By Handan Kazanci
ISTANBUL (AA) – Images from the Ukrainian town of Bucha are “truly unacceptable” and “disgraceful for humanity,” the Turkish foreign minister said on Thursday.
Speaking to reporters in Brussels, Mevlut Cavusoglu said that he had spoken with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba and told him that “the latest images from Bucha are truly unacceptable, disgraceful for humanity, and we have conveyed our discomfort (about it).”
The Turkish foreign minister was referring to scenes of apparent civilian massacres in Bucha, near Kyiv, which have drawn widespread outrage.
Cavusoglu is in Brussels where he attended the second and final day of NATO foreign ministers meeting on the Russia-Ukraine war.
The Russian war on Ukraine, which started on Feb. 24, has drawn international outrage, with the EU, US, and UK, among others, implementing tough financial sanctions on Moscow.
At least 1,563 civilians have been killed in Ukraine and 2,213 injured, according to UN estimates, with the true figure feared to be far higher.
More than 4.3 million Ukrainians have fled to other countries, with millions more internally displaced, according to the UN refugee agency.