About 400 residents of Khostomel – a suburb of the Ukrainian capital, Kiev – are missing after 35 days of Russian occupation, said the head of the local military administration.
Taras Dumenko told a local radio station that searches were being carried out underground in the suburb, according to the Ukrainian newspaper Pravda.
There is no sign of a doctor’s husband and son in the area taken by Russian forces twelve days ago, and the bodies of people known to have been killed have not been found, he added.
Several residents of Hostomel were found in Bukha, another suburb of Kiev. The location of hundreds of civilians dead in Bouka has caused an international outcry.
Hostomel, northwest of the capital, is located near a strategically important airport where heavy fighting has been raging since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24. Most of its 16,000 inhabitants fled.
The Ukrainian armed forces regained control of Kiev suburbs such as Hostomel, Bukha and Irpin a few days ago.
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