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LVIV, Ukraine — Calls for war-crime investigations and harsher sanctions on Moscow grew Monday as Ukrainian and Western officials responded to discoveries of mass graves and streets littered with the bodies of dead civilians after the Russian retreat from suburbs around Kyiv.

Micheal Martin said ‘nothing can be ruled out’ in the response to the ‘appalling and barbaric’ crimes committed by Russian troops in Ukraine.

Dynamo Kyiv have announced plans to play a number of top European clubs, including Barcelona, to raise money for those affected by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES: Footage has been circulated from Bucha in Kyiv Oblast showing bodies lined up against a wall following the Russian army's withdrawal from the town

Moscow faced global revulsion and accusations of war crimes Monday after the Russian pullout from the outskirts of Kyiv revealed streets strewn with corpses of what appeared to be civilians, some of whom had seemingly been killed deliberately at close range. The images of battered bodies out in the open…

The EU's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said sanctions were being prepared "as a matter of urgency."

The Kremlin said on Monday it categorically denied any accusations related to the murder of civilians in the Ukrainian town of Bucha and said Ukrainian allegations on the matter should be treated with doubt.

Russia's foreign ministry said it would reiterate its request for the U.N. Security Council to meet on Monday over what Moscow called the "criminal provocations by Ukrainian soldiers and radicals" in the town of Bucha near Kyiv.

It’s hard to read the reports emerging from Bucha and other Kyiv suburbs, and nearly impossible to look at the images. Retreating Russian soldiers have left evidence of unthinkable brutality. Ordinary men and women lie dead on the street, in the dark mud and dirt, many shot, some with hands…

Sunday night's Grammy Awards saw Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky deliver a powerful speech from his bunker in war-torn Kyiv to a room of designer-clad superstars

Russia has denied committing war crimes in the Kyiv region after images of civilian corpses sparked condemnation.