Ten Things You Need to Know Today: 4 April 2022

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1. Zelenskyy: Russia committing genocide

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused Russian forces of committing genocide, describing the invasion as an attempted “elimination of the whole nation and the people”. Speaking to CBS, the Ukrainian president said: “Indeed, this is genocide. We have more than 100 nationalities. This is about the destruction and extermination of all these nationalities.” Earlier, he described Moscow’s forces as “murderers”, “torturers” and “rapists” after hundreds of bodies of Ukrainian civilians were discovered in the towns surrounding Kyiv.

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