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This Sunday, reactions multiplied after the discovery of numerous bodies of civilians in Boutcha, in the suburbs of kyiv, after the departure of Russian troops.
Several Western leaders have not hesitated to speak of a war crime, and are calling for an investigation by the International Criminal Court.
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The discovery of dozens of corpses of civilians in Boutcha, a town on the outskirts of kyiv abandoned by the Russian army, shocks Westerners.
On retaking the city, the Ukrainian soldiers indeed discovered dead civilians, their hands tied by white cloth, sometimes littering the streets.
The cause of death is not yet established for all, but some were reportedly shot in the head.
A mass grave containing 57 corpses was also discovered by the Ukrainian forces.
In total, the toll of civilians found dead in the liberated territories stood at 410 at the end of the day.
Following Volodymyr Zelensky, who accused Russia of carrying out a "genocide" in Ukraine, many Western leaders reacted.
Liz Truss, British Foreign Minister, was the first to qualify these facts as a "war crime", for which she calls for an investigation by the International Criminal Court.
Berlin and then Paris aligned themselves with this request, without however Jean-Yves Le Drian and Emmanuel Macron taking up the term “war crime”.
But the intentions of the West are clear.
"The Russian authorities will have to answer for these crimes," said Emmanuel Macron, imitated by the head of the Italian government Mario Draghi.
NATO and the European Union have also denounced the abuses manifestly committed by the Russian army.
New sanctions could be taken against Russia.
sentence of the day
"During the period when this locality was under the control of the Russian armed forces, not a single local resident suffered from violent actions"
The Russian Ministry of Defense formally denies having killed civilians in Boutcha and in the other towns around kyiv when its troops left.
The ministry added in a statement that all residents "had the opportunity to leave freely" the locality "to the north", while the southern suburbs of the city "were the target of fire from Ukrainian troops 24 hours a day". , and that the Russian army had distributed 452 tonnes of humanitarian aid to civilians in this area.
The statement further claims that the images of corpses on the streets of the city are "a new production of the kyiv regime for Western media".
On the Internet, some rely on a video filmed by Ukrainian soldiers, explaining to see the hand of a dead man moving.
A simple reflection on the glass of the vehicle used by the Ukrainians in reality.
The number of the day
537,000.
This is the number of Ukrainians who have returned to the country after initially fleeing, according to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry.
88,000 of them are said to have arrived last week.
The trend of the day
While the positions of the Ukrainian and Russian negotiators seemed to have come together on the question of Ukraine's neutral status, the news was completely taken up by the discovery of the corpses of civilians in Boutcha.
The demands of several European leaders for an investigation by the International Criminal Court come on top of that of Carla Del Ponte, a former prosecutor in The Hague, who wants an international arrest warrant against Vladimir Putin.
Moreover, the recapture of these territories around kyiv confirms Russia's strategic reversal, which intends to concentrate its forces in the east and south of the country.
However, the Russian army continues to bomb towns located far from the front.
Odessa was thus hit by several strikes very early this Sunday morning, targeting a refinery and a fuel depot.
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