Europe pledges further sanctions against Russia amid reports of ‘haunting images of atrocities’
European leaders have condemned the killings of unarmed civilians in Bucha and the surrounding areas of Kyiv, while vowing to impose further sanctions against Russia.
“Putin’s frantic violence is wiping out innocent families and knows no bounds,” she wrote on Twitter, adding that those responsible for war crimes must be held to account. As Russian forces retreated from the towns and suburbs of Kyiv, reporters found horrifying evidence of atrocities against civilians, includingUkraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, urged the international criminal court and international organisations to come to the region to collect evidence of Russian war crimes.
Over the weekend, Zelenskiy renewed his attack on Orbán, saying he had failed to show moral leadership and lacked honesty. “He is virtually the only one in Europe to openly support Mr Putin,” Zelenskiy said. Russia’s actions in Bucha were consistent with more than a century of military practice, said Jack Watling, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute. “Anyone saying that Bucha is the result of brutalisation or rogue behaviour is wrong. This was the plan. It was premeditated,” he wrote on Twitter. “And if the Russian military had been more successful there would have been many more towns like it.
He added that the next couple of weeks “are a critical turning point in terms of whether the Ukrainians can keep the momentum”.
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