Mass graves. Destroyed vehicles. Unexploded shells in a yard. All are evidence of the death and destruction left behind by retreating Russian forces following a weekslong occupation on the outskirts of Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital.
Among them was a Ukrainian soldier wearing camouflage, his shriveled hand raised; many others of the hundreds killed were civilians, including young children.Elsewhere on the edges of the capital, mounds of destroyed and burned vehicles were piled on top of each other. Local residents climbed atop an abandoned and damaged Russian tank. A boy walked by unexploded Russian shells in the village of Andriyivka, on the outskirts of Kyiv.
All were evidence of the destruction and death left behind by the retreating Russian forces following a weekslong occupation.
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