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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Graham Russell

‘Massacre of innocents’: how the papers covered Russia’s atrocities in Bucha

UK papers composite featuring the Guardian, the Times, Metro, I, Daily Mail and the Mirror
The UK papers were unanimous in condemning the massacre of civilians in Bucha, Ukraine. Composite: UK newspapers, Twitter

Revulsion at the atrocities committed by Russian forces in the Ukrainian town of Bucha dominates today’s front pages, as politicians lined up around the world to condemn the massacre of hundreds of civilians.

The Mirror says simply “Genocide” in its headline under the bleak strapline: “Putin’s latest atrocities”. It quotes Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s use of the term but the page is given over to a heartbreaking image from Bucha, just near Ukraine’s capital, where the bodies of civilians were abandoned in the street. Hundreds of civilians have been found in mass graves, it reports, and some had been tied up.

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