The bodies of nine civilians were found on Wednesday in Borodianka, near Kyiv, some showing “signs of torture”, police in the Ukrainian capital announced overnight from Wednesday to Thursday.
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“These people were killed by the (Russian) occupiers and some of the victims show signs of torture,” local police chief Andrii Nebytov said on Facebook.
Borodianka was, according to kyiv, the scene of “massacres of civilians” during the month of March, when Russian forces occupied the city.
“In a pit were two 35-year-old men, and next to them a 15-year-old girl,” Nebytov said.
Before adding: “In another, the police discovered the bodies of six people: four men and two women” who “might be identified as residents of the city”.
“The Russian military knowingly killed civilians who offered no resistance to them,” he castigated, adding that the bodies of the victims had been “taken to morgues in the kyiv region to be appraised”.
Forensic scientists and investigators also inspected both graves, according to Nebytov.
“The police in the kyiv region continue to investigate” the crimes of civilians attributed by Ukraine to the Russians, he also indicated.
Since the withdrawal of forces from Moscow three weeks ago from the Kyiv region, hundreds of bodies of civilians have been found by the Ukrainian authorities, who denounce with Westerners the “war crimes” of the Russian soldiers who occupied the city. . An accusation formally rejected by Russia.
