'This is genocide,' Zelenskyy says of Russia's attack on Ukraine
CTV
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia on Sunday of committing genocide in his country, as Western leaders condemned images emerging of dead Ukrainian civilians in a town abandoned by Russian forces outside the capital, Kyiv.
"Indeed, this is genocide. The elimination of the whole nation and the people," Zelenskyy told CBS' "Face the Nation" news program, speaking through a translator.
"We are the citizens of Ukraine and we don't want to be subdued to the policy of Russian Federation. This is the reason we are being destroyed and exterminated."
Zelenskyy's remarks came a day after Ukrainian forces moved into the town of Bucha near Kyiv and found what officials and witnesses said were the bodies civilians killed by Russian forces.
Russia's defence ministry denied the allegations, saying footage and photographs showing dead bodies in Bucha were "yet another provocation" by Kyiv.
