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Putin had surrounded himself with security apparatchiks and others who lack high-level military training and skills, said Rutskoy.

This includes defence minister Sergei Shoigu who - despite now holding the rank of army general - is not a career soldier, but a politician known for his loyalty to Putin, Rutskoy said.

His predecessor, a furniture entrepreneur, Anatoly Serdyukov was 'some kind of driver, a corporal and nothing more', who was promoted because his then wife was the daughter of a close Putin crony.

Rutskoy added that the key people 'never commanded or led anything'.

He said: 'Who do we have in the Security Council of the Russian Federation? Not a single person who served in the army, not a single person who has a military education.

'No-one - and now they are sitting there, making decisions on conducting the special military operation. Well, jokingly, this is the same as impotent men who make decisions about sexual encounters.

Putin has made himself a 'laughing stock' after surrounding himself with 'absolutely incompetent' military chiefs ahead of 'senseless' invasion of Ukraine, says Russia's former vice-president

Alexander Rutskoy accused Putin of 'senselessly' killing Russian soliders
Rutskoy, who served as deputy to President Boris Yeltsin, said Putin's invasion of Ukraine should never have been launched in scathing attack on Russian despot
Vladimir Putin has made himself a 'laughing stock' after he surrounded himself with 'absolutely incompetent' military chiefs ahead of the war in Ukraine, Russia's former vice-president has said in a scathing attack on the Russian President.

Alexander Rutskoy, a former Soviet general, accused Putin of 'senselessly' killing tens of thousands of Russian soliders who have been used as cannon fodder in the war.

Rutskoy, who served as deputy to President Boris Yeltsin, said Putin's invasion of Ukraine should never have been launched.

'If the armed forces do not have the ability to conduct strategic offensive operations, then it is better not to try, especially outside your own country,' Rutskoy said.

'Why….? For a quarter of a century the armed forces have been led by incompetent, absolutely incompetent people.'

'The result is the carnage in Ukraine where Russia has suffered losses which one estimate puts at 175,000 in less than a year,' Rutskoy said.

'This is a tragedy for our country,' said Rutskoy, the only man ever to occupy the post of Russian vice-president. 'This is a tragedy, because people are dying.


'People are dying senselessly, although the slogan is 'Defend Russia'. Where are they defending Russia? What are they dying for….? Who has the right to take a father away from his children?

'Who gave the right to take away sons from mothers and fathers? Nobody….'

'Britain blew up the Nord Stream pipelines [in the Baltic],' he claimed. 'And what is the reaction? Nothing. Just blah-blah-blah.

'Why is this happening? Because from a military point of view, we have no strategic planning. The president voices his intentions, which are not realised. It makes him a laughing stock.'

Putin had surrounded himself with security apparatchiks and others who lack high-level military training and skills, said Rutskoy.

This includes defence minister Sergei Shoigu who - despite now holding the rank of army general - is not a career soldier, but a politician known for his loyalty to Putin, Rutskoy said.

His predecessor, a furniture entrepreneur, Anatoly Serdyukov was 'some kind of driver, a corporal and nothing more', who was promoted because his then wife was the daughter of a close Putin crony.

Rutskoy added that the key people 'never commanded or led anything'.

He said: 'Who do we have in the Security Council of the Russian Federation? Not a single person who served in the army, not a single person who has a military education.

'No-one - and now they are sitting there, making decisions on conducting the special military operation. Well, jokingly, this is the same as impotent men who make decisions about sexual encounters.

'What kind of sex can we talk about if you're impotent? It's the same there. It's all the same.

'The Security Council of a huge country and not a single person has military expertise. Not a single person.'

Rutskoy, 75, was speaking to host Andrey Kovalyov on Kovalyov Principle channel on YouTube.

He was once proclaimed Russian acting president by the country's parliament in a standoff with Yeltsin.

But Yeltsin replaced the parliament and Rutskoy along with hardline parliamentarians was briefly jailed.

The nationalist politician was vice-president from 1991-93 after a highflying career in the Soviet military where he held the rank of aviation major-general.

He was three times shot down during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan where he commanded an independent air attack regiment of the 40th Army.

Rutskoy was made a Hero of the Soviet Union in 1988. He later served as governor of Kursk region, bordering Ukraine, during Putin's presidency.

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Pictured: Wife who was recorded 'ordering her Russian soldier husband to rape Ukrainian women'
A wife who was recorded giving her Russian soldier husband permission to rape Ukrainian women during Vladimir Putin's invasion has been pictured, as it emerged the man has been wounded in the fighting.

