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A Russian strike on a 25-storey residential building in Kyiv killed two people and injured at least nine, Ukrainian officials said. Other regions also reported deaths.
After Izium was liberated, investigators and rights groups documented detention sites, arbitrary imprisonment and torture. The evidence points to organised patterns of occupation abuse.
Russian attacks have again hit Kyiv and energy facilities, widening the gap between Donald Trump's announced energy truce and events on the ground.
In March 2022 Russian troops confined almost an entire Ukrainian village in a school basement while using the building as a military base. The UN, OSCE and Human Rights Watch have documented the case in detail.
On 8 April 2022, hundreds of civilians were waiting for evacuation trains at Kramatorsk railway station when a Russian Tochka-U missile carrying cluster munitions exploded over the site. Human Rights Watch describes the attack as unlawful and an apparent war crime.
On 16 March 2022, an air strike destroyed the Mariupol Drama Theatre, where hundreds of civilians had sought shelter. Independent investigations concluded that Russian forces were responsible and found compelling evidence that the attack constituted a war crime.