one individual, in accordance to emergency providers, who mentioned 98 folks have been evacuated from the constructing. Kyiv mayor, Vitali Klitschko, mentioned 19 have been wounded within the shelling.

Two others have been killed when strikes hit residential and administrative buildings within the japanese metropolis of Kramatorsk, in accordance to the regional governor, Pavlo Kyrylenko.

In Kharkiv, an enormous hearth raged via an area market after shelling on Thursday. One firefighter was killed and one other injured when new shelling hit as emergency employees fought the blaze, emergency providers mentioned.

The World Health Organisation mentioned it has verified 43 assaults on hospitals and well being amenities, with 12 folks killed and 34 injured.

US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, mentioned on Thursday that American officers have been evaluating potential battle crimes and that if the intentional concentrating on of civilians by Russia is confirmed, there will probably be ‘massive consequences’.

The United Nations political chief, undersecretary-general, Rosemary DiCarlo, additionally referred to as for an investigation into civilian casualties, reminding the UN Security Council that worldwide humanitarian regulation bans direct assaults on civilians. 

She mentioned many of the each day assaults battering Ukrainian cities ‘are reportedly indiscriminate’ and contain the use of ‘explosive weapons with a wide impact area’. DiCarlo mentioned the devastation in Mariupol and Kharkiv ‘raises grave fears about the fate of millions of residents of Kyiv and other cities facing intensifying attacks’.

Hundreds of civilians have been mentioned to have taken shelter in a grand, columned theatre within the metropolis’s centre when it was hit on Wednesday by a Russian airstrike. On Friday, their destiny was nonetheless unsure, with conflicting reviews on whether or not anybody had emerged from the rubble. Communications are disrupted throughout town and motion is tough as a result of of shelling and preventing.

‘We hope and we think that some people who stayed in the shelter under the theatre could survive,’ Petro Andrushchenko, an official with the mayor’s office, advised the Associated Press on Thursday. He mentioned the constructing had a comparatively fashionable, basement bomb shelter designed to face up to airstrikes. Other officers mentioned earlier that some folks had gotten out.

Video and pictures supplied by the Ukrainian navy confirmed the no less than three-story constructing had been diminished to a roofless shell, with some exterior partitions collapsed. Satellite imagery on Monday from Maxar Technologies confirmed enormous white letters on the pavement exterior the theatre spelling out ‘CHILDREN’ in Russian to alert warplanes to the weak folks hiding inside.

Russia’s navy denied bombing the theatre or anyplace else in Mariupol on Wednesday.

In Chernihiv, no less than 53 folks have been introduced to morgues over 24 hours, killed amid heavy Russian air assaults and floor hearth, the native governor, Viacheslav Chaus, advised Ukrainian TV on Thursday.

Ukraine’s emergency providers mentioned a mom, father and three of their youngsters, together with three-year-old twins, have been killed when a Chernihiv hostel was shelled. Civilians have been hiding in basements and shelters throughout the embattled metropolis of 280,000.

‘The city has never known such nightmarish, colossal losses and destruction,’ Chaus mentioned.

Ukraine’s comic-turned-wartime chief Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned early on Friday he was grateful to President Joe Biden for extra navy assist, however he wouldn’t get into specifics in regards to the new package deal, saying he didn’t need Russia to know what to anticipate.

He mentioned when the invasion started on February 24, Russia anticipated to discover Ukraine a lot because it did in 2014, when Russia seized Crimea with no struggle and backed separatists as they took management of the japanese Donbas area.

Instead, he mentioned, Ukraine had a lot stronger defences than anticipated, and Russia ‘didn’t know what we had for defence or how we ready to meet the blow’.

In a joint assertion, the international ministers of the Group of Seven main economies accused Putin of conducting an ‘unprovoked and shameful war’, and referred to as on Russia to adjust to the International Court of Justice=’s order to cease its assault and withdraw its forces.

Both Ukraine and Russia this week reported some progress in negotiations. Zelensky mentioned he wouldn’t reveal Ukraine’s negotiating techniques.

