Emine Dzheppar, Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister, said troops who had recaptured Bucha, a small town 60 kilometers northwest of the capital, from Russian forces had reported that “many civilians had been killed by gunfire”. “Some of the victims have their hands tied. Innocent victims. “They did not deserve it,” he said. In the nearby village of Motyzhyn, Russian troops “also did terrible things,” he added. “Their cruelty is unlimited. Before the Ukrainian troops arrive, [the] The Russian army killed as many civilians as possible. Inhuman. Terrible. Speechless.” Mykhailo Podolyak, a senior adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, posted a picture on Twitter that appears to show many corpses on the streets of Bucha. Some of the victims appeared to have their hands tied behind their backs. “The bodies of people with their hands tied, who were killed by fire [Russian] “Soldiers are on the streets,” Podolyak said. “These people were not in the army. They had no weapons. They were not a threat. How many other such cases are currently happening in the occupied territories? Liz Truss, Britain’s foreign minister, said the UK was gathering evidence of war crimes, adding that it was “terrified of the atrocities in Bucha and other Ukrainian cities”. “Reports of Russian forces targeting innocent civilians are appalling,” Tras wrote on Twitter. “The United Kingdom is working with others to gather evidence and support the International Criminal Court’s war crimes investigation. Those responsible will be held accountable. “ Melinda Simmons, the British ambassador to Ukraine, has accused Russia of “monstrous crimes”. “Mass graves. Bodies of civilians scattered on the streets. Monstrous crimes are becoming clearer every day as well [Russia] “it is being withdrawn and reorganized,” he wrote on Twitter. “Rape is a weapon of war. Although we do not yet know the full extent of its use in Ukraine, it is already clear that it was part of it [Russia’s] arsenal “, he added. “Women are raped in front of their children, girls in front of their families, as a deliberate act of submission. “Rape is a war crime.” Marco Michelson, chairman of the Estonian parliament’s foreign affairs committee, said: “Bucha’s massacre is in Srebrenica, Ukraine. This means “de-zoning” for Russia. “After seeing the Russian atrocities against civilians, if some in the free West still do not understand that we must do everything we can to make the Russians lose and leave all of Ukraine,” said Latvian Defense Minister Artis Pampriks. then I feel sorry for the West. ” Associated Press reporters in Bucha referred to locals as saying the dead were civilians who had been killed by Russian soldiers without provocation. There was no immediate response from the Kremlin or the Russian Defense Ministry. AFP reporters in the city said they saw at least 20 bodies on a single street. Anatoly Fedoruk, the mayor of Bhutan, told AFP that another 280 bodies had already been buried in mass graves in the city. The reports came as Ukrainian forces claimed to have regained control of the entire Kiev region, including Bhutan and other nearby towns and cities. Hannah Malyar, the country’s deputy defense minister, said late Saturday that Ukraine’s armed forces had taken control of the province from Russian forces. “Irpin, Bucha, Hostomel and the whole area of Kiev were liberated from the invader,” he said in a Facebook post, referring to suburban towns north of the capital. Earlier on Saturday, former United Nations war crimes prosecutor Carla del Ponte called for an international arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin, telling Swiss media that the Russian president was a “war criminal”. “I hoped not to see mass graves again,” he told Blick. “These dead people have loved ones who do not even know what happened. This is unacceptable”. “Every serious media outlet in the West tomorrow morning has to ask what Scholz, Macron, Orban and Biden et al are. “I have something to say about the Bucha massacre,” Toomas Hendrik Ilves, former President of Estonia, wrote on Twitter. “And what are they going to do about it?” The US State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Russia has withdrawn its troops from Kyiv in recent days after failing to violate Ukrainian defenses. The New York Times reported late Friday that the United States would work with its Western allies to deliver Soviet-era tanks to Ukrainian forces in Donbas. A White House spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Additional references by Richard Milne in Oslo and Jasmine Cameron-Chileshe in London
