US President Joe Biden called for a “war crimes trial” over the alleged atrocities in Bucha and said he would seek “more sanctions” against Moscow, as EU momentum built for a tougher response on top of already unprecedented sanctions against Russia over the war.
European Commission chief Ursula Von Der Leyen said the European Union was ready to send a team of investigators to gather evidence of possible war crimes.
Zelensky said on Monday to the reporters while he visited the town, where the corpses, some with their hands bound behind their backs, were discovered over the weekend near Kyiv that “These are war crimes and it will be recognised by the world as genocide,” “You stand here today and see what happened. We know that thousands of people have been killed and tortured with extremities cut off, women raped, children killed,”
The United States on this note have also said it would seek to suspend Russia from the UN Human Rights Council and EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said urgent discussions were underway on tougher sanctions against Russia.
Biden also went further to add that “What’s happening to Bucha is outrageous and everyone’s seen it,” calling Russian President Vladimir Putin “a war criminal”. We have to gather all the details” to be able to have a trial, the US president added.
In Bucha, the local mayor said 280 people were buried in mass graves because they could not be buried in cemeteries that were within firing range.
AFP on Saturday saw the bodies of at least 22 people in civilian clothes on a single street in Bucha.