‘Working more in silence than on television, radio or on Facebook,’ Zelensky mentioned. ‘I consider it the right way.’

Putin spoke by cellphone on Friday with German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, who urged the Russian president to agree to a direct cease-fire and referred to as for an enchancment to the humanitarian scenario, a spokesman for Scholz mentioned.

In an announcement in regards to the name, the Kremlin mentioned Putin advised the German chancellor that Ukraine had ‘unrealistic proposals’ and was dragging out negotiations. The Kremlin additionally mentioned it was evacuating civilians, and accused Ukraine of committing battle crimes by shelling cities within the east.

While particulars of Thursday’s talks have been unknown, an official in Zelensky’s office advised the AP that on Wednesday, the primary topic mentioned was whether or not Russian troops would stay in separatist areas in japanese Ukraine after the battle and the place the borders could be.

The official, talking on situation of anonymity to talk about the delicate talks, mentioned Ukraine was insisting on the inclusion of a number of Western nuclear powers within the negotiations and on legally binding safety ensures for Ukraine.

In change, the official mentioned, Ukraine was prepared to talk about a impartial navy standing.

Russia has demanded that NATO pledge by no means to admit Ukraine to the alliance or station forces there.

The preventing has led greater than 3million folks to flee Ukraine, the UN estimates. The dying toll stays unknown, although Ukraine has mentioned 1000’s of civilians have died. 

‘End this battle now… or Russia will take a number of GENERATIONS to recuperate’: Zelensky tells Putin ‘it is time to discuss’… as kill rely suffered by his invading forces is now HIGHER than different main conflicts 

Volodymyr Zelensky has urged Russian warmonger Vladimir Putin to finish his unlawful invasion and negotiate straight with Ukraine’s comic-turned-wartime president, warning that in any other case Russia will take ‘several generations to recover’.

In a night-time video handle to the nation exterior the Presidential Office on Friday, Zelensky additionally accused Russian forces of intentionally inflicting a ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ to stress Kyiv into capitulating to Putin’s calls for.

Appealing to Putin to maintain direct talks with him as Kremlin troops encircle Ukraine’s capital, he mentioned: ‘We have always insisted on negotiations. We have offered dialogue, offered solutions for peace. Not just for 23 days of invasion.

‘I want everyone to hear me now, especially in Moscow. The time has come for a meeting, it is time to talk. It’s time to restore territorial integrity and justice for Ukraine. Otherwise, Russia’s losses will probably be such that it’s going to take you many generations to recuperate.’

Ukraine and the West declare that Russia’s invasion is floundering partly due to fierce Ukrainian resistance, poor planning and low morale amongst Russian forces. According to one US intelligence estimate, 7,000 Russian troops together with 4 generals have already been killed – greater than the quantity of American troops killed in both the Iraq or Afghanistan wars at 4,825 and three,576 respectively – and between 14,000 and 21,000 troops have been injured within the preventing.

The estimated Russian dying toll is of a scale related to that of the Battle of Iwo Jima, the place 6,852 US troops have been killed and 19,000 have been wounded throughout 5 weeks of preventing Japanese forces in probably the most intense section of the Pacific theatre of World War Two.

Ukraine’s navy has additionally suffered heavy losses, possible to be a lot increased than the 1,300 troops which Kyiv has confirmed as killed.

According to Ukraine’s navy, Russia has lost 466 tanks, 115 helicopters, 914 autos, 95 plane, 213 artillery methods, 44 anti-aircraft weapons and 60 gas tanks. Russia has not responded to Kyiv’s newest estimates, and the data couldn’t be independently verified.

The Kremlin has demanded that Ukraine resign any ambitions to be a part of NATO, be impartial alongside the traces of Sweden and Austria, acknowledge Crimea as Russian territory and recognise the separatist republics of Donetsk and Lugansk as impartial territories.

