Ukraine president accuses Russia of ‘atrocities’ in Kherson

Zelenskyy said without details that 'investigators have already documented more than 400 Russian war crimes, and the bodies of both civilians and military personnel have been found'
Ukraine president accuses Russia of ‘atrocities’ in Kherson
Ukrainian soldiers sit in a pickup in central Kherson, Ukraine (Efrem Lukatsky/AP/PA)

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is accusing Russian forces of having committed “the same atrocities as in other regions of our country” before they were forced to pull out from the strategic southern city of Kherson and its surrounds.

In his nightly video address on Sunday, Mr Zelenskyy said without details that “investigators have already documented more than 400 Russian war crimes, and the bodies of both civilians and military personnel have been found”.

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