
Russian forces are believed to control about 80% of the city, which was fully cut off earlier this week after the last bridge into it was destroyed.Ī top military official with the breakaway Donetsk People's Republic said Tuesday that Ukrainian fighters in the city should now "surrender, or die."Ĭhinese President Xi Jinping told Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call that Kyiv and Moscow "should push for a proper settlement" in the ongoing war in Ukraine, according to a Chinese readout of the call. He said any procrastination over the provision of such weapons "cannot be justified."įighting remains fierce in Severodonetsk, the epicenter of the conflict in eastern Ukraine. Our country does not have enough of yet, but it is in our country and right now that Europe has the greatest need for such weapons." In his nightly address Tuesday, Zelenskyy said "we keep telling our partners that Ukraine needs modern anti-missile weapons. The conversation between the leaders came after Zelenskyy pleaded for more long-range weapons. also plans to send another $225 million in humanitarian aid, Biden said. President Joe Biden told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that his administration will send $1 billion more in weapons to the besieged nation.

Though he survived the shooting, Zaire Goodman, 20, was left with one bullet hole wound in his neck, two in his back, another in his left leg, as well as pieces of shrapnel embedded in his body, his mother, Zeneta Everhart, testified before Congress.U.S. The severity of the wounds - extreme even among those who survived - were similar in Buffalo, where authorities said a white gunman killed 10 people in a racist rampage targeting Black people at Tops Friendly Market on May 14. Their flesh had been so ripped apart, Guerrero told lawmakers last week, that the only clue to their identities were the “blood-spattered cartoon clothes still clinging to them.” Roy Guerrero, the city’s only pediatrician. In Uvalde, two children were “decapitated” and “pulverized by the bullets fired at them, over and over again,” said Dr.

Most victims do not survive long enough to make it to an emergency room, he said. Ronald Stewart, who cared for victims in the May 24 school shooting in Uvalde. In 2021, nearly 2 million people, or more than 57 percent of the dead in the U.S., were cremated, according to the National Funeral Directors Association and the Cremation Association of North America.īecause morticians say embalming may not be necessary or requested when there is no viewing ceremony, Torres, who has worked in the funeral industry for 14 years, said those services have become a "dying art."īecause such high-velocity weapons cause “extremely destructive” tissue wounds, the injuries are “horribly lethal” at close range, said Dr. That is in large part because more Americans than ever are choosing cremation over traditional burials, they said. But such advanced techniques, and others like it, are not often taught by the roughly 60 schools and programs accredited by the American Board of Funeral Service Education, said Astorino and Torres. In extreme cases, if there is enough to work with, embalmers may try to drill holes in the facial bones and wire the skull shut. 'This is not him' or 'This not her.' That’s a hard thing still to swallow," he said.

“We might work hours and hours trying to reconstruct, and the end result, the family will say close the casket.
