Kyiv region: 20 bodies of civilians killed by occupiers found in one day
IRYNA BALACHUK — WEDNESDAY, 4MAY, 2022, 12:41 PM
Over the past 24 hours, 20 more bodies of civilians killed by Russian occupiers have been found in the Kyiv region.
Source : Oleksandr Pavlyuk, head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration, on Telegram; Ministry of Internal Affairs, citing the head of Kyiv Regional Police Andrii Niebytov, on Telegram
Pavlyuk's quote: "In the last 24 hours alone, 20 more bodies of murdered civilians from the Kyiv region have been sent to the morgues. Investigators are recording cases of torture."
Details: According to Niebytov, as of 4 May, the police of the Kyiv region had already discovered and examined 1,235 bodies of civilians. The identity of 282 dead has not yet been established.
It is also known that the invaders forcibly deported many civilians out of Ukraine. Now contact with them is lost.
Niebytov urged citizens not to hesitate and to report missing relatives and friends to the police.
Background:
- On 2 May, in the village of Kalynivka, Makarovskaya Municipal Territorial Community (ATH), Buchansky region, Kyiv Oblast, a burial place of two men with signs of torture was found.
- On 29 April, a pit containing the bodies of three men was found in the Buchansky region. The men had been tortured by Russian soldiers and then brutally killed.