Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday flatly said, 'This is genocide,' after officials from his government presented evidence of civilian executions and other atrocities allegedly being committed by the invading Russian forces.
“at least 20 bodies on a single street in the town of Bucha near Kyiv, including one with his hands tied, and the body of a missing photographer was discovered in a nearby village," the news outlet reported.the “bodies of at least nine people in civilian clothes who appeared to have been killed at close range,” as well as “two bodies wrapped in plastic, bound with tape and thrown into a ditch.
Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych said Sunday that the images from Bucha and other towns in the Kyiv region presented “a picture from horror movies, a post-apocalyptic picture,”The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense compared the scene in Bucha to the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, where 8,000 Bosnian Muslims were executed as part of a genocide. The ministry shared
featuring numerous bodies in Ukrainian streets. "The Ukrainian city of Bucha was in the hands of 🇷🇺 animals for several weeks," the Ukrainian government department wrote, using a Russian flag emoji.The Russian Ministry of Defense denied the allegations and reports, calling them "fake." The Russian government suggested that the Ukrainian video was staged.
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