United States President, Joe Biden has said that his administration will support efforts to investigate the recent attack on Ukraine's train station in the east filled with fifty people trying to flee the war.
The President who reacted to the attack through his social media platforms on Friday, said the attack is another horrific atrocity, adding that his administration will document Russia's action and hold them accountable.
According to a local report, having spent more than a month of war destroying residential areas and cities across Ukraine, potentially killing thousands, and now the subject of global fury over the alleged mass execution of civilians.
"Russia's Vladimir Putin’s forces attacked a train station in the east filled with people trying to flee the conflict," local officials said.
At least fifty people were killed in the assault on Kramatorsk train station, reportedly with the use of cluster munitions. Such weapons are banned under international treaty given their capacity to maximize carnage.
Russia’s military admitted targeting Ukrainian rail stations but denied responsibility for the bloodshed at Kramatorsk as civilians seek passage west to avoid expected assault on the Donbas region.
Recognition is growing in Kyiv and allied capitals that the window to prevent Ukraine’s partition and a long war of attrition is narrowing.
In Russia, Moscow isn’t informing many Russian families when its soldiers are killed and is using mobile crematoriums to burn some of their remains, ABC News reported.
While the recent withdrawal of Russian troops from around Kyiv may represents a setback for Putin, to roll back or contain a new Russian advance in Donetsk and Luhansk would mean taking the fight to open battlefields, requiring more than just the anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles the US and Europe have supplied so far.
Finland reported a cyber attack on government websites and a suspected airspace violation by Russian aircraft just as speculation mounts that the Nordic nation will apply for membership in NATO.
The events coincided with a webcast speech to Finnish lawmakers by Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
The nation of 5.5-million, which has the European Union’s longest border with Russia, was invaded by the Soviet Union early in World War II. The small country’s forces famously inflicted heavy casualties on Joseph Stalin’s attacking forces.
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