• A candlelight vigil for Ukrainians who were killed in the towns of Bucha and Irpin, at the Taras Shevchenko monument in Lviv, Ukraine, on Tuesday | BLOOMBERG
    A candlelight vigil for Ukrainians who were killed in the towns of Bucha and Irpin, at the Taras Shevchenko monument in Lviv, Ukraine, on Tuesday | BLOOMBERG

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Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno on Wednesday called the recent suspected massacre of civilians near Kyiv “a war crime.”

Numerous bodies believed to be those of civilians were found near the Ukrainian capital after Russian troops withdrew from the area.

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