Day 206 of the Invasion of Ukraine: Biden warned Russia against Using Chemical or Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine

Here are the highlights of events related to the war in Ukraine over the past 24 hours:

Biden warned Russia against using chemical or tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine

US President Joe Biden warned Russia against using chemical or tactical nuclear weapons during the war in Ukraine.

In an interview with CBS News, when asked what he would say to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, the American president said:

"Don't. Don't. Don't. In such a development, Russia will become an even greater pariah. Its actions will determine the response."

We remind you - after the invasion of Ukraine in February, Russian President Vladimir Putin put the country's nuclear forces on special alert. He defined the reason as "aggressive statements" by the West. The BBC writes that Russia has almost 6,000 nuclear warheads.

Ukraine reported over 1,000 tortured and killed in Kharkiv region

The human rights commissioner of the Ukrainian parliament said on Friday that more than a thousand people had been tortured and killed in the Russian-occupied areas of Kharkiv region, Russia's Interfax news agency reported.

Dmytro Lubinets also said that in the coming days, Ukrainian authorities will announce the exact number of people found at a mass burial site in the city of Izyum.

Earlier, President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of torture and war crimes in northeastern Ukraine and compared the aftermath in the recaptured areas to revelations made in the vicinity of Kyiv after the withdrawal of the Russian military in the spring from Bucha and other suburbs of the capital.

In an interview in his presidential office, he told Reuters that many Ukrainians had been buried,...