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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Lawrence Ostlere

Matt Le Tissier leaves role as Southampton ambassador after spreading Bucha massacre conspiracy

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Southampton legend Matt Le Tissier has stepped down from his role as club ambassador a day after retweeting a conspiracy theory about the Bucha massacre in Ukraine.

Mounting evidence is piecing together one of the worst atrocities of Russia’s war in Ukraine so far, after civilian bodies and mass graves were discovered in the town of Bucha on the northwest outskirts of Kyiv. The Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky visited Bucha this week where he reported “people found in barrels, cellars, strangled and simply tortured”, and US president Joe Biden called for his “brutal” Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to face a war crimes trial.

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