Volodymyr Zelensky fears further carnage.
According to the Ukrainian president, the situation in Borodianka, a locality northwest of kyiv recently taken over by the Ukrainians from the Russians, is “much more horrible” than in Boutcha where civilians have been massacred.
“There are more victims” than in Boutcha, also northwest of the capital, warned in a video message Zelensky, who announced that “every crime will be solved and every executioner will be found”.
Shortly before, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Iryna Venediktova announced on Facebook that 26 bodies had been discovered by rescuers in the rubble of two bombed apartment buildings in Borodianka, a locality which had just over 13,000 inhabitants before the war.
According to her, "it is difficult to predict how many deaths there will be" recorded in total, but Borodianka is "the most destroyed city in the region" of kyiv.
“Only the civilian population was targeted”
“Only the civilian population was targeted, there is no military site,” continued Iryna Venediktova.
The prosecutor claimed that the Russians had used cluster bombs and heavy multiple rocket launchers there “which bring death and destruction”.
"There is evidence of war crimes by Russian forces at every turn," she wrote.
"The enemy treacherously shelled residential infrastructure in the evening, when there were a maximum of people at home," assured the Prosecutor General of Ukraine.
She accused the Russian soldiers of engaging in "murders, tortures and beatings" of civilians, as well as rape.
Sunday, the images of bodies of civilians in the street in Boutcha, a city of 37,000 inhabitants, had shocked the world.
They caused the indignation of the international community, and the expulsion of many Russian diplomats.
The Ukrainian president, who went there on Monday, had judged that the Boutcha massacre would be "recognized by the world as a genocide".
