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Russian forces on Tuesday reportedly struck a tank of nitric acid in Ukraine’s Luhansk area, sparking panicked warnings for residents to guard their faces and stay indoors.
Serhiy Gaidai, the top of the Luhansk regional administration, issued a video handle warning residents the poisonous fumes could cause “extreme harm.”
“Put together protecting face masks soaked in soda resolution. When utilized domestically to the eyes, nitric acid causes extreme harm with in depth necrosis of the cornea and conjunctiva, resulting in lack of imaginative and prescient,” he stated, urging these residing close to Rubizhne to stay indoors and seal up their home windows.
“This chemical may be very poisonous and we don’t know the place the poisonous cloud will go. We shall be monitoring the air and ready for rain,” he stated.
The alarming warning got here as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ready to deal with the United Nations Safety Council on mounting proof of Russian conflict crimes in opposition to Ukraine.
In feedback to Ukrainian media, Zelensky vowed that Ukrainian authorities would create an “inside mechanism” to trace down the Russian troopers accused of committing conflict crimes in opposition to Ukrainian civilians, very similar to Israel’s Mossad hunted down Nazi fugitives throughout the globe.
“We will certainly cope with this,” he stated, including that “lists shall be compiled” of all these Russians accused of executing and torturing Ukrainian civilians. “There are individuals who actually wish to discover these criminals,” he stated.
“Prosecutors of varied nations will cope with all of those crimes… They see quite a lot of proof. And, sadly, the proof will solely preserve coming—there won't be any much less. There's nonetheless Izyum forward, and lots of locations the place there may be nonetheless no entry [for Ukrainian authorities]—the occupied Melitopol, Berdyansk—we do not know what occurred there,” he stated.
His feedback got here as the size of Russian atrocities within the city of Bucha, a Kyiv suburb, left the world reeling, with lots of of harmless residents discovered slain within the streets, some with indicators of torture. Newly launched satellite tv for pc footage from the now-liberated city confirmed that the our bodies of slaughtered civilians had littered the streets for weeks earlier than Ukrainian forces reclaimed the territory from Russia, debunking Moscow’s shameless declare that Putin’s troops didn’t kill “a single civilian” there and that it will need to have been Ukrainian forces.
Russia’s Protection Ministry has claimed the executions have been “staged” by Ukrainian psy-ops specialists, a declare that was echoed in a full-blown propaganda marketing campaign on Russian state TV that stated Western intelligence companies have been behind the killings.
Within the face of these Russian denials on Tuesday, Ukrainian media launched aerial video that purportedly captures Russian troops in Bucha firing instantly at a person who was merely using previous them on a bicycle.
Ukrainian journalist Dmytro Komarov additionally shared footage from Bucha displaying the aftermath of Russia’s assaults on Ukrainian evacuees. He stated not less than three automobiles of civilians have been discovered shot up alongside an evacuation route, together with a bus with a younger couple inside and a car the place an aged couple have been slain.