Azarov has faced a number of sanctions, including having his money and property frozen under former President Viktor Yanukovich. In 2014, following a crackdown on street protests in Kyiv that resulted in the deaths of over 100 protestors, the two men left Ukraine for Russia.
Sergei Aksyonov, the leader of Crimea that Russia installed, and Leonid Pasechnik, the leader Putin chose of Luhansk, the eastern Ukrainian territory that Russia took in 2022, were among the other people punished on Saturday.
‘Receiving horrifying images & footage of scores of people killed and injured in another @UNRWA school sheltering thousands of displaced in the north of the Gaza Strip,’ UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said on social media platform X.
‘These attacks cannot become commonplace, they must stop. A humanitarian ceasefire cannot wait any longer.’
The Israeli army refrained from commenting right away. According to a spokesman for the Hamas leadership in Gaza, 200 people had died or been injured.
The main hospital in Gaza, Al Shifa, was forced to evacuate the majority of its staff, patients, and displaced people, leaving them to make the dangerous trek south on foot, according to Palestinian sources.
Israeli military officials refuted the charge, stating the evacuations were voluntary. Earlier this week, they overran north of Gaza and took control of Al Shifa Hospital, claiming it was home to an underground Hamas command centre.
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