Monday April 4 2022 | thetimes.co.uk | No 73748yesterday: one behind an industrial
building used by Russian troops as a
base and littered with their discarded
belongings, the other in the basement
of a children’s dormitory where men lay
dead after being shot.
Other victims were left on the street
where they fell and later moved by
soldiers to two hastily dug mass graves
in Bucha, some in body bags and others
wrapped in sheets or placed shroudless
in a slit trench and covered with earth.
Satellite images provided by the Maxar
company and taken on March 31 show
a 45ft trench near Bucha’s church,
where one of the graves was found.
Officials in the town also accused
Russian troops of raping women and
trying to burn their naked bodies.Military explosives experts were
moving through Bucha to make bodies
safe after the discovery of corpses
booby trapped by Russians fleeing Irpin,
the suburb closest to Kyiv that had been
liberated a day earlier.
Ukrainian prosecutors investigating
possible war crimes by Russia have
found 410 bodies in towns near Kyiv
and 140 of them had been examined,
Iryna Venedyktova, the country’s
prosecutor-general, said yesterday.
“This is genocide,” President
Zelensky told Face the Nation on CBS
yesterday. In a message on Telegram he
added: “Mothers of Russians should see
this. See what bastards you’ve raised.
Murderers, looters, butchers.”
Boris Johnson condemned the“despicable attacks” against civilians
and said they provided “yet more
evidence that Putin and his army are
committing war crimes in Ukraine”.
Richard Moore, the head of MI6,
said: “We knew Putin’s invasion plans
included summary executions by his
military and intelligence services. The
reports of execution-style killings of
civilians emerging from liberated areas
are horrifying and chilling.”
In other developments:
6 Russian missiles struck oil depots
near the Black Sea port of Odesa
yesterday, even as the Kremlin’s forces
fell back in the north of the country.
6 Johnson will urge Olaf Scholz, the
German chancellor, to go further on
Russian sanctions when they meet thisweek, amid concerns that Ukraine will
be pushed by Nato allies to “settle”.
6 Poland is open to hosting US nuclear
weapons to protect itself against Rus-
sian aggression, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, its
deputy prime minister, said.
6 Two Russian soldiers died and 28
were taken seriously ill after villagers in
northern Ukraine fed them poisoned
pies, Ukraine’s military intelligence said.
The massacres are likely to provoke
tougher sanctions from the EU. In
Brussels, Charles Michel, president of
the European Council, promised further
action. “Shocked by haunting images of
atrocities committed by the Russian
army in Kyiv liberated region,” he said.
“EU is assisting Ukraine and NGOs in
Continued on page 2, col 3Russia has been accused of genocide
and world leaders demanded yesterday
that President Putin face tougher
sanctions and a war crimes prosecution
after scores of civilians were massacred
on the outskirts of Kyiv.
The killings in Bucha were discov-
ered after Russian troops were forced to
retreat from their attempt to encircle
the capital. Many of the victims had had
their hands bound and had been shot in
the head or chest.
The Times visited the sites of two
execution-style mass killings in Bucha
Catherine Philp Kyiv
Steven Swinford Political Editor
Bruno Waterfield
Jonathan Ames Legal Editor
6 Retreating Russians accused of genocide 6 Bucha victims’ hands were bound execution-style
2GVictims of the Russian retreat from Bucha, outside Kyiv, were left on the streets where they fell. The bodies were checked for explosives after reports that those in the town of Irpin had been booby trapped
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