in bucha and elsewhere.n bucha we identified a case based on many interviews and other evidence where russian soldiers executed ukrainian man at short distance in the back of the head by shooting him while he was kneeling on the pavement on the street in bucha. this was during the russian acknowledged occupation of bucha . we also published a statement about evidence in the first half of march of a woman whose husband was shot. we do not know the circumstances of the shooting, but the russian troops denied her access to her husband's body for many days. so my colleagues have been in bucha for the last couple of days, today and tomorrow, beginning an investigation about the aspect of the bodies. we do not know the circumstances in which those 300 or 400 bodies were killed. we are extremely concerned these could amount to war crimes because we have identified at least one example of a war crime by russian soldiers in bucha. we are entirely unconvinced by the russian explanation that somehow the bodies were pla

she, by the way, left bucha on march 9th.w that young man's body still lying on the scene. she saw lots of other bodies. she described seeing lots of bodies as she was leaving. not only the photographic evidence you were describing that testified to the presence of bodies on the scene in bucha well before the town changed hands back into ukrainian forces, but we have witness testimony telling us all about these bodies. we don't -- now, we don't know the circumstances of -- >> the biden administration. >> -- each and every -- mm-hm? >> keep going. >> i just -- i think it's important to underscore that, you know, each one of those bodies has its own story. some people might have been killed through summary execution, like the young men whose execution we documented. some people might have gotten caught in cross fire. remember there were lots of military hostilities in bucha. some people might have been killed by russian forces just shooting them as their cars were trying to escape. we documented another case in bucha of a man w

the president spoke in bucha.elenskyy went there to speak out against atrocities committed by russian soldiers. he says russia's war cris make negotiation less possible. proof of executions and mass graves have been found. to its standard response, to say that ukraine is faking the deaths. >> 410 bodies recovered so far. 280 place in math grates, because it was too dangerous to bury them elsewhere. the ministry's statement said, the photos and videos from bucha our staged for the western media, as it was done in mari upol. but this resident is hoping to collect bodies. >> there is nothing ambiguous about what has happened. you can see it for yourself. these art civilians. this one was carrying potatoes. snipers shot them. >> satellite imagery released picturest said was mass grave located on the terms of the church in bucha. outrage grows. eu leaders have called for tougher sanctions and zelenskyy calling russian troops, murderers, torturers, rapists. he later paid a visit to bucha himself, where he said the world

worse than bucha, we are told. kyiv suburb that russian forces turned into a killing field before withdrawing from. the world left reeling by their unimaginable brutality. we do want to warn you the images you're about to see are disturbing. a cnn team witnessed the removal of five bodies from a basement in bucha. they were in an advanced stage of decomposition, found in an area that was held by the russian military. a ukrainian official says that they were tortured and executed. ukraine's president volodymyr zelenskyy warning civilian casualties could be even worse in other cities. the death toll in bucha alone is believed to be well over 300. >> translator: there is already information that the number of victims of the occupiers may be even higher in some other liberated cities. in many villages of the liberated districts of the kyiv, chernihiv and sumy regions, the locals seen something not seen by the nazis even 80 years ago. >> russia is a permanent member on the u.n. security council. >>> breaking overnight,

i that we are seeing these images from bucha?— from bucha?m bucha? i think it is true to say there has _ from bucha? i think it is true to say there has always - from bucha? i think it is true to say there has always been from bucha? i think it is true i to say there has always been a red line, you could call it in terms of what the west is prepared to do. ukraine is not part of nato. and that is one of the big reasons why the military assistance in terms of troops being placed in ukraine has not happened. we know the frustration of president zelensky, we have just frustration of president zelensky, we havejust been hearing about his frustration at the united nations. we have also heard in some of his addresses, frustration at the west and have our countries like the united states are prepared to go. but i am not hearing at least in this country, any indication that the us is prepared to go further than the serious financial sanctions that are being imposed and will continue to be imposed later on wednesday and the military assistance in term

while our troops were in the bucha. many locals wore these identification marks, as a signal, do not shoot civilians after our departure, the white bandage turned into a red rag for the nazis, as well as boxes of russian-style dry rations, which our soldiers apparently gave to the local boxes. too found near the dead that on april 1 there really was a sweep in gucci, the deputy of the local council unwittingly confirmed. don't relax civilians. be careful. someone stayed there. this does not mean that you can move freely around the city, because if the remnants of the occupying forces are found, so that it does not interfere with the cleansing or fighting, one dead person with a white armband is carried past the adviser. head of the ukrainian ministry of internal affairs gerashchenko when he recorded an angry video message, judging by the adviser didn’t even understand that he himself was undermining the version where russia was appointed guilty a priori. however, in ukraine and in the west they pay little attention to s

