But Russia says they were staged and ‘will provide empirical evidence’ that its forces have not been killing civilians
Satellite images taken weeks ago of the town of Bucha in Ukraine show bodies of civilians on a street, undercutting the Russian government’s claims that Ukrainian forces caused the deaths or that
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