A roundup of events on Day 76 of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: Lithuania voted to recognize genocide; Ukraine’s vital Black Sea port of Odesa came under repeated missile attack; and the United Nations estimates the civilian death toll is much higher than records show.
Highlights
- The UN’s top human rights body will hold a special session on Thursday to discuss the deteriorating human rights situation in Ukraine.
- Lithuania has joined Canada in recognizing Russia’s actions as genocide.
- The head of the UN human rights monitoring mission said the death toll in Ukraine is likely considerably higher than the official number, which sits at 3,381 civilians killed.
- The website RuTube, essentially a Russian version of YouTube, is down for a second day after a cyberattack.
- The World Health Organization is urging an immediate humanitarian ceasefire to stop the assault on Russia’s assault on Ukraine on health-care facilities and estimating that at least 3,000 people have died in Ukraine due to a lack of access to treatments for chronic diseases.