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KYIV, Ukraine — Global outrage spread over civilian killings near Kyiv including evidence of bound bodies shot at close range and a mass grave found in areas retaken from Russian troops.
War crimes investigation?
- President Joe Biden called for a war crimes trial against Russian President Vladimir Putin. Biden said Monday that Putin "is a war criminal."
- Ukraine said 50 of some 300 bodies found in Bucha northwest of Kyiv city were victims of extra-judicial killings by Russian troops. Reuters could not verify the report.
- Satellite images showed a 45-foot (14-m) -long trench dug into the grounds of a church where a mass grave was found.
- Ukraine called for an International Criminal Court investigation that France and Britain said they would support, and rights group Human Rights Watch said it had documented "apparent war crimes."
- Russia said alleged "crimes" by its troops in Bucha were a "provocation" and no resident suffered.
Fighting
- Ukraine's General Staff said Russia was expected to mobilize about 60,000 reservists. Reuters could not independently confirm the claim.
- Explosions were heard in the cities of Kherson and Odesa, in the south and sounded across Ukraine's east.
- Heavy fighting has continued in Mariupol as Russian forces attempt to take the southeastern port city, British military intelligence said.
Economy
- Ukraine demanded crippling new sanctions from major Western powers over what it called the Bucha "massacre."
- Germany said the West would agree more sanctions on Russia in coming days, with its defense minister saying the European Union should discuss ending imports of Russian gas.
- French President Emmanuel Macron said new sanctions were needed, including on oil and coal, and that there were "very clear clues pointing to war crimes" by Russian forces in Bucha.
Peace talks
- Russia said it had requested a U.N. Security Council meeting on Monday because of what Moscow called Kyiv's attempts to disrupt peace talks and escalate violence with a "provocation" in Bucha.
- Britain's mission to the U.N. said that request had been denied and that the Council would discuss Ukraine on Tuesday.
Quotes
- "What is more opposite to music? The silence of ruined cities and killed people," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a Grammy Awards video.
- "I recognized him by his sneakers, his trousers. He looked mutilated, his body was cold," said Tetyana Volodymyrivna, a resident of Bucha, describing her husband.
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