Also, the head of a UN mission in Ukraine says Russia is illegally consolidating its control over occupied territory by creating a ‘climate of fear’ with practices such as arbitrary detention, killings and torture
A Russian border region being pounded by Ukrainian shelling and drones is expanding its closure of schools and colleges amid a major evacuation plan, authorities announced Wednesday, as Kyiv’s forces extend their campaign of long-range strikes that aim to put the Kremlin under pressure.
The measures were announced a day after the governor unveiled plans to evacuate about 9,000 children from the region and several days after a presidential election in Russia in which President Vladimir Putin extended his rule in a landslide. Russia’s Defense Ministry said it intercepted 13 Ukrainian rockets over the Belgorod region around mid-morning Wednesday. Gladkov, the governor, said one person was killed and two others were injured, including a 17-year-old girl, in the attack. He said 16 people have been killed over the past week alone.
But the United States is Ukraine’s crucial military supplier, and the U.S. Congress remains stalled over funding to send additional weapons to the front. “These combined actions of censorship, surveillance, political oppression, repression of free speech, movement restrictions … created a climate of fear in which the Russian Federation could systematically dismantle the Ukrainian systems of government and administration,” she said in an interview.
Bell said there had been an initial phase of rights violations, including killings, torture and arbitrary detention of those perceived to be linked to Ukrainian security forces or those believed to be supporting Ukraine.
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