Many still in the city of Mariupol await fulfillment of promises to help them reach safety.
Russian troops rolled into Bucha in the early days of the invasion and stayed up to March 30. With those forces gone, residents gave harrowing accounts Sunday, saying soldiers shot and killed civilians without any apparent reason.
The AP also saw two bodies, that of a man and a woman, wrapped in plastic that residents said they had covered and placed in a shaft until a proper funeral could be arranged.“He put his hands up, and they shot him,” he said. In Motyzhyn, some 50 kilometers west of Kyiv, residents told AP on Sunday that Russian troops killed the town’s mayor, her husband and her son and threw their bodies into a pit in a pine forest behind houses where Russian forces had slept. Inside the pit, AP journalists saw four bodies of people who appeared to have been shot at close range. The mayor’s husband had his hands behind his back, with a piece of rope nearby, and a piece of plastic wrapped around his eyes like a blindfold.
Officials in France, Germany, Italy, Estonia and the U.K. separately condemned what was being described and vowed that Russia would be held accountable.Ukrainian authorities said they were documenting evidence to add to their case for prosecuting Russian officials for war crimes. The bodies found outside Kyiv are being examined by prosecutors and other specialists, the prosecutor-general said on Facebook.
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