Horror and outrage in the world for the Bucha massacre and Putin’s attitude

The massacre of civilians committed by Russian troops in their retreat from the Ukrainian town of Bucha has caused a wave of horror and indignation in the international community, some of whose members have called for new and tougher sanctions against Russia and others, such as the president of the United States, have advocated that the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, be put on trial for war crimes.

The Ukrainian authorities have reported the discovery of more than 400 bodies in the streets of Buchathe northern town of Ukraineclose to Kyivwhich was besieged by Russian troops for weeks and where, after their withdrawal, hundreds of bodies were discovered in its streets, some with their hands tied behind his back, as international media reporters have documented on the ground.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) claimed to have indications that the Russian Army has committed possible war crimes in the areas under its control, including summary executions of civilians, while the Russian Government has categorically rejected the participation of its soldiers in those alleged killings.

Some of the bodies found in the streets of Bucha, near kyiv, after the Russian withdrawal (RONALDO SCHEMIDT – AFP/)

BIDEN CALLS FOR A WAR CRIMES TRIAL

In the opinion of Bidenhis Russian counterpart should be tried for war crimes in particular for the massacre of Bucha.

“We have to get all the details so that there can be a trial for war crimes”said Biden in statements to the press upon arriving at the White House from the state of Delaware.

“This guy is brutal and what is happening in Bucha is outrageous,” added the president, who stressed that Putin “should be held accountable” for what happened.

Journalists stand next to a mass grave in Bucha, outside kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

UKRAINE HAS COUNTED OVER 4,000 WAR CRIMES

The Attorney General of UkraineIryna Venediktova said today that her country has recorded “more than 4,000 war crimes” committed by Russian forces since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine on February 24.

“Since the beginning of the war we have registered more than 4,000 military crimes, war crimes”he indicated in an interview with the French channel BFM TV, where he specified that what happened in the cities of Mariúpol and Bucha has yet to be verified.

Venediktova pointed out that she is working to document the facts and to present the evidence first before the Ukrainian courts and then before the International Criminal Court.

President Volodymyr Zelensky (c) walks in the city of Bucha. (RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP).

ZELENSKY ASKS THE MEDIA TO “DOCUMENT” THE “ATROCITIES”

the ukrainian president, Volodymir Zelenskytoday asked the international media to “document” the “atrocities” committed by Russian troops in Bucha, during a visit to this city, the scene of an alleged massacre of hundreds of civilians.

“It is very important that the press, the international journalists, be here. We have to be able to show the world what has happened here, what the Russian forces have done,” he said. Zelenskyin statements to the media, reflected by the Ukrinform portal.

A community worker cuts the rope from the corpse of a man with his hands tied behind his back while another prepares a plastic bag to put him in in the city of Bucha, near kyiv, Ukraine, on April 3, 2022. (SERGEI SUPINSKY/ AFP).

RUSSIA REQUESTS MEETING OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL

Russia today accused the United Kingdom, which holds the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council, of trying to silence it by rejecting its request to hold a specific meeting on the alleged massacre of civilians in Bucha.which Moscow considers false.

The Russian delegation announced on Sunday that it had requested a meeting of the Security Council “in light of the heinous provocations of the Ukrainian radicals in Bucha”, but that appointment for now has not been entered on the official agenda in a month in which the Council is chaired by the United Kingdom.

Communal workers carry the body of a civilian in the city of Bucha, near kyiv, on April 3, 2022. (SERGEI SUPINSKY / AFP)

GERMANY EXPELS 40 RUSSIAN DIPLOMATS

The massacre has already had diplomatic consequences in Germany, whose government has declared 40 Russian diplomats from the Berlin embassy “persona non grata”, who have been urged to leave the country, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock reported today. .

These are people who “day to day work against our freedom and against our social cohesion”, according to the statement issued by Foreign Affairs, which refers to the “incredible brutality” of the Russian leadership, embodied in the images from Bucha.

For his part, the German president, Frank Walter Steinmeier, has admitted his “mistake” of assessment, for having defended the need to carry out the German-Russian gas pipeline Nord Stream 2, in his time as Minister of Foreign Affairs.

The current chancellor, the Social Democrat Olaf Scholz, finally suspended his license for its start-up the day after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, on February 24, amid strong pressure and criticism of the too lukewarm position regarding Moscow.

A corpse lies on the ground in a street in Bucha, northwest of kyiv. (RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP).

THE PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT CALLS FOR MORE SANCTIONS ON RUSSIA

At the opening of the plenary session in Strasbourg (France), the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, insisted that the European Union (EU) must continue working to make the Russian aggression against Ukraine “the most expensive mistake that the Kremlin” with a new package of sanctions.

In this sense, he urged to accelerate towards a “policy of zero dependence on the Russian regime” and continue to sanction the oligarchs and members of the party of Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as to “provide more logistical, humanitarian and military equipment support than Ukraine desperately needs.”

Source: Elcomercio