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Civilians came to harm as well. we witnessed that firsthand. here is what we saw. as russian forces retreat from the area north of kyiv in their wake, scenes of utter destruction. whole blocks of houses flattened, ukrainian authorities 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 150 civilians might be buried here but nobody knows the exact number. people killed while the russian army occupied this town. this is what it looks like when the hope is crushed. vla...

Indeed this is genocide. >> our fred pleitgens part of the team that captured images of the mass grave and he's back in kyiv with the latest. >> reporter: hi, there, pamela, as the russians continue to withdrawal from areas here around kyiv and towards the border with belarus and ukrainians move into the territories, two things are increasingly clear. on one hand, more hardware was taken out than anybody would have thought and on the other hand, a lot more civilians came to harm, as well. we witnessed some firsthand. here is what we saw. as russian forces retreat from the area north of kyiv in...

Military governor of kharkiv said 23 casualties when russian forces fired on the city. and here it documented allegations of war crimes in areas around kyiv, kharkiv as well as -- we traveled to witness firsthand the atrocities carried out during what the kremlin calls a special military operation. and again a warning, his report includes disturbing and graphic images. >> as the russians continue to withdraw from areas here around kyiv and towards the border with belarus and the ukrainians move into the territories, two things are becoming increasingly clear. on the one hand more russian milit...

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 wor...

Others fled the scene. a national police officer says the russian troops were simply too arrogant. they thought they could drive on the streets and just go through, he says. they would be greeted as it's all right. maybe they think fst normal to drive around looting and destroy buildings and mock people but our people didn't allow it. now it appears all the russians have withdrawn from here. ukraine says it is now in full control of the entire region around kyiv. it is only now the that the full extent of the civilian suffering is truly coming to light. what we saw there in was awful. but unfo...