Thread by @PaulaChertok

❗️CNN: The state of our union is sickened & horrified. Gruesome new images out of Ukraine as Russian troops leave Kyiv areas & reveal horrors shocking to the world. Bodies of at least 20 men—shot execution style—left lying amid rubble on streets of Bucha. 300 buried in mass grave

CNN, on #Bucha🇺🇦: Is this genocide?

NATO Chief @jensstoltenberg: It is a brutality against civilians we haven't seen in Europe for decades. It's horrific & absolutely unacceptable to target & kill civilians.… I strongly welcome the investigation by International Criminal Court.

@jensstoltenberg #Russia's #genocide is evident not only in #Bucha.

Russia is literally starving #Mariupol to death, recalling the Holodomor genocide.

Killing village heads also constitutes genocide.

Putin has openly stated intent to destroy the foundations of #Ukraine as a nation & a people.

@jensstoltenberg ❗️@fpleitgenCNN reports on mass grave behind church in #Bucha, to @FareedZakaria: Locals say 100-300 civilians killed during Russia's occupation were buried there as bodies mounted. Bodies in black plastic bags. Awful scene. "Tells the tale not only of Bucha but the entire area."

@jensstoltenberg @fpleitgenCNN @FareedZakaria ❗️@fpleitgenCNN reports seeing ~12 bodies in mass grave in #Bucha. Reports similar destruction in areas where Russians were. In #Borodyanka he saw a dead body w/ hands tied behind back & severe bruises on it, appears to have been tortured & executed. Shell casing found near body.

@jensstoltenberg @fpleitgenCNN @FareedZakaria ⚠️GRAPHIC: Pictures from @fpleitgenCNN's report from #Bucha

Massive destruction, mass grave, executed civilians, bodies strewn in streets of Bucha, after Russian forces retreated from suburb of #Kyiv

#StopGenocide
#StandWithUkraine
#GiveUkraineEVERYTHING

@jensstoltenberg @fpleitgenCNN @FareedZakaria More photos from #Bucha: Distraught residents realize their loved ones are among those in mass graves, killed by Russian forces. Liuba says the Russians have been abusing Ukraine since the 1930s. "Why do they hate us? Why do they want to destroy us? But we will be. We will be OK"

@jensstoltenberg @fpleitgenCNN @FareedZakaria More photos from CNN report from #Bucha of civilian bodies strewn on streets, in yards, tortured, executed. Notice hands tied behind back.

I'm not the only one calling this genocide. Historians, survivors, observers and today Ukraine's Pres. Zelensky also called it #genocide.

@jensstoltenberg @fpleitgenCNN @FareedZakaria 🚨Zelensky: This is genocide—the elimination of a whole nation & a people. We are the citizens of Ukraine. We have 100+ nationalities. This is about the destruction of all these nationalities. We don't want to be subdued to Russia. That's why we're being destroyed & exterminated.