Kyiv—Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky will press the UN Security Council on Tuesday for tougher sanctions aimed at forcing Russia to abandon its war against his country, as outrage grows against Moscow over the alleged slaughter-- Read more here:
abandon its war against his country, as outrage grows against Moscow over the alleged slaughter of civilians.
Zelensky has denounced “war crimes” and attempted “genocide” and appealed for more Western weapons and defense aid, saying they could have helped save innocent lives.“The sanctions response to Russia’s massacre of civilians must finally be powerful,” he said in a Telegram video posted late Monday after touring the devastated streets of Bucha.
“Right in front of my eyes, they fired on a man who was going to get food at the supermarket,” said Olena, 43, who did not wish to give her second name. But US President Joe Biden told reporters Monday that there should be “a war crimes trial” for Putin, vowing that Washington would join the EU in announcing new sanctions this week.
He said Western allies were working on obtaining more weapons for Ukraine, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken traveling to Brussels on Wednesday and Thursday to attend a NATO foreign ministers’ meeting.The full nature of the killings in Bucha and other areas from which Russian troops have withdrawn is still being pieced together.
But Zelensky has warned that the deaths in Bucha could be only the tip of the iceberg, saying he had information that even more people had been killed in places like nearby Borodianka.
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