{"id":1421242,"date":"2022-04-06T07:48:01","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T11:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1421242"},"modified":"2022-04-06T07:48:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T11:48:08","slug":"zelensky-accuses-putin-of-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/zelensky-accuses-putin-of-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky Accuses Putin of Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/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%2Fzelensky-accuses-putin-of-genocide%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=1421242&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--><div><\/div>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday accused Russia of \u201cgenocide,\u201d as horrifying images of dead civilians emerged as Russian troops retreated from the capital region.<\/p>\n<p>Bodies with bound hands, close-range gunshot wounds and signs of torture lay scattered in the city of Bucha as Russian troops withdrew from the outskirts of Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is genocide,\u201d Zelenskyy said on CBS\u2019 \u201cFace The Nation.\u201d \u201cThe elimination of the whole nation and the people. We are the citizens of Ukraine. We have more than 100 nationalities. This is about the destruction and extermination of all these nationalities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are the citizens of Ukraine, and we don\u2019t want to be subdued to the policy of Russian Federation,\u201d he added. \u201cThis is the reason we are being destroyed and exterminated, and this is happening in the Europe of the 21st century. So this is the torture of the whole nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin along with all of the military commanders, everyone who gave instructions and orders, should be \u201cpunished adequately,\u201d Zelenskyy said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe couldn\u2019t have imagined anything like this because this is a maniac type of decision to destroy the whole nation,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The bodies of at least 410 civilians have been found in Kyiv-area towns that were recently retaken from Russian forces. Some of the Ukrainians had their hands tied behind their back and were decapitated.<\/p>\n<p>Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser to Zelenskyy, described bodies lying the streets as a \u201cscene from a horror movie.\u201d He alleged that some of the women found dead had been raped before being killed and the Russians then burned the bodies.<\/p>\n<p>The emergence of the horrific images from Bucha over the weekend prompted widespread calls for investigations into war crimes.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken described the images as a \u201cpunch to the gut.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have come out and said that we believe that Russian forces have committed war crimes,\u201d Blinken said Sunday on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of Union.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t become numb to this. We can\u2019t normalize this,\u201d Blinken said. \u201cThis is the reality of what\u2019s going on every single day as long as Russia\u2019s brutality against Ukraine continues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss echoed Blinken.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir indiscriminate attacks against innocent civilians during Russia\u2019s illegal and unjustified invasion of Ukraine must be investigated as war crimes,\u201d Truss said.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, called for an investigation into the alleged atrocities: \u201cAppalled by reports of unspeakable horrors in areas from which Russia is withdrawing,\u201d she wrote on Twitter. \u201cAn independent investigation is urgently needed. Perpetrators of war crimes will be held accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry said in a statement that the photos and videos of dead bodies \u201chave been stage managed by the Kyiv regime for the Western media.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on the Biden administration to increase pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin amid the invasion.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. needs to \u201cdouble down\u201d on sanctions that hurt Putin, Clinton said as the Biden administration has levied a series of punishments during the last month amid Russia\u2019s attack of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only way that we\u2019re going to end the bloodshed and the terror that we\u2019re seeing unleashed in Ukraine and protect Europe and democracy is to do everything we can to impose even greater costs on Putin,\u201d Clinton said on NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are more banks that can be sanctioned and taken out of the so-called SWIFT relationship,\u201d she added. \u201cThere is an increasing call for doing more on gas and oil \u2026 I think now is the time to double down on the pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moscow now says it is focusing its offensive on the country\u2019s east, but it also pressed a siege on a city in the north and continued to strike cities elsewhere. Russian forces launched missiles on the Black Sea port of Odesa, in southern Ukraine, sending up clouds of dark smoke that veiled parts of the city.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><em>\u00a9 2022 MediaNews Group, Inc<\/em>\n<em>Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC<\/em><\/pre>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday accused Russia of \u201cgenocide,\u201d as horrifying images of dead civilians emerged as Russian troops retreated from the capital region. 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