The United States supports a multinational team in gathering and analyzing evidence of atrocities in Ukraine, State Department spokesman Ned Price said on Monday. “Currently, at the request of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, the United States is supporting a multinational team of international prosecutors in the region to directly support the Attorney General “for criminal liability,” Price told the State Department. “Those responsible for the atrocities must be held accountable, as must those who ordered them. “They can not and will not act with impunity,” Price added. Price also said that according to US reports, the atrocities were “not an act of a rogue soldier” but “part of a broader, more disturbing campaign”. He noted that “as Russian forces have retreated in recent days, the world is shocked by the horrific images of the Kremlin barbarism in Bucha and other cities near Kyiv. “Civilians, many with their hands tied, were apparently executed in the streets, others in mass graves.” “We see credible reports of torture, rape and the execution of civilians with their families,” he said. “There are reports and images of a nightmare of atrocities, including reports of landmines and traps left behind by Putin’s forces to injure even more civilians and slow down the stabilization and recovery of devastated communities after failing to achieve their goal and failing.” “According to its long history of blaming others for its own heinous acts, the Kremlin has issued an unfounded and shameless denial of what we can all clearly see in Bucha and all the liberated cities of the Kiev region,” he said. More: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced on March 23 that the US government had decided that members of the Russian armed forces were committing war crimes in Ukraine. At the time, Beth Van Schaack, ambassador for global criminal justice, said the US government “will continue to monitor reports of war crimes in Ukraine and share this information with our friends and allies. with international and multilateral institutions, as appropriate. “ “This will be an ongoing process throughout this conflict,” he said. Blinken reiterated this in an interview with CNN on Sunday, saying: organizations that will bring it all together, and there must be accountability for that. “
