Selenskyj visits Bucha on the way to the city hospital, e.g accuses Russian soldiers of being “butchers”. after the Ukrainian army found a torture chamber containing the bodies of five civilians with their hands tied behind their backs. In a video message, Zelenskyj addressed the mothers of Russian soldiers: “Even if you raised looters, how could you have become a butcher?”. Biden calls for a war crimes trial against Putin and announced that it would consider new sanctions against Moscow. The High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, also speaks of “possible war crimes”. Kuleba, Bucha tip of the iceberg, in Mariupol it’s even worse. Moscow, “because war crimes begin in Iraq and Iraq”. The Kremlin denies all allegations and Lavrov speaks of “staging of the West and Ukraine in social media”.
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BIDEN WILL PROCESS PUTIN Joe Biden calls for a war crimes trial against Vladimir Putin. “What is happening in Bucha is a war crime.” That’s what US President Joe Biden said when he announced that his administration was considering new sanctions against Moscow. “Putin is brutal, what happened to Bucha is terrible,” he added. “We must continue to provide Ukraine with the weapons it needs.” Joe Biden said this while discussing the horrors of Bucha. The US President said that “we need to reconstruct all the details of what happened and hold a war crimes trial” against Russia.
MOSCOW’S RESPONSE If Americans want to investigate war crimes, “let them start bombing Yugoslavia and occupying Iraq”. This is what Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said about US President Joe Biden’s proposal to create a Russian war crimes tribunal in Ukraine. “Once they are done, they can proceed with the nuclear bombing of Japan,” added Zakharova, quoted by Interfax.
there Russia will present “material”. about what happened to Bucha, in a press conference in New York today. This was stated by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, quoted by TASS.
ZELENKSY IN BUCHA President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the city of Bucha, where he went to the city hospital. “This is the holocaust of the new millennium, it is a tragedy for Ukraine, but also for Europe and the world,” Ukrainian Parliament Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk said after visiting mass graves in Bucha, Ukraine, where dozens of corpses of villagers were found killed. Zelensky has accused the Russian soldiers of being “butchers”., the same word used by US President Joe Biden for Russian President Vladimir Putin in recent days. In a video message Zelenskyy described the Russian armed forces as “murderers, torturers, rapists, looters” and then, addressing the mothers of Russian soldiers and referring to what happened in Bucha, added: “Even if you raised looters, how can You that you also became a butcher? … They killed intentionally and with satisfaction“.
THE OSSERVATORE ROMANO “Horror: there is no other word that better describes what happened in Bucha”: The Osservatore Romano writes on the front page and publishes a photo of the massacre in the city in Ukraine, commenting on it with the words of the Pope spoken yesterday about war: “The Spirit of Cain”.
JOINT EUKyiv INVESTIGATIONS INTO CRIMES IN BUCHA “The EU has set up an investigative team with Ukraine to collect evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The EU stands ready to step up its efforts by deploying investigative teams on the ground to support the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office. Eurojust and Europo are ready to help.” This was stated by the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, who had a telephone conversation with Volodymyr Zelenskyj today about the Bucha massacre who committed these heinous crimes will not go unpunished, he adds.
Meanwhile, the mayor of Mariupol said 90% of the besieged city was destroyed.
THE SITUATION ON THE FIELD On the 40th day of the conflict and as the Russian offensive in the south of the country intensifies, early in the morning the city of Mykolaiv is hit by several rockets fired by the Russian army. Rocket attack also in Ternopil, a city in western Ukraine, the capital of the region of the same name. The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, UNIAN reports, denounces that street fighting in Mariupol continues and Russian aggression forces launched eight airstrikes. The General Staff released new photos of the city taken by the Azov regiment, which has been defending it for more than a month, and commented: “Mariupol today. 40 days ago the city was beautiful. The occupiers took our source. They burned, mutilated. , looted… And for that there can only be death. death and no forgiveness”. Meanwhile, in the basement of a school in the village of Yahidne in the Chernihiv region, Russian occupiers were holding “150 people hostage, including women and children. The dead were left next to the living, the living suffered from hunger, fear, pain, despair”. This was reported by the governor of the Chernihiv region Viacheslav Chaus, who also published photos on Fb.
SANCTIONS The horror of war therefore shows its crudest face with the massacre of civilians in Bucha, resulting in hundreds of corpses. “The European Union condemns in the strongest possible terms the atrocities committed by Russian forces in a number of occupied Ukrainian cities that have now been liberated,” EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell said in a statement. “The EU will continue to offer strong support to Ukraine and urge the drafting of further sanctions against Russia.”
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Kyiv sees it as genocide, while Moscow denies it, saying it is a provocation by Ukrainians to block the negotiations. Russia today “categorically” denied all allegations about the massacre of civilians in Bucha: the Kremlin made it known. “The situation in Bucha is a staging of the West and Ukraine in social networks”. This was said by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who was picked up by TASS.
On the atrocities in Bucha attributed to the Russians: “These areas of which we are speaking were either under occupation, under the control of the aggressor, by Russian troops, or were bombed by the aggressor. there is no one else who could have committed these atrocities“EU spokesman Peter Stano said when asked that they will be imputed to Russia before the outcome of an inquiry. “Obviously there has to be an inquiry,” he added, which has already been announced by the International Criminal Court and the “Office of the Criminal Court” Higher Commissioner for Human Rights.
“It is difficult to say how we can conduct negotiations with Russia after all that has been done. This is a personal level. But as President, I have to do it. Every war must end,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the CBS audience, as quoted by the Kyiv Independent. Zelenskyy said he was determined to continue peace talks with Russia despite the atrocities in Ukraine. The Ukrainian army found a torture chamber used by Russian soldiers in Bucha, containing the bodies of five civilians bent over with their hands tied behind their backs. The news is reported by the agency UNIAN. According to reports, Russian troops used the basement of a local children’s sanatorium called “Radiant”.
Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin writes Tass signed the decree on retaliatory measures on visas to hostile countries.
“The images of Bucha’s atrocities have left us dismayed. Those responsible must be accountable for what happened“, Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said in a speech in Zagreb at the end of the Upper Adriatic Trilateral with his Slovenian and Croatian counterparts also on the Russian gas sanctions. “Italy he added will not veto Russian gas sanctions ” .
HUMANITARIAN CORRIDORS Humanitarian corridors from Mariupol to Zaporizhia by car are also planned today, ie private, as well as from some cities of the Lugansk region. This was announced by the head of the Ministry of Resettlement, Iryna Vereshchuk, in a telegram welcomed by Ukraine’s Pravda. Meanwhile, “15 buses have already left Zaporizhia for Mariupol to evacuate our people. The Red Cross delegation plans to continue from Mangush to Mariupol in 7 buses. The authorities continue to evacuate people from the cities of Severodonetsk, Popasna, Lysychansk, Rubizhne and the Lower Luhansk region.
Surprisingly, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke at the Grammys one night, asking for “help, but not with silence.”
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