Killed in citizens on the streets of Bucha. What is known about the terrible footage from the city near Kiev, where the Russian army came from
As Russian troops withdraw from areas located in the Kiev region, journalists and representatives of the Ukrainian authorities carry out representation, which treats there during the occupation. On Saturday, journalists from France-Presse and Reiter visited the city of Bucha, reminiscing about the Ukrainian capital, and noticed that only on one of its streets there were about 20 bodies of men in public presence.
The material contains shocking details, frames and photographs.
In the photographs taken by AFP journalists, the removal of the bodies of those killed and the destroyed city, control over the scope of Ukrainian power has returned to this accident. Similar pictures were also taken by Reuters reporters, which also showed the bodies of those killed in civil danger, burned cars and houses damaged by shelling and rockets.
On Saturday, Deputy Defense Minister of Ukraine Anna Malyar said that the Ukrainian army had completely regained control over the Kiev region. For a long time there were fierce battles in the Bucha region.
Data on global casualties is also presented by Ukrainian journalist Dmitry Komarov, who published a report from the city on the channel of the Odessa Film Studio on YouTube.
16 out of 20 bodies seen by photographer France Press sitting on the sidewalk or near the curb. Three more dead in the middle of the roads, one was in the yard of the destroyed house.
Next to the bodies from Ukraine, an open passport of a citizen, the hands of this person were covered behind a white cloth. White bandages were on his hands.
Local residents told Reuters that during the occupation, Russian troops forced them to wear such bandages all the time.
Bucha Mayor Anatoly Fedoruk told AFP on the phone that “280 people have already been buried in mass graves” after the Ukrainian army regained control of the key city near Kiev.
According to him, the streets of the badly damaged city are littered with corpses. As for the armbands, the mayor explained: they were supposed to “show that people are not armed.”
The Russian Defense Ministry did not comment on the suspicions against it. The BBC is currently unable to verify this data.
How did they happen?
According to Fedoruk, among the dead, both men and women, he also met with the body of a 14-year-old teenager.
Fedoruk claims that on the streets of cities there are still cars in which there are “whole dead families – children, women, grandmothers and men.”
In the pictures, which are distributed by Reuters, the remains of women at least one.
According to journalists France-Presse and Reuters, some of the bodies may have lain on the road for several days or even weeks.
Local residents told Reuters that these people died as a result of the actions of the Russian military, which occupied the city for a month. “All these people were shot, killed, in the back of the head,” Frans quoted the mayor of Bucha as saying. The Russian Ministry of Defense is not opposed to these accusations, the BBC cannot verify them.
An indictment was issued on charges of murdering these people. Reuters reporters write that they could have been killed by shrapnel, explosions or bullets.
One of the dead lies near his bicycle. Part of another person remained a few meters from his house – one of the neighbors named Vasily, his close friend, told Reuters reporters about this.
Vasily described life under occupation to Reuters reporters as follows: “We sat in the basement for two weeks. There was no food, no light, no heat to keep warm. We heated the water with candles.
This was followed by photographs, the content of which may shock.
The mayor of Bucha claims that some of the dead were killed on the recommendation of Buchanka in order to get into Ukrainian-controlled. It is not possible to verify his statement promptly.
mass grave
Fedoruk told AFP that the city authorities had already buried 280 who died during the Russian invasion in a mass grave. In an interview, Reuters estimated the number of civilians killed at 300.
Andrei Levkovsky wrote about the burial of 67 civilians.
According to Fedoruk, the remains of people still belong on the streets, since the work of sappers in the city has not ended, they can only be removed “in three or four days.”
Reuters asked for comment on the situation in the administration of the President of Russia and the Russian Ministry of Defense, but they did not give a prompt response.
This week, BBC correspondent Jeremy Bowen saw another 13 bodies on a road in another area of the Kiev region between the villages of Mriya and Myla – some of them may have been observed by Ukrainian soldiers.
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