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Burials surge in Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine: NGO
Satellite photos and on-the-ground images reveal a sharp increase in burials in Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine, according to a report released on Friday. The non-governmental Center for Information Resilience analyzed images of graves in six areas – two of which were previously held by Russian forces and the rest under Moscow’s control in southern Ukraine, according to AFP. At the Starokrymske cemetery in Mariupol, the report’s authors said about 1,000 new graves could be seen in a period of about five months between October 21 and March 28, according to Agence France-Presse. The pace of burials increased sharply after March, when Russian forces took almost full control of the strategic port, the report said. The authors said 1,141 new graves appeared in satellite images between March 28 and May 12, and over 1,700 more between May 12 and June 29. The figures could not be independently verified. Fresh holes dug ahead of new burials lie next to dozens of recent graves in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on July 5. Photo: Leah Millis/Reuters Benjamin Strick, Director of Research at CIR, said: The makeshift burials and the growing number of graves around Ukraine, particularly in and around the occupied territories, are a stark illustration of the civilian death toll following the Russian invasion.” The researchers cross-referenced satellite imagery with geolocated data, including social media. The images also showed large trenches being dug in two locations near Mariupol – Pionerske and Manhush – as well as makeshift graves around the city.
G20 leaders meet under the cloud of war in Ukraine
Economic leaders from the Group of 20 major economies are meeting in Bali as host country Indonesia urged consensus amid fallout from the war and mounting economic pressures from soaring inflation. Indonesia’s Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati said it could be “disastrous” for low-income countries facing soaring food and energy prices if leaders do not get their act together. Sri Mulyani said the world had high hopes that the group would be able to find a solution to the triple threat of war, rising commodity prices and their knock-on effects on the ability of low-income countries to repay debt. We are well aware that the cost of our failure to cooperate is more than we can afford. The humanitarian consequences for the world and especially for many low-income countries would be catastrophic.” G20 members include Western countries that have imposed sanctions on Russia and accuse it of war crimes in Ukraine, as well as countries such as China, India and South Africa, which have been more muted in their responses. Sri Mulyani called on G20 members to talk less about politics and “build bridges among themselves” to provide more technical decisions and action. We need to strengthen the spirit of multilateralism, we also need to build a safety net for our future cooperation,” he said.
Canada says Russian officials are personally responsible for war crimes
Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland told Russian officials at a meeting of G20 economic leaders that she holds them personally responsible for “war crimes” committed during Russia’s war in Ukraine, a Western official said. Freeland directly addressed the Russian delegation attending the meeting of the Group of 20 major economies, telling them on Friday: It’s not just the generals who commit war crimes, it’s the financial technocrats who allow the war to happen and continue.” Freeland told the opening G20 summit that war was the “single biggest threat to the world economy right now,” the official said. The two-day meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank chiefs from leading economies began in the resort of Bali under the shadow of a war that has roiled markets, sent food prices soaring and fueled skyrocketing inflation. Indonesia’s Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati warned delegates that failure to address the energy and food crises would be disastrous and called on ministers to work together in a spirit of “cooperation, cooperation and consensus” because “the world is watching” for solutions. The cost of our failure is more than we can afford,” he told delegates. “The humanitarian consequences for the world and for many low-income countries would be catastrophic.” Updated at 06.22 BST Ukraine will not reveal the official number of military casualties until the end of the war, Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said. Maliar cited potential harm from using casualty information to further inform Russian analysis and strategy as the reason for the lack of government data in a Facebook post late Thursday. Updated 06.11 BST
A four-year-old girl was killed in a strike
A four-year-old girl was killed in the strike in Vinnytsia with social media posts documenting her life and death. Footage – not published by the Guardian – showed Lisa Dmitrieva lying dead in her overturned pram. “A girl is among the dead today in Vinnytsia, she was four years old, her name was Lisa. The child was four years old! Her mother is in critical condition,” President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his final national address. Lisa’s mother Irina had taken her to a training center in a town most believed to be far from the front lines, a four-hour drive west of the capital, Kyiv. But Lisa never made it at home. Shortly after 11 a.m., three missiles out of seven reportedly fired by a Russian submarine in the Black Sea smashed into the square. Amidst the carnage, video captured Lisa lying dead in her overturned stroller. Nearby is a severed leg. A soldier’s hand extends the cart.
