On April 4, President Volodymyr Zelensky made a point of going to the town of Boutcha, located about twenty kilometers northwest of the Ukrainian capital. During his visit, he warned that it was becoming urgent, but also increasingly difficult, to organize a meeting between his Russian counterpart and him. “Because with each passing day, as our army advances and liberates such and such territory, we see what happened. It’s very hard to talk when you see what they’ve done here.”
“After the liberation of Boucha, in the Kyiv region, recalls daily online Oukraïnska Pravda, we began to become aware of the savagery of the occupier. Among other things, in mass graves in the city, almost 300 bodies were found, and in the streets, dozens of corpses, some with their hands tied.”
On April 3, “General Prosecutor Iryna Venediktova reported that in the territory of the Kyiv region which was liberated from the occupiers, there were 410 bodies of civilians killed – these victims are the subject of analyzes by experts to document Russia’s crimes”.
However, the magistrate has since indicated that according to the information at her disposal, the situation could be even worse than in Boutcha, Irpine and Vorzel, in the town of Borodianka, 70 kilometers from kyiv. “The Russian Ministry of Defense did not [quant à lui] not recognize the savage crimes of its soldiers in Boutcha and affirms that during the occupation, no civilian suffered violence”, precise Oukraïnska Pravda.
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