After Russian forces scaled back operations in the outskirts of Ukraine’s capital, evidence emerged of brutal war crimes against civilians.
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Ukrainian officials, meanwhile, have shared disturbing photos online of corpses strewn about abandoned streets in villages near Kyiv that were until recently under control of Russian forces. Per international humanitarian law, belligerent armed forces are responsible for war crimes if they are found to have committed the willful killing, rape, torture, or other inhuman types of treatment of captured civilians and combatants who are in custody.
Residents say Russian troops would go from building to building, take people out of the basements where they were hiding from the fighting, check their phones for evidence of anti-Russian activity and take them away or shoot them. Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said Sunday that scores of dead civilians were found on the streets of Kyiv’ suburbs of Irpin, Bucha, and Hostomel. He likened the scene to"a horror movie." Many of the bodies had gunshot wounds to the head and had their hands bound.
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