The bodies of six people killed by bullets were found in a basement in the eastern suburbs of kyiv, capital of Ukraine, from which the Russian army withdrew at the end of March, the Ukrainian General Prosecutor’s Office announced on Tuesday April 12. .
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“The bodies of six civilians with gunshot wounds were discovered in the basement of a house“, declared the prosecution on Telegram, accompanying its message with a photograph of corpses and specifying that an investigation had been opened.
“According to the first elements of the investigation, the military of the Russian Federation murdered civilians in the village of Shevchenkovo, in the Brovary district, near Kyiv“commented the prosecution. Several hundred bodies of civilians, according to the Ukrainian authorities, have been found in recent days in towns around kyiv, including Boutcha and Irpin, after the withdrawal of Russian troops from this region at the end of March.
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Moscow has now said it is concentrating on the east of the country, including Donbass, which has become a priority target for the Kremlin, raising fears in kyiv of a major Russian offensive.very soon“.
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