Kyiv, March 31: European foreign ministers visited Ukraine on Tuesday to mark the fourth anniversary of atrocities committed in a town near Kyiv by Russia’s invading forces. A group of 12 European foreign ministers arrived by train in Kyiv, where they were welcomed by Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, who noted the “grim anniversary” of the shocking atrocities in Bucha. Russian troops quickly occupied the town after invading Ukraine on February 24, 2022. They stayed for about a month. When Ukrainian troops retook Bucha, they found more than 400 bodies left by Russia.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s long-range drones hammered Russian oil facilities in the Baltic Sea Monday night for the fifth time in just over a week, as Kyiv tries to prevent Moscow from profiting off its oil exports amid an energy crisis, prompted by the Iran war, and a temporary US waiver on Russian oil sanctions. The export income finances Moscow’s war effort, Ukraine says. (AP)
