Many bodies in civilian clothes have been found in areas left behind by Russian soldiers.
In the Ukrainian Brutality has been revealed in the city of Bushan following the withdrawal of Russian troops from the region. The city northwest of Kiev was under Russian rule for almost a month.
The news agency AFP, which arrived on Saturday, dropped at least 20 bodies that had fallen on the streets. The British broadcaster BBC, for its part published a report from one of Bashan’s streets full of burnt armored vehicles and bodies.
In addition, the mayor of the city Anatoli Fedorukin according to 280 people have been buried in a mass grave.
Pictures taken in Butcha on Saturday show civilians with their hands tied behind them. They have apparently been executed on the streets.
British newspaper The Sunday Times tells of an elderly woman who had been provided with food by Russian soldiers during the occupation. It was only after the soldiers left that it became clear to him that they had tied up and killed his neighbor.
According to the Ukrainian army, a cellar with 18 bodies, some of them children, was found along the same street. There were clear signs of torture in the body, says 53-year-old Ukrainian soldier interviewed by The Sunday Times Sergeiy Torovik.
”He [venäläiset] had tortured people. Some had their ears cut off. Others had their teeth pulled out. There were approximately 14-, 16-year-old children, some adults. The bodies were taken away yesterday, ”Torovik told the newspaper.
According to him, there are a lot of mines left by the Russians in the area.
“Everywhere. In people’s homes, in the backyards, on the roads. ”
According to Fedoruk, the mayor of Bushan, the bodies on the streets could not be collected because the Russians are suspected of having mined them as well.
Civilian bodies in the town of Butšan after the Russians withdrew from the area.
The bodies of civilians were buried in one grave in Butcha. According to locals, the people were killed by Russian soldiers.
Butchassa the brutality revealed has aroused the dismay of the world.
“Terrified by atrocities in Bocha and other cities in Ukraine”, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss write messaging service on Twitter.
Britain, along with others, is gathering evidence for the International Criminal Court’s war crimes investigation, Truss writes. He said reports that innocent civilians had been targeted by Russian forces were “appalling” and the perpetrators were held accountable.
“New Srebrenica,” the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, in turn tweets and refers to the atrocities of Serbs during the Bosnian war in the 1990s.
Former President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves according to Western media, the leaders of Germany, France, the United States and Hungary, for example, must tighten on Sunday what they have to say about the “Butshan massacre.” Ilves also expressed his dismay on Twitter.
“Every day since February 24th has been nauseating. But today the pictures of Butcha have made this day the most nauseating so far for those who are not physically in Ukraine,” Ilves continued.
Researcher at Johns Hopkins University in the United States is also expected to take office from Western leaders Evgeny Finkel.
“If Butša does not get Germany, Italy and the rest of the EU to declare an import ban on Russian energy by Monday afternoon, nothing in this war is likely to get,” Finkel writes on Twitter.
A civilian body filmed in Butcha on Saturday.
A lot of bodies lay on the streets of Bushan on Saturday.
The body on the streets of Butshan on Saturday.
Human Rights Organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) has documented suspected war crimes by Russian military forces against civilians in Ukraine. Between February 27 and mid-March, the organization recorded several cases in the Russian-controlled areas of Chernihiv, Kharkiv and near Kiev, according to the STT news agency.
These include repeated rape, executions, and other forms of violence and intimidation against civilians. In addition, HRW says the soldiers robbed civilians of food, clothing and firewood, among other things.
“The perpetrators of these acts are responsible for war crimes,” the organization said in a statement.
HRW says it has interviewed by phone or face-to-face a total of ten people who were victims, eyewitnesses and local residents in Russian-controlled areas.
Butshasta HRW has at least recorded a case where a teacher saw a man executed by Russian soldiers. According to the teacher, the Russian soldiers brought five men to the crowd in front of the crowd on their knees, t-shirts pulled over their heads. Then the soldiers shot one of them in the head.
“He crashed and [paikalla olleet] the women screamed, ”the teacher told the organization.
Director of HRW Europe and Central Asia Hugh Williamson describes the cases as “indescribable and deliberate cruelty and violence.” The acts, he said, must be investigated as war crimes.
Williamson recalls in a HRW press release that Russia has an international legal obligation to impartially investigate suspected war crimes by its soldiers. Commanders may be personally liable for war crimes committed by their subordinates if they have not sought to prevent or punish the perpetrators.
Ukrainian soldiers walked past the destroyed Russian military in Butcha on Saturday.