The Latest Breaking News from Bucha

Russia bombards and U.S. imposes sanctions as Ukraine urges decisive help

Russian forces bombarded cities in Ukraine as the United States imposed more sanctions on Wednesday after civilian killings widely condemned as war crimes and Ukraine's President urged a decisive Western response amid divisions in Europe.

Reuters · Apr 6, 2022

Putin's troops are on a 'campaign to rape, kill and torture' in Bucha, claims US

As Russian troops have withdrawn from towns around Kyiv, one of them, Bucha, has come under the international spotlight as it unearths the extent of acts committed by Russian troops

Daily Mirror · Apr 5, 2022

In fiery speech, Zelenskyy implores UN Security Council to hold Russia to account

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in an impassioned address to the United Nations Security Council, on Tuesday likened Russian atrocities in his homeland to Nazi war crimes, calling for Nuremberg-style tribunals to hold Moscow accountable.

Los Angeles Times · Apr 5, 2022

In Bucha, Ukraine, burned, piled bodies among latest horrors

Six charred bodies piled together were being investigated on Tuesday in Bucha, the town where graphic evidence of killings and torture has emerged following the withdrawal of Russian forces

The Independent UK · Apr 5, 2022

What happened in Bucha? Inside Ukrainian city of horrors caught up in Russia's battle for Kyiv

Bucha resident Larysa Savenko spent five weeks hiding in her shed in the freezing cold as Russians occupied her town. Now the horror on her street has become the latest defining image of the war.

ABC News · Apr 5, 2022

Red Cross volunteer horrified after seeing corpses inside burnt cars in Ukraine

Valentina Cherkai has spoken to the Daily Mirror through heavy layers of fatigue, audibly eroded by what she has witnessed and the relentless days of caregiving and risk

Daily Mirror · Apr 5, 2022

Can Moscow ignore the outrage? Russia rejects mounting evidence of Ukraine war crimes

Moscow has so far shrugged off hard evidence of summary executions in the liberated Kyiv suburb of Bucha, evidence which continues to mount. As the West dials up sanctions and arms shipments, as Ukraine's president makes his case to the UN Security Council, we gauge the mood in the room.…

France 24 · Apr 5, 2022

Russian troops pulled out civilians’ tongues and raped women, Ukraine’s president Zelensky tells UN

Ukraine’s president gives horrific account of Russian war crimes in address to UN Security Council

Evening Standard · Apr 5, 2022

Lavrov says West trying to derail Russia-Ukraine talks with 'hysteria' over Bucha

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the West on Tuesday of trying to derail negotiations between Russia and Ukraine by fuelling "hysteria" over Bucha, where Kyiv and the West say there is evidence Russia committed war crimes.

Reuters · Apr 5, 2022

India condemns killings in Ukraine's Bucha in apparent hardening of stance

India on Tuesday condemned the killings of civilians in Ukraine's Bucha and called for an independent investigation, having earlier declined to explicitly criticise the invasion of Ukraine by its long-time partner Russia.

Reuters · Apr 5, 2022