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The analysts added that the Russians are "unlikely to launch operations to retake the northeast outskirts of Kharkiv liberated by Ukrainian forces in the near future." They said that was partly because the Russians had reportedly destroyed three bridges as part of their retreat, something armies do only when they’ve decided they won’t try to cross in the other direction again any time soon. He doesn’t anticipate that Russia will pull back its troops entirely, as it did in the suburbs around Kyiv and in the Chernihiv region in the north. If it did, he said, that would enable Ukraine to send more forces to strategically important Izyum, a town on the southeastern edge of Kharkiv that the Russians must capture if they plan to encircle Ukraine’s military in the eastern Donbas region. He has urged residents not to try returning to their homes in villages that were occupied by Russians until recently.
In Tsyrkuny, the military didn’t even let the police in until Tuesday. While the de-mining crew was still carefully moving detection wands through the grass and spiking them into the ground, 83-year-old Oleksandr Sahno walked by. He had spent nearly every night in a neighbor’s basement during the Russian occupation. Sahno reluctantly agreed.
Shishimarin will be the first Russian service member to stand trial there on a war crimes charge in the 11-week conflict. The statement did not provide details on the nature of the evidence or how the Russian soldier ended up in Ukrainian custody. Iryna Venediktova, the prosecutor general, told Ukraine’s public broadcaster that said her office has opened more than 5,000 cases linked to war crimes and crimes of aggression since the invasion began. «Shishimarin is actually physically in Ukraine,» Venediktova said.
Nervous about how long they’d already been at the site in Tsyrkuny, the investigators hurriedly packed the evidence into their van and sped back toward the city. Oleksandr Bogdanov powered on his phone for the first time in hours.
original source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/11/ukraine-police-homicide-investigators-build-war-crimes-cases/?itid=hp-top-table-main