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THE ATROCITIES IN BUCHA War in Ukraine ... Satellite images show bodies lay in Bucha for weeks, despite Russian claims. Original article: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/04/world/europe/bucha-ukraine-bodies.html Burgess COMMENTARY Peter Burgess | ||
War in Ukraine
Satellite images show bodies lay in Bucha for weeks, despite Russian claims.
Reported by Malachy Browne, David Botti and Haley Willis
April 4, 2022, 3:16 p.m. ET
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Satellite Images Rebut Russia’s Claim on Bucha
Satellite images rebut Russia’s claim that the killing of civilians in Bucha occurred after its soldiers had left town, a Times analysis found. Video contains graphic images.CreditCredit...Maxar Technologies
An analysis of satellite images by The New York Times rebuts claims by Russia that the killing of civilians in Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv, occurred after its soldiers had left the town.
When images emerged over the weekend of the bodies of dead civilians lying on the streets of Bucha — some with their hands bound, some with gunshot wounds to the head — Russia’s Ministry of Defense denied responsibility. In a Telegram post on Sunday, the ministry suggested that the bodies had been recently placed on the streets after “all Russian units withdrew completely from Bucha” around March 30.
Russia claimed that the images were “another hoax” and called for an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting on what it called “provocations of Ukrainian radicals” in Bucha.
But a review of videos and satellite imagery by The Times shows that many of the civilians were killed more than three weeks ago, when Russia’s military was in control of the town.
One video filmed by a local council member on April 1 shows multiple bodies scattered along Yablonska Street in Bucha. Satellite images provided to The Times by Maxar Technologies show that at least 11 of those had been on the street since March 11, when Russia, by its own account, occupied the town.
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To confirm when the bodies appeared, and when the civilians were likely killed, the Visual Investigations team at The Times conducted a before-and-after analysis of satellite imagery. The images show dark objects of similar size to a human body appearing on Yablonska Street between March 9 and March 11. The objects appear in the precise positions in which the bodies were found after Ukrainian forces reclaimed Bucha, as the footage from April 1 shows. Further analysis shows that the objects remained in those position for over three weeks.
Where Bodies Were Found in a Kyiv Suburb
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Satellite images show more than 12 bodies along this stretch of road.
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The causes of death are unclear. Some of the bodies were beside what appears to be an impact crater. Others were near abandoned cars. Three of the bodies lay beside bicycles. Some have their hands bound behind their backs with white cloth. The bodies were scattered over more than half a mile of Yablonska Street.
A second video taken on Yablonska Street shows three more bodies. One lies beside a bicycle, another near an abandoned car. Satellite imagery shows that the abandoned cars and the nearby body appear between March 20 and 21.
ImageA dead body near abandoned cars on Yablonska Street in Bucha, Ukraine, on Apr. 2. The body had been on the street since Mar. 21, satellite imagery shows.
A dead body near abandoned cars on Yablonska Street in Bucha, Ukraine, on Apr. 2. The body had been on the street since Mar. 21, satellite imagery shows.Credit...Kievskiy Dvizh via Instagram / Maxar Technologies
These are just some of the civilian bodies discovered since Saturday. The Associated Press published images of at least six dead men lying together in the rear of an office building, some with hands tied behind their backs. The building is one mile west of the other victims found along Yablonska Street.
Another mile further along, a photographer with The Times discovered the body of a man with a gunshot wound to his head lying beside a bicycle.
Malachy Browne is a senior story producer on the Visual Investigations team. His work has received four Emmys, and he shared in a Pulitzer Prize in 2020 for reporting that showed Russian culpability in bombing hospitals in Syria. @malachybrowne • Facebook
David Botti is a senior producer on the Visual Investigations team, which combines traditional reporting with digital forensics and open source methods. He previously worked for the BBC in Washington and London, and as a freelance journalist in the Middle East.
Haley Willis is a journalist with the Visual Investigations team, which combines traditional reporting with digital forensics and open source methods. She has shared in a George Polk Award in 2020 for international reporting and a News Emmy for the documentary, The Siege of Culiacán. @heytherehaIey
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