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“It has become clearer and clearer that Putin is just trying to wipe out the idea of even being — being able to be Ukrainian.”

Emergency crews are digging through the rubble, hoping to find the hundreds reported missing in this town whose prewar population was 13,000.

The European Union is expected to take additional measures, including an embargo on coal.

An array of international judicial institutions have jurisdiction over abuses that Putin’s military is accused of carrying out in Ukraine. But they differ in how their rulings are enforced.

Dana Lahunovych’s 38-year-old daughter and son-in-law are serving in the Ukrainian military in some of the hardest-hit regions of the conflict.

Many of the casualties — 992 — occurred in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in Ukraine’s east, which are partially controlled by separatist rebels backed by Moscow.

This was only one of 31 attacks on health-care workers, medical sites and facilities documented thus far in the Ukraine conflict by WHO’s Surveillance System for Attacks on Health Care.

More than 3 million people have fled Ukraine since the start of the war, now in its third week, and thousands of soldiers and civilians have died.

Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion just under two weeks ago, but Russian forces have made less headway than many military analysts expected.