The funeral services of the city of Bucha, near kyiv and which was recently liberated by the Ukrainian Army, they have located and buried some 340 bodies of civilians found in its streetsreports the Ukrainian newspaper Pravda.
The kyiv authorities denounced the massacre committed by the Russian army in that city in the north of the country, which was besieged and bombed for weeks and in which, when it was recovered by the country’s troops, hundreds of corpses were found in its streets, most of them civilians.
According to the daily Pravda, which cites sources from the funeral services of this suburb of Kiev, “In total between 330 and 340 bodies have been found in Bucha, but there are more“, he specified.
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“We collected 15 bodies from Yablunska Street whose hands had been tied and who they had been shot in the head. Today [el 3 de abril] we found 30 bodies,” the sources described.
According to Serhiy, another Bucha funeral service employee also citing the local newspaper, workers are overwhelmed and cannot continue with these body recovery tasks.
“Tomorrow we have to visit at least 20 more addresses. Many people are buried in yards and plots. We cannot say the exact number. We don’t have complete lists yet. We have already buried about 350 people,” he insisted.
The mayor of kyiv, Vitali Klitschkó, indicated this Sunday that dead civilians found in the streets of Bucha “had their hands tied behind their backs”, as can be seen in the photographs broadcast by international media.
The country’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, described last night on American television as “genocide” against the Ukrainian people what Russia is doing.
And the human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) stated have indications that the Russian Army had committed possible crimes of war in areas under their control, including summary executions of civilians.
