Many of the bodies had white bandages on them “to show that they were unarmed,” he added. The city still had cars on the streets with “whole families dead: children, women, grandmothers, men,” the mayor said. He claimed that some of the victims tried to cross the Buchanka River into Ukrainian-controlled territory and were killed. “These are the consequences of the Russian occupation,” he said, adding that it was not possible to say how many civilians were killed during the fighting.
