The United States has announced sanctions targeting Russian President Vladimir Putin's two adult daughters and said it was toughening penalties against Russian banks in retaliation for 'war crimes' in Ukraine.
The United States has announced sanctions targeting Russian President Vladimir Putin's two adult daughters and said it was toughening penalties against Russian banks in retaliation for "war crimes" in Ukraine.
The penalties cut all of Putin's close family members off from the U.S. financial system and freeze any assets they hold in the United States. Ukrainian soldiers recover the remains of four killed civilians from inside a charred vehicle in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday. Speaking by video Tuesday to the UN Security Council, Zelensky said civilians in towns around Kyiv were tortured, shot in the back of the head, thrown down wells, blown up with grenades in their apartments and crushed to death by tanks while in cars.
"Credible information shows that from March 7 to March 30 Russian soldiers and security forces were deployed in this area," he said. "They were also tasked with the interrogation of prisoners who were subsequently executed."On Wednesday, Zelensky accused Russia of using hunger as a weapon of war by deliberately targeting Ukraine's essential food supplies during its nearly six-week-old invasion.
Survivors who hid in their homes during the occupation, many of them beyond middle age, wandered past charred tanks and jagged window panes with plastic bags of food and other humanitarian aid. Red Cross workers checked in on intact homes.
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