KHARKIV, Ukraine—Ukrainian officers accused Russia of burying 1000’s of civilians in mass graves out of doors Mariupol, a town now most commonly below Russian keep an eye on, as a senior Russian army respectable stated Moscow’s territorial objectives prolong way past Ukraine’s japanese Donbas area.
Moscow stopped bearing in mind Donbas as a part of Ukraine—together with spaces managed through Kyiv—when President Vladimir Putin in February identified the independence of the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk folks’s republics, statelets created with Moscow’s assist in a part of the area in 2014.
