[NYPOST] Russia continued to pound Kyiv with shelling Saturday — making good on Moscow’s pledge to renew its bombardment of Ukraine’s capital city.The scattered attacks occurred after a Russian strike hit a missile plant in Kyiv on Friday and as the Kremlin vowed to again start bombing what it called "military sites" in the city and surrounding areas, after retreating amid heavy losses earlier in the war.
Smoke was seen rising from the city’s southeastern Darnytski district, but it wasn’t immediately clear what was hit. The sprawling district contains apartment buildings and big-box retail outlets, along with industrial sites and railyards. Russia’s Defense Ministry said it targeted an armored-vehicle plant there.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko warned residents who fled the city when it was under heavier attack earlier in the war not to return.
900 civilians found dead in Kyiv, Ukraine police say
[NYPOST] Russian forces withdrawing from the Kyiv region left behind the bodies of more than 900 slaughtered Ukraine civilians, local authorities said Friday.The vast majority of the victims in the area surrounding the capital were "simply executed" by gunfire, police said. The grim body count continued to mount as corpses were uncovered under rubble and in mass graves.Andriy Nebytov, the head of the capital’s regional police force, estimated that 95 percent of bodies left stranded in the region had been shot, and citizens who had expressed strong pro-Ukrainian views had been hunted down and murdered.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky accused occupying troops in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions of doing the same.
"The occupiers think this will make it easier for them to control this territory. But they are very wrong. They are fooling themselves," Zelensky said. "Russia’s problem is that it is not accepted — and never will be accepted — by the entire Ukrainian people. Russia has lost Ukraine forever."