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Russian President Vladimir Putin's government has cracked down heavily on dissent, even before Russia invaded Ukraine in February.BUCHA, Ukraine -- Ukrainian troops moved further north from the capital Kyiv on Saturday, taking up positions in the town of Bucha after retaking territory from Russian forces. AP reporters counted 6 bodies of civilians scattered along a street and in the front yard of a house.
"The information disseminated by the General Staff of Ukraine is absolutely untrue," Transnistria's Foreign Ministry said in a statement, adding that leaders have repeatedly "declared the absence of any threat to Ukraine." Levin, 40, worked as a photojournalist and videographer for many Ukrainian and international publications.
A second post on the state enterprise's channel claimed that explosions and mortar bursts could be heard in the vicinity of the Sovremennik cultural center, where residents held a rally in support of Ukraine. WARSAW, Poland --Poland's government says it has issued over 625,000 national identification numbers to Ukrainian refugees since Russia launched its invasion.
Pawel Szefernaker, a deputy interior minister who was appointed Saturday as a special plenipotentiary to handle Ukrainian war refugees, said at a news conference that 625,000 Ukrainian refugees had received the Polish ID number, known as a PESEL. "Putin is a war criminal," Carla Del Ponte told Swiss newspaper Le Temps in an interview published Saturday.
Other war crimes she identified in Ukraine included attacks on civilians, the destruction of civilian buildings and even that of entire towns.BERLIN -- The International Committee of the Red Cross says a team of nine staffers is trying to get to the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol again after it had to abandon an earlier attempt when conditions on the ground made it impossible to proceed.
Mariupol, which was surrounded by Russian forces a month ago, has been the scene of some of the war's worst attacks, including on a maternity hospital and a theater sheltering civilians. Around 100,000 people are believed to remain in the city, down from a prewar population of 430,000, and facing dire shortages of water, food, fuel and medicine.
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