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Outrageous. >> people in bucha doing what would have been unthinkable just a few weeks ago, collecting the dead bodies of their neighbors. phil black has more now. phil. >> reporter: don, this is more than just the indifference to civilian life. we have seen throughout this war, through russias continuous bombardment of peoples homes and other non-military targets, what we are hearing from bucha and other areas russia pulled back from, what the disturbing images show is that civilians were targe...

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Horrific images out of bucha. what more can you tell us? >> reporter: well, weve seen some very fierce fighting in and around kyiv in the last weeks. it finally forced the russians out of that area. the ukrainians are in control of all of those suburbs. but what the russians left behind was a scene of utter destruction and mayhem. the scenes are just horrific and brutal. crimes against humanity. we can see on the streets of bucha, its lined with burnt-out russian tanks, corpses sprawled out in t...

Horrors in their wake. we must warn you, the images youre about to see are graphic but the world must bear witness to what is happening. this is the aftermath of the russian occupation. bodies, ukrainian civilians dumped in a mass grave. local officials say as many as 300 people may have been thrown in these trenches right here. but some people retreated with even less dignity. more than a dozen bodies, just left there in the streets, wone victim clearly killed execution style found with his han...

Of the head execution style. quote, corpses of executed people still line one street in bucha. their hands are tied behind their backs with white civilian rags. they were shot in the back of their heads so you can imagine what kind of lawlessness they perpetrated here. men, women and children, people who were no threat, all murdered, according to the mayor, simply for the crime of being ukrainian. with several hundred people reportedly already buried in mass graves. but removing the bodies of th...

Strewn with bodies. some with hands tied behind their backs. others seemingly killed execution style, with a shot to the back of the head. these horrific scenes in bucha, a northwestern suburb of kyiv, drew swift condemnation from world leaders with many demanding war crimes investigations and accountability. while the president of ukraine is accusing russia of trying to wipe out its entire country and its people. >> indeed, this is genocide. the elimination of the whole nation and the people. w...

Must warn you the images im about to show you, even edited, are some of the worst weve seen so far from putins illegal invasion of ukraine. im sorry, look, we cannot turn away from them. we must not turn away from what is happening in ukraine, or minimize or sanitize this barbarrism happening on the ground. hundreds of residents of the once peaceful suburb of bucha appear to have been massacred. those officials tell reuters they were checked by soldiers during the month russian forces occupied t...

The russian defense ministry called the footage fake. my guest here is the former deputy prime minister of ukraine and co-founder of the center for united action. thanks for joining us again. you were here a few weeks ago and since then, obviously, there has been a lot of just horrible atrocities that have happened including what were seeing in bucha, these images coming in. what was your reaction when you first saw the images of ci civilians seemingly killed execution style? >> there are no dis...

Shot in the back of the head execution style. some of them with their hands tied behind their backs, and they had to dig mass graves in that city to bury their dead, to bury the people that were murdered in their own city. lets take a listen to an account of one of the residents of bucha. >> translator: he went to get some food when all of a sudden the russians started shooting. they hit him above the heel crushing the bone and he fell down. the shooter shouted, dont scream or i will shoot, and ...

Around kyiv, but as russian troops pulled back, and as you said, theyre saying that this was say a withdrawal in order to allow diplomacy to have more success, they were pushed back, and it allows ukrainian troops to go in. but what they saw was evidence of atrocities. they were, there were bodies on the street, many of them with their hands tied behind their backs. mass graves. it appears, according to witnesses, the presidents office, the mayors office, that some of them were shot at close ran...