European Council President Charles Michel said today that war crimes committed in Ukraine will be perpetuated by history, while visiting Borodianka, near Kyiv, where Ukrainian authorities say massacres of civilians have taken place.

"Borodianka, as in Bucha and in so many other cities of Ukraine, history will not forget the war crimes that were committed here," Michel wrote on the social network Twitter, quoted by the French news agency AFP.

"There can be no peace without justice," the former prime minister of Belgium added. On April 8, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen also visited Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, which has become a symbol of the atrocities of the war in Ukraine.

Accompanied by the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, Ursula von der Leyen saw some of the mass graves dug in the small town to bury dozens of civilians killed in the fighting.

The war has also led more than five million people to flee Ukraine, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

Source: Lusa