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EU calls for war crimes tribunal over Ukraine mass graves

Forensic technicians dig a grave in a forest on the outskirts of Izyum, eastern Ukraine [Sergey Bobok/AFP]

The European Union has called for a war crimes tribunal as Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said new evidence of torture has been found as more bodies are exhumed from a mass burial site in a town re-taken from Russian forces.

Jan Lipvasky, foreign minister of the Czech Republic which holds the EU’s rotating presidency, said on Saturday that Russia’s attacks “against the civilian population are unthinkable and abhorrent” in the 21st century.

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