In Ukraine attacked by Russia, a Russian pilot has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for war crimes. Among other things, it was proven that the man had bombed the area of the Kharkiv television tower almost a year ago, the prosecutor said on Friday. The site is used exclusively for civilian purposes, he said.
On March 6, 2022, a total of eight bombs with a total weight of 2.5 tons were dropped. The man was arrested by the National Guard after his plane was shot down by Ukrainian anti-aircraft fire.
Ukraine has been fighting off a Russian invasion for just over a year. Several captured Russian soldiers have already been sentenced to long prison terms for war crimes.
Russian mercenary chief: Bakhmut “virtually” surrounded
The Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, which has been under attack for months, is now “virtually surrounded” by Russian forces. So said the head of the Russian mercenary group Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, in a video published Friday. A single road to the west would still be open to the Ukrainians.
A Wagner fighter told the Russian news agency Ria Novosti that Ukrainian troops had already blown up almost all bridges across the Bakhmutska River.
On Thursday, the Wagner group managed to advance to the river that separates the east from the west of the city. Now the Ukrainian withdrawal from the eastern part of the city seems to be in full swing. A video posted to social media on Friday shows a railway bridge being blown up in the north of the city. Prigozhin asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to withdraw his troops from the city.
Source: Krone
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