If the Russian troop withdrawal from around Kyiv has signalled a new phase of the war in Ukraine, it appears that evidence of mass killings of civilians in Bucha could herald a hardening of approach from the west.
In more evidence of the warped reality surrounding the Kremlin, Russia cynically claimed the bodies found strewn across the streets of Bucha were the result of an inside job, but it sounded increasingly desperate set against an outpouring of international condemnation.
