In a statement on behalf of the 27-nation bloc, Josep Borrell, the EU’s chief foreign envoy, laid the blame for the “haunting images of large numbers of civilian casualties” at the feet of the occupying Russian forces, and said the EU will work on further sanctions “as a matter of urgency.”
Russia’s Defense Ministry called the pictures of the dead in the streets of towns newly liberated by Ukrainian forces a “provocation” by Kyiv, while Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov reiterated on Monday that Russia “categorically denies” allegations its forces killed civilians in Bucha.
“The Russian authorities are responsible for these atrocities, committed while they had effective control of the area,” Borrell said. “The massacres in the town of Bucha and other Ukrainian towns will be inscribed in the list of atrocities committed on European soil.”
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