An indiscriminate massacre in the suburbs of Kiev a Bush. The images of dozens of corpses in mass graves or scattered along the roadsides have brought into our homes the horrors of a war that, despite the years, recalls the atrocities committed in the darkest moments of history. The images tell of civilians who were shot in cold blood or executed as they walked on the sidewalks (many of them still had their wrists tied). Information in the international media reports that the Russians in retreat from the Ukrainian capital would have carried out these atrocities. While Kiev screams "genocide" to the world, Moscow firmly denies the accusations and replies that it is a provocation by the Ukrainians to block the negotiations.
Surprisingly, the Ukrainian president tonight Volodymyr Zelensky he spoke to the Grammys asking for a "help, but not with silence". Shortly before, in a speech to the nation he announced the creation of a "special mechanism”To investigate the war crimes committed by Russia.
"I want every mother of every Russian soldier to see the bodies of the people killed in Bucha, Irpin, Hostomel ", he stressed, defining the forces of Moscow "Murderers", "torturers" and "rapists."".
Energy sanctions
The Western world is wondering about the advisability of sanctioning Putin on energy resources, the lifeblood that is allowing him to carry out the terrible military campaign. Europe, to give an idea, pays Russia almost one billion euros a day. It is the sum of what the Old Continent has paid - in just 24 hours - to Moscow for gas (660 million) and oil (350 million). .
According to the German defense minister Christine Lambrecht, the EU should discuss stopping Russian gas imports. A move already started by Lithuania, the first EU country to have blocked its imports. In the coming hours in Luxembourg, finance ministers will discuss the economic impact of the crisis.
From the battlefield
According to the Ukrainian army, Russia it is mobilizing another 60.000 troops to reconstitute the units lost in the war. A conflict that has caused the death of 1.417 people since its inception, including 59 children and 2.038 injured, according to the latest count of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (Ohchr).
In Kharkiv only yesterday at least seven people died and 34 were injured in Russian bombing. And the martyr city of Mariupol in the south still does not give up. According to the head of the Russian National Defense Control Center Mikhail Mizintsev, over 123.600 local residents managed to be evacuated without Kiev's involvement during a "special military operation". From London, in its latest intelligence report, the British Defense Ministry suggested that the capture of Mariupol is a key target of the Russian invasion.
In northeastern Ukraine, and more precisely in Sumy, the governor Dmytro Zhyvytsky, announced that Russian forces have left the area, while tension escalated overnight in Ternopil where the mayor of the city reported explosions and rocket fire.
Diplomacy
The head of Russian diplomacy Sergey Lavrov he will meet a delegation from the Arab League. In the past few hours, the secretary general of the Atlantic Alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, warned Moscow that "an attack on an ally would trigger a response from NATO ". On the return flight from Malta to Rome, Papa Francesco he confirmed his readiness to go to Kiev if this could help stop the war. The pontiff then reported that he "for some time" has been thinking about "a meeting with the patriarch Kirill and we are working, we think in the Middle East ”, as the venue for the meeting. L'Hungary confirmed the premier for the fourth consecutive term Viktor Orban, which included Zelensky among his opponents. In Belgrade the president Aleksandar Vucic, who won a second term by winning the presidential elections in the first round, said the Serbia, although it will continue its military neutrality, it will maintain good relations with the Russian Federation.