Denouncing news as fake or spreading false reports to sow confusion and undermine its adversaries are tactics that Moscow has used for years and refined with the advent of social media in places like Syria
Garland pledged to continue to work with the West to hold Moscow accountable after its autocratic leader Vladimir Putin ordered a brutal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in late February.
Analysis of aerial close-ups indicates corpses lay in war-torn town for at least three weeks, while Russia continues to insist they appeared after its forces withdrew
The grisly images of battered bodies left out in the open or hastily buried led to calls for tougher sanctions against the Kremlin, namely a cutoff of fuel imports from Russia.