The bodies of 1,150 civilians have been recovered in Ukraine's Kyiv region since Russia's invasion and 50 to 70 percent of them have bullet wounds from small arms, Kyiv police said on Thursday.
A view of new graves for people killed during Russia's invasion of Ukraine, at a cemetery in Bucha, Kyiv region, Ukraine April 28, 2022. REUTERS/ Zohra Bensemra
KYIV — The bodies of 1,150 civilians have been recovered in Ukraine's Kyiv region since Russia's invasion and 50 to 70 percent of them have bullet wounds from small arms, Kyiv police said on Thursday. Kyiv regional police chief Andriy Nebytov said in a video posted on Twitter that most of the bodies had been found in the town of Bucha, where hundreds of corpses have been discovered since Russian forces withdrew.
Ukraine says the civilians found dead in Bucha were killed by Russian forces during their occupation of the area. Reuters has not been able to verify the number of people found dead in Bucha or the circumstances of their deaths. Russia has denied targeting civilians since the Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine. It has called allegations that Russian forces executed civilians in Bucha while they occupied the town a "monstrous forgery" aimed at denigrating the Russian army."To date, we have found, examined and handed over to forensic institutions 1,150 bodies of dead civilians," Nebytov said in the video, in which he stood in the rubble of buildings destroyed during heavy fighting in the Kyiv region.
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