testimonies of massacre in Boutcha and Borodianka are increasing, Russia denounces a “staged” but does not provide proof

• The withdrawal of the Russian army from the kyiv region reveals a devastated Ukraine and scenes of desolation. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the city of Boutcha, where several dozen bodies of civilians were found after the withdrawal of Russian troops. There are denounced “war crimes” will be “recognized as genocide”. He is scheduled to speak to the UN Security Council on Tuesday. According to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, the lifeless bodies of 410 civilians were found in these territories of the Kyiv region. The situation at Borodianka (60 kilometers west of kyiv) would be, according to her, even worse “in terms of victims” than that of Boucha. In the village of Motyjynwere found Monday the bodies of the mayor of the village, that of her husband, their son and two other men.
• Russia continues to reject “categorically” all charges. At a press conference at the UN, Russian Ambassador Vassili Nebenzia accused Ukraine of ” set the scene ” the bodies of civilians who died in Boutcha, calling the images and videos of the latter “coarse fakes“, and promising to provide evidence on Tuesday.
• The United States, Canada and the European Union, after strongly condemning these abuses, have announced that they want strengthen sanctions against Russia. The EU is discussing “emergency” new sanctions against Moscow, demanded in particular by France and Germany. The United States will try to obtain the « suspension » of Russia from the UN Human Rights Council, the US ambassador to the United Nations also announced on Monday. The German state will take the temporary control of the German subsidiary of the Russian giant Gazprombecause of his “significance for supply” in energy from Germany.
• Lithuania announced on Monday the dismissal of the Russian ambassador, following the “atrocities committed” by Russian soldiers in Ukraine. France and Germany plan the expulsion of dozens of Russian diplomats of their countries.
• On the ground, the situation is “tense” in all the part of the Donbass under Ukrainian control, in the eastwhere authorities expect the“worsening of the situation”. “The enemy is bombing everywhere”said the governor of the military administration of the Donetsk region, Pavlo Kyrylenko, urging the civilian population to ” leave the premises “. White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said this new phase of the Russian military offensive “could last for months or more”.
• The besieged port city of Marioupolin the southeast of the country, is destroyed “90%” and “40% of its infrastructure” are “unrecoverable”also announced on Monday the mayor of the city, Vadym Boïtchenko.
• More than 4.2 million Ukrainians fled their country since the invasion ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 24, according to figures from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The UNHCR registered exactly 4,215,047 Ukrainian refugees on Monday. These are 38,646 more than during the previous score on Sunday. Europe has not seen such a flood of refugees since the Second World War.

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