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Germany has evidence of war crimes in Ukraine ‘in three-digit range,’ prosecutor says

Germany has evidence of war crimes in Ukraine ‘in three-digit range,’ prosecutor says

GERMANY has collected evidence of war crimes in Ukraine, the country's prosecutor general said in a newspaper interview published, adding that he saw a need for a judicial process at the international level. "Currently, for example, we are focusing on the mass killings in Bucha or attacks against Ukrainian civilian infrastructure," Peter Frank told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper. So far, prosecutors have pieces of evidence in the "three-digit range", he added, without elaborating. Ukraine and its Western allies have accused Russian forces of committing atrocities in Bucha, a satellite town of Kyiv, soon after launching their invasion last February. Moscow has denied…
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‘War crime’ killings near Kyiv raise international outcry, as frontline shifts

‘War crime’ killings near Kyiv raise international outcry, as frontline shifts

MARKO DJURICA and ABDELAZIZ BOUMZAR INTERNATIONAL outrage spread over civilian killings in northern Ukraine, where a mass grave and tied bodies of people shot at close range were found in a town taken back from Russian forces, as Moscow shifted the focus of the fighting elsewhere. The deaths in Bucha, outside Kyiv, are likely to galvanise the United States and Europe into additional sanctions against Moscow, possibly including some restrictions on the billions of dollars in energy that Europe still imports from Russia. The discoveries overshadowed peace talks between Russia and Ukraine that were due to resume on Monday against…
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Explainer: How could Russia’s Putin be prosecuted for war crimes in Ukraine?

Explainer: How could Russia’s Putin be prosecuted for war crimes in Ukraine?

JACQUELINE THOMSEN and MIKE SCARCELLA UKRAINE has accused Russia of war crimes in the town of Bucha just outside Kyiv, with Germany, France and others expressing outrage at the images of dead civilians. The mayor of Bucha said on Saturday that 300 residents had been killed by Russian troops during a month-long occupation. Victims were seen by Reuters in a mass grave and lying in the streets. Russia's defence ministry denied the Ukrainian allegations, saying footage and photographs showing bodies in Bucha were "yet another provocation" by the Ukrainian government. Russia has previously denied targeting civilians and rejected allegations of…
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