yogita limaye, bbc news, bucha. nations now, and in president zelensky�*s speech to delegates this afternoon, he not only accused moscow of war crimes, but he said the un was proving ineffective because russia is abusing its veto on the security council. and that, he said, was preventing international action. here's our north america editor sarah smith. horrific images of dead civilians lying in the streets of bucha shocked the world, but russia claims the scenes have been staged. analysis of satellite imagery taken in mid—march shows bodies lying in the precise positions corpses were later found, proving they were killed when russian forces controlled the area. ukrainian president zelensky told the un security council the most terrible war crimes since world war ii are being committed in ukraine, saying what's been revealed in bucha is also happening elsewhere. translation: the massacre in our city of bucha is only i one, unfortunately only one of many examples of what the occupiers have been doing on our land for

and what's happening in bucha is outrageous. and everyone has seen it. >> i think it is a war crime. >> president biden also said today that he is weighing whether to levy additional sanctions against russia. the state department announced today that it will support a multi-national team of prosecutors to begin an investigation into whether russia's actions in bucha constitute war crimes. while the early steps of an investigation get going, with any kind of repercussions a long way away, ukraine right now, is left to pick up the pieces. in the past 24 hours, parliamentary leaders in ukraine made their way to bucha to witness the devastation and we should warn you much of what they saw is disturbing. they traveled there to see first-hand the bodies, the destruction, to document the horror and t gather evidence in preparation for a potential war crimes trial against vladimir putin and his troops. one member of parliament who visited today said every death, every destruction is iddocument. i am choosing to goev there, to take this

the horrors of bucha will not be the last. there are new images emerging from the outskirts of kyiv as ukrainian forces retake territory. we will have details ahead. >>> but first, reporting on the war and getting a little too close to the incoming fire. >> down here, john. down here. keep on. t in a year for, like, $11k. hmm. barista: order eleven! yeah, see you at 11. 1111 masters boulevard, please. gonna be eleven even, buddy. really? the clues are all around us! some things are too obvious to be a coincidence. it's lawn season. and i need a lawn. quick. the fast way to bring it up to speed. is scotts turf builder rapid grass. rapid grass is a revolutionary mix of seed and fertilizer that will change the way you grow grass. it grows two times faster than seed alone for full, green grass in just weeks. after growing grass this fast, everything else just seems... slow. it's lawn season. let's get to the yard. download the scotts my lawn app today for your personalized lawn plan. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ cranky-pated: a bad

he went to visit bucha today. he walked around and is seeing those scenes we've seen on video and he's been very upset by them. he's calling this a slaughter of civilians in the city of bucha. the mayor of bucha had said at least 20 people had been shot execution-style in the back of their hand some of them with their hands tied behind their backs. i don't know if we have time but we can take a listen to what one witness saw there. let's take a listen. >> reporter: all of a sudden the russians started shooting. they hit him above the heel, crushing the bone, and he fell down. the shooter shouted "don't scream, or i will shoot" and they turned away. then they shot off his left leg completely. then they shot him all over the chest. and another shot went slightly below the temple. it was a controlled shot to the head. >> reporter: i mean just horrifying accounts. not only do they have to witness these sort of accounts, these people are being buried in mass graves or very shallow graves because there is no time to giv

in bucha.~ ~ _, . , what they see is what's happening in bucha. ~ . , ., bucha. will keep a close eye on that press conference _ bucha. will keep a close eye on that press conference and _ bucha. will keep a close eye on that press conference and you'll- bucha. will keep a close eye on that press conference and you'll be i bucha. will keep a close eye on that press conference and you'll be ablel press conference and you'll be able to see it here on bbc news. now we're going to look at how you gather proof of war crimes — and what the chances are of prosecutions. here's allan little. the precedent for holding political leaders responsible was established in 1945. this was the founding moment of international criminal law and the new concept of the crime of aggression of acquired legal force. including crimes against humanity. during the war in former yugoslavia, that concept was involved again with the setting up of the special war crimes tribunal in the hague. it took many years but in the end, prominent military and political leaders were brought to justice. thi

