{"id":183546,"date":"2022-07-15T09:31:05","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T01:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=183546"},"modified":"2022-07-15T09:31:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T01:31:06","slug":"russia-ukraine-conflict-russian-strikes-kill-20-as-pres-zelensky-urges-special-tribunal-for-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=183546","title":{"rendered":"Russia-Ukraine conflict: Russian strikes kill 20 as Pres Zelensky urges ‘special tribunal’ for Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u00a0KYIV, July 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Russian missiles struck Vinnytsia\u00a0in central Ukraine Thursday, killing at least 20 people including three\u00a0children, in what President Volodymyr Zelensky called “an open act of\u00a0terrorism”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The midday attack on the city hundreds of kilometres from the frontlines and\u00a0invading Russian troops came as EU officials convened in The Hague to discuss\u00a0war crimes in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The charred remains of upturned cars surround by burnt debris were seen in\u00a0images distributed by officials next to a business gutted by a fire with\u00a0brown smoke billowing nearby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“There were eight rockets, two of which hit the centre of the city. Twenty\u00a0people have died, including three children. There a large, large number of\u00a0wounded,” Zelensky said during an address European official at The Hague.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ukrainian leader led a moment of silence before urging European and\u00a0International Criminal Court officials during an address to open a “special\u00a0tribunal” into Russia’s invasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I believe it is inevitable that International Criminal Court will bring\u00a0accountability to those guilty of crimes under its jurisdiction: war crimes,\u00a0crimes against humanity, genocide.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ICC in The Hague opened an investigation into possible war crimes in\u00a0Ukraine just days after Moscow’s forces invaded and it dispatched dozens of\u00a0investigators to the country to gather evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia invaded on Feb 24 and the conflict has seen thousands of people\u00a0killed, destroyed cities and forced millions to flee their homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Every day, Russia kills civilians, kills Ukrainian children, carries out\u00a0missile attacks on the civilian facilities where there is no military target.\u00a0What is this, if not an open act of terrorism?” Zelensky said after the\u00a0Vinnytsia attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Ukraine military spokesman said its forces had managed to knock out two\u00a0from a barrage of cruise missiles that were launched from a Russian submarine\u00a0in the Black Sea and caused widespread damage in Vinnytsia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deadly strikes in central Ukraine have become relatively rare, but the war\u00a0has raged around cities like Mykolaiv in the south which the presidency said\u00a0was hit by a “massive missile strike”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Two schools, transport infrastructure and a hotel were damaged,” the\u00a0presidency said in its morning military update early Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The skeletal insides of one building gutted by the strikes were visible in\u00a0images distributed by local officials, with municipal workers clearing bricks\u00a0and rubble strewn after the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The heaviest fighting in Ukraine, however, has focused recently on the\u00a0industrial Donbas region in the east.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moscow-backed troops there said Thursday they were closing in on their next\u00a0target, after wresting control of sister cities Lysychansk and Severodonetsk\u00a0two weeks ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Siversk is under our operational control, which means that the enemy can be\u00a0hit by our aimed fire all over the area,” a pro-Moscow rebel official, Daniil\u00a0Bezsonov, was cited as saying by Russian state-run news agency TASS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several rounds of negotiations to end the fighting at the beginning of the\u00a0conflict fell through, but delegations from Kyiv and Moscow met in Istanbul\u00a0this week to discuss unblocking Ukraine’s grain exports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The meeting involving UN and Turkish officials ended after more than three\u00a0hours with an agreement to meet again in Turkiye next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zelensky said “the entire world” was counting on the negotiations to finalise\u00a0a deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conflict has pushed up grain prices and Europe is suffering from sky-rocketing energy bills stemming from sanctions on Russia and Moscow’s move to\u00a0limit gas flows to Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The European Commission meanwhile slashed growth forecasts for the eurozone,\u00a0saying the consequences from the war in Ukraine were continuing to\u00a0destabilise the economy because of record high inflation. — NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0KYIV, July 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Russian missiles struck Vinnytsia\u00a0in central Ukraine Thursday, killing at least 20 people including three\u00a0children, in what President Volodymyr Zelensky called “an open act of\u00a0terrorism”. The midday attack on the city hundreds of kilometres from the frontlines and\u00a0invading Russian troops came as EU officials convened in The Hague to discuss\u00a0war crimes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183546"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183548,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183546\/revisions\/183548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}