Listed below are a number of the highlights produced by RFE/RL’s workforce of correspondents, multimedia editors, and visible journalists over the previous seven days, together with content material from Gandhara, the RFE/RL web site focusing solely on developments in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Inside An ‘Execution Cellar’ In Ukraine
A kids’s summer season camp in Ukraine is the location of one other grisly atrocity. In a basement, there have been our bodies with their arms tied behind their backs and bullet holes of their heads. The Ukrainian authorities stated it was a warfare crime dedicated by Russian forces. By Borys Sachalko
Chernihiv Rises From Rubble Left By Russian Army
Ukrainians in Chernihiv are cleansing up the devastation wrought on their metropolis by the Russian Army after Moscow stopped its assaults and turned its consideration to Ukraine’s east. Russia’s air power bombed residential areas and a church. On April 6, RFE/RL Ukrainian Service correspondent Maryan Kushnir toured the destruction within the metropolis, which is situated in northern Ukraine close to the borders with Belarus and Russia.
Borodyanka’s Survivors Inform Their Tales After Ukrainian City’s Liberation
The village of Borodyanka, 50 kilometers from Kyiv, was severely broken by Russian air strikes. In line with Prosecutor-Normal Iryna Venediktova, the worst scenario with civilian casualties is in Borodyanka. Collapsed buildings haven’t been cleared and the variety of victims has not but been decided. RFE/RL Ukrainian Service reporter Levko Stek listened to locals’ tales about what Russian troops did within the metropolis.
Sarajevo Survivors Relive The Siege By The Battle In Ukraine
Thirty years in the past, their metropolis was surrounded by Bosnian Serb forces and saved underneath siege for almost 4 years. Now, Bosnians inform RFE/RL’s Balkan Service that they see the identical evil repeating itself in Ukraine and wish Europe and the world to do extra to place a cease to it. By Ivan Gutterman and RFE/RL’s Balkan Service