what is happening in bucha is outrageous. >> people in bucha doing what would have been unthinkable just a few weeks ago, collecting the dead bodies of their neighbors. phil black has more now. phil. >> reporter: don, this is more than just the indifference to civilian life. we have seen throughout this war, through russia's continuous bombardment of people's homes and other non-military targets, what we are hearing from bucha and other areas russia pulled back from, what the disturbing images show is that civilians were targeted, deliberately killed. some execution style. some tortured as well. there is little point closing the back doors of this van. it's stopping frequently, picking up those who didn't survive russia's brief occupation of bucha. each person is photographed. where possible, i.d. is checked. and where necessary, bindings are removed. their clothes, their belongings and in some cases their restraints all indicate these people were a threat to no one in the moments before they were killed. in normal times he is painter. now he collects bodies. this one was carrying potato

bucha is a small down.es and for sure we >> tony: anything what is happening in mariupol, kherson and a lot of plates in the east of the country under russian control right now. . >> we have seen a lot of bad images and stories come out of this war. this one seems even worse. does this feel different to you? >> this is something like i can compare to what is committing to the iraqis. with he see the same footages of the bandit armed of the people, the tied arms of the people shooting at the head or the forehead. it is just horrifying things. the players and the witnesses say they are russian troops. they were killing, reigning, for cherring people. this is just out of any common sense really. . >> how is it affecting you emoti emotionally? how are you coping? >> it's really hard even while i'm talking to you right now. seeing those first things, the first footages and videos, it was just horrifying and realizing that it is happening right now. while we are talking to you, it is also happening in the south a

bucha is — you have to understand, bucha is an upper—middle—class suburb of kyiv.al, quiet lives there. many left the city, the town, in the first days, seeing the approaching russian army. those who stayed, they posed no resistance, no threat to the russian army. everything that was done in bucha was done on purpose and without any justified reason. does it seem to you that what you have found in bucha and in a couple of other communities already, close to kyiv, does it seem to you that this changes anything deep and significant in the war that you are engaged in? as you've just said to me, mariupol has been bombarded for many, many days. hundreds and hundreds of ukrainian civilians have already lost their lives. but do you think this set of incidents might change anything? the bucha massacre should remove any kind of hesitation and reluctance in the west to provide ukraine with all necessary weapons, including planes, tanks, multiple—launch rocket systems and armoured vehicles to defend our country and to free it from the russian occupants. and the same goes for

civilians like in bucha yesterday. it is not normal. and everybody in the whole world can see that in ukraine every day, russian army kills hundreds. hundreds of civilian people. because they could not take our cities. they could not take our hearts, our freedom. so they begin killing our people. not only ukrainians, no. in our country, we have hundreds of nations. everybody now fighting for the freedom of ukraine. everybody from, if you are orthodox, catholic, islamic, jewish, we have everybody of such people and they are fighting for independence of ukraine. russian president cannot imagine an independent ukraine. because he thinks that the biggest problem in the 20th century was the destroying of ussr. he wants to restore soviet union. yesterday we had a hard situation in our country. you need to understand, you need to be, your country, the west world, need to be more active. everything more active. because one day do nothing, it is hundreds of civilians killed in our country. and this is the capital of ukraine. >> do you think that

city of bucha were not blocked. at the same time, the southern outskirts of the city, including residential quarters, were fired around the clock by the ukrainian military from large-caliber artillery, tanks and multiple launch rocket systems. we would like to especially note that all russian units completely left buchia on march 30, more than march 31 , the mayor of the city of bucha anatoly fedoruk. in his video message, he confirmed that none of the there are no russian military, but i didn’t even mention it. about any local residents shot in the streets with their hands tied, therefore it is not surprising that all the so-called evidence of crimes in bucha appeared only on the fourth day. which were published by the kiev regime after at least four days did not stiffen, and there was no clotted blood in the wounds. that's all, this does not conclusively confirm that the photographs and video footage from bucha is another production of the kiev regime for the western media, as it was in mariupol with a maternity h

president zelenskyy went to bucha today. he said witnessing the violence first hands -- made it difficult to speak. but late tonight, we have more with president zelenskyy. he will speak about the atrocity tomorrow morning before the united nations security council. russia has predictably denied they had anything to do with the atrocities in bucha. the kremlin has said that the images are fabricated. they have said that the dead bodies are crisis actors. russia's defense ministry admitted that some bodies were dead ukrainians, but said they were put there by ukraine after russia left town. the painful, gruesome evidence of what happened in bucha it is daunting and none of it appears to be on russia -- the new york times has compared video and satellite imagery, which appears to directly rebut russia's denials that they were responsible. on the left side of your screen, are screenshots from a video taken by ukrainian city council member, two days ago. after russia left town, showing bodies on the street. on the right side, is

