‘I have to be very careful with my wording, but it looks exactly like war crimes,’ a spokesman for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the BBC
Ukrainian and European officials expressed outrage on Sunday at what they said were atrocities committed by Russian forces near Kyiv before they withdrew from the region to focus their attacks elsewhere.
Russia has previously denied targetting civilians and rejected allegations of war crimes in what it calls a “special military operation” in Ukraine. Sergey Nikiforov, a spokesman for Zelensky, told Britain’s BBC: “I have to be very careful with my wording, but it looks exactly like war crimes.”“Shocked by news of atrocities committed by Russian forces. EU assists Ukraine in documenting war crimes,” European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Twitter, adding all cases needed to be pursued by the International Court of Justice.
Russia’s defence ministry said strikes by its military destroyed an oil refinery and three fuel storage facilities near Odesa. It said the facilities were used to supply Ukrainian troops near the city of Mykolaiv. Evacuation efforts in Mariupol and nearby Berdyansk, both on Ukraine’s southern shores, were due to continue with a convoy of buses being prepared with help from the Red Cross.Mariupol is Russia’s main target in Ukraine’s southeastern region of Donbas, and tens of thousands of civilians there are trapped with scant access to food and water.
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