Here are the latest developments in the war in Ukraine.
The U.N. Security Council will meet on Tuesday as the U.S. and Europe threaten to further isolate President Vladimir Putin and demand that he be held accountable for possible war crimes by Russian forces outside the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.
France, the U.S. and Britain are likely to present evidence that atrocities were committed in Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv, where more than 300 bodies have been found since Russian forces retreated last week. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine traveled there on Monday and called out Europe’s leaders for not doing enough to stop Russia. He said he expected the civilian death toll to rise as officials cleared more homes.
“The cities are simply ruined,” Mr. Zelensky said after his trip to Bucha, Stoyanka and Irpin.
It will be difficult for the council to agree on any concrete measures because of the veto power held by Russia and China. Moscow has denied that its soldiers committed war crimes, and China, a Russian ally, has repeatedly avoided criticizing Russia since the war started.
With the world’s attention on the devastation in Bucha, Russia has focused on attacking Ukraine’s east, where it has already controlled one region since 2014. Mr. Zelensky, in his nightly remarks, said that his country was preparing for “even more brutal activity.”
“We know what they are going to do in Donbas. We know what they are going to do near Kharkiv,” he said. “There will be more.”
Here are some other major developments:
- Jake Sullivan, President Biden’s national security adviser, said that while Russia was refocusing offensive operations on eastern and southern Ukraine, Moscow is likely to continue to strike the rest of the country “to cause terror.”
- Residents of Nova Basan, a town east of Kyiv, emerged from their cottages and farmhouses on Monday and described living through the terrifying ordeal of the Russian occupation — detentions, threats and a strict curfew that confined them to their homes with no outside communication for more than a month.
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