visited the town of bucha, near kyiv.er witnessing the devastation, he made a promise that something will be done. >> it is were crimes that will be recognized by genocide of the world. you can see what has happened. we know about thousands killed with torture, people with katt williams, women who have been raped and children who have been murdered. we know there is much more. this is genocide. reporter: people began to bury the dead in a 45-foot trench dug in the grounds of a church, some 68 bodies at first. some victims of war, others who died of natural cases. the priest at st. andrew's church said he had to negotiate with russians to allow the burials, that of the war dragged on, more burials. in total, 130 were buried here. the mass grave was needed. all across bucha, the deadly in the streets for days, even weeks. even now they wait to be picked up by overworked undertakers. at the burial site, some of the bodies were wrapped in plastic, a little dignity in death. . the families took solace in the fact that they wer

we are seeing them in bucha. hundreds of bodies have been reported, but now we're hearing about it from other villages, from other cities where russian forces once occupied and now that they have withdrawn or been pushed out, you're seeing what they're leaving in their wake. and that's the message that president zelenskyy is going to be taking to the u.n. he did say yesterday that these atrocities make it more difficult to negotiate with russia. he want to be coming from a position of strength, obviously, in negotiations and so he's going to be pressuring the u.n., he's going to be pressuring the west and his allies to put more pressure on russia. i spoke earlier with the deputy prime minister of ukraine and she said it really comes down to an oil embargo, a gas embargo against russia on the part of europe and here is how she put it. >> what will his call to the world be? >> translator: i think he will tell the whole world about what's happened and if the world is still thinking how to minimize losses from the sa

they are finding dead in bucha all over the place. we stopped an ambulance, emergency services worker. and he told us him and his crew and the other crews that were picking up the dead bodies collected more than 480 in the last sort of hours, the last overnight hours alone. so certainly you can see right now, as the ukrainian forces have moved in here, as they have taken control here, that's when we are seeing the full picture of how many civilians were actually killed. and beauucha, we know is where there was heavy fighting going on. there are there is destroyed russian armor in the streets here. there's much more russian armor destroyed that many people would think. and then the russians of course are letting on. they are saying this was a retreat they said was going to happen any time. they said it was orderly. when you're on the ground here it does not look orderly at all. a lot of russian stuff is destroyed and a lot of russian uniforms are laying next to destroyed vehicles. they say they went out so fast they ditched their unifo

i am 'ust t in: put there, in bucha. i am 'ust trying to fl put there, in bucha.to tell you i put there, in bucha. i am 'ust trying to tell you that i put there, in bucha. i am 'ust trying to tell you that we h put there, in bucha. i amjust| trying to tell you that we must put there, in bucha. i amjust - trying to tell you that we must go into the the investigation, what was happened in bucha. it is a massacre, but i am sure, and i know, that our brave soldiers never ever killed sniffians in ukraine. we only attack and bomb, only military objects. 50 and bomb, only military objects. so what about hospitals. infrastructure.- what about hospitals. infrastructure. ~ ., ., ., , infrastructure. what about hospitals no hospitais- _ infrastructure. what about hospitals no hospitals. no _ infrastructure. what about hospitals no hospitals. no hospitals. - infrastructure. what about hospitals no hospitals. no hospitals. we - infrastructure. what about hospitals l no hospitals. no hospitals. we bomb. no hospitals. no hospitals. we bomb. no schools. non—cairned gardens. the n

bucha and other towns near kyiv the death toll remains unclear. searching for bodies and those efforts have been slow because the area has been heavily mined by russian it comes as russian forces withdraw from parts of ukraine refocusing their efforts and offensive on the donbas region to the east. that's according to a new report from british defense ministry. it also says mercenaries are being moved into this region. meanwhile ukraine's president accusing russia of trying to wipeout the country and its people. >> translator: indeed this is genocide. the 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. we are the citizens of the ukraine, and we don't want to be subdued to the policy of the russian federation. this is the reason we are being destroyed and exterminated. >> russia denies targeting civilians in this conflict. the ministry of defense claims the images out of bucha are fake. cnn's fred pleitgen went there hi

and not just in bucha. human rights watch said it documented russian troops committing laws of war violations against civilians in occupied areas, chernihiv, kharkiv, and kyiv regions of ukraine. these include a kis of repeated rape, two cases of summary execution, one of six men, the other of one man, and other cases of unlawful violence and threats against civilians. soldiers were imply kated in looting civilian property, including food, clothing, and firewood. the report said those who carried out the abuses are responsible for war crimes. here is ukraine's foreign minister. >> without an exaggeration by what we've seen in bucha and vicinity, we can conclude that russia is worse than isis in the scale and the ruthlessness of the crimes committed. >> debra haines with sky news has more from bucha. again, it's the reality we're showing you. the images are very disturbing. >> reporter: the broken body of a woman, evidence that the terror that swept through this town and others north of the capital before ru

