European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell decries Russia’s attack on the Ukrainian port city Mariupol as “a massive war crime,” as the bloc discusses imposing more sanctions on Moscow.
“What’s happening now in Mariupol is a massive war crime, destroying everything, bombarding and killing everybody,” Borrell says at the start of a meeting of EU foreign ministers.
The encircled southern city of Mariupol on the Sea of Azov has seen some of the worst horrors of the war, under Russian pounding for more than three weeks.
Strikes hit an art school sheltering some 400 people only hours before Russia’s offer to open two corridors out of the city in return for the capitulation of its defenders, according to Ukrainian officials.
Russia’s invasion has sparked an unprecedented wave of Western sanctions against President Vladimir Putin, his entourage and Russian companies.
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