New evidence of the murders of civilians near Kyiv. Here's what the journalists who visited there learned Sergei Supinsky / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Journalists of many international agencies and publications last weekend and on Monday were able to get to the cities and villages of the Kyiv region, which until recently were controlled by Russian troops - and where, after their retreat, the bodies of hundreds of dead civilians were discovered, according to Ukrainian official data.

The New York Times has published satellite images of the Ukrainian city of Bucha, where dozens of bodies of dead civilians were found on the streets. Journalists analyzed pictures taken by Maxar Technologies since mid-March and concluded that the residents were killed more than three weeks ago, when the city was still under the control of the Russian military.

Three vans with paintings from Russian museums, including the Hermitage and the Tretyakov Gallery, were detained at the Vaalimaa-Torfyanovka checkpoint on the border with Finland. The first to report this was TV channel "78". Three consignments of goods that may fall under EU sanctions were stopped at the border on April 2 and 3, Finnish customs officials said. They confiscated the cargo and launched a preliminary investigation into an aggravated offence.

Employees of the Spanish Civil Guard, at the request of the US FBI, arrested the Tango yacht, owned by Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg, in the port of Palma de Mallorca, Associated Press reports. The owner of the Renova holding and the president of the Skolkovo Foundation fell under US sanctions back in 2018. With the outbreak of war in Ukraine, the American authorities decided to freeze his property.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. The massacre of civilians in Buch is a war crime. Who will be punished? And how to make it happen? The Human Rights Watch international human rights organization has published a report on Russian war crimes in Ukraine. The report used data from February 27 to March 14, human rights activists interviewed 10 people - victims or residents of the territories who were or are under the control of Russian troops.

In the twentieth century, many countries used these “arguments”, denying their own crimes (including military). Three examples Sean Gallup / Getty Images 613 coffins with victims of the massacre in Srebrenitsa in 1995.

A draft law introducing criminal liability for the implementation of anti-Russian sanctions on the territory of Russia has been submitted to the State Duma. This was reported to journalists by one of the initiators of the amendments, the head of the Committee on State Building and Legislation Pavel Krasheninnikov. The document has not yet been published in the database of bills on the website of the State Duma.

Why Russia’s war against Ukraine is the logical continuation of Russian state ideology. Felipe Dana / AP / Scanpix / LETA A mass grave in Kharkiv. March 26, 2022 For years, Russia’s official ideology has revolved around the myth that the country is in danger and its enemies are trying to destroy it. The war in Ukraine is the logical continuation of this myth.

The German subsidiary of the Russian Gazprom, Gazprom Germania, will come under the control of the Federal Network Agency of Germany until September 30. It is reported by Bloomberg with reference to the statement of the Minister of Economics of Germany Robert Habek.

The German government has declared a significant number of Russian embassy officials undesirable, according to a statement by German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock. The reason for the expulsion of Russian diplomats was evidence of mass murders of civilians in the Ukrainian city of Bucha and other suburbs of Kiev, where Russian military personnel had previously been stationed.

Journalists of the world media visited April 4 in the village of Motyzhin, Kyiv region, where after the departure of the Russian troops they found the bodies of murdered civilians. In one of the mass graves, the bodies of Olga Sukhenko, her husband Igor and their son Alexander, as well as the body of another person, whose remains have not yet been identified, were discovered.

The Prosecutor General's Office of Russia , following the Investigative Committee, announced the verification of publications about the killings of civilians in the city of Bucha, Kiev region of Ukraine. The department announced this on its Telegram channel. The Prosecutor General's Office called such publications "false". According to the department, data from Russian military prosecutors, the Russian Defense Ministry, as well as videos that are in the public domain testify in favor of this.

US President Joe Biden has called for the trial of Russian President Vladimir Putin as a war criminal, reports the Associated Press. “You saw what happened in Bucha,” Biden said, again calling Putin a “war criminal.” He had previously said this about the Russian president in mid-March.

Ronaldo Schemidt / AFP / Scanpix / LETA On Monday, April 4, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited liberated towns on the outskirts of Kyiv, where the bodies of hundreds of civilians were uncovered following several weeks of occupation by Russian forces. “With my own eyes I saw Bucha, Irpin, Stoyanka after the occupation. We will do our best to bring them back to life as soon as possible,” Zelensky wrote on his official Telegram channel.

The Zavolzhsky District Court of Yaroslavl sentenced nine former employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service to terms ranging from three years to three years and four months in the case of the torture of Abubakar Tsagalaev, who was serving his sentence in Yaroslavl Correctional Colony No. 1. This was reported by the Public Verdict Foundation .