we also heard from the mayor of bucha. he said there were children and teenagers among those killed and in that mass grave. he said these were people who posed no threat to russian forces. he said it was impossible not to see this was a child, that it was a mother carrying a child. these are the horrors that we're seeing. >> we could see so many more of them. >>> we do have a story to tell you about, a story of survival that takes place close to bucha. all this area in yellow is area that ukrainian forces have reoccupied. they were occupied by the russians. that's where we could find out more stories of horror. in hostomel. dimitri was sheltered in his basement for two weeks as the russians attacked in and around the family home. i'm joined by dimitri. can you hear me? >> yes, i hear you. hello. >> tell me what it was like. you hit in your family's basement for two weeks. >> yes, it's correct. unfortunately we were occupied in the second day of the war and it was our hiding place, to hide from bombs because artillery works

and throughout bucha today the carnage laid bare in the sun. her brother had been missing for more than a week she says, we found him five days ago, lying on the street, three bullets to the leg, one to the heart, one to the lungs their mother standing next to his backyard grave plans to rebury her son like he deserves. >> no one know will we survive. >> reporter: and here in lviv, this 32-year-old. >> i didn't except they are so heartless. >> reporter: with his brother-in-law and thei families escaped on march 9th from bucha >> murdered people on the streets outside. like the civilians they were just shot. they were just killed. >> reporter: where were the gunshots? >> like the chest like this >> reporter: and these are people in civilian clothes, for sure. >> for sure civilians. >> reporter: now relatively safe, they say lviv feels like an alternate universe how does it feel looking at all the pictures we are seeing over this weekend. you saw all of it? >> it could be us. that's it. >> reporter: it could be you >> yes, it could be us it was j

to begin with, where is located, the city of bucha bucha is located in this area, this is kiev well,is bucha yes, these events will be under the control of russian troops. and after the troops left the area , many bodies were allegedly found, but is it real body. or there are fake ones. two versions . the first is staged photos, and the bodies of the actor hired by zelensky are acting. these pictures are in the background. you see the cars, and at the same moment, as they drove off, as the photographed cars left, the dead immediately rose again, the corpses rose. this was a version of a staged photo, while another version, after the withdrawal of russian troops, was seen in the bucha of the remaining armed people. perhaps these people belonged to the ukrainian side. they killed the blamed russian government. chapter chinese honey bath after a telephone conversation with kuleba called for resolving the conflict in ukraine through negotiations, his interlocutor, while blatantly does not want negotiations in an interview with the bbc, kuleba said that the future of the war would be deci

>> about bucha? >> yeah. saying a were happened? >> the residents were scared. we spoke to elderly people that didn't have the physical ability to leave. we went into several of their buildings, most of the doors had been blown out with explosives, the soldiers had gone in, stolen things from the home, executed people in their homes, and just a really scared group of people still attempting to get through what they saw and what they witnessed psychologically. it was a very emotional place to be at that time when we were there. >> i know you've been close to the front line. recently you came under fire. tell us what happened, where you were. >> yes, ma'am. we were going in to deliver medical supplies to the front lines and there were three cars. car in front of us got hit by a mortar, and we took cover for about two hours while a barrage of artillery fire came down. that vehicle in front of us was an aid vehicle, as well. there's no bias in this war, there's no honor at all. everyone is being targeted. it does

i would say the damage is worse than bucha.ould say in the towns of that size i've seen in the kyiv district, this is the worst. numerous people, multiple interviewees said there are dead people under the rubble and they have no lifting gear, they cannot lift it up. i spoke to one man who said until the night of a big airstrike, for some reason he did not go in that night, he said in his building, 2230 people are missing. until they start digging, the thing to remember is under international law, killing civilians is not allowed unless you can somehow prove it was a military target and wanton destruction and the destruction there is decidedly wanton, that is also. lewis: western intelligence says russian troops are mainly locating to eastern ukraine. their goal is to take control of the regions. >> the first phase of this war is over. russia has not won it, but it hasn't necessarily lost entirely. they have more or less sealed off this land corridor or tha they wanted, so ty pretty much control two thirds of ukraine's black sea

