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"A taste of burning" - Senator Barry Ward in Ukraine

Barry Ward describes the "harrowing" experience of recently visiting a mass grave in Bucha, where more than one hundred people are interred. A second, in Borodyanka, may have a higher death toll.

Surrounded by "buildings in cinders", the Fine Gael Senator recounts the "steely determination" of the local population in the face of a barbarism that he finds disturbingly personal.

A trained lawyer, and Counsel to the International Criminal Court, he tells Your Politics that the EU must take the lead in gathering evidence which will be crucial if justice is to be served.

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