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Russia targets supply routes as the U.S. and NATO allies pump weapons into Ukraine [1]
['Nick Schifrin', 'Teresa Cebrian Aranda', 'Harry Zahn']
Date: 2022-05-04 18:45:39-04:00
Nick Schifrin:
But, yesterday, many of Russia's so-called legitimate targets were clearly civilian, a bus stop in Donetsk near a chemical plant that killed at least 10, in the eastern city of Kharkiv, an amusement park, which before the war would have been filled with children, and the most widespread attack on the western city of Lviv since the war began.
Missiles struck power stations and knocked out much of the city's electricity. British officials said today Russian troops are expected to move south from Izyum and could capture the cities of Kramatorsk and Severodonetsk. Further south, in Mariupol, a senior U.S. defense official said Russia maintains about 2,000 troops inside the city.
In the center of that city, two months ago, 1,000 civilians, mostly women and children, sheltered in a theater's basement from Russian strikes. Today, the Associated Press estimated a Russian missile strike that destroyed the theater killed 600 civilians. That would double the official death toll.
The AP's new estimate relies on 3-D floor plans, videos, photos and the accounts of survivors like Maria Kutnyakova. She lives only because she happened to walk outside before the Russians attacked.
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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/russia-targets-supply-routes-as-the-u-s-and-nato-allies-pump-weapons-into-ukraine
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