Five developments as Putin’s troops accused of killing 56 at care home

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Good evening. Thousands of Mariupol residents have been “forcibly taken” across the border into Russia, authorities in the besieged Ukrainian city said, as Kremlin propaganda showed “rescued” civilians thanking Moscow for saving them.

Meanwhile, Russia has been accused of killing 56 after shelling a care home

Here are five key developments from today, and you can follow the latest news in our daily liveblog.

1. Russia accused of killing 56 elderly people and ‘abducting’ others

Ukraine has accused Russia’s military of killing 56 elderly people in the eastern Luhansk region by deliberately firing at a care home.

Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman, Lyudmyla Denisova, described the attack as “another terrible crime against humanity”.

In a post on Telegram, Ms Denisova said: “In the town of Kreminna on March 11, the Russian occupiers cynically and purposefully fired from a tank at a home for the elderly. 56 residents who lived to their old age in the house died on the spot.

“The survivors, 15 people, were abducted by the occupiers and taken to the occupied territory in Svatove to the regional geriatric boarding school.”

Ms Denisova added that it was “still impossible to get to the site of the tragedy” to bury those who had died.

2. Mariupol civilians ‘forcibly’ taken to Russia

Civilians in Mariupol have been forcibly taken to Russia by enemy forces, the city’s authorities have said.

“People who are being forcibly taken to Russia are being stripped of their Ukrainian passports and given a piece of paper that carries no legal weight and is not recognised by the entire civilized world,” the city council said.

Pavlo Kyrylenko, the head of the Donetsk regional administration, said that more than 1,000 residents had been deported to “filtration camps”.

“The occupiers are sending the residents of Mariupol to filtration camps, checking their phones and seizing (their) Ukrainian documents,” he said.

Read the full story from Nataliya Vasilyeva here.

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