Severed heads and booby-trapped bodies in horrific scenes in the Ukrainian city of Bucha

Ukrainian authorities continue to search and excavate the bodies left behind by Russian forces after their withdrawal on April 1 from Bucha, on the outskirts of the capital, Kyiv.

In one month of the Russian occupation, Bucha witnessed many crimes and violations, according to the "Washington Post" newspaper, but new details unfold every day with hundreds of bodies found scattered throughout the city, chilling accounts.

The newspaper follows the testimonies of a team from the prosecutor's office that combed the city of Bucha on Wednesday, as investigators uncovered evidence of torture before death, beheadings, amputations and arson.

The newspaper presents a glaring example of these cases in a glass factory on the outskirts of the city. At a delivery site in the factory, the body of Dmytro Chaplin, 21, had severe bruises on his stomach and traces of what appeared to be cigarette burns on his hands, but the cause of his death was a bullet wound to the chest, According to the conclusion of the chief prosecutor, Ruslan Karachenko.

But it did not stop there, but Chaplin's body was used as a weapon, as it was tied to a mine through a wire rigged with explosives.

"Every day, we receive between 10 to 20 calls informing us of bodies like this," Krachenko told the American newspaper. 

Slowly, they pull the wire off the body while the other team members search for evidence of what happened in the factory's surveillance cameras, as well as document the accounts of eyewitnesses and local residents.

Behind the factory on a dirt road, investigators found an even more horrific scene, in which the bodies of two men whose identities have not yet been verified were dumped, one of whom was beheaded, burned and placed near his crooked feet.

On the same road, there is another corpse with a bottle of vodka next to it, as if someone tried to cut off the head of the murdered man, but failed to do so.

 Oleg Yevtushenko, 55, a resident of a residential neighborhood that the Russians have turned into a base in Bucha, describes what happened as "hell on earth."

Yevtushenko and hundreds of others lived in the basement of a children's nursery, using their numbers, as Russian forces targeted men who were walking alone in the streets, beating and killing them, as he put it to the "Washington Post".

Yevtushenko tells the story of his neighbor, Vasyl Nadashkevsky, 47, who came out with his dog from the basement three days before the Moscow forces withdrew from the city, but the Russians caught him and forced him to kneel in front of them with guns to his head for 40 minutes, accusing him of being a Nazi.

He says, "They shot Fasil, quite simply."

According to what the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Irina Venediktova, announced on April 3, the bodies of 410 civilians were found in Bucha and other territories in an area recently retaken by Ukrainian forces from Russian forces.

Venediktova said that the investigations led to the commission of thousands of possible war crimes and more than 200 suspects with a physical instrument, confirming their involvement in the crimes committed in the town.

The Ukrainian newspaper, "Kyiv Independent" of the locality, quoted accounts from eyewitnesses in which several incidents were mentioned, including the burning of the bodies of civilians after they were killed.

In just a month, a small town on the outskirts of the capital, Kyiv, has transformed from a small, warm, fast-growing area into a symbol of horror.

For its part, Moscow denied killing civilians in Bucha, and the Kremlin and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke of "fraud" and "fabrication" by Ukraine and the press.

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