The film lasts about a minute and was shot from a moving vehicle.

He shows the car driving down a street strewn with corpses, making turns to avoid dead bodies.

All victims wear civilian clothes, one corpse has his hands tied behind his back.

The video was taken by Kyiv City Councilor Oleksandr Pohrebyskyi on the morning of April 2, when Ukrainian troops were returning to the town of Bucha northwest of Kyiv.

Pohrebyskyi told the FAZ on the phone that he had gone to Bucha as a member of the Ukrainian territorial defense to secure the town after the Russians withdrew.

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The handcuffs on some of the dead led him to suspect that the victims had been "interrogated and tortured".

According to his assessment, they were not killed by artillery fire, but by handguns.

The dead gave the impression that they had been lying on the street for several days.

The smell of corpses hung in the streets.

For him, as a member of the Ukrainian armed forces, the sight was difficult to bear.

"It's hard for us to come to terms with not being able to defend these people."

Podoljak: Srebrenica of the 21st Century

Porhebskyj's film is one of many testimonies of horror that poured out of towns around the Ukrainian capital over the weekend after Ukrainian forces regained control of them.

Particularly fierce fighting took place in this area during the attempted advance of Russian troops towards the Ukrainian capital.

The worst pictures came from Bucha.

The city's mayor, Anatoly Fedoruk, said he knew of between 280 and 300 victims.

The city is littered with corpses.

There were cars on the streets in which "entire families were killed: children, women, grandmothers, men".

The dead were buried in mass graves because the three cemeteries in Bucha were still within reach of the Russian military.

Reuters reported one grave was still open as of April 2.

The dead man's arms and legs could be seen through a thin layer of earth.

There have also been reports of killings from other towns around Kiev.

The Ukrainian leadership spoke of serious war crimes.

Mykhailo Podoliak, an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, wrote on Twitter that the perpetrators were members of the Russian occupying forces.

The victims carried "no weapons" and presented "no threat".

"How many such cases are happening in the occupied territories right now?" Podoliak asked.

In his Telegram channel on Sunday he wrote of a "Srebrenica of the 21st century".

Residents of Bucha confirmed to the Reuters news agency that the dead were shot dead in the streets by Russian soldiers.

This information also coincides with the reports that Ukrainian and international human rights organizations have been collecting since Russian troops took the Kiev suburbs in early March.

Euromaidan SOS volunteers have videotaped hundreds of accounts from survivors of atrocities committed by Russian soldiers over the past few weeks.