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February 20, 2023
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The office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg wanted Donald Trump to turn himself on Friday after his surprise indictment was announced late Thursday but the Secret Service interceded on the former president's behalf.
According to a report from Politico, the Secret Service was also caught flat-footed and asked for more time for security arrangements to be made.
The report states that Trump's lawyers informed the DA's office the Secret Service expressed concerns and asked for more time.
"The exchange, which was relayed to POLITICO by a law-enforcement source and confirmed by Joe Tacopina, a lawyer for the former president, underscores the extremely delicate, unprecedented nature of the indictment. Until Thursday, no ex-president in history had been criminally charged. And both the charges itself and the application of them have placed the country on uncharted legal and political terrain," the report states.
READ MORE: Manhattan DA's office says it is coordinating with Trump to ‘surrender’
Politico's Erica Orden added, "Though it is not believed that Trump will resist arrest, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — a likely 2024 primary opponent to Trump — said on Twitter Thursday that his state would “not assist in an extradition request given the questionable circumstances at issue” with Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan D.A."
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Donald Trump's attorneys were notified Thursday afternoon a Manhattan grand jury had voted to indict him on felony charges related to his alleged hush money payoff of a porn star he reported slept with.
The ex-president' attorney recently said if indicted Trump would travel to New York to turn himself in.
The Office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has just issued a strongly-worded statement saying it is "coordinating" with Trump's attorneys for his "surrender."
"This evening we contacted Mr. Trump's attorney to coordinate his surrender to the Manhattan D.A.'s Office for arraignment on a Supreme Court indictment, which remains under seal. Guidance will be provided when the arraignment date is selected," the statement reads.
The Daily Beast's Jose Pagliery posted the statement to Twitter.
NBC News explains the process, noting he is expected to be arraigned next week.
"After the indictment, Trump will be arrested and taken into custody. He will likely have a mug shot and fingerprints taken," NBC reports. "Trump will then appear in court to be arraigned, where he will hear charges and enter a plea. Two sources familiar with the situation told NBC News that the former president is likely to be arraigned next week. Trump will either be jailed or released while pre-trial hearings take place."
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President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday that Ukraine would "never forgive" Moscow for its occupation of Bucha, a year after the town became a symbol of alleged Russian war crimes.
Russian forces pulled back from the commuter town northwest of Kyiv on March 31, 2022, just over one month after President Vladimir Putin ordered his troops to invade Ukraine.
AFP journalists on April 2 last year discovered the bodies of at least 20 people in civilian clothing, some with their hands tied behind their backs, lying in a street of the suburb.
Zelensky said Bucha had become "a symbol of the atrocities" committed by Russian forces, who have been linked to the extra-judicial killings of unarmed civilians in Bucha.
"We will never forgive. We will punish every perpetrator," Zelensky said in a statement on social media.
During a visit to Bucha days the Russian troops' withdrawal, Zelensky described the killings as "genocide".
Ukraine and its Western allies have accused Russian troops of war crimes after the discoveries, pointing to an abundance of footage and witness accounts.
Prosecutors in Kyiv say Russian forces killed some 1,400 civilians around Bucha and that they have identified dozens of Russian soldiers responsible.
But Moscow denies the accusations, claiming the atrocities in Bucha were staged.
Many foreign leaders and officials who have visited Ukraine since the war started have made a stop in Bucha.
'Continue to live'
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said he had a "strong sentiment of indignation" in Bucha last week.
After Russia withdrew from near Kyiv, fighting shifted to the south and east of Ukraine, with the embattled city of Bakhmut now the scene of the longest and bloodiest battle since the invasion.
But a year after it was retaken by Kyiv's forces, Bucha has not forgotten its victims.
The community of the suburb is rebuilding, and locals told AFP "the pain subsides" and that they must "continue to live".
AFP on Thursday saw dozens of construction workers weaving between diggers and trucks, as they worked to rebuild homes and roads in the town, which had a pre-war population of some 37,000 people.
Archpriest Andriy, who runs the local parish, said it is "important" not to forget those who are "not with us today".
"But it is also important for us not to live in the past but in the future," he told AFP.
In the weeks following Russia's withdrawal from other towns near Kyiv, hundreds more bodies were found in homes, basements and shallow graves across the north.
Ukraine wants to establish a special tribunal to prosecute Russia's leaders but there are complex legal disputes over how it could work.
The International Criminal Court earlier this month issued an arrest warrant for Putin over the unlawful deportation of children from Ukraine.
Chief ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan has described Ukraine as a "crime scene".
Russia has repeatedly denied any abuses by its forces, and foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova this week described scenes in Bucha as a "crude and cynical provocation" by Kyiv.
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