The three bodies were found in Myrotske, a village near Boutcha, a town that has become a symbol of the atrocities of war in Ukraine.
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Kiev police announced on Saturday April 30 that the bodies of three men had been found in a grave near Boutcha. “The victims were tortured for a long time… In the end, each of them was shot in the temple,” Kiev police chief Andrii Nebytov said in a statement. “Victims had their hands tied, their faces covered so they could not see, and some had mouth gags,” he added.
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The bodies of these three men were found in Myrotske, a village near Boutcha, a town near Kyiv that has become a symbol of the atrocities of the war in Ukraine and where many civilian bodies were discovered.
“According to preliminary data, the occupiers tried to hide the traces of their violence, so they threw the bodies into a pit and covered them with earth,” said Andriy Nebytov. Kyiv accuses Russian forces of committing massacres after dozens of bodies in civilian clothes were discovered in places around Kyiv occupied by the Russian army and then abandoned.
This week, Ukrainian justice indicted ten soldiers from a Russian brigade who were stationed in the region during its brief occupation and are now wanted for “cruel treatment of civilians and other violations of the laws and customs of war”.