Dead bodies all along the way, a trail of death that the Russian army left behind in Bucha. But for Moscow and the web conspirators it is just fake news. After the publication of the images showing the massacre, Russia in fact spoke of “another hoax” and of “provocations by the Ukrainian radicals”. Alexander Alimov, Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations, wrote on Twitter: “The photos and videos arriving from Bucha are another production of the Kiev regime and the Western media.” The Russian government claims it left the city on 30 March.
Russia-Ukraine war, sirens across the country. Kiev: “Cluster bombs on Mykolaiv children’s hospital”. Zelensky: “300 killed and tortured in Bucha”
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The New York Times, however, has published some satellite images that apparently contradict the Russian version of the Bucha massacre. The images, recorded by a satellite of the specialist company Maxar Technologies, date back to 11 March – the date on which Russian troops still occupied the city – show eleven bodies on the ground, all in the same street, called Yablonska.
Bucha, the massacre of civilians buried in mass graves: satellite images
The causes of death are unclear. Some of the bodies were located next to what appears to be a crater. Others were near abandoned cars. Three of the bodies lay next to bicycles. Some have their hands tied behind their backs.
The New York daily maintains that from subsequent comparisons and checks it can be deduced that the bodies appeared on the streets between 9 and 11 March. Furthermore, their position – and the distance from other objects on the same road such as abandoned cars and trees – seems to coincide with the images recorded and transmitted last Saturday by a city councilor and in which a circular vehicle is seen along Yablonska Street avoiding running over the corpses. which lie left and right. Moscow denied that its soldiers had executed civilians before their withdrawal and today the permanent representative to the UN, Vassily Nebenzya, assured that the bodies appeared on the streets a few days after his soldiers left the city.