Polish President Andrzej Duda said that it’s “hard to deny” that Russian forces are committing genocide in Ukraine following the horrific images that have emerged from cities like Bucha showing civilians brutally killed.

“It is hard to deny this, of course. This is a crime which fulfills the features of a genocide, especially if you look at the context of different conversations that are being conducted”, - Duda told CNN’s Dana Bash in an exclusive interview in Warsaw, Poland.

Duda said Russian propaganda about Moscow’s goal for the “denazification” of Ukraine shows that the country was looking for a false pretext “in order to carry out a massacre”.

“The fact that civilian inhabitants of Ukraine are being killed shows best what the goal of [the] Russian invasion is”, - he said through a translator. “The goal of that invasion is simply to extinguish the Ukrainian nation”.