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Ukraine’s leaders accuse Russian military of carrying out atrocities as brutal invasion continues

Ukraine accuses Russian forces of war crimes, as Volodymyr Zelenskiy visits scene of alleged atrocities

Military conscripts in the Russian-backed Donbas region have been sent into front-line combat against Ukrainian troops with no training, little food and water, and inadequate weapons, six people in the separatist province told Reuters.

Zelensky says genocide has been committed after evidence of indiscriminate killings of civilians in Bucha, near Kyiv

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The United States and European countries pledged on Monday to punish Moscow over civilian killings in northern Ukraine, where a mass grave and tied bodies of people shot at close range were found in a town seized back from Russian forces.

Accusations of war crimes and calls for tougher sanctions feature on Monday’s front pages amid horror at civilian killings by Russian troops

A man lay sprawled by the roadside in the Ukrainian city of Bucha on Sunday, his hands tied behind his back and a bullet wound to his head, one of hundreds of local residents that officials say have been found dead in the wake of five weeks of Russian occupation.

Nearly three decades ago, the UK started offering a "golden visa" to the world's ultra-rich. Thousands of Russians bought lavish homes and sent their children to the best boarding schools. But critics say it turned London into a haven for their riches.

The Kremlin and Vladimir Putin have set up a hotline and website that enables everyday ordinary Russians to rat out their neighbours, family and friends and other citizens over anti-war sentiment

President Vladimir Putin's rouble payment scheme for natural gas is the prototype that the world's largest country will extend to other major exports because the West has sealed the decline of the US dollar by freezing Russian assets, the Kremlin said. Russia's economy is facing the gravest crisis since the…