Kyiv, April 3 : Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday said that Russian president Vladimir Putin and his military commanders should be held accountable for atrocities allegedly committed by withdrawing Russian troops. Speaking on the US political talk show Face the Nation, Zelensky said: This is genocide, the elimination of the whole nation and the people. “We are the citizens of Ukraine, we have more than 100 nationalities. This is about the destruction and extermination of all these nationalities,” he said on the CBS show. The emerging images of Ukraine citizens lying dead in the streets, he said, were abhorrent, reports The Guardian. The remarks come after photographs of bodies of at least 20 civilian men were found strewn across a street in Bucha, northwest of the capital of Kyiv, following the withdrawal of Russian forces from the area. “When we find people with hands tied behind their back and decapitated, such things I don’t understand. I don’t comprehend the kids who were killed and tortured. It wasn’t enough just to kill, for those criminals? Maybe they wanted to take gold, or washing machines as they were killing, but they were also torturing them as they did this,” The Guardian reported Zelensky as saying. On holding the perpetrators accountable for war crimes, the President said “It wouldn’t be fair to take only [Putin]. All the military commanders, everyone who gave instructions and orders should be p shed adequately.” “Everything has to be fair and according to justice, as the civilized world will decide. We believe in justice, in the justice of the western world,” Zelensky added. As per The Guardian report, Zelensky said he would be willing to meet Putin for dialogue only after a ceasefire in Ukraine. MYK SHK2210