Children remain in Bakhmut, bodies of tortured found in Kherson Oblast: last night's highlights
About 5,000 people, including 37 children, remain in Bakhmut; the bodies of two men, apparently tortured by Russians, were found in Kherson Oblast; and two citizens were arrested in the United States for illegally selling aircraft equipment to Russia. Here is what you may have missed from the previous night.
Children in Bakhmut
About 5,000 people, including 37 children, remain in Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast.
The head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko, explained that residents are in different parts of the city and do not want to leave, some are even hiding from evacuation.
The police added that eight police evacuation teams are working in the Bakhmut community. It often takes all day to find people who leave their destroyed homes and migrate to shelters.
Torture in Kherson
In the Kherson region, law enforcement officers exhumed the bodies of two men who appeared to have been tortured by the Russian military.
According to the investigation, the victims were local residents who were detained by the Russian military during the occupation of Kherson and placed in a temporary detention center.
Meanwhile, an international group of lawyers has gathered evidence indicating that the Russian authorities planned and directly funded torture in Kherson Oblast, setting up at least 20 torture chambers to suppress Ukrainian identity.
Aircraft equipment for the Russian Federation
The United States has arrested two men accused of selling aviation technology to Russian companies in violation of sanctions.
According to the US Department of Justice, since 2020, the defendants have conspired to circumvent export laws by concealing and falsifying the true end recipients and final destinations of the equipment. To do this, they smuggled the equipment through third countries, including Armenia and Cyprus.
Conversation with Lula
On March 2, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy had a telephone conversation with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
In May 2022, Lula, who was still a presidential candidate, said in an interview with Time magazine about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that he was “just as responsible for the war”. In his opinion, Ukraine could have avoided the invasion if it had refused to join NATO. He also accused US President Joe Biden of inciting the war.
Other news from the night:
- Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu believes that if NATO denies Ukraine membership, it will create a “gray zone” in the middle of Europe, and Russia's new aggression will have to be deterred with more destructive weapons.
- In Sumy Oblast, 177 enemy shell hits were recorded on March 2: the occupiers shelled ten territorial communities, destroying civilian infrastructure.
- On March 2, Ukrzaliznytsia resumed running the Slobozhansky Express on the Kharkiv-Sumy-Konotop route.
- By 2035, 51% of the world's population, or more than 4 billion people, will be overweight or obese.
- In Moldova, the parliament approved in the first reading a bill that would replace the phrase “Moldovan language” with “Romanian language” in all laws. In protest, communists and socialists clashed in the parliament hall.
- White House spokesperson John Kirby said that the United States would announce a new military aid package for Ukraine on Friday, March 3.
- Russia says that a Russian Guard vehicle hit a mine in the Bryansk region.
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