Poynter’s Morning Update on Ukraine and Russia

From The Poynter Report with Tom Jones:

Lester Holt’s opening

“Good evening. As our regular viewers know, we often caution before a particularly disturbing or graphic piece of video runs. Tonight, let me warn you from the start — many of you will want to look away for our top story. It’s about the unspeakable trail of horror retreating Russian forces left behind in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha. Bodies in the streets, evidence of summary executions, torture, mass graves filled with bodies, reports of rape. Late tonight, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy saying more than 300 people were killed and tortured in Bucha. Moscow claims it’s all staged, calling the images a provocation. Earlier today, President Zelenskyy toured the carnage in Bucha for himself, saying it will be recognized by the world as genocide. And so tonight, while we may want to look away, it is becoming harder and harder to close our eyes to what’s happening.”

The latest notable journalism from Ukraine-Russia

• The New York Times’ Carlotta Gall with “‘Sitting at Home and Trembling.’ A Town Emerges After a Russian Retreat.”
• Also in the Times, Malachy Browne, David Botti and Haley Willis with “Satellite images show bodies lay in Bucha for weeks, despite Russian claims.”
• Freelance photographer Heidi Levine has haunting photos in The Washington Post from Bucha.
• The Atlantic’s Franklin Foer with “The Horror of Bucha.”
• For Reuters, Simon Gardner with “In Ukrainian street, a corpse with hands bound and a bullet wound to the head.”
• The Associated Press’ Oleksandr Stashevskyi and Nebi Qena with “Russia faces global outrage over bodies in Ukraine’s streets.”