Washington is trying to demonize Moscow and foment the crisis in Ukraine with allegations of Russian crimes against humanity, Russia’s ambassador to the United States said. | Reuters
Organizations supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development have documented more than 30,000 war crimes incidents since the invasion, according to the U.S. government. Ukrainian officials said they were investigating the Thursday shelling of the city of Bakhmut as a possible war crime.
Friday will mark a year since Russia launched what it calls “a special military operation” to “denazify” and “demilitarize” its neighbor. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and Kyiv’s Western allies call the invasion, which has no end in sight, an unprovoked, imperialistic land grab.
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