'They suffered through a lot. There is a lot of dead bodies. Some of the bodies have been buried in the backyard,' said Yevgeniy Pakkel while translating his family's heartache.
HAINESPORT, New Jersey -- Yevgeniy Pakkel lives in Hainesport, New Jersey, but he's from Ukraine.
Pakkel's family lives about five miles from Bucha, the outskirts of Kyiv where bodies have been found -- many with hands tied behind their backs, shot at close range, according toPakkel translated his family's stories of heartache saying,"They suffered through a lot. There is a lot of dead bodies. Some of the bodies have been buried in the backyards... Then there are cases where people had their hands tied behind their back and they were executed, shot in the head.
"I've never seen anything like this, never in my life. It's simply put -- a horror. In the last days, the whole world has awakened to the tragedy with the horrors in towns like Bucha," said Yuri Shipov.
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