{"id":1416808,"date":"2022-04-03T10:44:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T14:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1416808"},"modified":"2022-04-03T10:45:24","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T14:45:24","slug":"pics-ukraine-forces-find-bodies-littering-streets-as-russia-retreats-from-kyiv-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pics-ukraine-forces-find-bodies-littering-streets-as-russia-retreats-from-kyiv-region\/","title":{"rendered":"PICS: Ukraine Forces Find Bodies Littering Streets as Russia Retreats from Kyiv Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpics-ukraine-forces-find-bodies-littering-streets-as-russia-retreats-from-kyiv-region%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1416808&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Ukrainian forces have found bodies littering the streets of Bucha, a key town near Kyiv (Kiev), after Russia\u2019s retreat from the region. (Warning: graphic images.)<\/p>\n<p>With Russian forces having pulled back from their northern positions near Kyiv after encountering fierce resistance, counter-attacking Ukrainians and photo-journalists have encountered scenes of devastation, with the bodies of seemingly civilian victims of the invasion littering the streets.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_20500724\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239694133.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A Ukranian soldier patrols in an armoured vehicle a street in Bucha, north-west of Kyiv, on April 2, 2022, where the town\u2019s mayor said 280 people had been buried in a mass grave. Ukraine has regained control of \u201cthe whole Kyiv region\u201d after invading Russian forces retreated from some key towns near the Ukrainian capital, the deputy defence minister said today. (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_20500733\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239687363.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20500733\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239687363-1024x668-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"646\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Bodies lie on a street in Bucha, north-west of Kyiv, on April 2, 2022, as Ukraine says Russian forces are making a \u201crapid retreat\u201d from northern areas around Kyiv and the city of Chernigiv. The bodies of at least 20 men in civilian clothes were found lying in a single street Saturday after Ukrainian forces retook the town of Bucha near Kyiv from Russian troops, AFP journalists said. Russian forces withdrew from several towns near Kyiv in recent days after Moscow\u2019s bid to encircle the capital failed, with Ukraine declaring that Bucha had been \u201cliberated\u201d. (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cAt least 20 dead men were lying in the street as Ukrainian troops entered the town. Some of them had their hands tied behind their backs,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-60970818\">reported<\/a> the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), which says it was \u201cable to get to Bucha because during Friday the final Russian soldiers pulled out, as part of what the Kremlin has presented as a calm and rational decision to concentrate on the war in eastern Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The publicly-funded broadcaster asserted that, in fact, Russia\u2019s objectives in the Kyiv region had been thwarted by \u201cunexpectedly fierce and well-organised Ukrainian resistance\u201d, citing \u201cthe rusting and twisted wreckage of [an armoured] column that still lies where it was destroyed on [a] suburban street\u201d in Bucha as evidence.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ukraine war: Bucha street littered with burned-out tanks and corpses <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ljsKfm5Hsm\">https:\/\/t.co\/ljsKfm5Hsm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCNews\/status\/1510435309951107077?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_20500904\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239688545.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20500904\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239688545-1024x657-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"635\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Dead bodies lie on a street in Bucha, north-west of Kyiv, on April 2, 2022, as Ukraine says Russian forces are making a \u201crapid retreat\u201d from northern areas around Kyiv and the city of Chernigiv. (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_20500922\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239688573.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20500922\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239688573-1024x665-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"643\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Dead bodies lie on a street in Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, on April 2, 2022, as Ukraine says Russian forces are making a \u201crapid retreat\u201d from northern areas around Kyiv and the city of Chernigiv. (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_20501003\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239688224.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20501003\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239688224-1024x697-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"674\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A dead body lies on the ground in a street in Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, as Ukraine says Russian forces are making a \u201crapid retreat\u201d from northern areas around Kyiv and the city of Chernigiv, on April 2, 2022. (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Mayor of Bucha, Anatoly Fedoruk, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2022\/04\/03\/new-srebrenica-mass-graves-found-around-kyiv-mayor-describes\/\">claims<\/a> Ukrainian forces have already found 280 people in a mass grave in the liberated town, with Defence Minister Dmytro Kuleba alleging the Russians \u201cwere killing civilians while leaving, while withdrawing, while staying there in this town of Bucha and also in other towns and villages in key regions, but also while withdrawing from them out of anger and just because they wanted to kill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no good reason for [the killings]. These were not guerrillas, they were not people opposing them,\u201d Kuleba added, saying that evidence would be collected to determine whether or not the Russians\u2019 actions amount to genocide.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20501039\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/AP22092629209875.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20501039\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/AP22092629209875-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Ukrainian servicemen walk while checking bodies of civilians for booby traps, in the formerly Russian-occupied Kyiv suburb of Bucha, Ukraine, Saturday, April 2, 2022. As Russian forces pull back from Ukraine\u2019s capital region, retreating troops are creating a \u201ccatastrophic\u201d situation for civilians by leaving mines around homes, abandoned equipment and \u201ceven the bodies of those killed,\u201d President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Saturday. (AP Photo\/Vadim Ghirda)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_20501048\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/AP22092837884230-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20501048\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/AP22092837884230-1-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Ukrainian servicemen attach a cable to the body of a civilian while checking for booby traps in the formerly Russian-occupied Kyiv suburb of Bucha, Ukraine, Saturday, April 2, 2022. (AP Photo\/Vadim Ghirda)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe Russian soldiers are lower than animals. Animals don\u2019t do what they did. We shouldn\u2019t take them hostage. They must die. They must be destroyed,\u201d said one Territorial Defence Force soldier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/bodies-of-mutilated-children-among-horrors-the-russians-left-behind-5ddnkkwp2\">quoted<\/a> by<em> The Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s nothing to be happy about. Only sorrow for the people who were killed,\u201d lamented the soldier, named as\u00a0Sergeiy Torovik by the British newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian alleged that he had discovered a basement packed with the bodies of 18 torture victims:\u00a0\u201cSome of them had their ears cut off. Others had teeth pulled out. There were kids like 14, 16 years old, some adults.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20501147\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239694061.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20501147\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239694061-1024x700-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"677\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Ukranian soldiers patrol a street in Bucha, north-west of Kyiv, on April 2, 2022, where the town\u2019s mayor said 280 people had been buried in a mass grave and that the town is littered with corpses. (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_20501174\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/04\/AP22092840528553.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-20501174\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/AP22092840528553-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A woman hugs a Ukrainian serviceman after a convoy of military and aid vehicles arrived in the formerly Russian-occupied Kyiv suburb of Bucha, Ukraine, Saturday, April 2, 2022. (AP Photo\/Vadim Ghirda)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Torovik also warned that Ukrainain forces were discovering mines \u201ceverywhere\u201d, including in homes and booby-trapping the bodies of the fallen.<\/p>\n<p>Comrades said it would take \u201cmonths\u201d if not \u201cyears\u201d to clear the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve hidden them everywhere. And some of them are so old, they\u2019re from the First World War,\u201d one said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New Srebrenica. The Ukrainian city of Bucha was in the hands of \ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddfa animals for several weeks. *Local civillians were being executed arbitrarily*, some with hands tied behind their backs, their bodies scattered in the streets of the city.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RussianWarCrimes?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RussianWarCrimes<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/outzejdidO\">pic.twitter.com\/outzejdidO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Defence of Ukraine (@DefenceU) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DefenceU\/status\/1510372750665433089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Jack Montgomery on Twitter:<\/span><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span>@JackBM<\/span><\/a><\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span>ontgomery<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian forces have found bodies littering the streets of Bucha, a key town near Kyiv (Kiev), after Russia\u2019s retreat from the region. 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