Emory law professor: Mounting evidence of Russian war crimes is difficult to reject

The visual evidence of criminal atrocities coming out of Ukraine this week is striking.

Some graphic satellite and on-the-ground images from the town of Bucha show dead civilians in the streets, some with their hands tied behind their backs. Frustrated, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the United Nation’s Security Council this week, describing the horrors of how Russian forces allegedly executed families and left mass graves behind them.

Zelensky told members that if there’s nothing the council can do besides hold conversation, it should “dissolve.”