The Ukrainian president accused the Russian troops of being made up of “murderers, torturers, rapists, looters”, Sunday, April 3, after mass graves were discovered in Boutcha. Images of dozens of corpses in mass graves or littering the streets of this city near kyiv shocked the international community. Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia, which denies responsibility for these crimes, of “genocide”. Follow our live.
The number of victims still uncertain. The mayor of Boutcha affirmed that “280 people” had been buried “in mass graves”, while corpses were also found in the streets. According to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, the lifeless bodies of 410 civilians were discovered in the territories near kyiv recently retaken from Russian troops.
Russia calls for a meeting of the UN Security Council. Moscow, which denies having killed civilians in Boutcha, affirms that the images of corpses in the streets of the city are “a new production of the kyiv regime for the Western media”. She asks for a meeting of the authority to decide on the “hateful provocations” committed according to her by Ukraine.
A Russian strike leaves 7 dead and 34 injured in a strike in Kharkiv. The prosecutor’s office in this city in northeastern Ukraine accused Russia on Sunday of having “bshelled residential buildings in the Slobodskyy district”. “According to preliminary information, seven people were killed, 34 were injured, including three children”, he says. Moscow has not confirmed this strike or this assessment.