More than 420 civilian bodies were found in the city of Bucha, about 25 kilometers from the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, regional police chief Andriy Nebytov told Ukrinform today.

“As of Saturday night, more than 420 bodies were found in Bucha alone. People are returning to their homes and finding temporary burials in gardens, basements, wells. More than 200 people are still missing. What happened after the Russians left the area, and more than 300 The identity of the body has not yet been determined,” he said.

The figure updates the latest poll published by Bucha prefecture on April 12, which showed 403 civilian deaths during the Russian invasion.

In addition to Bucha, more than a thousand civilians lost their lives in the Kyiv region, which includes other cities such as Irpin and Borodyanka, which the Russians have captured for about a month, and the capital’s periphery, which is also under the control of the invaders. .

According to the news of The Kyiv Independent newspaper, Nebytov reported that the bodies continued to be found and within a day, the order forces found the bodies of 48 people and took them to the morgues in the region.

Resistance in these nearby cities prevented Russian troops from advancing rapidly to take Kiev and overthrow the elected government. But since the Ukrainians regained control of the sites, gruesome images have spread around the world, including the corpses of dead civilians abandoned on the streets, mass graves with dozens of victims, and numerous corpses with their hands tied and scars of torture or mutilation. .

Moscow denies that military units are executing civilians and that the Bucha scenes in particular are a “false scenario” created by the Ukrainian government to influence the world. However, a delegation from the International Criminal Court (ICC) went to the scene and noted the signs of war crimes.