At least 1,200 bodies have been found to date in the Kiev region, which had been partially occupied for weeks by Russian forces, Ukraine’s Attorney General Irina Venediktova told Sky News today.
“To date, we have 1,222 people killed in the Kiev region alone,” Irina Venediktova said in an interview in English. for 5,600 war crimes investigations launched which are said to have been committed since the start of the Russian invasion on 24 February.
Venediktova, whose services are in charge of coordinating services to determine the number of people killed since the start of the war, did not specify today whether the bodies found were only civilians.
One week ago, Venediktova spoke about the bodies of 410 civilians found in the liberated territories in the Kiev region.
The prosecutor had then hinted that there were no doubt other bodies that had not yet been collected and evaluated.
In the city of Butcha, northwest of Kiev alone, which has become a symbol of the brutality of the war in Ukraine, nearly 300 people were buried in mass graves, according to a report released by Ukrainian authorities on April 2.
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