Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 272 of the invasion - The Guardian

Ukraine is to evacuate civilians from precocious liberated areas of the Kherson and Mykolaiv regions. Residents of the 2 confederate regions have been advised to determination to safer areas successful the cardinal and occidental parts of the country, amid fears that the harm to infrastructure caused by the warfare is excessively terrible for radical to endure the winter.

The Kremlin said it was acrophobic by what it claimed to beryllium Ukrainian shelling of the Zaporizhzhia atomic powerfulness plant, which is nether Russian control. Yuriy Sak, an advisor to Ukraine’s defence minister, countered that the shelling of the Zaporizhzhia works was a Russian maneuver aiming to disrupt powerfulness supplies and “freeze Ukrainians to death”. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, appealed to Nato members to warrant the extortion of his country’s atomic powerfulness plants from “Russian sabotage”.

The UN atomic watchdog was to behaviour an appraisal of the Zaporizhzhia plant on Monday. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said the forces down its shelling were “playing with fire” and specified attacks risked a large disaster.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that Ukraine’s wellness strategy is “facing its darkest days successful the warfare truthful far”. WHO determination manager for Europe, Dr Hans Henri P Kluge, called for a “humanitarian wellness corridor” to beryllium created to each areas of Ukraine recently recaptured by Kyiv, arsenic good arsenic those occupied by Russian forces.

Ukraine’s authoritative wide bureau has said its officials person identified 4 locations wherever Russian forces tortured detainees successful Kherson city. It said Russian forces “set up pseudo-law enforcement agencies” successful pre-trial detention centres and a constabulary presumption earlier troops withdrew from the confederate Ukrainian city.

Russian troops have been accused of burning bodies astatine a landfill connected the borderline of Kherson during their occupation. Residents and workers astatine the tract told the Guardian they saw Russian unfastened trucks arriving to the tract carrying achromatic bags that were past acceptable connected fire, filling the aerial with a ample unreality of fume and a stench of burning flesh.

The Kremlin said it would bring to justness those liable for the alleged execution of Russian prisoners of warfare successful Ukraine. Russia has accused Ukrainian soldiers of executing much than 10 Russian prisoners of war, citing a video circulating connected Russian societal media. Ukraine denies the claims.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said determination were no plans to telephone up much Russian soldiers to combat successful Ukraine done a 2nd circular of mobilisation.

Russian forces launched astir 400 strikes connected Sunday successful Ukraine’s eastbound arsenic portion of a run of artillery fire, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said. “The fiercest battles, arsenic before, are successful the Donetsk region. Although determination were less attacks contiguous owed to worsening weather, the magnitude of Russian shelling unluckily remains highly high.”

Russian forces are constructing antiaircraft positions partially staffed by poorly trained mobilised reservists astir the Svatove assemblage successful the Luhansk portion successful north-eastern Ukraine, according to the UK Ministry of Defence. With Russia’s south-western frontline present much readily defendable on the eastbound slope of the Dnieper River, the Svatove assemblage is apt a much susceptible operational flank of the Russian force, the latest British quality report reads.

Forty-five countries and institutions volition conscionable successful Paris connected Monday to pledge millions of euros of assistance for Moldova, arsenic fears equine that it could beryllium further destabilised by the struggle successful Ukraine. Moldova, which lies betwixt Ukraine and Romania, has felt the effects of rising nutrient and vigor prices arsenic good thousands of refugees arriving successful the state of astir 2.5 cardinal people.