Ukraine War: More Than 7000 War Crimes - The Events of the Night

Created: 04/05/2022 07:51

By: Lukas Zigo

The atrocities against civilians by the Russian army in Bucha in the Ukraine war caused outrage around the world.

The events of the night at a glance.

Kiev – The atrocities against civilians in Bucha

, a suburb of Kiev

, went around the world.

Now the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj

promises a complete clarification of the crimes committed by Russia in the Ukraine war.

They are working with the International Criminal Court and the EU*, among others, he said in a video message published on Tuesday night (April 5th, 2022).

Meanwhile, there is great international outrage over the atrocities committed in Bucha.

In view of this massacre, the CSU is demanding

more weapons for Ukraine

.

According to the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office, more than 7,000 reports of Russian war crimes in the region around the capital Kyiv were recorded.

Most of the victims were in Borodyanka, said Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova, according to the Unian agency.

"I think we'll talk about Borodyanka separately." The Prosecutor General's Office is working on investigating war crimes in Irpin, Bucha and Worsel.

Bullet holes in a car that people wanted to use to flee Mariupol during the Ukraine war.

© Carol Guzy/dpa

USA: War crimes in Ukraine war "pretty obvious"

The terrifying images that emerged after the withdrawal of Russian troops show numerous bodies of residents found on the streets.

Ukraine blames Russian troops who occupied the city for the massacre.

Moscow

denies that. Russia 's

UN Ambassador Wassili Nebensja spoke of a "staged provocation".

Russia wants to present evidence to the UN Security Council that its military has not committed atrocities against civilians in the Ukraine conflict*.

According to the US Department of Defense, Russian forces are responsible for the Bucha atrocities.

"I think it's quite obvious -- not just to us, but to the world -- that Russian forces are responsible for the atrocities in Bucha," Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said.

Ukraine war: Selenskyj assures reappraisal "time will come"

Zelenskyj assured that those responsible would be held accountable.

“The time will come when every Russian will learn the whole truth about which of their fellow citizens [in Ukraine] committed murder.

who gave orders.

Who turned a blind eye to the mornings,” said the Ukrainian President.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, visits the city near Kyiv.

War crimes were committed in Bucha, he told journalists in the town about 25 kilometers north-west of the capital Kyiv.

© President Of Ukraine/dpa

He invited journalists from all over the world to look at the destroyed cities.

"Let the world see what Russia has done!" Zelenskyy, who visited Bucha on Monday, feared Russian troops are now trying to "cover the tracks".

Ukraine: Baerbock defends course on Russian energy supplies

Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock

(Greens

) warned against exaggerated expectations of an immediate embargo on energy from Russia.

"If you had a complete embargo tomorrow, if that would stop this war, then we would do it immediately," said the Green politician in the ARD* daily topics.

Such an exit would indeed drive up the price of this war.

"But it wouldn't mean that the killing would end tomorrow."

However, a complete phase-out of fossil energy from Russia will not only be prepared, but "massively initiated," said Baerbock.

Ukraine War: Heavy attacks on Kharkiv expected

The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense expects further Russian attacks on the besieged city of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine.

Russian troops were preparing to take the city, a spokesman for the Defense Ministry in Kyiv, Olexander Motusyanyk, said, according to Ukrayinska Pravda.

Russian troops also received reinforcements in other areas in eastern Ukraine.

According to Ukrainian sources, several people were killed in Russian attacks on the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv.

The governor of the region, Wiltalij Kim, reported 11 dead and 62 injured.

During the night air raids were also raised in the Poltava, Kharkiv, Dinpropetrovsk oblasts and in the Sumy, Chernihiv, Luhansk, Donetsk and Zaporizhia oblasts.

Ukraine currently holds around 600 Russian prisoners of war

Around 600 Russian soldiers are in captivity in Ukraine, as Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said, according to Ukrajinska Pravda on Ukrainian television's standard program.

They are looking for ways to reach Ukrainians in Russian POWs through the Red Cross and want to persuade Russia to release them.

(lz)