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The images of bodies lining the streets in a town outside of Kyiv have sparked horror in Ukraine and beyond. Meanwhile, efforts to evacuate residents from Mariupol continue to stall. DW has the latest. Images reveal mass graves and bodies lining streets in towns outside Kyiv Residents say departing Russian troops are killing civilians A Red Cross evacuation mission hopes to reach Mariupol later on Sunday This article was last updated at 11:09 GMT/UTC. EU Council President accuses Russia of massacre in Bucha Charles Michel, the president of the European Council, blamed Russia for "atrocities" committed in Bucha on...

UP to 40,000 Ukrainians have been snatched from besieged cities and forced into Russian slave labour in a war crime revealed by The Sun today. Sergei Orlov, deputy mayor of devastated city Mariupol, spoke exclusively from his bunker yesterday to reveal the plight of civilians hauled into enemy territory. And he said hundreds of children are now lost and alone in the clutches of ruthless Russian troops after being forced away from their families. Mr Orlov told the Sun: “Russian troops are bursting into cellars and basements where our people are hiding like frightened mice and telling them: ‘You have...

A Ukrainian official says the country’s military will retake Kherson — the first major city Russia’s troops captured — later today. Markian Lubkivskyi, an adviser to the Ukrainian defense minister tells the BBC: “I believe that today the city will be fully under the control of Ukrainian armed forces. “We have finished in the last two days the operation in the Kyiv region so other armed forces are now focused on the southern part trying to get free Kherson and some other Ukrainian cities,” he says, according to Sky News.

When he shoots down a Russian jet, “I am happy that this plane will no longer bomb my peaceful towns. And as we see in practice, that is exactly what Russian jets do.” “I had situations when I was approaching a Russian plane to a close enough distance to target and fire,” he said. “I could already detect it but was waiting for my missile to lock on while at the same time from the ground they tell me that a missile was fired at me already.” He said he maneuvered his jet through a series of extreme banks, dives...