Almost 300 people buried in "mass grave" in Bucha, dozens of bodies found in the streets
Alyona Mazurenko - Saturday, 2 April 2022, 23:27
The mayor of Bucha, Anatoliy Fedoruk, reported that a mass grave had been found in the town (Bucha is a town to the north-west of Kyiv). Almost 300 people had been buried there, while dozens of bodies lay in the streets, some with their hands tied.
Source: AFP News Agency, Senior Ukrainian Presidential Advisor, Mykhailo Podolyak, on Twitter
Details: Anatoliy Fedoruk reported that a mass grave was found in Bucha, where 280 people had been buried.
#UPDATE Bucha's mayor, Anatoly Fedoruk, told @AFP by phone that they "have already buried 280 people in mass graves," since the Ukrainian army retook control of the key town outside Kyiv
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) April 2, 2022
As witnessed by @AFP, he said the heavily destroyed town's streets are littered with corpses pic.twitter.com/XMxRTuCU5F
The demolished streets of the town are covered with corpses, he reported.
The bodies of at least 20 men in civilian clothes have been found in one of the streets of the town after it had been liberated from the Russian troops, according to journalists.
The Senior Ukrainian Presidential Advisor said that many of the victims shot by the aggressors had their hands tied. They were unarmed men killed by the Russians.
#UPDATE The bodies of at least 20 men in civilian clothes were found lying in a single street Saturday after Ukrainian forces retook the town of Bucha near Kyiv from Russian troops, AFP journalists saidhttps://t.co/hTpqgt5eKZ
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) April 2, 2022
Verbatim: "The bodies of people with their hands tied have been found in the streets. They were shot dead by Russian soldiers. These people did not belong to the military forces. They did not have weapons. They did not pose any threat. How many more such cases are happening in the occupied territories right now?"
Mykhailo Podolyak added that Ukraine is not asking anyone to fight in its place against Russia, but that Ukraine needs weapons to defend herself.