Since Russian troops pulled back from Bucha last week, Ukrainian officials say hundreds of civilians have been found dead
Cemetery workers unload bodies of civilians killed in and around Bucha, Ukraine, before they are transported to the morgue at a cemetery on April 7 2022.The Ukrainian government has accused Russian forces of committing a “deliberate massacre” as they occupied and eventually retreated from Bucha. Picture: CHRIS MCGRATH
Ruslan Kravchenko from the prosecutor’s office in Bucha said they had exhumed 20 bodies, 18 of whom had firearms and shrapnel wounds. He said two women had been identified, one of whom had worked at a supermarket in the town centre. Reuters could not independently verify those figures. The deaths of civilians in Bucha have been widely condemned by the West as war crimes.
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