on the streets corpses and burnt cars, buildings destroyed and burned

The bodies hang out on a quiet, tree-lined street in the town of Butšan. Reporters who arrived in the city of AFP news agency say all twenty people are in civilian clothes. Part of the body stares blankly at the Ukrainian sky, part is left to fall on the face of the home country.

Three of the bodies are tangled in bicycles, and some lie on the ground next to crumbling and bullet-hole cars. One’s hands are tied behind his back in a white cloth, and his Ukrainian passport is open next to his body.

Russia’s rapid withdrawal from the areas around Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, is constantly revealing more horrors. Mayor of Bushan Anatoli Fedoruk has told AFP that people hanging on the street had been killed by shooting in the head from behind.

According to the mayor, 280 people have been buried in mass graves, and entire families are still shot dead in their cars.

Reporters from the news agency Reuters report seeing an uncovered mass grave in the city. According to them, there are a lot of burnt-out Russian tanks and armored vehicles on the streets of the city.

Before the Russian invasion, Bucha was a sleepy suburb in the suburbs of Kiev, surrounded by pine forests that stretched as far as Belarus. A month of fierce fighting in places like Bushan and nearby Irpin prevented Russian troops from besieging Kiev, just over twenty kilometers away.

The cost of fighting is huge. The AFP team talks about the huge holes in the buildings left behind by the explosions. There have been destroyed cars on the streets, grocery stores, cafes and homes burned and destroyed and the church roof damaged. Only the fast food restaurant McDonald’s seems to have survived untouched.

Corpses are encountered across the city, but on one street the violence appears to have been systematic. All twenty bodies are within a few hundred meters, 16 of them either on the sidewalk or at its edge. Some are in groups, but some are dead alone, like a man who has fallen under his bike and looks like he can’t get up.

The material damage is also extensive. Cars punched and burned by bullets can be seen all around.

However, horrors have become commonplace. The remaining residents walk the streets past the bodies with little blinking.

The bodies will not be fetched very quickly from the streets: Ukrainian troops have recently taken back Butshan and began relief relief on Saturday.

Soldiers have distributed food and medicine to those still in the city. A spokesman for the relief operation tells AFP that residents are still very scared and very upset.

Most of the civilians left in Bhutan are elderly people. In the soup queue, a group of seniors eat borscht and cook on a temporary stove next to a yellow Lada with empty rings. They tell AFP that Russian soldiers broke into the apartments, stole supplies and asked the elderly woman if she had guns.

On Tuesday, they dropped more than 70 Russian armed vehicles faded from the city and left Kiev. The artillery fire ended on Thursday.

– If peace comes, everything will be fine, says the 82-year-old Nadia Protopopova.

Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense blames Russian forces for the execution of civilians in Bocha.

– Local civilians were executed arbitrarily. The hands of the part are tied behind the back. Their bodies are all over the city, the Department of Defense says in its Twitter account.

The Ministry of Defense describes what happened in its suite as a new Srebrenica massacre. More than 7,000 Muslim men and boys were killed in the Srebrenica massacre during the Bosnian war in the 1990s.

Among other things, the British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has commented on the recent information from Butcha.

– I am shocked by the atrocities in Bocha and other Ukrainian villages. Reports of acts perpetrated by Russian forces on innocent civilians are appalling. Britain is involved in gathering evidence and supporting the International Criminal Court in war crimes investigations. The culprits will be brought to justice, Truss wrote on Twitter.