Calls intensified this week for Vladimir Putin to face criminal charges over the Ukraine invasion as graphic images of murdered civilians shocked the world.
Following the discovery of the bodies of an estimated 410 civilians in formerly Russian-occupied territory around Kyiv, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Russia was committing “genocide”. Days later, the Ukrainian leader described scenes of death and destruction in the town or Borodyanka as even “more horrific” than the atrocities uncovered in Bucha last weekend.
Western powers have responded by ramping up sanctions on high-profile Russians including Putin’s children. But the Russian president has hit back at the financial deep-freeze by demanding that international buyers of Russian gas supplies must make purchases in roubles.
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