Putin’s lapdog Sergei Lavrov mentioned neutrality was taking centre stage and that Moscow and Kyiv have been ‘close to agreeing’ the wording of an settlement on NATO. But Kyiv rejected the proposal and as an alternative referred to as for a world safety assure amongst Western companions, together with doubtlessly Britain, who will defend Ukraine whether it is invaded once more.

Boris says ‘barbarian’ Putin is ‘panicking’ about revolution in Russia and was terrified of having democratic Ukraine on his borders – as he warns West should ‘take again management’ of vitality provides to cease Kremlin

Boris Johnson as we speak accused ‘barbarian’ Vladimir Putin of invading Ukraine as a result of he’s ‘panicking’ a couple of revolution in Russia.

Delivering his keynote speech to the Tory convention in Blackpool, the PM mentioned the dictator invaded Ukraine as a result of he’s terrified of a free, democratic nation on his borders.

He gave a stark message to the West that ‘daring steps’ have to be taken to wean off Moscow’s gas provides, warning that Putin ‘should fail’ or he’ll usher in a ‘new age of intimidation’.

The premier additionally made clear that the UK intends to push forward with North Sea oil and gasoline improvement – and doubtlessly fracking – saying the nation will ‘make higher use of our personal naturally occurring hydrocarbons’.

Mr Johnson’s speech was as ordinary suffering from jokes and he was given a warn reception by the Tory devoted.

It was the primary time he has addressed them because the Partygate scandal erupted, and Cabinet ministers are more and more assured he can survive after being seen to deal with the Ukraine disaster properly.

But the PM’s focus was very a lot on the worldwide standoff with Russia.

Mr Johnson mentioned: ‘With every single day that Ukraine’s heroic resistance continues, it’s clear that Putin has made a catastrophic mistake.

‘You have to ask your self why he did it – why did he determine to invade this completely harmless nation?

‘He did not actually consider that Ukraine was going to be a part of Nato any time quickly, he knew completely properly there was no plan to put missiles on Ukrainian soil.

‘He did not actually consider the semi-mystical guff he wrote in regards to the origins of the Russian folks…. Nostradamus meets Russian Wikipedia. That wasn’t what it was about.

‘I feel he was frightened of Ukraine for a completely totally different cause.

‘He was frightened of Ukraine as a result of in Ukraine they’ve a free press and in Ukraine they’ve free elections.’

Mr Johnson mentioned that for Putin, a free and democratic Ukraine was a menace to his type of rule.

‘With each year that Ukraine progressed – not at all times simply – in direction of freedom and democracy and open markets, he feared the Ukrainian instance and he feared the implicit reproach to himself,’ he mentioned.

‘Because in Putin’s Russia you get jailed for 15 years only for calling an invasion an invasion, and in the event you stand in opposition to Putin in an election you get poisoned or shot.

‘It’s exactly as a result of Ukraine and Russia have been so traditionally shut that he has been terrified of the impact of that Ukrainian mannequin on him and on Russia.’

He added: ‘He’s been in a complete panic a couple of so-called color revolution in Russia itself.’

Suggesting the West can by no means take care of Putin once more, Mr Johnson mentioned re-normalising relations with him could be to ‘make precisely the identical mistake once more’ after the invasion of Georgia.

Russians secretly denounce Putin’s ‘Billy Graham meets Kim Jong-Un’ pro-war rally: YouTube dwell stream is flooded with crucial feedback after Kremlin FORCED tens of 1000’s to attend by bussing them in… earlier than they left early 

Vladimir Putin’s tub-thumping speech yesterday was likened to ‘Billy Graham meets North Korea’ by a Russian commentator, a reference to each the American Christian evangelist and Kim Jong-un’s propagandising rallies, whereas the YouTube dwell stream of the rally was flooded with crucial feedback.

Tens of 1000’s of flag-waving Russians packed out Moscow’s Luzhniki World Cup stadium on Friday because the despot tried to drum up help for his stalled invasion of Ukraine, peddled debunked claims about why the battle began and shilled a false narrative of Russia’s battlefield ‘success’.

