Russia has appointed a seasoned general to lead its renewed push in the eastern Donbas region, where Moscow-backed separatists have been battling Ukrainian forces since 2014 and have declared independent states.

Ukrainian authorities say a missile hit a train station where thousands of Ukrainians had gathered on Friday.

Ukrainian authorities continue gathering up the dead in shattered towns outside the capital amid telltale signs Moscow’s troops killed civilians indiscriminately before retreating.

As gruesome videos and photos of bodies emerge from the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, Kremlin-backed media are denouncing them as an elaborate hoax.

In an address to the Security Council, the Ukrainian president lists the torture, rapes and killings of civilians in what he describes as the worst atrocities since World War II.