“In Bhutsa, we have already buried 280 people in mass graves,” Mayor Anatoly Fedoruk told AFP by telephone. He said the streets of the devastated city were littered with corpses. On a residential street, the bodies of at least 20 men in civilian clothes were found scattered over an area of several hundred meters. Graphic videos and photos of this street and others in the community have been released online. One showed the body of a man with his hands tied behind his back and an open Ukrainian passport was on the ground next to him. Another had a head injury. Two were lying near bicycles and the third was next to an abandoned car. Some were lying face down, with their limbs slanted, while others were lying face down. WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT Ukrainian army soldiers sit on top of their tank as the body of a civilian – who according to residents was killed by Russian soldiers – is on the road in Bukha, Ukraine on April 2, 2022. REUTERS / Zohra BensemraThe body of a civilian is on the road, in through the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in Bucha, in the Kiev region of Ukraine on April 2, 2022. REUTERS / Zohra Bensemra “In Bucha, we have already buried 280 people in mass graves,” said Mayor Anatoly Fedoruk. REUTERS / Zohra BensemraThe bodies of at least 20 men in civilian clothes were found on the streets of Bucha.REUTERS / Zohra Bensemra Ukrainian forces recaptured Bucha on April 1, 2022.REUTERS / Zohra Bensemra The cause of death was not clear, but the appearance of the corpses indicates that they were dead for several days, the French Agency reported. Ukrainian forces took over Bhutan on Friday, Fedoruk said in a video that appeared to have been shot outside the town hall. The advances followed several days of Ukrainian conquest around Kyiv and in the north, as Russian forces withdrew after failed attempts to encircle the capital. The city was devastated by the fighting, with open holes from shell blasts in apartment buildings and wrecked cars filling the streets with rubbish.
