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12/04/2022
A culture of violence pervades the invading army. As Russia’s “liberators” have retreated from Kyiv back towards the Belarusian border, they have left a landscape of atrocities.
Terror, torture and murder have been Russian military tactics for as long as Vladimir Putin has been in power.
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10/04/2022
The girl lay on a metal gurney. Her face turned to the side, eyes closed, her blonde hair tied back in a ponytail. She was dressed in a shiny blue coat and black trousers. Her feet, in white trainers, with the laces neatly done up, stuck out of the sheet that half-covered her, here at the end of her life in a bone-cold morgue in eastern Ukraine.
She was 12 and had been killed nine hours earlier by a Russian ballistic missile carrying cluster munitions that tore through a crowd of thousands of civilians, most of them older people, women and children, at Kramatorsk railway station as they tried to board trains heading west.
They had flocked there from towns and villages around the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, following calls from officials to evacuate ahead of an expected Russian offensive. The trains, they had hoped, would take them to safety.
Instead, they were slaughtered where they stood, bags in their hands, tickets at the ready. Officials said 52 people were killed, eight of them children, among them the girl.
No one at the hospital knew where her family was.
“She was alive when she came in,” said Valentina Sukhonos, a nurse at the hospital, as she stood looking down on her. “She came with a woman, I don’t know if it was her mother.”
Gently, four volunteers lifted the girl into a black plastic body bag and zipped her inside it.
They carried her to a van and laid her inside with the bodies of seven others who had also died at the hospital.
1. The body of a young girl killed in the strike lies in a hospital morgue.
2. A stuffed toy covered in blood lies on the floor outside the station.
3. Dozens of people have been confirmed killed, with many more injured.
4. Tochka-U rocket used at Kramatorsk railway station, daubed with “for the children”
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