On the anniversary of the Bucha massacre, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, along with several European colleagues, visited the small Ukrainian town. “Russian evil will die,” he said Friday in the presence of the heads of government of Croatia, Slovenia and Slovakia and the president of the Republic of Moldova. Zelenskyi assured that his country will never be forgotten.
“The struggle for the creation of the free world is taking place in Ukraine. We will win, that’s for sure,” said the 45-year-old. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who will participate in the commemoration in the afternoon with a video message, called for the war crimes committed in Butscha to be punished. “The atrocities in Bucha a year ago showed the world what Putin’s war means. The pictures burned inside me too,” Scholz wrote on Twitter. “These crimes cannot go unpunished. That is why we stand united behind Ukraine. Russia will not win!”
Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, also recalled the war crimes. “The sight of mass graves and body bags on the ground is forever etched in my memory,” she said in a video message on Friday. After the liberation of the city in the spring of 2022, she traveled to the scene of the incident.
Schallenberg: “No one is above the law”
Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg made a similar statement in his video message, emphasizing: “No one is above the law, there should be no impunity, crimes must be fully clarified.” The mass graves discovered in Butscha would turn out to be “terrible massacres”. . In addition, Schallenberg announced another 100,000 euros for the office of the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Austria is now supporting the ICC in its investigation of war crimes committed in Ukraine with a total of 300,000 euros and an expert from the Ministry of Justice.
On March 31, 2022, the Russian army withdrew from the city north of the Ukrainian capital Kiev. Two days later, the Bucha massacre became known. The Ukrainian prosecutor’s office has registered more than 9,000 war crimes in and around Bucha. More than 1400 people died. More than 175 bodies were found in mass graves or “torture chambers”. Moscow has to this day strongly denied the allegations and speaks of a staging by the Ukrainian secret service.
Source: Krone
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