{"id":1418621,"date":"2022-04-04T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1418621"},"modified":"2022-04-04T17:45:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T21:45:13","slug":"pics-zelensky-tours-site-of-alleged-russian-war-crimes-near-kyiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pics-zelensky-tours-site-of-alleged-russian-war-crimes-near-kyiv\/","title":{"rendered":"PICS: Zelensky Tours Site of Alleged Russian War Crimes Near Kyiv"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpics-zelensky-tours-site-of-alleged-russian-war-crimes-near-kyiv%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1418621&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Ukraine\u2019s President\u00a0Volodymyr Zelensky has toured the town of Bucha, near Kyiv (Kiev), where retreating Russian forces are alleged to have left murdered civilians in their wake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__OOj6H\" data-testid=\"paragraph-3\">\u201cThese are war crimes and will be recognised by the world as genocide,\u201d the body armour clad Ukrainian president said at the scene, in comments <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/ukraines-president-says-russian-actions-ukraine-make-negotiations-harder-2022-04-04\/?taid=624b322d77636d0001dcfc31&#038;utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&#038;utm_medium=trueAnthem&#038;utm_source=twitter\">reported<\/a> by Reuters.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__OOj6H\" data-testid=\"paragraph-4\">\u201cIt\u2019s very difficult to talk when you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/04\/03\/pics-ukraine-forces-find-bodies-littering-streets-as-russia-retreats-from-kyiv-region\/\">see what they\u2019ve done here<\/a>,\u201d he went on, suggesting the alleged war crimes could make a breakthrough in ongoing peace talks more difficult.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__OOj6H\" data-testid=\"paragraph-4\">\u201cThe longer the Russian Federation drags out the negotiating process, the worse it is for them and for this situation and for this war,\u201d he said, claiming that his government\u00a0\u201cknow[s] of thousands of people killed and tortured, with severed limbs, raped women and murdered children.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20514521\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239741871.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Ukraine\u2019s President Volodymyr Zelensky (C) walks in the town of Bucha, north-west of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, on April 4th, 2022. Zelensky said on April 3rd, 2022 that the Russian leadership was responsible for civilian killings in Bucha, outside Kyiv, where bodies were found lying in the street after the town was retaken by the Ukrainian army. (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The alleged killings saw Zelensky increase his rhetoric against NATO and European Union members which Ukraine sees as having adopted a slack or permissive attitude towards Russian aggression in recent years, with Germany\u2019s former four-time chancellor Angela Merkel and her erstwhile French counterpart, Nicolas Sarkozy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI invite Mrs Merkel and Mr Sarkozy to visit Bucha and see what the policy of concessions to Russia has led to in 14 years. To see with their own eyes the tortured Ukrainian men and women,\u201d he said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.president.gov.ua\/en\/news\/chas-zrobiti-vse-shob-voyenni-zlochini-rosijskih-vijskovih-s-74053\">official address<\/a> prior to his visit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239741686.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20514593\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239741686-1024x665-1.jpg\" alt=\"Zelensky\" width=\"990\" height=\"643\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Ukraine\u2019s President Volodymyr Zelensky walks in the town of Bucha, north-west of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, on April 4th, 2022. (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em>President Zelensky was already displaying certain resentment towards Western European countries which did not seem serious about deterring the Kremlin from aggressive action in Ukraine in 2021, before the full-scale invasion but at a time when a proxy war between Kyiv and Russia-backed eastern separatists in the Donbas had already been raging since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>He suggested <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/04\/28\/zelensky-wants-serious-countries-not-france-germany-ukraine-war-talks\/\">last April<\/a> that\u00a0\u201cserious, powerful players\u201d be introduced into the long-running peace talks to end the Donbas conflict \u2014 obviously unsuccessful \u2014 mediated by France and Berlin, in what was interpreted as a vote of no confidence in Paris and Berlin.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_20516564\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239741996.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20516564\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239741996-1024x629-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"608\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ukraine\u2019s President Volodymyr Zelensky (3rdL) stands in the town of Bucha, north-west of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, on April 4th, 2022. (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Russia, which previously accused Zelensky of having fled the Kyiv region first for Lviv (Lvov\/Lw\u00f3w) in western Ukraine and then neighbouring Poland, has for its part\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/world\/1432013\">insisted<\/a> that the images coming out of Bucha show a \u201cfake attack\u201d that was \u201cstaged\u201d after Russian forces had already left the area.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe have requested an emergency meeting of the [United Nations] Security Council on this concrete matter, because we think that such provocations pose direct threat to international peace and security,\u201d Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/politics\/1432023\">said<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Russians claim that such a meeting on \u201cthe terrible Ukrainian provocation in Bucha\u201d is yet to take place because Britain, which currently chairs the Security Council, has refused to assent to one multiple times.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20514656\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239741370.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20514656\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239741370-1024x691-1.jpg\" alt=\"Zelensky\" width=\"990\" height=\"668\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Ukraine\u2019s President Volodymyr Zelensky (C) stands in the town of Bucha, north-west of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, on April 4th, 2022. (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cBritain, acting in accordance with its worst traditions, once again refused to give consent to holding a Security Council meeting on Bucha,\u201d foreign ministry spokeswoman\u00a0Maria Zakharova <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/politics\/1431949\">claimed<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, Russia will demand once again the UN Security Council meet in session to discuss criminal provocations by the Ukrainian military and radicals in that city,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are shocked at the scale and brutality of the staging organized in Bucha in the best traditions of \u2018White Helmet cinema,&#8217;\u201d Russia\u2019s First Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Dmitry Polyansky, has said, alluding to a Syrian group Russia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2021\/05\/24\/russia-claims-syrian-white-helmets-are-planning-false-chemical-attack-syria\/\">accuses<\/a> of staging false-flag atrocities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s Ukrainian neo-Nazis are completely faithful to Goebbels\u2019 old Nazi school of provocations and are trying to shift the blame to Russia,\u201d he added, claiming that footage of the alleged war crimes have been \u201crefuted on the Internet.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20514674\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239740689.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20514674\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239740689-1024x669-1.jpg\" alt=\"Zelensky\" width=\"990\" height=\"647\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>President Volodymyr Zelensky (2nd L) walks in the town of Bucha, just north-west of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on April 4th, 2022. (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Jack Montgomery on Twitter:<\/span><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span>@JackBM<\/span><\/a><\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span>ontgomery<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine\u2019s President\u00a0Volodymyr Zelensky has toured the town of Bucha, near Kyiv (Kiev), where retreating Russian forces are alleged to have left murdered civilians in their wake. \u201cThese are war crimes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1418621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1418621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1418621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1418621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1418621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}