yogita limaye, bbc news, bucha.united nations today, president zelensky accused moscow of war crimes, saying the un is proving ineffective in stopping the violence because russia is abusing its veto on the security council, preventing international action. showing a short but gruesome video alleging civilians were being shot in the streets, he called for russia to be excluded from the council. the kremlin denies its forces have committed war crimes. our next report is from our north america editor, sarah smith, and it does contain some of those disturbing images. horrific images of dead civilians lying in the streets of bucha shocked the world, but russia claims the scenes have been staged. analysis of satellite imagery taken in mid—march shows bodies lying in the precise positions corpses were later found, proving they were killed when russian forces controlled the area. president zelensky told the un security council the most terrible war crimes since world war ii are being committed in ukraine, saying what's been

yogita limaye, bbc news, bucha. to the global outpouring of anger and condemnation has been to deny any involvement, accusing the world's media of making it all up. the shocking images of bodies in the streets of bucha were staged, they said, and talk of war crimes and genocide was fake news. russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov has led the kremlin�*s response to the fury of the international community, as our russia editor steve rosenberg reports. this is how russia wants its soldiers in ukraine to be seen, as heroes and humanitarian workers, a caring, sharing army, spreading goodness and light to those it claims to be liberating. but moscow knows the international community doesn't believe that. mr lavrov, the us president has called your president a war criminal and said he must be held accountable. what does that tell us about russia's international reputation right now? translation: what this says is many american politicians _ who started the iraq war, destroyed syria, invaded libya, their conscience is in

it out of the kyiv suburb of bucha early this morning. leaving behind her 81-year-old grandfather. he didn't want to come with us, he decided to stay she says. he's old and can't run very fast and we had to leave so quickly. i don't know what's happening there now. it's so scary. this is what remains of the place she calls home. burnt-out husks of russian armored vehicles, entire apartment blocks destroyed. >> well, the killing of civilians in bucha and elsewhere has been going on almost since day one of the war. sadly, now we are learning of the house by house version there ask perhaps beyond. >> today speak with our fighters in mariupol and they said that significantly worse in mariupol than in bucha. it is impossible to imagine. also know that 340 people killed without mercy. many of them with a tight hand. we find it that day and don't be mistake, bucha is not alone. >> we have got live reports tonight from cnn's ben wedeman in mykolaiv, cnn chief international anchor in kharkiv. christiane amanpour in cnn's kaitlan collins at the whi

and what's happening in bucha is outrageous.d states will now look at adding additional sanctions against russia. with me to share their reporting, cnn's mj lee, sabrina siddiqui of the "wall street journal," and jackie kucinich of the daily beast. strong words from the president. the question is what more can you do? and is it just sanctions? is there something else? will he change his rules of military engagement? give something to the ukrainians like migs or a no-fly zone? >> at this point, regardless of what kind of labels we may be hearing from president biden, whether it's on the war criminal front, whether it's talking about regime change, none of that probably will change sort of in the big picture the a actions the u.s. is going to take when it comes to ukraine. we know what some of those actions are. it's going to be an expansion of the big actions of the u.s. and its allies have already taken. we're talking about sanctions, added security assistance, humanitarian aid. i think a unique challenge that this administratio

the the atrocities -- bucha. the destruction _ the atrocities -- bucha.ction left behind by the atrocities —— bucha. tt2 destruction left behind by the russian invaders in bucha, a town in an area reclaimed by the ukrainians, is visible from space in these new satellite images. but to see the destruction brought on thousands of lives, president zelensky visited himself. what he found was streets and graves filled with the bodies of ordinary citizens, many with their hands tied behind their backs and gunshot wounds. video and photos _ backs and gunshot wounds. video and photos from _ backs and gunshot wounds. video and photos from bucha _ backs and gunshot wounds. video and photos from bucha and - and photos from bucha and elsewhere are governed by the bbc, often from social media, and subjected to scrutiny as to their validity. with the kremlin running a significant disinformation campaign and proven examples of images being mislabelled or distorted, getting to the truth of what is accurate and what is not is far from easy. one of those bbc journalists wh

many lay in this mass grave behind the main church in bucha. local authorities tell us around 150 people are buried here, but no one knows the exact number. and here, too, the scenes are tragic. vladimir has been searching for his younger brother dmitry. now, he is convinced dmitry lies here even though he can't be 100% sure. the neighbor accompanying him has strong words for the russians. why do you hate ukraine so much, she says? since the 1930s, you have been abus abu abusing ukraine. you just wanted to destroy us. you wanted us gone but we will be. everything will be okay. i believe it. but more corpses are already on the way. at the end of the day, we meet the body collectors again. another nine bodies found in this tour alone. and it's unlikely they'll be the last. fred pleitgen, cnn, bucha, ukraine. >>> and the white house says russia will be hit with more sanctions this week. president joe biden is also calling for war crime charges against russian president vladimir putin. we have details now from cnn's phil mattingly reporting in from

