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Russian troops 'open fire on Ukrainian protesters': One hurt after gunfire and stun grenade explosions ring out at Kherson demonstration - while Putin steps up his war of attrition by ordering navy to bombard port of Odessa
2022-03-21
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Russian troops have opened fire with guns and stun grenades on protesters in Kherson, local media reports

  • At least one person was hurt as video shows man bleeding heavily from the leg carried away by protesters

  • Civilian areas of Odesa were struck by Russian naval artillery, the first time residents have been targeted

  • Shopping mall in northern Kyiv was also bombed, leaving eight civilians dead amid fears of more in rubble


'Putin 'deports Ukrainians to camps': Russia is accused of genocide by putting refugees in 'filtration' centres and forcibly taking them to remote Siberian towns after confiscating their phones and documents
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin has been accused of forcibly deporting Ukrainians from Mariupol into Russia

  • Mariupol's city council has claimed that Ukrainian evacuees have had their phones and documents removed

  • Russia on Sunday demanded Ukrainian troops lay down their arms, offered safe passage to civilians fleeing

  • Mariupol authorities rejected the offer within minutes, saying Russia's offers of an amnesty cannot be trusted

  • Offer came hours after a Russian missile strike hit a school in besieged city which was sheltering 400 people


Come and get it: Fearless female ex-MP with the enemy in her sights dons military fatigues to battle Russian troops with anti-tank missiles
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Tetiana Chornovol, 42, is an investigative journalist and ex-MP turned soldier

  • She struck a tank while defending Kyiv in the country's war against Russia

  • After becoming a Ukrainian MP in 2014, she has paused her day job to fight

  • Miss Chornovol’s husband, Mykola Berezovyi, was killed fighting pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine in 2014

  • The mother of two is now using his AK47 in the fight to repel Putin’s army
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