'Very grim picture' Former UK ambassador to Ukraine Leigh Turner says 'scenes very much reminiscent of World War Two war crimes' are being investigated in formerly occupied north-eastern Ukraine. Latest: 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
As we reported in our, Ukraine has managed to regain control of a village in the Luhansk region - a mere six miles from Lysychansk city.
He said:"The EU should... stop mentioning an 8th package of sanctions, should stop flagging measures that would only further deepen the energy supply crisis." "Some of the dead have signs of a violent death," he said."There are bodies with tied hands and traces of torture."Forensic experts wearing white protective suits and rubber gloves have spent days painstakingly exhuming and identifying the bodies buried in makeshift graves marked with flimsy wooden crosses.Ukraine claims its troops have marched further east into territory recently abandoned by Russia, as defence forces continue to snatch back land.
The village is only six miles west of Lysychansk city, which fell to the Russians after weeks of grinding battles in July. But despite the Ukrainian Defence Forces making progress in the area, Russian shells still fall - and destruction continues as the war wages on. "In the last two months, the fleet headquarters and its main naval aviation airfield have been attacked", the MoD added.A Ukrainian man has alleged he was tied up, beaten and shocked with an electric charge during Russia's occupation of his village.