War in Ukraine: the bodies of five men with their hands tied found in a cellar in Boutcha

The bodies of five men with their hands tied were found in the basement of a children's sanatorium in Boutcha, a town near kyiv taken over by the Ukrainians from the Russians where massacres were carried out, the prosecutor's office said on Monday. General of Ukraine.

These "unarmed civilians" whose bodies were unearthed by the security forces were "beaten" before being "killed" by "soldiers of the armed forces of the Russian Federation", he said. -we assured from the same source on Telegram.

Photos showing these bodies accompany this press release.

An investigation into the circumstances of their death has been opened, added the office of prosecutor Iryna Venediktova.

Ukraine speaks of "genocide"

Westerners called on Monday for investigations into the "war crimes" attributed to Russian soldiers in the kyiv region, denied outright by Moscow, but qualified as "genocide" by Ukraine.

Dozens of corpses wearing civilian clothes were discovered this weekend in Boutcha, at the northwestern gates of the Ukrainian capital, in the streets or in mass graves, after the withdrawal of the Russians.

Russian soldiers have been loosening the grip on kyiv and the north for several days to concentrate their military efforts on the east of the country.