asks. since the 1930s you ve been abusing ukraine. you just want to destroy us. you want us gone, but we will be everything will be okay. i believe it. video from bucha shows bodies in the streets after russian forces left the area. some images even show bodies with hands tied behind their backs. the russian defense ministry denies killing civilians and claims images of dead civilians are, quote, fake. but we met a family just returning to their house, which they say was occupied by russian soldiers. they show us the body of a dead man in civilian clothes they had found in the backyard. his hands and feet tied with severe bruises and a shell casing still laying nearby. russia s military appears to have suffered heavy losses before being driven out of the area around kyiv. this column of armored vehicles in bucha completely destroyed. the way the ukrainians tell us
town around the capital of kyiv. in fact, just today we were in various other places, various other small towns and satellite towns around the ukrainian capital. and every single one of them we saw the same scene, utter destruction, destroyed buildings where local authorities said there s still dead people underneath, dead bodies in the street, dead bodies in back yards. and as the time progresses and ukrainians make more inroads and access a lot of these areas, unfortunately, they re probably going to find more of the same. fred pleitgen there with that report. thank you, fred. now, as word gets out about these mass killings in bucha there s been condemnation around the world. let s get live to london. yes, people are outraged. yes, world leaders have said they must do something talking about sanctions and more military aid for ukraine. who s saying what? reporter: we ve heard a unified response from european leaders, nato and officials of
we have more than 100 nationalities. this is about the destruction and extermination of all these. we are the citizens of the ukraine, and we don t want to be subdued to the policy of the russian federation. this is the reason we are being destroyed and exterminated. russia denies targeting civilians in this conflict. the ministry of defense claims the images out of bucha are fake. cnn s fred pleitgen went there himself. he witnessed the atrocities, and a warning his report includes disturbing and graphic images. reporter: well, as the russians continue to withdraw from areas here around kyiv and ukrainians move into these territories i think two things are becoming increasingly clear. the one hand a lot more russian military quote was taken out than anybody would have thought
and also civilians came to harm as well. we witnessed a lot of it first-hand. here s what we saw. as russian forces retreat scenes of utter destruction. whole blocks of houses flattened and ukrainians saying they believe dead bodies are still lying underneath. but here the dead also lay in the open. ukrainian national police showed us this mass grave in bucha saying they believe up to 150 civilians might be buried here, but no one knows the exact number. people killed while the russian army occupied this town. this is what it looks like when the hope is crushed. vladimir has been searching for his younger brother, dmitri. now he s convinced he lies here though he can t be 100% sure. the neighbor accompanying him with strong words for the russians. why do you hate us so much, she
quite nice suburbs of the ukrainian capital where 100,000 people live, the people largely well-off or a nice neighborhood. and it has not any political significance. i m covering the war in ukraine for eight years and all those times what would be the military target and object in ukraine. okay, they want to secure for instance the eastern part of the country. but i think what happened really changed the course of the war a lot. it could be explained also by the 20 years of the russian propaganda which somehow built into the , you know, image of ukrainians and dehumanize them in the eyes of the russians. when i was reading the testimonies of one of the soldiers who committed rape it was a report by human rights watch. he s 20 years old. he doesn t remember soviet