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KYIV, Ukraine — Russian forces Wednesday carried out punishing strikes against key Ukrainian cities, brushing aside mounting world outrage over the execution-style killings of civilians even as Washington and its Western allies prepared to impose tighter new sanctions against Moscow.

Politicians pledged solidarity with the people of Kyiv, Mariupol, Bucha and a host of other war-torn towns.

Ms Makoviy recalled the morning she took the photo – as Russian forces made their way over the border

The United States, United Kingdom and the European Union are set Wednesday to impose new punishing sanctions targeting Russia including a ban on all new investment in the country after evidence of torture and killings emerged in recent days from a town outside of Kyiv

Sajid Javid expressed horror at the atrocities uncovered as Russian forces withdrew from towns around Kyiv and compared the scenes to the Srebrenica massacre in 1995

The European Union wants the war in Ukraine to end as soon as possible, but how that happens is important too, its chief diplomat said on Wednesday, calling for the bloc to send more arms to Kyiv.

The images bring to mind Srebrenica, the Bosnian town where Serb troops tortured and summarily executed thousands of Bosnians, mostly men and boys, in 1995. The international community branded that horrible chapter of the Bosnian war as genocide, and it’s with the specter of Srebrenica that the world now must…

Zhenya and Vera Kasevich, who led the congregations of Hillsong Kyiv and Moscow, accuse Brian Houston and Hillsong's general manager of sending threatening emails during a dispute over the transfer of their church and its assets to Hillsong Australia.

Kyiv was a Russian defeat for the ages