my question is about bucha. saw one of them give birth and we saw one of them give birth and lease the other ones i, why do you believe that the pictures and the story you're getting right now containing us are true about bucha? i saw footage today on the russian television of the lady that gave birth to a —— mariupol and she admitted that was a fake. she is a ukrainian blogger named marianna, i forgot her surname and she admitted that was a fake. i forgot her surname and she admitted that was a fake.— that was a fake. i will come away from this again _ that was a fake. i will come away from this again because - that was a fake. i will come away from this again because it's - from this again because it's difficult to keep up with a number of things that the russian ambassador to the un is saying that are not true and we cannot let these things pass about again pointing out what's being said is not true. it's interesting to hear the ambassador talk about a war of christ vladimir putin has been calling this a spec

he says, it's possible, than in bucha. and jose, this is something that we have been hearing from many ukrainians. that they expect to hear what happened in bucha to be the tip of the iceberg. especially with russian forces continuing to push to the east and to the south, and continuing to encircle the besieged city of mariupol, which is roughly ten times the size of bucha. and from where we are having such a difficult time getting images from that area. so, expect today and the u.n. security council meeting to shortly, as president zelenskyy addresses the body, to hear him stress that the west needs to do more, as he has been saying, pushing for more sanctions. and also more weapons, jose. >> you know, gabe, as we see these pictures out of bucha, it seems as though in parts of the main avenues and streets, there were some very intense battles. i mean, tanks that are blown up, armored personnel carriers that are blown up. and of course, houses and tanks, you know, gasoline tankers are just blown up. but what's particularly

cities of bucha were not blocked.esidents had the opportunity to freely leave the settlement . we would like to especially note that all russian units completely left the bucha on march 30 , march 31. the mayor of the city of bucha anatoly fedoruk in his video message confirmed that in the city. not from the russian military, but he didn’t even mention any local residents shot in the streets with their hands tied, the mayor of buchi, indeed, in his speech he was very cheerful and for some reason did not take the opportunity tell the world about the mountain of corpses of civilians, dear friends, today march 31 will go down in history as the day of liberation from the russian orcs from the russian occupiers by our military forces. today, i state the fact that this joyful day was not seen, the city of corpses in a bunch and in the national police of ukraine in the eight-minute video that was published on saturday, not a word was said about this, so that the footage of another ukrainian fake. they looked at least somewha

in bucha, blood still stains the streets.led out, this is what they left behind on the street. the bodies of several men shot to death, hands tied behind their backs. further down, this person shot to death on their bicycle and another, and another, and another, and another. what happened here? >> translator: local residents were killed on the street by the russian military. they were shot, killed even just going out to the street around their business or going to pick up humanitarian aid. >> this man is bucha's prosecutor. he's now collecting evidence of war crimes. >> translator: people were killed at this point. there was a woman killed here. there were bodies here and there where the road is turning left. there were people riding bicycles who were killed by the russian military. >> russia denies it all. they say the more than 300 bodies found in bucha after russian troops withdrew were staged. as for these satellite images taken in mid-march, when russia was occupying bucha, which show bodies in the exact same locations t

he did address what we've been seeing out of bucha today. let me play that sound bite. >> what we've seen in bucha is not the random act of a rogue unit. it's a deliberate campaign to kill, to torture, to rape, to commit atrocities. one way or another, one day or another, there is accountability for those who committed these acts, for those who ordered them. there's a very important effort to put the evidence together, to compile it, to document it, to support the different investigations that are going on. that's what we're doing. >> president biden, antony blinken, other western nations are calling for what they call accountability, saying vladimir putin has committed war crimes, andrea. they're talking about accountability but how exactly can they hold vladimir putin accountable? and i know they're talking about more sanctions but anything else on the table? >> reporter: they are talking about more sanctions. there are some sanctions that came down today, but there are huge loopholes because the eu banned coal but not oil and gas and it's