Earlier this week, Kyiv's security forces released an audio clip of a conversation between a couple, who have now been identified as Roman Bykovsky and his wife Olga Bykovskaya by Radio Liberty.

In the recording, the woman - allegedly Bykovskaya - is heard telling the man that he has her permission to rape Ukrainian women while he is serving in Russia's invading forces, so long as he does not tell her and uses contraception.

The shocking 30-second clip was released on April 12 as Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russian troops of carrying out 'hundreds of rapes' including sexual assaults of small children in his country.

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Earlier this week, Kyiv's security forces released an audio clip of a conversation between a couple, who have now been identified as Roman Bykovsky and his wife Olga Bykovskaya (pictured together in a photograph on their social media) by Radio Liberty

The audio clip shared by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) opened with the blue and yellow title: 'SECURITY SERVICE INTERCEPT: Wives of Russian invaders allow their men to rape Ukrainian women.'

The voice of a woman, believed to be Olga Bykovskaya, is then heard: 'So yeah, do it over there,' she says. It then becomes clear what she is agreeing to. 'Ukrainian women there. Rape them. Yeah.

'Don't tell me anything, understand,' she adds with a shy laugh.

A man's voice - believed to be that of Roman Bykovsky is then heard. 'Uh-huh,' he says. 'So I should rape and not tell you anything,' he asks, clarifying that the woman is giving him permission.

'Yes, so that I wouldn't know anything,' the women's voice says, before they are both heard laughing this time. 'Why do you ask?' she adds.

'Can I really?' he asks again.

'Yeah, I allow you,' she says, with a giggle. 'Just use protection,' she adds.

The man replies again: 'Ok.'

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In it, the woman - allegedly Bykovskaya - is heard telling the man - allegedly Roman Bykovsky (pictured) that he has her permission to rape Ukrainian women while he is serving in Russia's invading forces, so long as he does not tell her and uses contraception

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The investigators then found that the two phone numbers were linked to two accounts on Russia's VKontakte social network - belonging to 27-year-old Roman Bykovsky and his wife Olga Bykovskaya - both originally from Orel in Russia

Investigative journalists at Radio Liberty worked with law enforcement in Ukraine to track the phone involved in the call, with one of the numbers being traced to the Kherson region in April.

The investigators then found that the two phone numbers were linked to two accounts on Russia's VKontakte social network - belonging to 27-year-old Roman Bykovsky and his wife Olga Bykovskaya - both originally from Orel in Russia.

Roman's account was closed to the public, however the journalists found him pictured in photographs uploaded by one of his friends - Alexei Zabrusov - which showed that they served together in 2016 in the same army division.

From there, the investigators were able to find other friends and family members of Roman, which led them to more pictures of him in military uniform which established that is now part of Russia's 108th Guards Airborne Assault Regiment - a unit known for its involvement in the annexation of Crimea in 2014.

They also learned that the couple had moved to the Russian occupied Crimean peninsula, approximately around 2018.

Olga's social media account meanwhile was open (until it was deleted on April 13). On her account, she was shown in pictures with the man identified as Roman Bykovsky. It also showed the pair share a 4-year-old child together.

Radio Liberty tried calling the couple using the numbers that were discovered.

Roman reportedly answered, and denied that he was still in the Kherson region, and once he learned that he was being contacted by reporters also denied he was the man in the audio recording. However, Radio Liberty said his voice was a match.

Olga Bykovska also answered, and confirmed to Radio Liberty that her husband was in Sevastopol being treated for an injury. After revealing that, she quickly cut the phone call off. Her social media account was deleted soon after that.

The 30-second audio clip of the conversation was posted to the telegram channel of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) on Tuesday.

'Wives of Russian aggressors call on their husbands to rape Ukrainian women,' the agency wrote on Telegram, along with the clip.

'This shocking interception by the SBU reflects the moral values ​​not only of the occupiers but also of their relatives, 80% of whom now support the war in Ukraine,' the agency claimed in its description of the recording.

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Pictured: A Russian soldier stands in front of an apartment building on April 11, 2022

Putin's band of thugs have been linked to a string of horrific atrocities across Ukraine, including the brutal rape and murder of women and children, often in front of their own family members. Moscow has denied the claims.

One Russian soldier has even been arrested after allegedly recording himself abusing a Ukrainian baby.

Speaking to Lithuanian lawmakers on April 12, Zelensky said: 'In areas freed from the occupiers, the recording and investigation of war crimes committed by Russia continues. New mass graves are found almost daily.

