An adviser said scores of civilians were found slain on the streets in what looked like a 'scene from a horror movie.' 9News
say the bodies of 410 civilians have been removed from Kyiv-area towns that were recently retaken from Russian forces.
The mayor, Olga Sukhenko, and her family were shot and thrown into a pit in a forest behind a plot of land with three houses where Russian forces had slept. A fourth body was not yet identified. Leaders in France, Germany, Italy, Greece, Czech Republic and Poland expressed outrage at the images. Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala called the images "horrifying" and says Russia has been committing war crimes.Ukraine's troops have found brutalised bodies with bound hands, gunshot wounds to the head and signs of torture after Russian soldiers withdrew from the outskirts of Kyiv, authorities say.
Some people were shot in the head and had their hands bound, and some bodies showed signs of torture, rape and burning, Arestovych said. Investigators at the International Criminal Court The torture and rape reports could not be independently verified.
Russian troops moved into Ukraine from three sides on February 24, and soldiers who entered from the north in Belarus spent weeks trying to clear a path to Kyiv.Moscow said this week it would concentrate the invasion elsewhere going forwardSigns of fierce fighting were everywhere in the wake of the Russian redeployment: destroyed armoured vehicles from both armies lay in streets and fields along with scattered military gear.
The EU and non-governmental organisations were assisting in the effort to preserve evidence of war crimes, according to Mr Michel, who promised "further EU sanctions" against Russia. A man distributes toilet paper rolls as people wait for medicine and sanitary supplies handouts after a convoy of military and aid vehicles arrived in the formerly Russian-occupied Kyiv suburb of Bucha, Ukraine, Saturday, April 2, 2022. As Russian forces pull back from Ukraines capital region, retreating troops are creating a catastrophic situation for civilians by leaving mines around homes, abandoned equipment and even the bodies of those killed, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned Saturday.
A supermarket parking lot in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia has become the staging ground for tens of thousands of people fleeing Mariupol. The mayor of Chernihiv, which also has been under attack for weeks, said Sunday that relentless Russian shelling has destroyed 70 per cent of the northern city."People think how they can live until tomorrow," mayor Vladyslav Atroshenko said.
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