Local authorities claimed they were forced to dig communal graves to bury bodies found near Kiev, accumulating in the streets.
Russian authorities condemned and denied the accusations, which Western leaders, NATO, and the UN were quick to condemn.
Zelensky called Russian troops “murderers, torturers, rapists, looters, who call themselves the army and who deserve only death after what they did.”
Speaking in Russian, he continued, “I want every mother of every Russian soldier to see the bodies of the killed people in Bucha, in Irpin, in Hostomel.”
In response, Russia’s MoD pushed back, saying, “not a single local resident” in Bucha suffered violence.
Instead, it accused Kiev of bombarding its southern suburbs and falsifying images of corpses in “another production” for Western media.
Moscow’s deputy ambassador to the UN said Russia had requested a UN Security Council meeting on Monday “in light of heinous provocation of Ukrainian radicals in Bucha.”
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said new sanctions would be decided “in the coming days.”
Source: Agencies (edited by Al-Manar English Website)
