Reuters was not able to independently verify who was responsible for killing the dead residents
But three bodies seen by Reuters reporters on Sunday — the corpse with the hands bound and two others which did not have bound hands — bore bullet shots to the head consistent with what Bucha mayor Anatoliy Fedoruk and his deputy described as executions.Article content
Reuters sent questions to the Kremlin and the Russian defense ministry about the corpses that its reporters had witnessed, but received no immediate reply.Article content She said the Russians, when they arrived in the city, asked people who they were, and demanded to see documents. “I recognized him by his sneakers, his trousers. He looked mutilated, his body was cold,” she said. “My neighbor still has a picture of his face. He had been shot in the head, mutilated, tortured.”
One of the residents said she recognized one of the dead men as a tenant in the apartment complex, who she said was a retired member of the Ukrainian military. On Saturday, Ukraine said its forces had retaken all areas around Kyiv and that it now had complete control of the capital region for the first time since the invasion.
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