'Testimonials are being collected. Thousands and thousands of victims. Hundreds of cases of torture. Bodies continue to be found in drains and cellars.

'Hundreds of cases of rape have been recorded, including those of young girls and very young children. Even of a baby!'

Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda responded saying, 'It's simply impossible to imagine a greater horror.'

The scale of the brutality has led a Ukrainian rights group to inform the UN that rape is being used as a weapon of war by the Kremlin.

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Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russian troops of carrying out 'hundreds of rapes' including sexual assaults of small children as he spoke to Lithuanian lawmakers this week (pictured)

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Alexei Bychkov (pictured), 24, has allegedly been arrested after footage emerged of him abusing a baby

Kateryna Cherepakha, president of La Strada-Ukraine, said her organisation's emergency hotlines had received calls accusing Russian soldiers of nine cases of rape involving 12 women and girls.

She told the UN: 'This is just the tip of the iceberg. We know and see - and we want you to hear our voices - that violence and rape is used now as a weapon of war by Russian invaders in Ukraine.'

An 11-year-old boy is among the alleged victims after he was reportedly raped by Russian troops in front of his mother who was tied to a chair and forced to watch.

Ukraine's Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights Lyudmila Denisova said the boy was attacked in Bucha where scores of dead civilians showing signs of torture were found weeks after it was recaptured.

Denisova also claimed that five soldiers in Putin's army raped a 14-year-old girl who has become pregnant.

She said an estimated 120,000 Ukrainian children were rounded up and kidnapped, with some raped and others smuggled over to Russia.

On April 8, a 16-year-old girl and 78-year-old woman were among those raped, official Oleksandr Vilkul claimed.

Meanwhile, one of Putin's soldiers has been arrested after footage emerged of him allegedly raping a baby in Ukraine.

Alexei Bychkov, 24, sent the vile footage to a Russian comrade before he was detained on Saturday, it was reported.

The soldier is said to have shared other videos of his abuse of children to other friends and colleagues.

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Tetiana Zadorozhniak (pictured with godchildren) is thought to have been raped and slaughtered in the town of Makariv, 30 miles from Kyiv, last month

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Bloodstained sheets were filmed at Tetiana's supposed murder scene, while footage also shows rooms in the house where contents had been smashed and thrown about. The camerawoman could be heard sobbing as she described the scene

Elsewhere in Bucha, 25 girls and woman aged 14 to 25 were 'systematically' raped while being held captive in a basement, it has been claimed.

Nine of the women are now pregnant.

Denisova said: 'Russian soldiers told them they would rape them to the point where they wouldn't want sexual contact with any man, to prevent them from having Ukrainian children.'

Meanwhile a 50-year-old woman who lives 45 miles of Kyiv said a Chechen soldier barged into the home she shared with her husband on March 7.

She told the BBC: 'At gunpoint, he took me to a house nearby. He ordered me: 'Take your clothes off or I'll shoot you.' He kept threatening to kill me if I didn't do as he said. Then he started raping me.

'While he was raping me, four more soldiers entered. I thought that I was done for. But they took him away. I never saw him again.'

When she returned home, she found her husband had been shot in the abdomen and he died two days later from his injuries.

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An armoured vehicle of pro-Russian troops is seen in the street during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the southern port city of Mariupol

She buried her husband in the back garden and the soldiers who interrupted the rape stayed in her house for days, drinking and pointing their gun at her while asking to hand over her husband's belongings.

The same attacker allegedly raped and killed another woman in the same village, slitting her throat in an evacuated home.

In another chilling case, Russian soldiers entered the home of a family of three, where they killed the husband before repeatedly raping the wife.

They would even leave before returning three times to rape her again, threatening harm to her young boy if she resisted, the police chief said.

When they finally left for the final time, they burned down the home and shot dead their dogs.

Footage has also emerged purporting to show the murder scene of a Ukrainian woman allegedly held captive and raped by soldiers under the command of Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov.

The clip, shared on Telegram and Twitter by Ukrainian Interior Ministry adviser Anton Gerashchenko, showed the inside of a house where Tetiana Zadorozhniak is thought to have been slaughtered in the town of Makariv, 30 miles from Kyiv, last month.

According to residents of the town, Tetiana was dragged out of her home by Kadyrov's men as she waited to evacuate the town with her friend before being held captive in a nearby house and abused.

