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WORLD NEWS Tuesday 5 april 2022
Russia faces global outrage over bodies in Ukraine’s streets

By O. STASHEVSKYI and and the United Nations yet to emerge. By all ac- on a key route to the Don- of sanctions and in particu-
N. QENA human rights chief con- counts, the horrors in the bas, the official said. lar on coal and gasoline.
Associated Press demned the bloodshed, shattered southern port city Dmytro Zhyvystskyy, gov- We need to act,” he said
BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) — and U.S. President Joe of Mariupol are likely to be ernor of Ukraine’s northern on France-Inter radio.
Moscow faced global re- But Poland’s prime minister
vulsion and accusations of described Russia under Pu-
war crimes Monday after tin as a “totalitarian-fascist
the Russian pullout from the state” and called for ac-
outskirts of Kyiv revealed tions “that will finally break
streets strewn with corpses Putin’s war machine.”
of what appeared to be ci- “Would you negotiate with
vilians, some of whom had Hitler, with Stalin, with Pol
seemingly been killed at Pot?” Mateusz Morawiecki
close range. asked of Macron.
The grisly images of bat- In announcing Germany’s
tered bodies left out in the expulsion of Russian diplo-
open or hastily buried led mats, Foreign Minister An-
to calls for tougher sanc- nalena Baerbock said the
tions against the Kremlin, images from Bucha reveal
namely a cutoff of fuel im- the “unbelievable brutality
ports from Russia. Germany of the Russian leadership
reacted by expelling 40 and those who follow its
Russian diplomats, and Lith- propaganda.”
uania threw out its Russian “We must fear similar imag-
ambassador. es from many other places
Ukrainian President Volody- occupied by Russian troops
myr Zelenskyy left the capi- in Ukraine,” she added.
tal, Kyiv, for his first reported The U.S. and its allies have
trip since the war began sought to punish Russia for
nearly six weeks ago to see Journalists stand by a mass grave in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 4, 2022. the invasion by imposing
for himself what he called Associated Press sweeping sanctions but
the “genocide” and “war fear further harm to the
crimes” in the town of Bu- Biden said Russian Presi- far worse. “This is a war of Sumy Region, said Russian global economy, which
cha, the site of some of the dent Vladimir Putin should murders, a lot of blood. A troops who took over the is still recovering from the
horrors. face a war crimes trial. lot of civilians are dying,” area on the way toward pandemic. Europe is in a
“Dead people have been “This guy is brutal, and said Natalia Svitlova, a refu- Kyiv had also retreated particular bind, since it gets
found in barrels, base- what’s happening in Bucha gee from Dnipro in eastern back to Russia, with Ukrai- 40% of its gas and 25% of its
ments, strangled, tortured,” is outrageous,” said Biden, Ukraine who fled to Poland. nian forces capturing small oil from Russia.
said Zelenskyy, who again who also promised to in- “I don’t understand why groups left behind. Putin’s Feb. 24 invasion has
called on Russia to move crease sanctions against this is possible in the 21st European allies, though left thousands of people
quickly to negotiate an Moscow. century and why no one united in outrage over the dead and forced more
end to the war. Russian Foreign Minister Ser- can stop it.” aftermath outside Kyiv, ap- than 4 million Ukrainians to
In Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, gey Lavrov dismissed the Russia withdrew many of peared split on how to re- flee their country.
bodies wrapped in black scenes outside Kyiv as a its forces from the capital spond. Poland, which is on “The horrors that we’ve
plastic were piled on one “stage-managed anti-Rus- area in recent days after Ukraine’s border and has seen in Bucha are just the
end of a mass grave in a sian provocation.” Kremlin being thwarted in its bid to taken in large numbers of tip of the iceberg of all
churchyard. Many of the spokesperson Dmitry Pes- swiftly capture Kyiv. It has refugees, angrily singled the crimes that have been
victims had been shot in kov said the images con- instead poured troops and out France and Germany committed by the Russian
cars or killed in explosions tained “signs of video forg- mercenaries into the coun- for not taking tougher ac- army on the territory of
trying to flee the city, and ery and various fakes.” try’s east in a stepped-up tion and urged Europe to Ukraine so far,” Ukrainian
with the morgue full and Russia similarly rejected bid to gain control of the quickly wean itself off Rus- Foreign Minister Dmytro
the cemetery impossible to previous allegations of Donbas, the largely Rus- sian energy. But Germany Kuleba said.
reach, it was the only place atrocities as fabrications on sian-speaking industrial said it would stick with a “And I can tell you with-
to keep the dead, Father Ukraine’s part. region that includes Mari- more gradual approach out exaggeration but with
Andrii Galavin said. Ukrainian officials said the upol, which has seen some of phasing out coal and oil great sorrow that the situ-
Tanya Nedashkivs’ka said bodies of 410 civilians were of the heaviest fighting and imports over the next sev- ation in Mariupol is much
she buried her husband in a found in towns around Kyiv worst suffering of the war. eral months. worse compared to what
garden outside their apart- that were recaptured from About two-thirds of the Western and Ukrainian we’ve seen in Bucha and
ment building after he was Russian forces in recent Russian troops around Kyiv leaders have accused other cities, towns, and vil-
detained by Russian troops days. have now left and are ei- Russia of war crimes be- lages nearby Kyiv.”q
and was found dead with In Bucha, Associated Press ther in Belarus or on their fore, and the International
two others in a stairwell. journalists saw 21 bodies, way there, probably get- Criminal Court’s prosecu-
“Please, I am begging you, including a group of nine ting more supplies and re- tor has already opened an
do something!” she said. in civilian clothes who ap- inforcements, said a senior investigation. But the latest
“It’s me talking, a Ukrainian peared to have been shot U.S. defense official who reports ratcheted up the
woman, a Ukrainian wom- at close range. At least spoke on condition of ano- condemnation.
an, a mother of two kids two had their hands tied nymity to discuss an intelli- French President Emmanuel
and one grandchild. For behind their backs. A bag gence assessment. Macron said there is “clear
all the wives and mothers, of groceries was spilled by Russian forces also appear evidence of war crimes” in
make peace on Earth so no one of the dead. to be repositioning artillery Bucha that demand new
one ever grieves again.” The full extent of the blood- and troops to try to take punitive measures.
Other European leaders shed in the Kyiv area has the city of Izyum, which lies “I’m in favor of a new round facebook.com/arubatoday/