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's version of the

massacre in

the

, in which it claimed that the images of the corpses in the streets was a "montage", has been dismantled by the Maxar satellite.

The satellite took images of the city of

on March 18 and in them you can already see the bodies of dozens of civilians lying in the street, as well as mass graves with hundreds of corpses.

Many of the bodies photographed by the satellite appear in exactly the same position shown in ground-level video on the same street, which was filmed by a local

council member .

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Satellite images show bodies in Bucha from weeks ago that contradict the Russian version

's thesis

that the dead in civilian clothes in

appeared after the

army withdrew from the devastated Ukrainian city.

Photographs of a street in

from mid-March show what would be several bodies of civilians on the road and on the side of the road, where Ukrainian officials recently said they found multiple bodies after the withdrawal of Russian troops.

"The high-resolution Maxar satellite images collected in

,

(northwest of Kiev), verify and corroborate recent videos and photos on social media that revealed bodies lying in the streets and left out in the open for weeks," he said in a statement. statement Stephen Wood, spokesman for Maxar Technologies.

The

published an analysis of the approaches to Yablonska Street in

, and concluded - after comparing them to a video from April 1 and 2 showing dead bodies on the road - that many had been there for at least three weeks, when Russian forces controlled that town.

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