The European Commission has proposed new sanctions, including a ban on Russian coal imports and a halt to σχεδόν 16.6 billion worth of trade in retaliation for the Bucha atrocities. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky compared the behavior of Russian troops to that of the Nazis in a passionate video link to the 15-member UN Security Council on Tuesday. “They cut off limbs, they cut off their necks, women were raped and killed in front of their children,” Zelenski said. In cities around Kyiv, civilians were tortured, wells thrown, grenades blown up in their apartments and crushed to death by tanks while in cars, he said. The perpetrators of the killings and those who gave the orders “should be brought to justice immediately for war crimes” before a tribunal similar to the Nuremberg trials after World War II, he said. Photos and videos from Bucha, 16 miles northwest of Kiev, show unarmed civilians being shot in the head at close range with their hands tied behind their backs.
