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Vladimir Putin was accused of war crimes on Monday following the indiscriminate shelling of Ukrainian cities, killing potentially dozens of civilians including three children who were “incinerated alive”.
Alisa Petrova inside the bedroom of her family’s damaged apartment building after a rocket attack that hit a residential building in Kyiv.Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, said he would soon begin a war crimes investigation into the Russian invasion. In the city of Chernihiv, missiles were fired on a shopping centre in scenes described by a local teacher as “like from some horror movie”.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the UK would “continue to bring maximum pressure to bear” on Russia as he pledged that Mr Putin would “feel the consequences” for invading Ukraine.On the eve of a trip today to Poland and Estonia to meet allies and British troops, the Prime Minister said the Russian president “must fail”.
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