After days of torture, one of the soldiers raped her for a final time before cutting her throat and unceremoniously dumping her lifeless body in a shallow grave, local residents said.

Witnesses claimed that the Chechen soldier who raped and killed Tetiana was later executed by other officers.

Russia has repeatedly denied attacking civilians since its invasion of Ukraine began on February 24.

The United Nations said last week that human rights monitors were seeking to verify allegations of sexual violence by Russian forces, including gang rape and rapes in front of children.

Ukraine's U.N. mission did not immediately respond to a request for comment on allegations against Ukraine forces.

'Russia, as we have stated more than once, does not wage war against the civilian population,' Russia's deputy U.N. Ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy told the Security Council on Monday, accusing Ukraine and allies of 'a clear intention to present Russian soldiers as sadists and rapists.'

UN Women Executive Director, Sima Bahous, said that all allegations must by independently investigated to ensure justice and accountability.

'We are increasingly hearing of rape and sexual violence,' she told the council. 'The combination of mass displacement with the large pressure results of conscripts and mercenaries and the brutality displayed against Ukrainian civilians has raised all red flags.'

All sides in the Ukraine war have systems of conscription, where young men are required by law to do military service. Ukraine and Russia have accused each other of using mercenaries.

Russia says it is carrying out a 'special military operation' to support independence declarations by separatists in two provinces in eastern Ukraine.

Ukraine's U.N. Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya told the Security Council that the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine was 'launching a special mechanism of documentation of cases of sexual violence by Russian soldiers against Ukrainian women.'

World War Three has already STARTED, say Russian state TV propagandists
Russian state TV propagandists last night claimed that World War Three had already started in a furious chat show exchange after Ukrainian forces managed to sink Vladimir Putin's Black Sea flagship, the Moskva.

Rossiya 1 presenter Olga Skabeyeva, who stuck to the Kremlin's official line that the warship suffered a 'fire' despite heading a segment which blamed the vessel's demise on Ukraine, said the 'escalation' could 'safely be called World War Three' and warned Russians 'we are we're definitely fighting against... NATO itself'.

Skabeyeva was joined by pundits who branded the sinking of the Moskva an 'an absolute cause for war, 100 per cent' and said there's 'nothing to think about, there has to be a response' as they appeared to suggest Putin should use nuclear weapons on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv so Russia could 'bomb them once and that's it'.

A separate Russian state TV show Vremya Pokazhet last night claimed that the West was supplying 'zillions of weapons' to Ukraine and that, at the suppliers bidding, Kyiv was carrying 'yet more provocations, bloody, horrible, completely unthinkable'.

Host Olesya Loseva told viewers that the West believes that 'Russia is a country which is unworthy of even being on the world map and that all Russians should simply be wiped off the face of the earth' hours after it was confirmed that the Moskva had sunk.

She also said Ukrainians were delighted to see Moscow's troops in their country, waving the Russian tricolour and treating them 'like real liberators' in Kharkiv and claimed that Kyiv 'not the Russians' were carrying out a 'genocide'.

Separate state-run Channel 1 ran comments by military commentator Dmitry Drozdenko who claimed 'the West has long been preparing for the war' and that Russia faces 'a full-scale multi-level war' against the 'collective West'.

The flagship sank while being towed to port yesterday after suffering heavy damage under circumstances that today remained in dispute. Kyiv said it was struck with two Neptune cruise missiles fired by a coastal battery, which struck the port side of the vessel, causing it to roll over.

Russian military sources admitted the ship had rolled on to its side and caught fire after the blast, while US intelligence sources said the vessel suffered a 'large' explosion that left it heavily damaged before it sank.

Aside from providing Ukraine with a propaganda victory, Moskva's sinking also has practical implications for Russia. As flagship, the vessel was likely tasked with coordinating the movements of other ships in the Black Sea which may cause further confusion among Russia's already-strained command structure.

Its role was also to provide cover for Russia's other ships using its anti-air missiles while they launched cruise missiles attacks against cities and military sites. Its loss will make them more-vulnerable to Ukrainian strikes, including by fast jets or drones.

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Russian state TV presenter Olga Skabeyeva (pictured) last night claimed that World War Three had already started in a furious chat show exchange after Ukrainian forces managed to sink Vladimir Putin's Black Sea flagship, the Moskva

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Rossiya 1 presenter Olga Skabeyeva told viewers: 'What it's escalated into can safely be called World War Three. That's entirely for sure. Now we're definitely fighting against NATO infrastructure, if not NATO itself. We need to recognise that'

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Vremya Pokazhet host Olesya Loseva said in a segment that the West was supplying 'zillions of weapons' to Ukraine and that, at the suppliers bidding, Kyiv was carrying 'yet more provocations, bloody, horrible, completely unthinkable'

Rossiya 1's Skabeyeva lamented that 'ordinary Ukrainians' are not 'noticing any genocide... for some reason' - but also claimed Kharkiv residents 'are accusing not the Russian army of genocide, but the Ukrainian armed forces'.

