“The victims were tortured for a long time (…) In the end, each of them was shot in the temple,” Kyiv police chief Andriy Nebytov said in a statement, adding that they had the hands tied, blindfolded and for some a gag in the mouth.
“The victims had their hands tied, clothing around their faces so they couldn’t see anything and some had gags in their mouths,” he added.
The bodies of these three men were found in Myrotske, a village near Boutcha, a town near kyiv that has become a symbol of the atrocities of the war in Ukraine and in which many corpses of civilians have been discovered.
“According to preliminary data, the occupiers tried to hide the traces of their violence, so they threw the bodies into a pit and covered them with earth,” Nebytov said.
kyiv accuses the Russian forces of having committed massacres after the discovery of dozens of corpses wearing civilian clothes in these localities occupied then abandoned by the Russian army around kyiv.
This week, Ukrainian justice indicted ten soldiers from a Russian brigade stationed in the region during their brief occupation, now wanted for “cruel treatment of civilians and other violations of the laws and customs of war” .