Bodies with bound hands, close-range gunshot wounds and signs of torture lay scattered in a city on the outskirts of Kyiv after Russian soldiers withdrew from the area. Ukrainian authorities on Sunday accused the departing forces of committing war crimes and leaving behind a 'scene from a horror movie.'
Bodies with bound hands, close-range gunshot wounds and signs of torture lay scattered in a city on the outskirts of Kyiv after Russian soldiers withdrew from the area. Ukrainian authorities on Sunday accused the departing forces of committing war crimes and leaving behind a "scene from a horror movie."
The discoveries followed the Russian retreat from the area around the capital, territory that has seen heavy fighting since troops invaded Ukraine from three directions on Feb. 24. Troops who swept in from Belarus to the north spent weeks trying to clear a path to Kyiv, but their advance stalled in the face of resolute defence from Ukraine's forces.
Hanna Herega, a resident of Bucha, said Russian troops shot a neighbour who had gone out to gather wood for heating. He alleged that some of the women found dead had been raped before being killed and the Russians then burned the bodies.But Russia's Defence Ministry said in a statement that the photos and videos of dead bodies "have been stage managed by the Kyiv regime for the western media." It noted that Bucha's mayor did not mention any abuses a day after Russian troops left.
"Not a penny should go to Russia anymore," Klitschko told German newspaper Bild. "That's bloody money used to slaughter people. The gas and oil embargo must come immediately." The International Committee of the Red Cross said Sunday that a team sent Saturday to help evacuate residents had yet to reach the city.
"There was shelling, and we tried to drag him away but it was too much, we couldn't do it," explained her daughter, Kristina Katrikova.
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