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Diabierna 13 Mei 2022

Ukraine to hold first war crimes trial of captured Russian

objective.
On the battlefield, Ukrainian
officials said a Russian rocket Ukraine is also targeting Rus-
attack targeted an area around sian air defenses and resupply
Zaporizhzhia, destroying vessels on Snake Island in
unspecified infrastructure. the Black Sea in an effort to
There were no immediate disrupt Moscow’s efforts to
reports of casualties. The expand its control over the
southeastern city has been a coastline, according to the
refuge for civilians fleeing the British Ministry of Defense.
devastated port city of Mari-
upol. Separately, Ukraine said it
shot down a cruise missile
Russian forces continued to targeting the Black Sea port
pound the steel plant that is city of Odesa.
the last bastion of Ukrainian
resistance in Mariupol, its de- Elsewhere, the governor of a
fenders said. The Azov Regi- Russian region near Ukraine
ment said on social media said at least one civilian was
that Russian forces carried killed and six wounded by
out 38 airstrikes in the previ- Ukrainian shelling in the
ous 24 hours on the grounds village of Solokhi, near the
of the Azovstal steelworks. border. Belgorod Gov. Vy-
acheslav Gladkov’s account
The plant has sheltered couldn’t be independently
(AP) — Ukraine’s top rights group will be closely and rejected by most of the hundreds of Ukrainian verified, but he said the vil-
prosecutor disclosed plans following Shyshimarin’s trial international community. troops and civilians during a lage will be evacuated.
Wednesday for the first to see if it is fair. “It’s very dif- monthslong siege.
war crimes trial of a cap- ficult to observe all the rules, Kherson, a Black Sea port of Ukraine’s natural gas pipe-
tured Russian soldier, as norms and neutrality of the roughly 300,000, provides Ukrainian Deputy Prime line operator said it moved to
fighting raged in the east court proceedings in war- Crimea with access to fresh Minister Iryna Vereshchuk stop the flow of Russian gas
and south and the Krem- time,” he said. water and is seen as gateway said Ukraine has offered to through a compressor station
lin left open the possibil- to wider Russian control over release Russian prisoners of in part of eastern Ukraine
ity of annexing a corner of On the economic front, southern Ukraine. war if Russia will allow the controlled by Moscow-
the country it seized early Ukraine shut down a pipeline badly injured fighters to be backed separatists because
in the invasion. that carries Russian gas across Kremlin spokesman Dmitry evacuated. enemy forces were interfer-
the country to homes and in- Peskov said it would be “up ing with the station’s opera-
Prosecutor General Iryna dustries in Western Europe, to the residents of the Kher- An adviser to the Mariupol tion and siphoning off gas.
Venediktova said her office marking the first time since son region after all to de- mayor said Russian forces
charged Sgt. Vadin Shyshi- the start of the war that Kyiv cide whether such an appeal have blocked all evacuation The hub handles about one-
marin, 21, in the killing of an disrupted the flow westward should be made or not.” He routes out of the city. Petro third of Russian gas passing
unarmed 62-year-old civilian of one of Moscow’s most lu- said any move to annex terri- Andriushchenko said there through Ukraine to Western
who was gunned down while crative exports. tory would have to be closely are few apartment buildings Europe. But analysts said
riding a bicycle in February, evaluated by legal experts to fit to live in and little food much of the gas can be redi-
four days into the war. But the immediate effect is make sure it is “absolutely or drinking water. He said rected through another pipe-
likely to be limited, in part legitimate, as it was with some remaining residents are line from Russia that crosses
Shyshimarin, who served because Russia can divert the Crimea.” cooperating with occupying Ukraine, and there were in-
with a tank unit, was ac- gas to another pipeline and Russian forces in exchange dications that was happening.
cused of firing through a car because Europe relies on a Ukrainian presidential ad- for food. In any case, Europe also gets
window on the man in the variety of suppliers. viser Mykhailo Podolyak natural gas from other pipe-
northeastern village of Chu- mocked the notion of Kher- Ukrainian President Volody- lines and other countries.
pakhivka. Venediktova said Meanwhile, a Kremlin-in- son’s annexation, tweeting: myr Zelenskyy suggested
the soldier could get up to stalled politician in the south- “The invaders may ask to join Tuesday that Ukraine’s mili- It was not clear whether Rus-
15 years in prison. She did ern Kherson region, site of even Mars or Jupiter. The tary is gradually pushing sia would take any immedi-
not say when the trial would the first major Ukrainian city Ukrainian army will liber- Russian troops away from ate hit, since it has long-term
start. to fall in the war, said officials ate Kherson, no matter what Kharkiv, the country’s sec- contracts and other ways of
there want Russian Presi- games with words they play.” ond-largest city and a key transporting gas.
Venediktova’s office has said dent Vladimir Putin to make to Russia’s offensive in the
it has been investigating Kherson a “proper region” of Inside Kherson, people have Donbas, the eastern indus- Still, the cutoff underscored
more than 10,700 alleged war Russia — that is, annex it. taken to the streets to decry trial region whose capture the broader risk to gas sup-
crimes committed by Rus- the Russian occupation. But the Kremlin says is its main plies from the war.
sian forces and has identified “The city of Kherson is a teacher who gave only her
over 600 suspects. Russia,” Kirill Stremousov, first name, Olga, for fear of
deputy head of the Kherson Russian retaliation said such
Many of the alleged atrocities regional administration ap- protests are impossible now
came to light last month af- pointed by Moscow, told because Moscow’s troops
ter Moscow’s forces aborted Russia’s RIA Novosti news “kidnapped activists and
their bid to capture Kyiv and agency. citizens simply for wearing
withdrew from around the Ukrainian colors or ribbons.”
capital, exposing mass graves That raised the possibility She said “people are scared of
and streets and yards strewn that the Kremlin would seek talking openly outside their
with bodies in towns such as to break off another piece of homes” and “everyone walks
Bucha. Residents told of kill- Ukraine as it tries to salvage on the street quickly.”
ings, burnings, rape, torture an invasion gone awry. Russia
and dismemberment. annexed Ukraine’s Crimean “All people in Kherson are
Peninsula, which borders the waiting for our troops to
Volodymyr Yavorskyy of the Kherson region, after a dis- come as soon as possible,”
Center for Civil Liberties puted referendum in 2014, she added. “Nobody wants to
said the Ukrainian human a move denounced as illegal live in Russia or join Russia.”