Ukrainian prosecutor general Iryna Venediktova on Tuesday said evidence shows Russia is committing ‘genocide’ through its siege on the strategic port city of Mariupol. Around 200,000 people are currently trapped in Mariupol, encircled and under fire from relentless shelling since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine on February 24. “What now I see in Mariupol it’s not about war, it’s about genocide,” Venediktova told AFP. “Theatres of war have some rules, some principles. What we see in Mariupol, [are] no rules at all,” she added. Ukraine will work to officially “qualify” the siege as genoc…