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This . is . brutality 🤬🤯

Forensic doctors carrying out postmortem examinations on bodies in mass graves say the have … ⬇️ 1/6

#Ukraine #UkraineRussiaWar #WarCrimes #BuchaMassacre #Bucha #RussianWarCrimes #GenocideOfUkrainians #rape #execution

theguardian.com/world/2022/apr…

… found evidence some women were raped before being killed by Russian forces.

“We already have a few cases which suggest that these women had been raped before being shot to death,” said Vladyslav Pirovskyi, a Ukrainian forensic doctor who with a team of coroners has … ⬇️ 2/6

… carried out dozens of autopsies on residents from Bucha, Irpin and Borodianka who died during Russia’s month-long occupation of the area.

“We can’t give more details as my colleagues are still collecting the data and we still have hundreds of bodies to examine” … ⬇️ 3/6

Pirovskyi’s team has been examining about 15 bodies a day, many of them mutilated.

“There are many burnt bodies, and heavily disfigured bodies that are just impossible to identify,” he said. “The face could be smashed into pieces, you can’t put it back … ⬇️ 4/6

… together, sometimes there’s no head at all.”

He said the bodies of some women they had examined showed signs that the victims had been killed by automatic gunfire, with upwards of six bullet holes in their backs.

A foreign coroner working
… ⬇️ 5/6

… north of Kyiv who asked to remain anonymous said some bodies “are in such bad shape that it is not easy to find signs of rapes and sexual abuses. But we are collecting evidence in a few cases of women we believe had been raped before being murdered.” 6/6