new Delhi: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday (April 4, 2022) visited the city of Buka in the Kyiv region, where bound bodies were shot at close range, a mass grave and other signs of executions were found in the area withdrawn from Russian troops Went. After the visit, Zelensky spoke to Buka on national television and said that it had become difficult for his country to negotiate with Russia as Kyiv became aware of the scale of atrocities committed by Russian troops in Ukraine.
“These are war crimes and the world will recognize it as genocide,” said Zelensky, wearing body armor and surrounded by his military personnel.
“It’s so hard to talk about when you see what they’ve done here,” he said.
(Zelensky visits the city of Buka)
“The longer the Russian Federation drags on the negotiation process, the worse it will be for them and for this situation and this war,” Zelensky said.
“We know of thousands of people who were tortured to death with severe limbs, women were raped and children were killed,” he said.
After Zelensky spoke, Ukrainian officials took the journalists to the basement they said was a summer residence for the children and showed them The bodies of five men are tied behind their backs,
Officials said five people, all dressed in civilian clothes, were captured by Russian troops before Ukrainian troops took control of the city.
“He was shot, either in the head or in his chest. He was tortured before being killed,” said Anton Herashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s interior ministry.
He said soldiers of Russian President Vladimir Putin had camped inside the building and stayed there for three weeks.
Earlier on Sunday, Buka’s deputy mayor said 50 residents had been victims of extrajudicial killings by Russian soldiers.
(Bodies of civilians lying in the street in Bucha)
However, Russia has denied any allegations related to the killing of civilians in Bucha.
“This information must be seriously questioned,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday.
“From what we have seen, our experts have identified signs of forgery and other fakes of the video,” he said.
Meanwhile, Zelensky said he would address the UN Security Council on Tuesday and predicted worse examples of mass killings of civilians by Russian troops would be discovered.
Tuesday’s Security Council session is to consider Ukraine’s allegations of civilian killings by Russian troops in Bucha.