The President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen arrived Friday in Boutcha, a small town northwest of kyiv that has become a symbol of the atrocities of the war in Ukraine, noted an AFP journalist.
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Ursula von der Leyen, who is accompanied by the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, announced on Friday that she would go to the capital as a sign of support for Ukraine. The two leaders went to see the mass graves dug in Boutcha to bury the dozens of civilians killed in the fighting.