{"id":22696,"date":"2022-05-30T11:37:10","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T11:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=22696"},"modified":"2022-05-30T11:37:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T11:37:10","slug":"french-foreign-minister-visits-orthodox-church-in-bucha-where-russian-forces-have-been-accused-of-killing-civilians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/05\/30\/french-foreign-minister-visits-orthodox-church-in-bucha-where-russian-forces-have-been-accused-of-killing-civilians\/","title":{"rendered":"French Foreign Minister visits Orthodox Church in Bucha where Russian forces have been accused of killing civilians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-xry7m2\">Visiting an Orthodox church in the town of Bucha outside the capital Kyiv, where Russian forces have been accused of killing civilians, France\u2019s new foreign minister Catherine Colonna told reporters: \u201cThis should never have happened. It must never happen again\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xry7m2\">She added that France will do \u201ceverything in its power\u201d to restore peace, and hopes \u201clegal proceedings are completed as quickly as possible, so that families can see their loved ones laid to rest in proper graves\u201d, AFP reports.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"ed9db886-fd76-4cef-804f-0aa4a7aaa847\" class=\" css-10khgmf\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement\">\n<div class=\"css-1b267dg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"css-1989ovb\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/da8a30373fa3aad0d18d7d236433c5c3c4e6b690\/0_194_5808_3485\/master\/5808.jpg?width=445&amp;quality=45&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=f89bd96e0fc21357c3022b78ff94d26b\" alt=\"French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna reacts as she and Andrii Holovine, priest of the Church of St. Andrew Pervozvannoho All Saints, enter the church at the site of a mass grave in the Ukrainian town of Bucha, near Kyiv.\" width=\"5808\" height=\"3485\" \/><\/div><figcaption class=\"css-5yynor\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"ed9db886-fd76-4cef-804f-0aa4a7aaa847\" class=\" css-10khgmf\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement\"><figcaption class=\"css-5yynor\"><span class=\"css-19x4pdv\">French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna reacts as she and Andrii Holovine, priest of the Church of St. Andrew Pervozvannoho All Saints, enter the church at the site of a mass grave in the Ukrainian town of Bucha, near Kyiv.<\/span> Photograph: Dimitar Dilkoff\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"css-xry7m2\">Since Russia\u2019s invasion, <strong>Colonna<\/strong> is the highest ranking French official to visit Ukraine. Later, she is poised to meet with president <strong>Volodymyr Zelensky<\/strong> and her counterpart <strong>Dmytro Kule<\/strong><strong>ba<\/strong> to discuss Russia\u2019s blockage of Ukrainian ports and global food security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visiting an Orthodox church in the town of Bucha outside the capital Kyiv, where Russian forces have been accused of killing civilians, France\u2019s new foreign minister Catherine Colonna told reporters: \u201cThis should never have happened. It must never happen again\u201d. She added that France will do \u201ceverything in its power\u201d to restore peace, and hopes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":22697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[11261,5640,6845,11583,6847,6537,6848,7516,6738,6496,5345,5575,6351,5252,10454,5342,9403,6846,5396,3805,9420,3457,5217,5655,5180,5555,4178,3954,2472],"class_list":["post-22696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-accused","tag-bucha","tag-buchan-forces-have-been-accused-of-killing-civilians","tag-capital","tag-catherine-colonna","tag-church","tag-civilians","tag-dmytro-kuleba","tag-families","tag-food","tag-foreign-minister","tag-france","tag-french","tag-invasion","tag-killing","tag-kyiv","tag-orthodox","tag-orthodox-church","tag-peace","tag-president","tag-president-volodymyr-zelensky","tag-russia","tag-russian","tag-security","tag-ukraine","tag-ukrainian","tag-volodymyr-zelensky","tag-will","tag-zelensky"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}