- People with tied hands who have been shot in the head and buried in pits.

And whoever you talk to in Butja with, they have a story - they themselves have seen, been exposed and lost loved ones.

These are war crimes, says SVT's foreign reporter Bengt Norborg.

Together with several other international news media, he and photographer Emil Larsson have today been able to accompany the Ukrainian military to the recently recaptured city of Butja.

On the spot, they have subsequently been able to witness and document some of the horrors that took place there during the weeks of Russian occupation.

In a pit in a forest area a few hundred meters from his house, the mayor of the village Motysjyn is buried.

According to Ukrainian authorities, she was murdered along with her husband and son, probably because they refused to cooperate with the occupiers.

Traces of torture

In a well next to the road, the body of another murdered man has been dumped and in the basement of a house in the city park, SVT's team is shocked to find five murdered men.

Their bodies bear traces of severe torture. 

Inside the residential building in Butja, SVT's broadcaster Galina meets outside the remains of her burnt down house.

She tells of how the Russian soldiers claimed to come as liberators and then asked where the Nazis were.

- When we could not give any answers, they said that everything was our fault and that they had to kill us.

Our house started to burn, and when my husband went out to put it out, they grabbed him, took off his shirt, and forced him to his knees.

Then they shot him in the temple.

The husband's body is now gone, but on the ground outside their shared house, his t-shirt remains.