The bodies of 1,150 civilians have been found in the Kiev region since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and 50% -70% of them have been wounded by bullets caused by small arms, the Kiev police announced today.
Kyiv Regional Police Chief Andriy Nebitov says in a video posted on Twitter that most of the bodies were found in the city Μπουκαwhere hundreds of civilian bodies have been found following the withdrawal of Russian forces.
Ukraine claims that the civilians found dead in Bouka were killed by Russian forces during their occupation of the area.
Reuters has not been able to verify the number of bodies found in Boutsa or the circumstances of their death.
Russia has denied targeting civilians since invading Ukraine on February 24.
He has called “monstrous forgery” aimed at discrediting the Russian military the allegations that Russian forces executed civilians in Bouka during the occupation of the city.
Reuters has asked the Russian Ministry of Defense to comment on the latest announcement of the Kiev police.
“To date, we have found, examined and handed over to the forensic authorities 1,150 corpses of civilians“, says Nebitov in the video, in which he appears to be standing on the rubble of buildings damaged by heavy fighting in the Kiev region.
“I want to emphasize that these are civilians, not soldiers,” he said.
The video was posted the day UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was in Kyiv for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Ukrainian television broadcast footage of Guterres visiting the town of Borodyanka, where Zelensky described the situation as “significantly more terrible” than the situation in neighboring Bouka.
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