(Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Sunday that mass graves discovered in Ukraine are proof of Russia’s war crimes and that the aggressor country must take full responsibility for its actions.
In London for Queen Elizabeth’s funeral, Trudeau told reporters he had met British Prime Minister Liz Truss and that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was high on the conversation’s agenda.
“Obviously the UK and Canada have been two of the strongest countries in supporting Ukraine and opposing Russia’s illegal actions,” Trudeau said.
These actions “increasingly include war crimes, which are absolutely unacceptable, whether thinking of what we found in Bucha or the discovery of mass graves in the territories recovered by Ukraine”, he said. -he declares.
Ukrainian officials said last week they found 440 bodies in forests near Izium in northeastern Ukraine, a town recaptured by Ukrainian forces. They said most of the dead were civilians and the causes of death had not been established.
The Kremlin has not commented on the discovery of the graves, but Moscow has denied deliberately repeatedly attacking civilians or committing such atrocities.
(Reporting by Chris Gallagher, Washington)
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