The discovery of many corpses in the cities of which the Russian forces have withdrawn, around kyiv, pushes the Europeans to cure their sanctions towards Moscow. Emmanuel Macron discussed new measures on “coal and oil” on Monday.
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“The photos of civilians murdered by Russian soldiers in Irpine and Boutcha are reminiscent of the mass murders of Soviet and Nazis regimes.” The words of Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, Sunday, April 3, give an idea of the The magnitude of the reactions aroused by the discovery of the bodies of civilians executed, lying in the streets of the cities of the vicinity of kyiv which had come to withdraw the forces deployed by Vladimir Putin. These acts are “clearly from war crimes,” said the leader of this Baltic state, while calling for new European sanctions and additional arms deliveries to Ukraine.
The indignation caused by these atrocities is widely shared. “The images that arrive us from Bantcha are unsustainable, Tweeted Emmanuel Macron. The Russian authorities will have to answer these crimes.” The German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, denounced “terrible and horrible images” and claimed that international organizations have access to to the region to “document these atrocities”. The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, said “deeply shocked by the images of civilians killed in Boutha, and the United Nations Human Rights Office evoked” possible war crimes “. The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken talked about a “stomach punch”.
Russia, she denied liability and stated that the images of corpses were “a new production of the kyiv regime for the Western media”. Moscow even requires a meeting of the United Nations Security Council to decide on the “Hainy Provocations” by “Ukrainian radicals” in Bantcha.
“More aid” in Ukraine
Do these acts encourage Westerners to strengthen their commitment to support from Ukraine against Russia? The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, who denounces the “genocide” perpetrated by his abuser in his country, once again pleaded in this sense during the weekend. His Foreign Minister, Dmyro Kuleba, asked for himself in a tweet of “new devastating penalties of the G7 now”.
Without waiting, Olaf Scholz has clearly suggested that additional penalties were going to be taken: “We will decide on new measures between allies in the coming days, he assured at a short statement to the Chancery. The President Putin and his supports will suffer the consequences, “he added. “More penalties and aids from the EU are on the way,” Tweeted the President of the European Council, Charles Michel.
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