Day 10 of the Russian move against the Ukraine ….War Crimes?

A total of 364 civilians have been killed and 759 injured since fighting began on Feb. 24, according to the United Nations human rights office. Speaking on a day known as “Forgiveness Sunday” to Orthodox Christians, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declared in a video message: “We won’t forgive.”

He said promises of “humanitarian corridors” allowing civilians to escape safely have not materialized, and he denounced the killing of a family in Irpin, a town just outside the capital. In the southern city of Mariupol, local officials said Russian shelling had thwarted their latest attempt to get people out.

Here’s what to know

• Zelensky said Russian forces are preparing to bomb Odessa, a major port city.
• Britain’s Defense Ministry said that Russia is responding to the surprising “scale and strength” of Ukrainian resistance by targeting residential areas of several cities — Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Mariupol — in an apparent effort to “break Ukrainian morale.”
• Russian forces struck a Ukrainian military air base, as well as a commercial airport, according to Russian and Ukrainian officials — strikes that could hinder Ukrainian access to airstrips.
• Russia warned Sunday that foreign countries hosting Ukrainian combat aircraft could be viewed by Moscow as parties to the conflict. The announcement came as Zelensky presses Western allies to send fighter planes to combat Moscow’s invasion.
• Blinken said Sunday that the United States is discussing a ban on Russian oil with European partners, a potentially crucial step in the ongoing effort to hamper the Russian economy. Some U.S. lawmakers have expressed support for such a move….

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Note…

Some comments from Jeremey Brown BBC reporter on the ground in Kyiv…..

He reports that in Kyiv?

Things are actually resembling some sort of ‘normal’ when the shelling stops

He sense’s that most people will stay the course….

On war crimes?

He scuffed….

Russia sits on the body that will judge ‘war crimes’….

Anyone think they will ok their soliders being held accountable?…

War crimes is going nowhere….