Russian withdrawal reveals atrocities in sixth week of the war in Ukraine

Russia prepares for a major push in the east during the war’s second phase, and leverages energy exports to strengthen the rouble

As Russian forces prepared to redeploy from Kiev to the eastern Donbas region in the sixth week of the war in Ukraine, the towns and villages they evacuated were found strewn with the corpses of tortured and mutilated civilians.

In the town of Bucha, northwest of Kiev, the mayor estimated that 300 people had been killed. Reporters found dozens of bodies …