While the details of the Bucha Massacre emerge, the SS-like tactics of the Russians are only confirming their international pariah status. Meanwhile, Russians are getting kicked out of embassies all over Europe.

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The British delegation to the UN announced the upcoming speech by Zelenskyy, tweeting, “The UK Presidency of the Council will ensure the truth is heard about Russia’s war crimes. We will expose Putin’s war for what it really is.”

The word comes after Zelenskyy visited Bucha, where Russian forces left the dead bodies of civilians in the streets after a horrific bloodletting. Ukrainian officials said the bodies of 410 civilians were found in Kyiv-area towns and cities that were recently liberated from Russians. In Bucha, more than 100 civilians were found buried in mass graves.

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Statement by the Ukrainian Army: “They killed our pity, but we gave birth to rage. These Russian executioners dreamed of coming home victorious, with bags of looted ‘gifts’ and stories of how they mocked our people. However, the Army of Ukraine came to them first. And we gave them a ticket to hell.”

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The Brits said Tuesday that “Ukrainian forces have retaken key terrain in the north of Ukraine, after denying Russia the ability to secure its objectives and forcing Russian forces to retreat from the areas around Chernihiv and North of Kyiv…Many Russian units withdrawing from northern Ukraine are likely to require significant re-equipping and refurbishment before being available to redeploy for operations in eastern Ukraine,” it added.

They also said “low-level fighting is likely to continue in some parts of the newly recaptured regions, but diminish significantly over this week as the remainder of Russian forces withdraw.”

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FNC: “Germany will expel a ‘significant number’ of Russian diplomats after the Bucha massacre, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock announced on Monday.

‘The pictures from Bucha bear witness to the unbelievable brutality of the Russian leadership and of those who follow its propaganda, to a will to annihilate that transcends all borders,’ Baerbock said.

‘The federal government has therefore decided today to declare a significant number of members of the Russian Embassy as undesirables, who have worked every day against our freedom and against the cohesion of our society here in Germany.’

France is expelling ‘many’ Russian diplomats following a massacre in the Ukrainian town of Bucha.

‘France has decided this evening to expel many Russian personnel posted in France under diplomatic status, whose activities are counter to our security interests,’ read a Monday statement from the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs.

Italy’s foreign ministry said Tuesday that it’s expelling 30 Russian diplomats, while Denmark’s Foreign Ministry says the country is expelling 15 Russian intelligence officers who worked at Russia’s Embassy in Copenhagen. The officers have two weeks to leave Denmark. Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod said ‘they pose a risk to our national security that we cannot ignore.’ Sweden’s foreign minister also said Tuesday that they country is expelling three Russian diplomats.”

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Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko is urging Europe to sever economic ties with Moscow, saying Tuesday “every Euro, every cent that you receive from Russia or that you send to Russia has blood, it is bloody money and the blood of this money is Ukrainian blood, the blood of Ukrainian people…Are you for peace and support Ukraine or do you support the aggressors, Russia?” he added.