The European Union will impose sanctions on nine persons accused of committing war crimes related to the massacre in the Ukrainian city of Bucha. announced on Monday in Brussels the French Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean-Noël Barrot. TASR informs about it with reference to the Reuters agency.
Barrot’s statement came while arriving at a meeting of the EU Council for Foreign Affairs. Also on the agenda of the meeting is the availability of a loan for Ukraine in the amount of 90 billion euros and the unblocking of the 20th package of anti-Russian sanctions, which until now has been blocked by Hungary due to the stopped transit of oil through the Druzhba pipeline.
The heads of diplomacy of the EU member states are planning to meet in Buča on March 31 to commemorate four years since the massacre of civilians there during the Russian occupation at the beginning of the war in Ukraine. This was reported by the AFP agency on Friday.
After the retreat of Russian troops from Buča after a month of occupation, AFP journalists also entered this suburb of Kyiv, who then reported that they saw the bodies of at least 20 civilians lying on the street with gunshot wounds. Some of them had their hands tied behind their backs.
It was the first of a series of similar findings in cities from which Russian troops withdrew in the spring of 2022. The images from Buča and other cities caused outrage in the international community and resulted in the initiation of investigations on suspicion of war crimes. Moscow denied responsibility and accused Ukraine of staging the dead in the streets and mass graves.
