By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent Worthy News
KYIV/MOSCOW (Worthy News) – Moscow-installed officials accused Ukraine of killing at least 28 people at a bakery in the Russian-occupied city of Lysychansk.
At least one child was among the dead Saturday after Kyiv shelled the bakery, said local leader Leonid Pasechnik wrote in a statement on social media.
A further 10 people were rescued from under the rubble by emergency services, he explained. Ukrainian officials in Kyiv did not comment on the incident.
Both Moscow and Kyiv have increasingly relied on longer-range attacks this winter amid essentially unchanged positions on the 1,500-kilometer (930-mile) front line in the nearly 2-year-old war.
If confirmed, the bloodshed at the bakery underscored concerns about the dangers of the long-range attacks.
The standoff came as Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he is considering a “reset” to replace several senior officials after reports that he was preparing to fire the commander-in-chief of the country’s armed forces.
REPLACEMENT TALKS
“It is a question of the people who are to lead Ukraine. A reset is necessary; I am talking about a replacement of a number of state leaders, not only in the army sector,” Zelenskiy stressed.
He has been at odds with the highly popular commander of the armed forces, Valerii Zaluzhnyi. The two have differences over the conduct of the nearly two-year-old Russian invasion of Ukraine.
But in an interview on Sunday, Zelenskiy said any changes went beyond replacing a single person to harness efforts to oust Russian troops. “When I speak of turnover, I have in mind something serious that does not concern a single person, but the direction of the country’s leadership,” Zelenskiy told Italian state television when asked about Zaluzhnyi.
Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian and Russian soldiers are believed to have been killed since Moscow invaded Ukraine in February 2021.
Worries about the war come as in Moscow over two dozen people, primarily journalists were detained at a protest in central Moscow, prompting angry reactions from the government of the Netherlands and others.
Saturday’s protest involved wives and other relatives of Russian service members mobilized to fight in Ukraine, calling for their return.
Amid tensions, the United Nations’ top court said it has jurisdiction to rule on a request by Ukraine for a declaration that Kyiv is not responsible for genocide but not on other aspects of a Ukrainian case against Russia.
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