The bodies of nine civilians were found on Wednesday in Borodianka near Kyiv, some showing “signs of torture”, the police in the Ukrainian capital said on Wednesday night.
A martyr city
“These people were killed by the (Russian) occupiers and some of the victims show signs of torture,” local police chief Andrii Nebytov said on Facebook. Borodianka was the scene of “massacres of civilians” in March, according to Kyiv, when Russian troops occupied the city.
“In a pit were two 35-year-old men and next to them a 15-year-old girl,” Nebytov said. Before adding, “In another, police discovered the bodies of six people: four men and two women” who “could be identified as residents of the town.”
signs of executions
“The Russian military knowingly killed civilians who did not resist them,” he said, adding that the bodies of the victims were “taken to morgues in the Kyiv region for examination.” According to Nebytov, forensic scientists and investigators also inspected both graves. “The police in the Kyiv region continue to investigate” the crimes committed by civilians attributed by Ukraine to the Russians, he also pointed out.
Since the withdrawal of Moscow forces from the Kyiv region three weeks ago, hundreds of bodies of civilians have been found by Ukrainian authorities who have joined Westerners in denouncing the “war crimes” committed by Russian soldiers who have occupied the city. An accusation that Russia has formally denied.