As more evidence emerges of the massacre of civilians by Russian troops on the outskirts of Kiev, Mr Johnson said: far from genocide for me, it is not surprising that people respond the way they react. ” 2022. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said the UK package was “some of the toughest sanctions ever”. In addition to the asset freeze imposed on Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank, and Credit Bank of Moscow, Britain also pledged to cut all Russian coal and oil imports by the end of the year, with gas following as soon as possible. In addition, all new foreign investment in Russia has been banned. Imports of Russian steel products will be banned, and eight other oligarchs will be added to the sanctions list. This latest dose of measures comes as the US and the European Union have also acted against Russia. Soldiers walk amid wrecked Russian tanks on Bucha, on the outskirts of Kiev. Credit: Rodrigo Abd / AP The United States on Wednesday announced sanctions targeting President Vladimir Putin’s two adult daughters and, like the United Kingdom, said it was tightening sanctions on Russian banks. President Joe Biden called the latest round of sanctions “catastrophic.” “I have made it clear that Russia will pay a serious and immediate price for its atrocities in Bucha,” Biden tweeted. The EU executive has proposed a ban on coal imports from Russia, worth four billion euros a year. It would be the first time the 27-nation bloc has imposed sanctions on the country’s lucrative energy industry over the war. On Wednesday, China, which has so far refused to criticize Moscow for the war, called for an investigation into the killings, saying the images of civilian deaths were “deeply disturbing” but that no responsibility should be given until they were known. all the facts. Demands for increased sanctions have risen sharply this week following gloomy images of corpses scattered in gardens and on the streets and horrific reports of civilian killings, torture and mass destruction as Russian troops withdraw from the outskirts of Kiev to cities and towns. A journalist stands next to a mass grave in Bucha Credit: AP The Kremlin claims that the images, which caused worldwide outrage, are fake and suggest that the scenes were made by Ukrainians. He insisted that Russian troops had not committed war crimes, and that Moscow’s ambassador to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia, had said that “no locals have suffered violence while Bhutsa was under Russian control.” However, the Ukrainian prosecutor said that he was investigating 4,684 recorded alleged Russian war crimes. It estimates that as of Wednesday morning, 167 children have been killed so far as a result of the Russian invasion, while more than 466 have been injured. Every day, the horrors that were hidden are revealed in the aftermath of the Russian retreat from the cities and towns around Kyiv, reports correspondent Peter Smith Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is demanding war crimes trials for Russian troops and leaders responsible for atrocities during the month-long offensive in Kyiv. On Tuesday, he urged the United Nations to convict Putin of war crimes as he accused Russian troops of raping Ukrainian mothers in front of their children, killing “entire families” and burning their bodies and smashing civilians in tanks in the “recently liberated” city of Bo. . According to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Iryna Venediktova, the bodies of 410 civilians have been removed from cities in the Kiev region, including Bucha, which were recently recaptured by Russian forces. A woman stands amid the devastation caused by the war on Bucha Credit: AP Many had their hands tied, close wounds and signs of torture. He told Ukrainian television that a “similar humanitarian situation” with Bucha existed in other parts of the country where Russian forces had recently left, such as the areas around the northern cities of Sumy and Chernihiv. Ms Venediktova also feared the situation in Borodyanka, northwest of the capital, could be even worse. After weeks of Russian occupation, the city has been left in ruins with several apartment buildings destroyed in the fighting. The number of victims is not yet known, as officials are still working to remove debris and debris. In Vorzel, a village also on the outskirts of Kiev, ITV News correspondent Dan Rivers exposed the horror experienced by residents. “All of this is happening on the streets where you could be shot because you were just going to look for food. Some bodies still need to be recovered,” Rivers said. “Restoring any sense of normalcy and peace will take much longer.” Residents of the Ukrainian city of Ivankiv, which was cut off from the world for 35 days, began to share the horrific trauma they experienced under Russian occupation, according to correspondent Dan Rivers. This video contains sad imagesBrightcove video playback Meanwhile, the humanitarian situation in the besieged port city of Mariupol is “deteriorating” with Russian forces blocking humanitarian access as they continue to launch airstrikes, according to the UK Department of Defense. He said most of the remaining 160,000 residents are without water, medicine, electricity, light or heat and cannot communicate with the outside world. Attempts by the International Committee of the Red Cross to transport humanitarian convoys to Mariupol failed. Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said Russian forces had stopped buses accompanied by Red Cross workers traveling to Mariupol, which had a population of more than 400,000 before the war. He said Russian troops had allowed 1,496 civilians to leave the Sea of Azov port on Tuesday. Elsewhere in Ukraine, Médecins Sans Frontières said its staff witnessed an attack Monday at a cancer hospital in a residential area of the southern city of Mykolaiv. The group said it did not have a total death toll, but its group reports one dead.
