When photos surfaced over the weekend of the corpses of dead civilians lying on the streets of Bucha, some with their hands tied, others with bullet wounds to the head, the Russian Defense Ministry said. rejected your responsibility.

In a post by Telegram on Sunday, the ministry suggested that the bodies be placed recently in the streets after “all Russian units completely withdrew from Bucha” on Wednesday.

Russia said the photos were “another scam”And call an emergency meeting of Security Council of the United Nations in what he called “provocations by Ukrainian radicals” in Bucha.

But the Times analysis of video and satellite imagery shows that many of the civilians were killed over three weekswhen the Russian army took control of the city.

A video taken by a local council member on Friday shows scattered different bodies down Yablonska Street in Bucha.

Satellite images provided in the Times Maxar Technologies they show that at least 11 of them have been on the streets since March 11, when Russia took over, according to its own account, the city.

To confirm when the bodies were found and when civilians were likely killed, the Times Visual Investigations team performed a before-and-after analysis of satellite images.

The photos show dark objects similar in size to the human body that appeared on Yablonska Street between March 9 and 11.

Things appear in accurate positions where the bodies were found after Ukrainian forces recovered Bucha, according to footage Friday.

Further analysis shows that things have remained in that position for over three weeks.

The causes of death are not clear.

Some of the bodies were next to what seemed to be an impact crater.

Others are near abandoned vehicles.

Three of the bodies were lying next to the bicycles.

Some have hands tied on the back with white cloth. The corpses were scattered over half a mile of Yablonska Street.

The second video taken on Yablonska Street shows three more corpses.

One was next to a bicycle, the other near an abandoned car.

Satellite images show abandoned vehicles and nearby bodies appearing between March 20 and 21.

These are just a few of the civilian bodies discovered since Saturday.

Associated Press published photos of at least six dead men lying in the back of an office building, some with their hands tied behind their backs.

The building is 1.6 kilometers west of other victims found along Yablonska Street.

Another mile later, a Times photographer discovered the body of a man with a bullet wound to the head next to a bicycle.

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