How the US is helping investigate war crimes in Ukraine

By Mike Brest

Published April 6, 2022 3:20pm ET

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How the US is helping investigate war crimes in Ukraine — Bodies lie in a mass grave in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, on Sunday. Ukrainian troops are finding brutalized bodies and widespread destruction in the suburbs of Kyiv, sparking new calls for a war crimes investigation and sanctions against Russia. | (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Biden administration officials have said in recent days that the United States is helping to gather evidence of war crimes in Ukraine, without troops in the warring nation.

The State Department first announced on March 23 that it had seen “numerous credible reports of indiscriminate attacks and attacks deliberately targeting civilians, as well as other atrocities,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement at the time.

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