Ukrainian authorities are gathering evidence of alleged Russian atrocities amid signs troops killed people indiscriminately before retreating.
, a mostly Russian-speaking, industrial region in eastern Ukraine where Moscow-backed rebels have been fighting Ukrainian forces for eight years.The United Nations’ humanitarian chief told the AP on Thursday that after meeting with officials in Kyiv and in Moscow this week, underlining the lack of trust the two sides have for one another. He spoke hours after Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused Ukraine of backtracking on proposals it had made over Crimea and Ukraine’s military status.
“The situation in Donbas is heating up, and we understand that April will be quite hot, so those who have the opportunity to leave — women, children, the elderly — need to stay in a safe place,” Borys Filatov, the mayor of Dnipro, a city that lies just west of the Donbas, said at a briefing. Vladimir Tarasovets described nights during the siege when he watched the city on fire and listened to the sound of shelling.
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