There were bodies with bound hands, gunshot wounds and signs of torture scattered in a city on the outskirts of Kyiv after Russian soldiers left the area. Ukrainian authorities accused the departing forces of committing war crimes and leaving behind a scene from a horror movie. As images of the bodies of people who residents said were killed indiscriminately began to emerge, a slew of European leaders condemned the atrocities and called for harsher sanctions against Moscow. The bodies of 410 people have been removed from the towns that were recently taken by Russian forces. The bodies of at least 21 people were seen by Associated Press journalists. A group of nine people in civilian clothes were scattered around a site that residents said was used by Russian troops. They were killed at close range. At least two of them had their hands tied behind their backs and one of them was shot in the head. Ukrainian officials blamed the killings on Russian troops and the president said they were proof of genocide. Russia's Defense Ministry rejected the accusations as provocation. The Russian retreat from the area around the capital followed heavy fighting since troops invaded Ukraine from three directions. The troops who were swept in from the north spent weeks trying to clear a path to the capital of the country. More than 4 million Ukrainians have fled their country and many more have left their homes as a result of the war between Moscow and the rebels. Russian troops stayed up in the early days of the invasion. Residents said soldiers shot and killed civilians without any reason. One resident who refused to give his name fearing for his safety said that Russian troops went building to building and took people out of the basements where they were hiding, checking their phones for any evidence of anti-Russian activity and shooting them. Russian troops shot a neighbor who went out to gather wood for heating, according to a resident of the area. When the Russians started shooting, he went to get some wood. He fell down after they hit him above the heel. They shot him in the chest. The shot went below the temple. It was a controlled shot to the head. The two bodies that the AP saw were wrapped in plastic and placed in a shaft until a proper funeral could be arranged. The resident said the man was killed as he left the home. He said that he put his hands up and they shot him. The streets of the suburbs of Irpin and Hostomel looked like a scene from a horror movie, with scores of people found dead. Some of the women found dead had been raped before being killed and the Russians burned their bodies, he claimed. Zelenskyy told CBS on Sunday that this is genocide. The photos and videos of dead bodies have been staged for the Western media, according to the Defense Ministry. Not a single civilian has faced any violent action by the Russian military, according to the ministry. AP journalists witnessed Ukrainian soldiers gingerly removing corpses from a street in Bucha with cables in case the Russians had booby-trapped corpses with explosives. The mayor of Kyiv called on other nations to stop buying Russian gas. Money used to be used to slaughter people, so not a penny should go to Russia anymore. The embargo on gas and oil must be imposed immediately. The officials in France, Germany, Italy, and the U.K. condemned what was being described and vowed that Russia would be held accountable. This is not a battlefield, it is a crime scene. They were documenting evidence to support their case for prosecuting Russian officials for war crimes. Russian forces pressed their sieges in other parts of the country as they retreated from the area around the capital. Russia has said it is sending troops to eastern Ukraine, where Russia-backed rebels have been fighting Ukrainian forces for eight years. Mariupol, a port on the Sea of Azov that has seen some of the war's greatest suffering, remained cut off. A quarter of the prewar population of 430,000 are believed to be trapped there with little or no food, water, fuel or medicine. The International Committee of the Red Cross said Sunday that a team sent Saturday to help evacuate residents had yet to reach the city. Russia agreed a few days ago to allow safe passage from the city, but similar agreements have broken down multiple times. A parking lot in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia has become a staging area for helping people who have made it out. Peycheva Olena told Sky News that she was forced to leave her dead husband's body unburied when she fled the city. There was shelling and we tried to drag him away but it was too much. The mayor of the northern city of Chernihiv said Sunday that 70% of the city has been destroyed by Russian shelling. In Mariupol, Chernihiv has been cut off from food and other supplies. Russian forces launched missiles on the Black Sea port of Odesa, in southern Ukraine, on Sunday morning, sending up clouds of dark smoke that obscured parts of the city. The Russian military said they were targeting an oil processing plant and fuel depots in Odesa, which is the largest port and home to its navy. The Odesa city council said that the air defense shot down missiles before they hit the city. There were no casualties from the attack. The governor of the region in Kharkiv said Sunday that Russian tanks and armored personnel carriers launched over 20 strikes on the city over the past day. The head of the delegation in talks with Russia said that Moscow's negotiators informally agreed to most of the proposal discussed in Istanbul this week, but no written confirmation has been given. On Ukrainian TV, Arakhamia said he hoped the proposal was developed enough so Zelenskyy and Putin could meet to discuss it. According to the Interfax news agency, the top Russian negotiator in talks with Ukraine, Vladimir Medinksy, said it was too early to talk about a meeting between the two leaders. Western nations reacted to images of dead bodies in the town of Bucha with calls for new sanctions against Moscow, while Ukraine accused Russian forces of carrying out a massacre. Russia's defence ministry denied the Ukrainian allegations, saying footage and photographs showing bodies in Bucha were "yet another provocation" by the Ukrainian government. The images from the town, 37 km northwest of the city centre, emerged after the Ukrainian government said on Saturday that it had regained control of the whole region. Poland's prime minister called for an international tribunal to investigate killings in the town of Bucha, as he called for harsher sanctions on Russia. 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There were bodies with bound hands, gunshot wounds and signs of torture in a city on the outskirts of Kyiv after Russian soldiers left the area. Ukrainian authorities accused the departing forces of committing war crimes and leaving behind a scene from a horror movie.Politico
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