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Senator Steve Danes, R-Mont., Became the first U.S. senator to visit Ukraine amid the Russian invasion, touring mass graves in the city of Bucha and reporting “indisputable evidence of Putin’s war crimes.” He is traveling with representative Victoria Sparz, R-Ind., Who was born in Ukraine.
“As I met with leaders in NATO countries bordering Ukraine, I was invited to meet with Ukrainian officials in Kyiv and Bucha to see first-hand the massacre and war crimes committed by Putin,” Danes said in a statement. “Everywhere there is indisputable evidence of Putin’s war crimes – images of shallow mass graves full of civilians, women and children are heartbreaking.”
Danes told Fox News “Your World with Neil Cavuto” on Thursday: “I’ve seen a lot of horrible things over the years in terms of storm damage and accidents. I’ve never seen anything like it. I mean, it was the kids. These were children who were killed. “
He continued: “These are atrocities. These are war crimes … an irrefutable case is currently being conducted on the war crimes of Vladimir Putin and the soldiers who committed them.”
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Senator Steve Danes talks to investigators in the Ukrainian city of Bucha. (Image provided by Senator Steve Danes’ office.)
Danes concluded in a statement that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “called on leaders from around the world to come to Ukraine – I am proud to help show that America stands side by side with the people of Ukraine in their struggle for freedom.” The senator concluded.
The Danes office has published photos and videos of the senator’s visit to the war-ravaged cities of Bucha and Makariv. In Makariv, the senator found a wooden toy of a child in the rubble.
Steve Danes takes a wooden toy from a child found near the mass graves in Makariv. (Image provided by Senator Steve Danes’ office.)
Hours after Danes’ trip, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the White House was not considering sending President Biden to Ukraine.
“No, we are not sending the president to Ukraine,” she told Pod Save America.
Earlier this month, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that his government had launched an investigation into alleged Russian atrocities in the area around the capital Kyiv, from which Russian forces had recently been withdrawn.
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“We have just started an investigation into everything the occupiers have done,” the president added. “Currently, there is information about more than three hundred people killed and tortured in Bucha alone. The list of victims is likely to be much larger when the whole city is inspected. And this is just one city. “One of the many Ukrainian communities that the Russian military has managed to capture.”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused Kyiv of organizing a “directed anti-Russian provocation.”
WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES
Associated Press reporters saw the bodies of at least 21 people in various locations around Bucha, northwest of the capital. A group of nine, all in civilian clothes, were scattered around a site that Russian troops said was being used as a base. They appear to have been killed at close range. At least two have their hands tied behind their backs, one shot in the head and the other has his legs tied.
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“You saw what happened in Bucha,” Biden said, describing Putin as a “brutal” and “war criminal.” “What is happening in Bucha is scandalous and everyone sees it.
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