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Evening Standard Comment: By importing Russian energy, Europe continues to fund Vladimir Putin’s war

Vladimir Putin’s retreat from Kyiv may be complete, according to the Ministry of Defence, but the horrifying consequences of Russia’s attacks are growing clearer and more appalling by the day. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said the destruction of Borodyanka is “more horrific” than what was discovered in Bucha, where civilian deaths have been widely condemned as war crimes.

Today more than 30 people have been killed and over 100 injured in a Russian rocket attack on a railway station in the eastern city of Kramatorsk, as civilians tried to evacuate to safer parts of the country.

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