Russia's Defense Ministry promised today to ramp up missile attacks on the Ukrainian capital in response to Ukraine's alleged aggression on Russian territory in an ominous warning that followed Moscow's stinging symbolic loss of its navy's flagship in the Black Sea.

The threat of intensified attacks on Kyiv came after Russian authorities accused Ukraine of wounding seven people and damaging about 100 residential buildings with airstrikes on Bryansk, a region bordering Ukraine. Authorities in another border region of Russia also reported Ukrainian shelling yesterday.

'The number and the scale of missile attacks on objects in Kyiv will be ramped up in response to the Kyiv nationalist regime committing any terrorist attacks or diversions on the Russian territory,' Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said.

A renewed bombardment could return Kyiv's residents to the steady wail of air raid sirens heard during the early days of Russia's invasion and to fearful nights sheltering in subway stations. The capital has displayed tentative signs of pre-war life after Russian troops failed to capture the city and retreated to concentrate on eastern Ukraine, leaving behind evidence of possible war crimes.

Separately, Russia told the US to stop sending weapons to Ukraine, warning of 'unpredictable consequences' if it continues to do do. The warning was delivered in the form of an official diplomatic note, which was seen by the Washington Post.

It said that American and NATO shipments of the 'most sensitive' weapons were 'adding fuel' to the conflict, which is now nearing its second month. The two-page note was delivered after Biden had agreed to a new $800million delivery of military aid to Ukraine, including heavy artillery and shells, helicopters and armoured personnel carriers.

'What the Russians are telling us privately is precisely what we've been telling the world publicly — that the massive amount of assistance that we've been providing our Ukrainian partners is proving extraordinarily effective,' a senior US official said about the note.

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Moskva could have been carrying warheads to fit into the tip of its Moskva's P-1000 supersonic cruise missiles, which are designed to take out American aircraft carriers

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Russian Telegram accounts with links to the Wagner Group claim Bayraktar drones were used to distract the Moskva's radar systems before a coastal battery opened fire somewhere near Odesa, hitting the ship with two Neptune missiles

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The flagship of Russia's Black Sea fleet - the Soviet-era guided missile destroyer Moskva - has suffered heavy damage and may have sunk after Ukraine claimed to have shot it with two anti-ship cruise missiles

More than 450 Russian naval personnel who were onboard the Moskva were today feared dead after Ilya Ponomarev, a politician exiled from Russia for opposing Putin's 2014 annexation of Crimea, said just 58 of the 510-strong crew have since been accounted for.

The figure, while unconfirmed, is consistent with losses suffered on exploding warships. During the Russian Navy's infamous defeat at the Battle of Tsushima against Japan, an explosion on board the Borodino - slightly smaller than the Moskva - saw all-but one of her 855 crew killed.

Russia claims all the Moskva's sailors were 'successfully evacuated' but video taken in Sevastopol overnight shows dozens of cars purportedly belonging to the sailors still parked in the port - suggesting their owners had not returned to collect them.

Elsewhere today, rumours began circulating in Ukrainian media that Admiral Igor Osipov - the commander of Russia's Black Sea fleet which the Moskva led - has been arrested in what would be the latest in a string of detentions linked to the bungled invasion.

Meanwhile it emerged this morning that Moscow has lost another high-flying GRU military intelligence agent in Ukraine in the latest blow to the Kremlin's 'elite' spy service. Captain Alexey Bogomolov, of the 25th separate regiment of GRU special forces was reportedly killed in action. His funeral will be held tomorrow in Tambov region.

It follows the deaths of 31-year-old GRU agent Captain Alexey Glushchak in mid-March as well as Senior Lieutenant Anton Volkov, Captain Konstantin Druzhkov and GRU operatives Islam Abduragimov and Shamil Aselderov.

Separately, a video that emerged last week appeared to show multiple graves of recently killed GRU military intelligence special forces officers. They were from the 10th Separate Order of Zhukov Special Purpose Brigade. The GRU is seen as Russia's most secretive and - until recently - most effective service.

