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Evening Standard Comment: After the horror of Bucha, the West must ratchet up sanctions on Putin

The Kremlin is attempting to cover up the atrocities it has orchestrated in Bucha. Its lies may convince some in Russia who live without access to free media, without freedom of expression, where the word of Vladimir Putin is final and protest is potentially fatal. But in the free world, we can see it for what it is.

Satellite images appear to show the first markings of excavation for a mass grave in Bucha weeks ago, when the Russian military was in control of the town.

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