Ukraine-Russia conflict newest: US warned that minimize to army support to Kyiv ‘will lead to more casualties’ | EUROtoday

Ukraine has introduced residence the our bodies of 1,212 troopers killed within the conflict with Russia, officers in Kyiv stated.

“As a result of the repatriation activities…the bodies of 1,212 fallen defenders have been returned to Ukraine,” Kyiv’s prisoner change coordination committee stated on Telegram channel.

It launched photographs from the scene exhibiting personnel of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) at an undisclosed location, strolling previous a number of refrigerated vehicles.

Some vehicles have been marked with emblems of “On the Shield,” a Ukrainian organisation concerned within the retrieval and evacuation of army useless.

In Moscow, Kremlin aide Vladimir Medinsky stated Ukraine for its half had returned 27 our bodies of Russian troopers.

Kyiv and Moscow reached settlement at their most up-to-date spherical of talks final week on a large-scale change of corpses of conflict useless, although the deal was marred by wrangling over its implementation.

On Sunday, Mr Medinsky stated Ukraine had postponed taking the primary 1,212 our bodies. Russian officers additionally stated that refrigerated vehicles loaded with corpses waited for 5 days on the border earlier than Ukraine accepted them.

Russia’s president Vladimir Putin stated on Wednesday that particular consideration within the nation’s new arms programme ought to be paid to the nuclear triad – land-based, sea-based and aircraft-launched weapons.

Mr Putin’s remarks, broadcast on state tv, have been made at a gathering of senior officers dedicated to the nation’s arms business.

Last month, he stated he hoped nuclear weapons wouldn’t be wanted in Ukraine:

A concentrated, nine-minute-long Russian drone assault on Ukraine’s second-largest metropolis of Kharkiv killed six folks and injured 64, together with 9 youngsters, Ukrainian officers stated final evening.

The assault adopted Russia’s two greatest air assaults of the conflict on Ukraine this week, a part of intensified bombardments that Moscow says are retaliatory measures for Kyiv’s latest assaults in Russia.

A brand new wave of drone assaults on 4 metropolis districts was reported early this morning by Kharkiv mayor Ihor Terekhov, together with a drone that landed in a college courtyard and smashed home windows. There have been no different studies of casualties or injury.

Elsewhere, two southern Ukrainian areas, Mykolaiv and Kherson, have been left with out electrical energy yesterday after Russian forces attacked an power facility, the governors stated.

Kharkiv, in Ukraine’s northeast, withstood Russia’s full-scale advance within the early days of the conflict however has since been an everyday goal of drone, missile and guided aerial bomb assaults.