but for five weeks, russian soldiers occupied bucha. destroyed much of it and imposed a reign of terror. today, residents are coming out of hiding. value tina said russian soldiers went apartment to apartment mostly searching for men. they were breaking open doors with axes and sledgehammers, shr said, if you talked back, they shot you. she wanted to show me something behind the building. she's saying one of her neighbors was so frightened because the russian soldiers were banging on his door that he jumped out of that window on the third floor and came landing on the ground, didn't die, hurt himself, but managed to escape. he thought the russians were just going to shoot him dead. desperation. a few feet away was a grave valentina dug with her friend. you put up a cross? >> yeah. >> reporter: two were our neighbors she says, we don't know who the other two were, but buried them anyway, all four were machine gunned by russian troops. she doesn't know why. please don't let this happen again. we are regular, hard working people. down the

that's him speaking in bucha. cnn senior international correspondent fred pleitgen saw the horrifying scene for himself. this is his firsthand account of the devastation. >> reporter: jim, it's certainly still a very tough and devastating situation here on the ground in bucha. what you have behind me is the mass grave that we've been talking about, the local authorities here tell us they believe there's 150, maybe more people buried in there. the mayor saying he believes around 300 people are buried in mass graves in bucha. the big problem is they simply don't know. as the fighting was going on, more and more people were getting buried here and they simply lost track. it's something unfortunately we see in this entire district of bucha as more and more bodies are being found. here is what we witnessed. >> reporter: as russian forces retreat from the area north of kyiv, in their wake scenes of utter destruction. whole blocks of houses flattened, ukrainian authorities saying they believe dead bodies are still lying

take a look, this is bucha. and this entire column of russian vehicles, tanks, completely destroyed by the ukrainians. but take a look at where we are here, because it looks like russian military vehicles were parked all along this road. but they're so close to residential buildings. authorities here telling us more than 400 people were killed. streets littered with bodies. civilians look to have been executed in the street. this man, hands bound behind his back. another appears to have been shot while riding his bicycle. this, a small bag of groceries beside another victim. what threat did he pose? as terrible as these images are, what we were shown next, even worse. in the basement of this building, in which russian forces looked to have squatted for weeks. as i'm down here talking to you, i'm looking at one, two, three, four, five bodies in this tiny room, in this basement, where ukrainians say people have been tortured and i can see their hands behind their backs. it is truly an apocalyptic scene. just absol

here are two residents of bucha describing the russian massacre bucha our just the tip of the iceberg. of all the crimes that have been committed by russian army in ukraine so far. i can tell you, without exaggeration, and with great sorrow, the situation in mariupol is much worse compared to what we've seen in bucha and other cities and towns and villages nearby kyiv. >> and of course, lawrence, mary opal is much bigger than bucha so the scale of the atrocity there is expected to be much much bigger than what we've seen in bucha. >> ali arouzi we could hear you loud and clear over the air raid sirens, thank you very much for joining us, thank you for that reporting. now we really want you to get some cover and stay safe. thank you. >> thank you. >> and coming up, how russian -- describes the war crimes that we have seen committed in bucha. you will be stunned at the russian tv explanation of those russian war crimes. that's next. ♪ "how bizarre" by omc ♪ no annual fee on any discover card. ♪ ♪ inner voice (design studio owner): i'm over here waiting... ... looking intensely for a pri

many live in this mass grave behind the church in bucha. local authorities tell us around 150 people are buried here but no one knows the exact number. and here, too, the scenes are tragic. vladimir has been searching for his younger brother dimitry. now he thinks he lies here, even though he can't be 100% sure. the neighbor acoiling him has strong words for the russians. why do you hate ukraine. so, he says? since the 1930s, you've been abusing ukraine. you just wanted to destroy us. you wanted us gone. we will be, everybody will be okay. i believe it. but more corpses are already on the way. at the end of the day, we need vladislav and the body collectors again. another nine bodies found in this tour alone. and it is unlikely they'll be the last. you can see, jake, it is absolutely devastating work that these folks do. they are, by the way, all volunteers. the guys picking up those corpses in the streets, in buildings. the wait works is she get called to the season by the authorities or by local people. they go there. they collect the bod

yogita limaye, bbc news, bucha.ssia will present what he called "factual evidence" to the un security council demonstrating that western statements on events at bucha are lies that the shocking images of bodies in the streets of bucha were staged. foreign minister sergei lavrov has led the kremlin�*s response to the fury of the international community as our russia editor steve rosenberg reports. this is how russia wants its soldiers in ukraine to be seen, as heroes and humanitarian workers, a caring, sharing army, spreading goodness and light to those it claims to be liberating. but moscow knows the international community doesn't believe that. mr lavrov, the us president has called your president a war criminal and said he must be held accountable. what does that tell us about russia's international reputation right now? translation: what this says is many american politicians | who started the iraq war, destroyed syria, invaded libya, their conscience is in a bad way. our main interest is what the russian people