• A vigil for civilians killed in Bucha and in the surrounding area when occupied by Russian forces, in Lviv, Ukraine, on Tuesday. With evidence mounting of atrocities in the Kyiv suburbs, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine delivered a scathing speech to the United Nations, accusing Russia of a litany of horrors and questioning whether a world body that takes no action to stop a war serves any purpose. | MAURICIO LIMA / THE NEW YORK TIMES
    A vigil for civilians killed in Bucha and in the surrounding area when occupied by Russian forces, in Lviv, Ukraine, on Tuesday. With evidence mounting of atrocities in the Kyiv suburbs, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine delivered a scathing speech to the United Nations, accusing Russia of a litany of horrors and questioning whether a world body that takes no action to stop a war serves any purpose. | MAURICIO LIMA / THE NEW YORK TIMES

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Paris – Russia is accused of war crimes in Ukraine, with the claims growing louder following the discovery of dozens of bodies in areas recently retaken from Russian forces near the capital Kyiv.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused Moscow of attempted “genocide” over the findings and labeled the bloody siege of the southern port of Mariupol a “crime against humanity.”

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