The Bucha massacre: How the international media is covering it
Bucha, a Ukrainian town, near Kyiv has been thrust into the limelight following claims that hundreds of civilians were murdered by retreating Russian soldiers.
Images and footage, which Russia claims is faked, show dead bodies in what appears to be civilian clothing strewn on a street. More images appear to show a woman – who was reportedly raped and killed, with a swastika carved into her skin.
An AFP news agency reporter in Bucha said at least one man had his hands tied.
Ukrainian forces regained control of the town this week and pictures show the widespread devastation.
The alleged massacre at the hands of Russian troops is being labelled a war crime and western media has joined together to condemn the actions and called the actions war crimes.
State-run Chinese and Russian media have, unsurprisingly, claimed the images and videos are faked – in a Ukrainian attempt to ‘frame’ Russia.
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China jeers as images of the apparent Bucha massacre horrify the world says Taiwan News that claims the Chinese state-run media says the Bucha massacre ‘a show put on by Ukraine’.
Whilst India’s NDTV reports ‘not a single resident’ and says Russian has denied Ukraine’s “massacre” charge.
Russia’s state-run RT News says “It should be easy to find out what really happened to the massacred civilians in the Ukrainian town” – as it claims the truth is out there but it’s “perhaps too inconvenient”.
Belgian PM calls for punishment of “Bucha war crimes” . The Times of Israel reports the Israel envoy to Ukraine says the killing of civilians in Bucha unjustifiable ‘war crimes’.
Whilst Fox news and other western newspapers focus on the reaction from western leaders who call the Ukraine massacre: ‘Genocide’, ‘Despicable’, ‘Dreadful’