WASHINGTON: Satellite photographs released on Monday (Apr 4) appear to rebut Russian assertions that dead bodies in civilian clothing found in Bucha had appeared there after Russian forces
Russia's defense ministry has denied responsibility, saying that all its units"withdrew completely from Bucha as early as Mar 30", while the Kremlin has dismissed the graphic images emerging from the town as"fakes" concocted by Ukraine.
That claim was repeated at the United Nations on Monday, where Moscow's envoy Vassily Nebenzia reiterated at a press conference the corpses pictured in Bucha were not there before Russian troops left the city. "Suddenly they appear on the streets lying on the road, one by one, left and right, some of them are moving, some of them showing the signs of life," he said, claiming the scenes were"arranged by the Ukrainian information, information warfare machine." But Maxar satellite images dated Mar 19 and Mar 21 show that multiple bodies were on Bucha's Yablonska street at that time. And according to the Times analysis, Maxar images show dark objects of similar size to human bodies appearing on the street between Mar 9 and 11. Many of the bodies pictured in the satellite images appeared in the precise position on the ground as seen in video footage from the same street filmed by a Ukrainian local council member, and in photographs by international news outlets. In a second side-by-side comparison, the Times studied a video posted on Instagram of a body in the street in front of two cars.Source: AFP/ga
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