The Espreso TV channel, citing the city council of Mariupol, reported that the Russian invaders opened the headquarters of Putin’s United Russia party in this city.
According to residents who remained in Mariupol, party newspapers are being distributed at the headquarters, campaigning for Russia is being carried out, cards of the Phoenix mobile operator, which has been operating in the occupied territories of the Donetsk region since 2014, are distributed.
“We will find every Russian soldier”
According to earlier reports from the Ukrainian side, the Russian invaders kidnap representatives of the local Ukrainian authorities. There should have been at least 14 such cases. The Russians detained and illegally detained officials of local authorities and representatives of the state administration in the Kherson, Chernihiv, Donetsk, Zaporozhye and Kharkov regions.
Among the detainees there are, including the mayors of Dniprorudny and Berislav, as well as representatives of local authorities of Melitopol, Energodar and a number of small towns.
“Ukraine demands their release,” Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk emphasizes. As he emphasizes, the capture of civilians is a violation of international law. The deputy head of the Ukrainian government said that people evacuated from the occupied territories report cases of torture by the Russians against civilians.
“We will find all the Russian military and their accomplices who have committed war crimes, and we will bring them to the strictest criminal liability,” she stressed.
Russian invasion of Ukraine
Russia has been conducting a full-scale military aggression in Ukraine for 30 days. Faced with resolute and effective resistance from the Ukrainian army, they shell and fire rockets at populated areas of Ukrainian cities and villages. More than 1,000 civilians have died since the start of the war, according to the UN. However, the actual death toll could be much higher.