Every Russian will learn the truth about the massacre in Bucha, Volodymyr Zelensky has vowed.
In his nightly address to his nation, Ukraine’s president said Russia would face justice for atrocities after Kyiv said 410 murdered civilians were removed from newly liberated areas near the capital.
Mr Zelensky said his government was “doing everything possible to identify all the Russian military involved in these crimes as soon as possible”.
He said: “All crimes of the occupiers are documented. The necessary procedural basis is provided for bringing the guilty Russian military to justice for every crime they commit.
“The time will come when every Russian will learn the whole truth about who of their fellow citizens killed, who gave orders, who turned a blind eye to the murders. We will establish all of this – and make it known to the world.”
Liz Truss on Monday urged France and Germany to agree to tough new sanctions against Moscow as the West reacted with anger to Russian atrocities in Ukraine.
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01:50 AM
Russia nears default as US stops bond payments
Russia’s latest sovereign bond coupon payments have been stopped, a spokeswoman for the US Treasury said, putting it closer to a historic default.
The latest sovereign bond coupon payments have not received authorisation by the US Treasury to be processed by correspondent bank JPMorgan, Reuters reported.
The payments were due on bonds due in 2022 and 2042. The correspondent bank processes the coupon payments from Russia, sending them to the payment agent to distribute to overseas bondholders.
A US Treasury spokeswoman said: “Today is the deadline for Russia to make another debt payment. Beginning today, the US Treasury will not permit any dollar debt payments to be made from Russian government accounts at US financial institutions. Russia must choose between draining remaining valuable dollar reserves or new revenue coming in, or default.”
01:22 AM
Russia promises to expel diplomats
Russia will respond proportionately to the expulsion of its diplomats from a number of Western countries, Russian ex-president and deputy head of the security council Dmitry Medvedev said late on Monday.
“Everyone knows the answer: it will be symmetrical and destructive for bilateral relations,” Mr Medvedev said in a posting on his Telegram channel.
“Who have they punished? First of all, themselves.”
On Monday, France said it would expel 35 Russian diplomats over Moscow’s actions in Ukraine and Germany declared “significant number” of Russian diplomats as undesirable.
“If this continues, it will be fitting, as I wrote back on 26th February – to slam shut the door on Western embassies,” Medvedev said. “It will be cheaper for everyone. And then we will end up just looking at each other in no other way than through gunsights.”
12:40 AM
Biden calls for Putin to face war crimes trial
President Biden on Monday called for a “war crimes trial” over alleged atrocities in Bucha and vowed tougher sanctions against Moscow, as Ukraine’s leader urged the world to acknowledge a “genocide” by Russian troops near Kyiv.
Western leaders have united in outrage after dozens of bodies were found on the streets and in mass graves when Russian troops retreated from the devastated town near the capital, laying bare the horrors of a 40-day war that has killed thousands.
The Telegraph on Monday witnessed mass graves filled with bodies so badly decomposed residents were unable to identify them, and bullet-riddled cars that were carrying families fleeing Bucha.
Read more: Bucha killings: ‘We brought the dead here because the dogs were trying to eat them’
11:48 PM
Satellite images rebut Russian claims of staged killings
Satellite photographs released on Monday appear to rebut Russian assertions that dead bodies in civilian clothing found in Bucha had appeared there after Russian forces retreated from the devastated Ukrainian town.
Mid-March satellite imagery of a Bucha street, below, appears to show several bodies of civilians lying dead in or just off the roadway where Ukrainian officials recently said they found multiple corpses after Russian troops withdrew.
“High-resolution Maxar satellite imagery collected over Bucha, Ukraine (northwest of Kyiv) verifies and corroborates recent social media videos and photos that reveal bodies lying in the streets and left out in the open for weeks,” Maxar Technologies spokesman Stephen Wood said Monday in a statement.
11:42 PM
Today’s top stories
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Liz Truss on Monday urged France and Germany to agree to tough new sanctions against Moscow as the West reacted with anger to Russian atrocities in Ukraine
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Joe Biden, the US president, branded Mr Putin a “war criminal” and said he should face trial for the atrocities in Bucha
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Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine’s foreign minister, warned that the murders in Bucha were merely the “tip of the iceberg” of Russian war crimes
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The Telegraph on Monday witnessed mass graves filled with bodies so badly decomposed residents were unable to identify them, and bullet-riddled cars that were carrying families fleeing Bucha
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Angela Merkel on Monday rejected the criticism of what Volodymyr Zelensky called her 14 years of “the policy of concessions” to Russia
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Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish prime minister, accused Germany of being the “main roadblock” in imposing an EU ban on Russian gas imports
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A mass grave containing the tortured bodies of a mayor, her husband and her son has been discovered in woodland near Kyiv. Her body showed “signs of torture”, according to the mayor of the neighbouring village of Kopyliv, who added that her arms and fingers had been broken
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Spanish police on Monday seized a $99 million (£75 million) superyacht belonging to an oligarch on behalf of American authorities, a first for the US’s “KleptoCapture” taskforce launched to punish Vladimir Putin’s billionaire cronies over his war on Ukraine
