Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the northeastern city of Izium has become the latest location where the Russians have left behind mass graves.
Zelenskyy said Thursday that Ukrainian authorities have found a mass burial site near Izium in the recently recaptured Kharkiv region.
Sergei Bolvinov, a senior investigator for Ukrainian police in the Kharkiv region, told Sky News of Britain that a pit with more than 440 bodies was found near Izium after the Russians were driven away.
►The Biden administration said it will send another $600 million in military aid to Ukraine, trying to boost Kyiv’s counteroffensive with some of the same weapons that have helped defeat Russian forces in parts of the east and south.
►Air raid sirens went off twice in Kyiv while Zelenskyy met Thursday with Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, who reiterated the EU's support for Ukraine.
►Superstar guard Stephen Curry of the NBA champion Golden State Warriors said his "contacts in the Biden administration rebuffed an offer to help'' the efforts to free WNBA star Brittney Griner from Russian captivity. .
The governor of Russia's Belgorod region said residents were wounded when Ukraine shells slammed into one border village, and private houses, farm buildings and power lines in another were partially destroyed. Vyacheslav Gladkov also ordered the evacuation of several villages.
The Ukraine Defense Ministry said Russian troops fleeing the Ukraine advance are massing at the Belgorod border, where other Russian troops are keeping them from crossing over.
The Russian retreat from the Kharkiv region, where Ukrainian forces have been consolidating their recently recaptured territory, was in some instances orderly but at other times the troops "fled in apparent panic,'' the British Ministry of Defense said in an intelligence update
UK
Australia
France
Germany
Russia
India
Canada