Good morning. There is mounting evidence of indiscriminate killings in Ukraine as investigators find hundreds of bodies in towns near Kyiv. And vulnerable groups will be able to start receiving a fourth Covid vaccine booster from today, as Covid cases across the country rise.
Russia stands accused of terrible war crimes as western leaders condemn the killings of unarmed civilians in Bucha and the surrounding areas of Kyiv in alleged atrocities that prompted fresh demands for tougher action against Moscow. Women across Ukraine are also grappling with the threat of rape as a weapon of war as growing evidence of sexual violence emerges from areas retaken from retreating Russian forces. The world was horrified on Sunday by a picture taken by the photographer Mikhail Palinchak on a highway 20km outside the capital, Kyiv, in which the body of one man and three women were piled under a blanket.