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The appalling human catastrophe of Russian invasion that has reduced cities to rubble
2022-03-05
The usual videos and photos at each of the links.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Heartbreaking image shows a Ukrainian soldier rescuing a baby from scene of devastation in Irpin, near Kyiv

  • Vladimir Putin has again insisted that Russia is not shelling Ukrainian cities in a call with Germany's Scholz

  • That is despite medics warning up to 100 people could be buried in apartment rubble in Boradyanka, near Kyiv, and that 49 people died in a cluster bomb attack on Chernihiv yesterday

  • It comes after the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was attacked by Russian troops in early hours on Friday

  • Moscow's ambassador to the UN has denied accusations that forces had shelled the atomic power plant

  • Mariupol's mayor has warned this evening that the city is being 'simply destroyed' by withering artillery fire

  • Missile fragment even landed in the ground of Zelensky's second residence, though it didn't cause damage


Russia are the destroyers. Babies are being murdered: Captured Russian soldier begs his family not to believe Moscow
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • A soldier urged people not to trust Russian 'propaganda' in a video on Facebook

  • The serviceman said he had been captured by Ukrainian forces in the footage

  • He said Kremlin is 'brainwashing' people and begged his family not to believe it

  • Soldier, whose name is not known, said Russian troops have been killing children


Tears of little girls who may never see their brave daddy again: Ukrainian man bids farewell to his children
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A father holds his six-year-old daughter Dasha close, his face contorted with emotion.

Roman Overchenko, 32, a sales manager from Poltava in central Ukraine, was saying a final farewell to his family early yesterday morning before leaving to join volunteers fighting Vladimir Putin’s advancing army.

Draping her arms around his head, Dasha pulls her daddy close and refuses to let him go, the embrace so drawn out and gut-wrenchingly poignant that it stops passers-by in their tracks along Lviv’s central spine, Svobody Avenue.
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