France offers to send war crimes forensics team to Ukraine
France on Tuesday offered to send a forensics team to Ukraine to collect evidence for an investigation of alleged war crimes committed by Russian forces.
French President Emmanuel Macron made the offer during a phone conversation Tuesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, according to a readout made public by the Elysee Palace, the French leader's official residence. Macron also offered to contribute $534,000 to the International Criminal Court in The Hague to assist in its investigation into war crimes committed in Ukraine.
![PHOTO: Volunteers unload bags containing bodies of civilians, who according to residents were killed by Russian army soldiers, after they collected them from the streets in Bucha, Ukraine April 4, 2022.](https://s.abcnews.com/images/International/bucha-scene-02-ap-jef-220404_1649175138450_hpEmbed_3x2_992.jpg)
Macron also offered to dispatch French personnel, including two magistrates and 10 police officers, to help in the investigation.
During the call, Macron conveyed to Zelenskyy the "shock and emotion" caused in France by images of dead civilians in the streets of Bucha, near the capital of Kyiv.
-ABC News' Christine Theodorou