Page 47 - Execution Style News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

This is cnn breaking news. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. it is monday, april 4th. i'm brianna keilar live in lviv with john berman in new york. the evidence is mounting of apparent war crimes committed by russia against civilians in ukraine. we do want to warn you that the images you are about to see are graphic and disturbing, but they are incredibly important. in bucha, a suburb northwest of kyiv, bodies are seen littering the streets. the unburied dead. some with hands bound, killed execution style. sickening scenes of murdered civilians revealed after ...

Scattered across one street there. they were apparently shot execution style. some had hands bound behind their backs. their bodies discarded in a final cruel indignity. russia is dismissing this evidence of a massacre as staged. ukraine's president calls it genocide. >> translator: some things they have done when we find people with hands tied behind their back and decapitated such things i don't understand and comprehend. the kids who were killed and tortured so it wasn't enough just to kill for those criminals. maybe they wanted to take gold or washing machines and they were killing but the...

In bucha. president zelenskyy visited the town outside of kyiv today where we've discussed scores of civilians have been killed. many of them buried in a mass grave. the bodies of civilians killed, execution style. some with their hands bound, s scattered on the streets once occupied by russian forces. joining me now on what this means, ambassador steven rav at large for war crimes issues, now a distinguished fellow for the prevention of genocide at the u.s. holocaust memorial museum. thank you for coming back in. you have unfortunately seen some of the worst of humanity in your time working o...

Be very difficult to watch. they should be difficult to watch. zelenskyy is accusing russian troops of genocide before retrieving from bucha. local officials and witnesses say civilians were murdered in execution style i will cannings, some with their hands tied behind their backs left in the street. and than that an additional 270 civilians were found buried in mass graves. russia is denying any responsibility for the atrocities they left behind in bucha with sergey lavrov calling the incident, quote, staged and the kremlin spokesman asking the international community not to rush to judgment....

Really a countryalienated. so when you put the two things together, it looks like targeting killings of civilians on a mass scale and that has changed the tone here. here there was some hope that there might be a settlement, that the russians might be pulling out. the tone of elected people and people in the streets of ukraine is -- we are collecting this evidence. there will be war crimes. there will be prosecutions and russia will be held responsible. it's not just about winning this war, it's about prosecuting russians for doing what they're doing. the question that remains to be answered, ...