However, talking to journalists exterior the stadium, some mentioned they have been authorities employees who had been pressured to come, and have been bussed to the occasion. Others have been college students who have been advised they may have a time off from lectures in the event that they attended ‘a live performance’.

In one video, as a reporter tried to movie the crowds exterior the stadium, attendees have been seen turning their backs to the digital camera in an try to disguise their faces.

Several Telegram channels crucial of the Kremlin reported that college students and staff of state establishments in a quantity of areas have been ordered by their superiors to attend rallies and live shows marking the Crimea anniversary. Those reviews couldn’t be independently verified.

Meanwhile, whoever arrange a dwell stream of the occasion on YouTube didn’t flip the remark part off, which means 1000’s of unfavourable feedback in direction of the occasion – written in Russian – flooded the web page, as did blue and yellow coronary heart emojis – the colors of Ukraine’s flag.

In his speech, Putin quoted the Bible’s e-book of John, praising his troops in Ukraine. ‘The phrases from the sacred scripture come to my thoughts: “There is no greater love than if someone laid down his life for his friends,”‘ he mentioned.

The occasion was closely anti-Western and crammed with Soviet nostalgia, as Russian authorities ramped up patriotism in response to being hit by large worldwide sanctions for Putin’s Ukraine marketing campaign, which has stalled thanks to fierce resistance. Thousands of Russian soldiers have been killed.

Putin’s rally was rapidly likened to related large marches held by North Korea’s dictator Kim Jong-Un, which are mentioned to be attended by residents who are given no different selection, in addition to the huge evangelical rallies hosted by American minister Billy Graham in America.

One Russian commentator referred to as the occasion ‘Billy Graham meets North Korea’, in accordance to The Daily Telegraph.

In the wake of the invasion, the Kremlin has cracked down tougher on dissent and the circulation of info, arresting 1000’s of antiwar protesters, banning websites similar to Facebook and Twitter, and handing out robust jail sentences for what it says is fake reporting on the battle, which Moscow refers to as a ‘particular navy operation.’

The OVD-Info rights group that screens political arrests reported that no less than seven impartial journalists had been detained forward of or whereas masking the anniversary occasions in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

There we additionally different indicators that not was all because it appeared. There have been reviews on twitter suggesting some of the footage used of the rally was previous footage from one other video from 2021.

And a weird second within the speech got here when Putin out of the blue disappeared from information feeds in mid-sentence – changed by a band that was mid-way via singing, maybe suggesting his handle was not broadcast dwell.

Is Putin attempting to knock out West’s GPS community? EU aviation authorities declare satellites are underneath fixed ‘jamming’ or ‘spoofing’ assaults disrupting navigation from Finland to the Mediterranean 

Russia has been accused of interfering with the worldwide GPS navigation system throughout a serious Nordic battle recreation in Finland .

European aviation authorities have mentioned indicators, closely utilized by industrial plane, have been affected from Finland, via the Mediterranean and even so far as Iraq .

Disruptions to Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), which embody GPS, are attributable to the ‘jamming’ or ‘spoofing’ of satellite tv for pc indicators.

Since the battle erupted on February 24, ‘jamming and/or doable spoofing has intensified in geographical areas surrounding the battle zone and different areas,’ the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) mentioned in a web-based bulletin Thursday.

The EASA mentioned the difficulty was noticed within the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, the Baltics, japanese Finland, the Black Sea, the japanese Mediterranean and northern Iraq.

‘The results of GNSS jamming and/or doable spoofing have been noticed by plane in numerous phases of their flights, in sure circumstances main to re-routing and even to change the vacation spot due to the lack to carry out a secure touchdown process,’ the company mentioned.

But the company mentioned it’s unlikely that they are going to want to droop flight operations.

EASA requested all air transit employees to report any GPS anomalies and warned that plane operators ought to be prepared to use different navigation instruments in case of satellite tv for pc malfunctions.