Russia-Ukraine war live: Kharkiv mayor accuses Russian forces of targeting ‘densely populated residential area’ as they shell city
The military command of the Russian Federation has stopped sending new units into Ukraine following a dramatic Ukrainian counter-offensive that has reshaped the war and left Moscow reeling, the general staff of the armed forces of Ukraine said Monday.
The military command of the Russian Federation has suspended the sending of new, already formed units into the territory of Ukraine,” officials said on the general staff Facebook page.
“The current situation in the theatre of operations and distrust of the higher command forced a large number of volunteers to categorically refuse the prospect of service in combat conditions,” the statement continued. “The situation is affected by information about the actual number of dead, while losses from private military companies and those mobilized from temporarily occupied territories are not taken into account. The situation worsens due to the general attitude toward their own wounded. In particular, in Russian hospitals, diagnoses and the nature of combat injuries are deliberately simplified and no time is given for rehabilitation in order to quickly return servicemen to the combat zone.”
This information could not be corroborated. The Kremlin has yet to respond.
Authorities found the bodies of four tortured civilians in the recently recaptured Kharkiv town of Zaliznychne, the Ukrainian prosecutor general’s office said.
The discovery is an echo of the war crimes uncovered after Ukrainian troops retook Bucha and other areas around Kyiv.
⚡️ Prosecutor General’s Office: Bodies of 4 tortured civilians found in liberated Zaliznychne, Kharkiv Oblast. According to local law enforcement, the victims were allegedly killed by Russian troops during the community’s temporary occupation by Russian forces.— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) September 12, 2022
Russian soldiers engaged in mass looting as they fled Kharkiv oblast, the defense intelligence unit of Ukraine’s defense ministry said.
Soldiers loaded “generators, telephones, and computers taken from Ukrainians into their cars. Rare cases of school robberies have been recorded, even horizontal bars and sports equipment were taken out of gyms”, officials said.
Russian forces hit Kharkiv hard on Monday, striking a densely populated residential district and knocking out power and water supplies for the second day in a row.
The mayor of Kharkiv city, Ihor Terekhov, said the targeted strikes on the region’s infrastructure were Russia’s revenge for Ukraine’s recent battlefield successes. The governor of Kharkiv, Oleh Synyehubov, posted on Telegram that one person was known to have been killed and six injured on Monday.
Here are some of the most recent shots from Kharkiv: