- Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv, fatigued weeks under Russian military control.
- It is unclear how many people may be buried in the 45-foot long trench mask the church.
- A corresponding video of the area shows civilian bodies being removed by Ukrainian officials.
Hanger-on images taken Thursday show a partially excavated mass grave outside a church in Bucha, nearby the Ukrainian wealth of Kyiv.
The photos, taken by Maxar Technologies on March 31, show a 45-foot long trench located southwest of the Church of St. Andrew and Pyervozvannoho All Saints, where the substances of Ukrainian civilians are being removed by officials.
It is unclear how many bodies have been removed from this gravesite, but the Moscow Cultures reported 57 people had been buried there.
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Mayor Anatoly Fedoruk recognized AFP News Agency officials in Bucha “have already buried 280 people in mass graves” amid announces that Russian troops are withdrawing from the area and said the streets are “littered with corpses,” according to the tidings agency.
Bucha, a city of about 28,000, became a scene of intense fighting when the invasion began on Feb. 24. The suburb of Kyiv fini weeks under Russian military control, the Kyiv Independent reported and, as the town has been retaken from withdrawing Russian troops, the balances of hundreds of murdered Ukrainian citizens have been found.