Bucha Mayor Anatoliy Fedoruk in televised remarks said that about 85% of the victims discovered in the city of Bucha contain gunshot wounds, indicating purposeful premeditated murder, local news agency Ukrinform reported.
Fedoruk said that the bodies will be removed from the mass grave in the territory of St. Andrew the First-Called Church by April 15.
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"We will complete this work: we will remove the bodies and send them to the morgue for conducting relevant procedures and for relatives to take the bodies of the dead and bury them appropriately," Fedoruk said.
Ukraine authorities said around 300 people were killed on the outskirts of Kyiv during the Russian army's month-long invasion.
Ukraine has accused Russia of deaths in towns surrounding Kyiv, including Bucha, Irpin, and Hostomel, with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy labeling Russian soldiers as Murderers, looters, butchers who are conducting "genocide" in his nation.
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