Ukraine accuses Russia of war crimes as air strikes hit Odessa theSun theSundaily UkraineRussia RussiaWarCrime KyivNow Odessa
: Ukraine on Sunday accused Russian troops of war crimes after the discovery of mass graves and civilians apparently “executed” in the streets of Bucha, near the capital Kyiv.
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba called it a “deliberate massacre” and urged G7 countries to impose “devastating” sanctions immediately.“We found mass graves. We found people with their hands and with their legs tied up... and with shots, bullet holes, in the back of their head.UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss called for “indiscriminate” Russian attacks in Bucha and elsewhere to “be investigated as war crimes”.
The International Criminal Court in The Hague has already opened a probe into possible war crimes committed in Ukraine. Ukraine’s deputy prime minister Iryna Vereshchuk meanwhile said 11 local community leaders in Kyiv, Kherson, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv and Donetsk were “in captivity”.In Odessa, plumes of thick black smoke billowed over the strategic port city, after air strikes shook residents awake at about 6:00 am .
The strikes came as top UN humanitarian envoy Martin Griffiths was expected in Moscow then Kyiv to seek a halt in the fighting, which by Ukrainian estimates has left some 20,000 people dead. He said Ukraine had become “more realistic” in its approach to issues related to the neutral and non-nuclear status of Ukraine but a draft agreement for submission to a summit meeting was not ready.
It has proposed to temporarily put aside the question of Crimea, annexed by Russia in 2014, and two breakaway territories in the eastern Donbas region that Russia has recognised as independent.
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