Moment Russian missile hits pedestrian bridge in Kyiv
Russian president Vladimir Putin has said that there is no need for more massive strikes on Ukraine.
He said that most of the designated targets had been hit and said that it was not his aim to destroy the country.
Vladimir Putin also said on Friday that he expects his mobilization of army reservists for combat in Ukraine to be completed in about two weeks.
Speaking to journalists after a summit in Kazakhstan, Mr Putin said: “There’s no need for massive strikes. We now have other tasks.”
It comes after a UN envoy said that Moscow’s forces are using rape and sexual violence as part of their “military strategy.”
Speaking during an interview with AFP, Pramila Patten, UN envoy, said that Moscow’s forces were using a "deliberate tactic to dehumanise the victims.”
The Independent reported in June that Ukraine claimed to have documented 15,000 suspected war crimes, including rapes by ill-equipped Russian soldiers who used sexual violence to strike fear into the local population.
