Radio messages between Russian servicemen discussing the killing of civilians in the Ukrainian town of Bucha were reportedly intercepted by a German intelligence agency.

The BND agency presented its findings to the German parliament on Wednesday, according to the news magazine The Spiegelwhich she says include communications matching known deaths.

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Boris Johnson is due to meet the German Chancellor later today as they seek to discuss how to help European countries wean off Russian gas after the attack on Ukraine.

The Prime Minister will receive Olaf Scholz in Downing Street on Friday, with a press conference scheduled for the afternoon.

Mr Johnson is expected to offer assistance to Berlin, which is still heavily dependent on Russian gas, to reduce its dependence on energy exports from Moscow in a bid to starve Vladimir Putin’s war machine.

It comes after Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, following a meeting of NATO counterparts in Brussels on Thursday, said she hoped to see “more countries” commit to banning imports of Russian energy.

Independent: “The city that paid the price of resistance”

Subway: ‘Human rights pariah: the UN finally acts against Russia’

FinancialTimes: “Rusal becomes the first Russian group to demand a war crimes investigation in Bucha”

The telegraph: “Russians discuss murder of Ukrainian civilians in intercepted radio messages”

More than 100 attacks on health services have been recorded in Ukraine since the Russian invasion, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

The 103 attacks – against 89 health facilities and 13 vehicles, including ambulances – have so far left 73 dead and injured 51 people, he added.

“We are outraged that attacks on health care continue. Attacks on health care are a violation of international humanitarian law,” WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a news conference.

“Peace is the only way forward. I again call on the Russian Federation to stop the war.

The situation in the Ukrainian town of Borodyanka is “significantly more appalling” than in the neighboring town of Bucha, Volodymyr Zelensky has warned.

The Ukrainian president’s comments come after Western countries condemned the killing of civilians in the town of Bucha, Kyiv province, as a war crime.

Last week, video and images emerged of a massacre in Bucha after Russian forces withdrew from the town. The atrocities reportedly involved torture, mutilation and beheading. According to the town’s mayor, more than 300 civilians had been found dead.

Moscow has denied targeting civilians and said images of bodies in Bucha were staged to justify the West’s plans for more sanctions against Moscow.

Joe Biden hailed the United Nations General Assembly’s vote to suspend Russia from the UN Human Rights Council.

The US president has accused Russia of “committing war crimes” since invading Ukraine on February 24.

It comes after Russia – in response to the suspension – decided to give up its membership and called the vote illegal and politically motivated.

Mr Biden said: “This is a significant step on the part of the international community which further demonstrates how [Vladimir] Putin’s war has made Russia an international pariah.

“The United States has worked closely with our allies and partners around the world to drive this vote because Russia is committing gross and systemic human rights abuses. Russian forces are committing war crimes. Russia has no place in the Human Rights Council.

Mr Biden added: “The images we see of Bucha and other parts of Ukraine as Russian troops withdraw are horrific.

“Signs of people being raped, tortured, executed – in some cases, their bodies desecrated – are an outrage to our common humanity. Russia’s lies are no match for the undeniable evidence of what is happening in Ukraine.

A retired Metropolitan Police officer who helped investigate war crimes in the Balkans says The Independent that Russia’s treatment of Ukrainians is like deja vu.

Ron Turnbull, 74, from Hastings, said he had spoken with his former colleagues about alleged atrocities in Ukrainian towns such as Bucha.

“I spoke with these people, and we said it was like deja vu,” he said.

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A total of 4,676 people were evacuated today from towns and villages across Ukraine through 10 “humanitarian corridors”, according to the Ukrainian government.

Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk also said in a video post on her Telegram channel that 1,205 of the evacuees were from the besieged city of Mariupol, who were taken to Zaporizhzhia.

EU member countries have approved new sanctions against Russia, including an unprecedented embargo on coal imports.

It comes after the US alleged there is evidence that Russian troops raped and tortured Ukrainian civilians.

The coal import ban will be the first EU sanction aimed at Moscow’s lucrative wartime energy industry, an official told the AP news agency on Thursday, ahead of the official announcement.

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Russian troops have kidnapped more than 100 people in Melitopol, according to the mayor of the Ukrainian city Ivan Fedorov.

He said in a video message shared on Facebook: “Today the total number of citizens abducted by collaborators and occupying soldiers is more than 100 people.”

Russian soldiers began abducting professors from the Melitopol Pedagogical University, he said.

According to a translation, Mr. Fedorov said: “The occupiers continue to abduct residents of Melitopol for no reason.

“After attempts to resume education in schools failed, the invaders turned to kindergartens. I am sure that the employees of preschool educational institutions will not collaborate with the occupants.

“An attempt by collaborators to resume college studies also failed. Of the thousands of students, only a few participated. I thank the young people for their conscious position.