After the Russian troops withdrew from the outlying areas of Kievthe capital Ukraine, they have left behind devastation the extent of which is only now being defined. In the city of bushing more than 20 bodies left on the streets and others 350 two were found mass graves. Many of them are civilians and have been executed according to Ukrainian officials. Some photographs and videos show bodies lying on the roadside with blood on the ground near them: one of them has his hands tied with a white cloth.
The streets of the cities left by the Russians are littered with debris tanks and the population began to come out of the underground shelters hungry and weak, asking for bread and water from the Ukrainian forces that were liberating the inhabited centers. The Russian army littered the rubble of mines and booby traps.
The Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba said the killing of civilians in Bucha was a “deliberate massacre”. “The Russians – she said – aim to eliminate as many Ukrainians as possible. We have to stop them and drive them out. I now call for new devastating sanctions of the G7“. The Russian Defense Minister, in a declaration published on Telegram, states that i reports of atrocities committed by retreating Russian forces in the city of Bucha near Kiev are “false”, admitting however that his troops were withdrawing from the area.
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, denounced “the unspeakable horrors in the areas from which Russia is withdrawing” and called for the birth of an independent investigation. “War crimes perpetrators will be held accountable,” she added. Liz Truss, the British foreign minister, said evidence was gathered to investigate possible war crimes and call those responsible for them, calling the news of Russians targeting civilians “repugnant”. The German Deputy Chancellor Robert Habeck he denounced a “terrible war crime” perpetrated in Bucha, Ukraine, and called for the adoption of new economic sanctions by the EU countries against Russia.
Di Maio invites the Italians in Ukraine to return
“Leave Ukraine as soon as possible”. This is the appeal launched by Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio explaining how the compatriots still in Ukraine are 160 and how the majority of them do not want to leave the country.
The Pope confirms: “Willing to go to Ukraine”
“I’m available. They asked me if there is a trip to Ukraine, I said it’s on the table. But I don’t know if it can be done, if it is convenient to do, if it is for the best or I have to do it. Everything is in the air. this”. The Pope said this in the press conference on the papal flight.
Zelensky: “Those responsible for crimes will be found and punished”
“The world has already seen many war crimes at different times and on different continents. It is time to do everything possible to make the war crimes of the Russian army the last manifestation of such evil on earth. guilty of such crimes will be registered in a special book of executioners. They will be found and punished “. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on telegram.
Moscow: “We did not kill civilians in Moscow, the photos are fake”
Moscow has denied accusations of killing civilians in Bucha, the northwestern town of the Ukrainian capital. This was stated by the Russian Defense Ministry, according to reports from TASS, marking the photos and videos on Bucha’s dead as “fake” produced by Kiev and the Western media. Moscow added that the town was bombed by the Ukrainians when it was still controlled by the Russians.
Draghi: “Russia will have to account for what happened”
“The images of the crimes committed in Bucha and in the other areas liberated by the Ukrainian army are astonishing. The cruelty of the massacres of unarmed civilians is frightening and unbearable. The Russian authorities must immediately cease hostilities, stop the violence against civilians, and they will have to to account for what happened “. Thus Prime Minister Mario Draghi, underlining that “Italy condemns these horrors with absolute firmness and expresses full closeness and solidarity to Ukraine and its citizens”.
Zelensky: “Russia commits genocide”
Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky accuses Russia of committing “genocide” in Ukraine to wipe out “the whole nation”. “Yes, this is genocide: the elimination of the whole nation and the people. We are citizens of Ukraine, we have more than 100 nationalities. This is the destruction and extermination of all these nationalities,” he said in a ‘ interview with the US channel CBS.
Scholz: “Ascertaining Bucha’s appalling crimes”
“We need to clarify these crimes of the Russian military in no uncertain terms.” The German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, said this, commenting on the “frightening” images of the massacre of civilians in Bucha, in a statement released by the chancellery. “I claim that international organizations such as the International Committee of the Red Cross have access to this area, to independently document these atrocities. The executioners and their principals must be brought to justice,” he added.