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Added on the 09/06/2022 06:35:59 - Copyright : Euronews EN
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
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken accuses Russia of committing war crimes by attacking civilians in Ukraine. "Intentionally targeting civilians is a war crime. After all the destruction of the past few weeks, I find it difficult to conclude that the Russians are doing otherwise," Blinken says. SOUNDBITE
Residents of the besieged town of Debaltseve in eastern Ukraine are taken to safety by convoys of buses but some 3,000 people are reportedly staying behind. Mana Rabiee reports.
Most of the people have never ever held a gun before in their lives and therefore feel forced to arm themselves because of lack of trust in the government.
Sweden joining NATO shows Russian President Vladimir Putin "failed" in his Ukrainian war strategy of weakening the alliance, its chief Jens Stoltenberg says. The Kremlin's invasion not only prompted formerly non-aligned nations Sweden and Finland to come under NATO's defence umbrella, but now "Ukraine is closer to NATO membership than ever before," Stoltenberg adds. SOUNDBITE
US President Joe Biden says during his State of the Union address that Ukraine is capable of stopping Putin if the US provides Kyiv the "weapons it needs to defend itself." SOUNDBITE