Blinken warns atrocities in Mariupol 'far worse' than Bucha
Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Wednesday that he thinks the atrocities in the port city of Mariupol will show to be "far worse" than in Bucha, where, after Russian troops retreated, there were found to be scores of civilians killed, and in some cases, tortured.
"We can only anticipate that when this tide also at some point recedes from Mariupol, we're going to see far worse -- if that's possible to imagine," Blinken said during a press conference in Panama.

Blinken expressed some doubts about Russia's offer of humanitarian corridors for Ukrainian civilians and service members to leave Mariupol.

"Of course, we want to see people who are in harm's way, if they're able to, leave it safely and securely," he said. "The judgment on whether the humanitarian corridor established to do that from Mariupol is safe and secure is one ultimately that the Ukrainian government is going to make … and ultimately, the decision to leave is going to be a burden on the people themselves to make that very difficult decision."


He said the U.S. is "certainly assisting" by giving its evaluations and assessments of the situation to the Ukrainian government.
But Blinken warned: "What gives pause is the fact that there have been agreements on humanitarian corridors established before that have fallen apart very, very quickly - if not immediately - principally because the security has been violated by Russian forces."
-ABC News' Conor Finnegan






