Ukraine crisis: Kyiv mayor calls for halt to 'bloody money' flow to Russia

Kyiv mayor asks Europe to cut all business with Moscow while Russia denies targeting civilians and said the deaths had been staged by the West to discredit it

The flow of "bloody money" to Russia must stop, Kyiv's mayor said on Tuesday as the West prepared new sanctions on Moscow after dead civilians were found lining the streets of a Ukrainian town seized from Russian invaders.
 

Since Russian forces withdrew from northern Ukraine, turning their assault on the south and east, grim images from the town of Bucha near Kyiv, including a mass grave and bound bodies of people shot at close range, have prompted international outrage.

Russia denies targeting civilians and said the deaths had been staged by the West to discredit it.
 

Sanctions already imposed have isolated