What's happening in Ukraine today: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says Russia's attack on Ukranian civilians in towns on the outskirts of Kyiv 'are yet more evidence that Russian President Vladimir Putin and his army are committing war crimes in Ukraine.'
What's happening in Ukraine today and how are countries around the world responding? Read live updates on Vladimir Putin and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. LONDON -- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says Russia's attack on Ukranian civilians in towns on the outskirts of Kyiv "are yet more evidence that Russian President Vladimir Putin and his army are committing war crimes in Ukraine.
French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian says his country will work with Ukrainian authorities and the International Criminal Court "to ensure these acts don't go unpunished."BRUSSELS -- NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the graphic images coming out of Bucha, Ukraine, after Russian troops withdrew show "a brutality against civilians we haven't seen in Europe for decades.
Bodies of civilians lay strewn across the northern town, which was controlled by Russian soldiers for about a month. The ministry says that "not a single civilian has faced any violent action by the Russian military" in Bucha.ROME – The head of Italy's Democratic Party called for a full oil and gas embargo in reaction to images emerging of atrocities against civilians by Russian soldiers retreating from the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.
Klain credits Ukrainians for fighting off Russian troops in the northern part of Ukraine and says the U.S. and its allies are sending weapons into the country "almost every single day." Zelenskyy told CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday that there are more than 100 nationalities in Ukraine and "this is about the destruction and extermination of all these nationalities. We are citizens of Ukraine and we don't want to be subdued to the policy of Russian Federation."
French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian condemned "in the strongest terms" the alleged "massive abuses." He said France will work with Ukrainian authorities and the International Criminal Court "to ensure these acts don't go unpunished and that those responsible are being sent to trial and convicted."KYIV, Ukraine -- The Ukrainian military says Russian troops have completed their pullback from the country's north.
Lithuania reduced imports of Russian gas to zero on Saturday, a move seen a milestone in achieving energy independence in the former Soviet republic of 2.8 million, the ministry said. He urged the West to impose an oil, gas and coal embargo, and close all ports to Russian vessels and goods. He also called for all Russian banks to be disconnected from the SWIFT international payment system.
Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of Poland's ruling conservative party, Law and Justice, said Sunday in an interview with German weekly Welt am Sonntag that "in principle, it makes sense to extend nuclear participation to the eastern flank." Peskov added that Putin's meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is "hypothetically possible" once negotiators from the two countries prepared a draft agreement to be discussed.BERLIN -- German authorities have registered more than 300,000 refugees from Ukraine since the outbreak of the war there last month.
Overall, more than 4.17 million Ukrainians have fled their country since Russia attacked Ukraine on Feb. 24. Almost 2.5 million of them have escaped to neighbouring Poland.KYIV, Ukraine -- A Ukrainian presidential adviser says authorities have found evidence of serious war crimes by Russian troops on the outskirts of Kyiv.
The reports drew international condemnation. In Britain, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said there is increasing evidence of "indiscriminate attacks against innocent civilians" and said they must be investigated as war crimes. "At school we were studying a lot about the Second World War, about bomb shelters and about this disaster, and we thought it was impossible in present time," she said. "We thought it had ended in 1945 and that was it. But now, it's really shocking for all of us."MOSCOW -- Russia's top negotiator in talks with Ukraine says it's too early to talk about a meeting between the two countries' president.
Medinsky emphasized that Russia's stand on Crimea and rebel regions in Ukraine's east remained unchanged. The Kremlin demands that Ukraine acknowledge Russia's sovereignty over Crimea, which Moscow annexed in 2014, and recognize the independence of Russia-backed separatist regions in Donbas, Ukraine's eastern industrial heartland.
Klitschko said Russian President Vladimir Putin was responsible for these "cruel war crimes," adding that civilians had been "shot with tied hands."He said that "especially for Germany, there can only be one consequence: Not a penny should go to Russia anymore, that's bloody money used to slaughter people. The gas and oil embargo must come immediately.
He said that in the town of Balakliia Russian tanks hit a local hospital, damaging the building and prompting the authorities to evacuate patients.LVIV, Ukraine -- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukrainian troops retaking areas around Kyiv and Chernihiv are not allowing Russians to retreat without a fight, but are "shelling them. They are destroying everyone they can."
Zelenskyy appealed again to the West for more modern weaponry, such as anti-missile systems and aircraft.A Ukrainian beauty blogger whom Russian officials accused of being a crisis actor when she was interviewed and photographed by The Associated Press in a bombed out Mariupol maternity hospital has emerged in new videos that are fueling fresh misinformation about the attack.
In the new videos, Vishegirskaya says those huddled in the basement of the hospital after the attack believed the explosions were caused by "shelling," not an airstrike, because "no one" heard sounds that would indicate that bombs were dropped from planes.
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