Ukraine's Zelenskyy said Moscow has hidden the bodies of those killed in the Kakhovka dam breach. Meanwhile, the UN has put Russian forces on a blacklist over the killings of Ukrainian children. DW has the latest.
Ednews informs via DW that Russia has formed special groups to collect and hide the bodies of people who died following the breach of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine's south, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address on Thursday.
"The Russian evil has formed special groups there to remove and, obviously, hide the victims' bodies," Zelenskyy said.
He added that the situation in the Russian-occupied parts of the region was "catastrophic, to put it mildly."
The destruction of the dam unleashed flooding across large parts of the battleground.
Farmland was destroyed and the water supply to civilians was cut.
Ukrainian authorities have put the number of fatalities at 21, including five people who died from what they described as Russian shelling during evacuation.
While Russian officials put the death toll at 46.
Kyiv and Moscow have blamed each other for being behind the breach.