According to a US official, identifying those involved is an extremely high priority for the US intelligence community, CNN reports. It is already clear that more than one military unit or group of Russian troops are responsible for the massacres, but it is uncertain whether the U.S. would announce its findings publicly and the decision to do so could be left up to Ukraine.
"The drone is unarmed, and there are Cyrillic inscriptions on it," said Agnieszka Kepka, spokesperson for the prosecutor's office in Poland's eastern city of Lublin.
Ukraine's Air Force said Russia launched 810 Shahed-type drones and 13 cruise and ballistic missiles during the attack.
Ukraine's Air Force said Russian forces launched 142 Shahed-type attack and decoy drones overnight.
Ukrainian forces lost 5 square kilometers but regained control of 26 square kilometers in the Pokrovsk sector in Donetsk Oblast in August, Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said.
"This is the same kind of provoked conflict as when terrorists from Palestine attacked Israel. The war developed in exactly the same way," Deputy chairman of Slovakia's ruling Smer party and member of parliament, Tibor Gaspar, said.
Zarichne's strategic importance comes from its position near key transport routes connecting Sloviansk and Lyman.
"Putin doesn't want to meet with me, but he wants very much to meet with the president of the United States, to show everybody video and images that he is there," President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with ABC News.
The number includes 910 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.
Propaganda campaigns and "large payments" to contract soldiers contribute to Russia's recruitment success, intelligence official Vadym Skibitskyi said.
Trump said he was "not thrilled" with Russia's mass attack against Ukraine and plans to speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin in "the next couple of days."
Zelensky called for sanctions, tariffs, and trade restrictions on Russia, as well as increased long-range strike capabilities for Ukraine.
"The attack was not a signal that Russia wants to diplomatically end this war," U.S. Special Envoy Keith Kellogg wrote the day after Russia launched its largest attack of the full-scale war.
"Residents of the capital of so-called Russia can obviously expect special congratulations from Ukrainian military intelligence soon," a source in HUR told the Kyiv Independent.
A 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee was fatally stabbed in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Aug. 22, The Charlotte Observer reported.
