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Suspected Russian war crimes in Ukraine's Bucha spark global outrage

Western leaders have accused Russia of war crimes after hundreds of dead civilians were discovered in the Ukranian town of Bucha. © Surgei Supinsky, AFP

Moscow faced global revulsion and accusations of war crimes Monday after the Russian pullout from the outskirts of Kyiv revealed streets strewn with corpses of what appeared to be civilians, some of whom had seemingly been killed deliberately at close range.

The images of battered bodies out in the open or in hastily dug graves led to calls for tougher sanctions against the Kremlin, namely a cutoff of fuel imports from Russia. Germany reacted by expelling 40 Russian diplomats, and Lithuania threw out its Russian ambassador.

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