As Russian forces retreated from around Kyiv, the devastating toll of the war became clearer.
Western leaders redoubled calls for war crimes investigations, declaring the images of dead civilians “abhorrent.”
Global outrage against Moscow mounted on Sunday over allegations that Russian forces had executed civilians in Ukraine, with Western leaders redoubling calls for war crimes
investigations as the retreat of Russian troops from areas near Kyiv offered a clearer picture of the devastating toll of President Vladimir V. Putin’s six-week-old war.
As Russian forces pull back from areas around the Ukrainian capital, civilians have emerged from basement shelters to clamor for bread distributed by the Ukrainian soldiers retaking territory.
The husks of destroyed tanks clutter roads. Mines and booby traps have been hidden amid the wreckage. Bodies lay uncollected in streets littered with debris.