The death toll in Vinici stands at 23, dozens missing
The central Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia is reeling from a Russian missile attack that hit civilian buildings and a cultural center, killing at least 23 people – including three children – and injuring dozens more. As the city of 370,000 – many of whom fled eastern Ukraine to escape frontline artillery fire – wakes up, rescue teams continue to comb through the wreckage as authorities say 39 people are still missing Ukraine: footage appears to show moment after Russian missile attack on Vinnytsia shopping center – video Ihor Klymenko, the national police chief, said only six of the dead have been identified so far. Of the 66 people taken to hospital, five remained in critical condition while 34 were seriously injured, Ukraine’s state emergency service said in an update issued shortly after 10pm on Thursday. A Russian submarine in the Black Sea fired Kalibr cruise missiles at the city, Ukraine’s deputy presidential office chief Kyrylo Tymoshenko wrote on the Telegram messaging app. The Russian military did not immediately confirm the strike, but Margarita Simonyan, head of state-controlled Russian television network RT, told the messaging app’s channel that military officials told her a building in Vinnytsia was targeted because it housed Ukrainian “Nazis.”
Summary and welcome
Hello and welcome back to the Guardian’s rolling live coverage of Russia’s war in Ukraine. I’m Samantha Lock and I’ll be bringing you all the latest developments for the next while. Economic leaders from the Group of 20 major economies meet in Bali today as Indonesia tries to find common ground in talks overshadowed by the war. Ukraine’s state emergency service said it was still searching for 46 people missing after a Russian missile strike in the central Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia. It’s 7.30am in Kyiv and here’s where things stand right now:
A senior Ukrainian official said the missile attacks on Vinnytsia were an “approved military strategy” by Vladimir Putin. Mykhailo Podolyak, the head of Ukraine’s negotiating team and a key adviser to Zelenskiy, said Russian forces were attacking “peaceful” Ukrainian cities such as Vinnytsia, Kremenchuk, Chasiv Yar and Kharkiv to force Ukrainians to “make peace with any price”, Podolyak. he wrote on Twitter. Russia’s attacks on peaceful Ukrainian cities were not a mistake but an approved military strategy
A four-year-old girl was killed in the strike in Vinnytsia with social media posts documenting her life and death. Footage – not published by the Guardian – showed Lisa Dmitrieva lying dead in her overturned pram. “A girl is among the dead today in Vinnytsia, she was four years old, her name was Lisa. The child was four years old!” Zelensky said. “Her mother is in critical condition.”
The world’s top security body has expressed “serious concern” over the alleged mistreatment of tens of thousands of Ukrainians in so-called filtering centers set up by Russia in Ukraine. Tens of thousands of civilians are being taken to these centers in the self-proclaimed breakaway Donetsk People’s Republic in eastern Ukraine, before being deported to Russia, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said.
Russia has forcibly removed nearly 2 million people from Ukraine, including more than 200,000 children, since its invasion in February, Zelensky said. “It is still being established how many children were abducted and taken out of Ukraine by Russian forces … The preliminary number is terrible – around 200,000 children,” he told the Ukraine Accountability Conference in The Hague on Thursday.
The United States and more than 40 other countries have agreed to coordinate investigations into suspected war crimes in Ukraine. On Thursday, 45 countries, including European Union states, as well as Britain, the US, Canada, Mexico and Australia at a conference in The Hague signed a political declaration to cooperate. With some 23,000 war crimes investigations now open and different countries running teams, the evidence needed to be reliable and organized, officials said. …
