Ukraine war: Civilian killings in Ukraine ‘staged’, Russia says amid global outrage


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Global outrage spread on Monday over civilian deaths in Ukraine, including evidence of bound bodies shot at close range and a mass grave found in areas retaken from Russian troops, as artillery bombarded the country’s south and east. Ukrainian officials said the bodies of 410 civilians were found in towns around the capital after the Kremlin’s forces withdrew late last week. Taras Shapravskyi, deputy mayor of Bucha, a town around 40km northwest of the capital Kyiv, said 50 bodies were the victims of extrajudicial killings carried out by Russian troops. Reuters reporters saw one man sprawled by the roadside, his...