Ukrainian photographers Kostiantyn and Vlada Liberov They published photos of the destroyed Vovchanskin the region of Kharkovwhich the Russian military is trying to capture.
One of the photos captures the bodies of two women. Next to them are two small craters from projectile explosions.
“The women wear brightly colored clothes. It is impossible to confuse them with military even from a height”said the photographers.
The photographers noted that the city was “flooded with death” and of civilian corpses dead in the street and under the rubble.
The town of Vovchanskthe most important in the border area, has been one of the hardest hit since Russia launched its ground attack in the region of Kharkov 10th May.
Almost 11,000 people have been forced to leave their homes in Kharkiv, but about two hundred people remain in Vovchansk, according to Yevhen Ivanovdeputy head of the military administration of the region.
In the last days Several Russian attacks against civilians in the city were reportedwhich was almost completely destroyed.
Volodymyr Tymoshkohead of the Main Department of the National Police in the Kharkiv region, reported that the Russian invaders had used a drone to attack a car that was heading to evacuate civilians in Vovchansk. According to the official, the police officer is alive, he suffered a gunshot wound.
On May 15, Russian soldiers a woman in a wheelchair was shot who was trying to leave Vovchansk on her own with her husband and another man.
“When they passed near the local hospital, The Russians opened fire on them. The man who joined the couple and the woman died instantly,” stated the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office.
At the same time, The man, 70 years old, managed to escape and reach the outskirts of Vovchanskfrom where the Ukrainian military took him to Kharkiv.
The man was unable to take his dead wife’s body, prosecutors said.
Ukrainian authorities said they are investigating to find out whether the new attacks on civilians constitute war crime.
On the other hand, the head of the Ukrainian Army, Oleksandr Sirskistated this Thursday that Russian forces have “completely stagnant” in the battles that take place in Vovchansk and “suffers very large personnel casualties in its assault units.”
The Ukrainian general explained that The Russian Army continues to transfer reserves from several areas to reinforce its operations on the open front in Kharkiv, in which Russia took up to a dozen small towns in the first week of the offensive.
Nevertheless, Russian forces are unable to continue gaining ground despite the constant deployment of more troops, added Sirski, who also explained how the situation is evolving in the other axis through which Russia has until now attacked in the Kharkiv border area.
“In the direction of (the town of) Liptsi, the enemy also suffers significant casualtieshas gone into active defense and is carrying out mine clearance operations while opening fire to inflict damage on the positions of our troops,” explained the general, who also reported Russian attacks in other areas of the front in Kharkiv and Donetsk ( this).
Moscow seized 278 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory between May 9 and 15, according to AFP calculations based on data from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