Britain says a GRU hit squad was behind the poisoning with Novichok of Sergei Skripal - who had defected to Britain - and his daughter Yulia in 2018.

In the Cold War, a GRU agent under diplomatic cover in London, Captain Yevgeny Ivanov triggered the fall of a Tory government after he seduced Christine Keeler, the lover of British war minister John Profumo.

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The funeral of 31-year-old GRU agent Captain Alexey Glushchak, who was killed during the Russian invasion of Ukraine

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It follows the deaths of Senior Lieutenant Anton Volkov, (right) Captain Konstantin Druzhkov and GRU operatives Islam Abduragimov (left) and Shamil Aselderov

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Video that emerged last week appeared to show multiple graves of recently killed GRU military intelligence special forces officers. They were from the 10th Separate Order of Zhukov Special Purpose Brigade. The GRU is seen as Russia's most secretive and - until recently - most effective service

Russia callously targeting aid convoys sees Ukrainian families plunged into food crisis


Ukraine faces a food crisis without urgent supplies amid claims that Russia is weaponising hunger, officials warned tonight.

The United Nations, aid agencies and the EU said deliveries of food have been severely disrupted to towns and cities that have come under Russian bombardment in the seven-week war.

The situation is so bad in some besieged areas that people have collected water from puddles, drunk water from radiators and killed stray dogs to eat.

Others have been so hungry, or their children so desperate to eat, they have ventured out of underground shelters – against official advice – to search for food, only to be killed by enemy attacks.

Last night the European Commission vice-president Valdis Dombrovskis told the Daily Mail: ‘Russia may be targeting and destroying Ukraine’s food stocks and storage locations on purpose, effectively using hunger as a weapon of war.’

He warned it would lead to ‘worsening food shortages for innocent Ukrainians’.

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A Ukrainian woman taste the food cooked on fire in front of the building in the Borodyanka region of Kyiv earlier today

David Beasley, head of the UN World Food Programme, said people living in the south-eastern city of Mariupol were being ‘starved to death’ by Russia.

His staff have not been allowed access to conflict zones, including Mariupol and Mykolaiv, east of Odessa, which is under fierce attack. ‘It’s one thing when people are suffering from the devastation of war. It’s another thing when they’re being starved to death,’ he said.

It echoes the horrors of Ukraine’s great famine in 1932 when at least four million people died in Joseph Stalin’s ruthless enforcement of collective farming.

The Soviet dictator Stalin seized food supplies in what Ukraine calls the Holodomor, or ‘hunger extermination’.

Mr Beasley said that the war was ‘devastating the people in Ukraine’ and predicted that the humanitarian crisis would take a turn for the worse soon.

‘I don’t see any of that easing up. I just don’t see it happening right now,’ he added, criticising Russia for refusing to grant proper access to organisations trying to help those in need.

‘The next few weeks and few months could even get more complicated than it is now. In fact, it’s getting worse and worse,’ he said.

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Olena Stokoz, Deputy Director General of the National Committee of the Red Cross Society of Ukraine

Preventing humanitarian access and aid deliveries is a war crime under the Geneva Convention, the international treaty governing armed conflict.

Olena Stokoz, deputy director general of the Ukrainian Red Cross, said that its aid convoys ‘continue to be blocked’ and ‘fired upon’ outside cities in the east and south.

‘People have run out of supplies of drinking water, food, medicine, and hygiene products,’ she warned.

Vladyslav Shelokov, a director of Caritas Ukraine, a Roman Catholic aid charity, said Russian attacks had also forced supermarkets to close because nothing was being delivered to them.

‘In some regions, large food warehouses have also been totally destroyed,’ he said.

‘It means there is a narrowing range in the choice of goods. We see half-empty shelves and stores closing down.’

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George Ivanov, 37, an office support manager who fled Mariupol on March 14 as Russian troops

Boris Lomako, 34, who owns a restaurant in Kharkiv, is now delivering food parcels to people in need. He said Russia had destroyed ‘farms and infrastructure facilities’ in the north east.

Andriy Fedoriv, 20, a university student who managed to reach Lviv from Mariupol, said: ‘The Russian military broke into apartments and confiscated all the food supplies.’

George Ivanov, 37, an office support manager who fled Mariupol on March 14 as Russian troops shot at people trying to leave, said: ‘Everyone survived on what they could find.

‘People would collect rain or snow, so they had something to drink. The Russians claimed they were distributing humanitarian aid there.

‘But these were goods stolen from Ukrainian warehouses.’