More than 1,200 bodies have been discovered so far in the kyiv region, partly occupied for several weeks by Russian forces, Ukraine's Attorney General Iryna Venediktova announced on Sunday on the British channel Sky News.
"To date, we have 1,222 people killed just for the kyiv region," said Iryna Venediktova who spoke in English in this interview where she also reported 5,600 investigations opened for alleged war crimes since the beginning of the Russian invasion on February 24.
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She did not specify on Sunday whether the bodies discovered were exclusively those of civilians.
A week ago, Iryna Venediktova reported 410 dead civilians found in the liberated territories of the kyiv region.
The prosecutor then suggested that there were probably many other corpses that had not yet been picked up and appraised.
In the town of Boucha alone, northwest of kyiv, which has become a symbol of the atrocities of the war in Ukraine, nearly 300 people were buried in mass graves, according to a report announced by the Ukrainian authorities on April 2.
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