- Russia orders an official examination of what it calls Ukrainian “provocation” after Kyiv accused the Russian military of massacring civilians in Bucha.
- Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez says he has seen signs of a possible “genocide” in Bucha.
- United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says he was “deeply shocked” by images of dead civilians in the town of Bucha, near the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv and calls for an independent investigation.
- Ukraine’s prosecutor general says the bodies of 410 civilians have been recovered from areas in the wider Kyiv region from which Russian forces withdrew.
- Moscow requests the UN Security Council to convene to discuss what it called a “provocation by Ukrainian radicals” in Bucha.
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Spanish PM: Possible ‘genocide’ in Ukraine
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez says he has seen signs of a possible “genocide” in Ukraine after claims that Russian forces committed atrocities against Ukrainian civilians in Bucha.
“We will do everything to ensure that those who have perpetrated these war crimes do not go unpunished, and therefore appear before the courts… to deal with these alleged cases of (crimes against) humanity, war crimes and why not say it too, genocide,” he said.
“Putin’s unjustified aggression has brought war back to the gates of the European Union”, he told an economic forum in Madrid.
Sanchez is one of the first European Union…
