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More sanctions hit Russia as Zelenskyy warns of new wartime hardships

The mother of Ukrainian soldier Lubomyr Hudzeliak, who was killed during Russia's invasion of Ukraine, mourns over his flag-draped coffin during his funeral at the Lychakiv cemetery, in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on April 6, 2022.- Nearly 35,000 Ukrainians fled west in 24 hours to escape the Russian war in their country, the United Nations said on April 6,...

KYIV, Ukraine — Russian forces Wednesday carried out punishing strikes against key Ukrainian cities, brushing aside mounting world outrage over the execution-style killings of civilians even as Washington and its Western allies moved to impose sharp new sanctions against Moscow.

In satellite towns and suburbs around the capital of Kyiv, Ukrainian investigators Wednesday pressed ahead with the grim task of documenting war crimes evidence, in the form of mass graves and mutilated bodies, as Ukrainian troops and mine-clearers worked to defang booby traps and explosives left behind by retreating Russian forces.

Ukrainian officials accused Russia of trying to cover up war crimes in other occupied areas, saying that Moscow is now aware that haphazard efforts in the Kyiv region had left an abundance of evidence behind.

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