Prosecutors in Ukraine filed their first war crimes charges on Thursday (April 28) against 10 Russian service members accused of looting, torturing and murder in Bucha, on the outskirts of the capital Kyiv.

In a Facebook post posted on Thursday, Ukraine’s Chief Prosecutor Iryna Venediktova said that she had filed charges against the soldiers in Russia's 64th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade. The post goes on to name the 10 soldiers.

The soldiers are not in custody and the charges were filed in absentia to Ukrainian courts.

Distressing video seen here and filmed on April 3 shows a mass grave in Bucha. The hand of a corpse buried along with other bodies is seen in the mass grave, along while everyday items such as sandals can also be seen in this distressing footage.

Speaking in the video at a school distributing humanitarian aid, one local woman Galya said: "I've been sat at home all this time in the basement. It was scary. We didn't leave the basement."

Another man, Valery, says on camera that his coworker was killed. The pair worked split shifts.

Bucha, a city in Ukraine's Kyiv Oblast, was at the centre of heavy fighting and atrocities committed as the Russian troops withdrew from the area.

Shocking video shows bodies lie in mass graves in Bucha, near Kyiv, on April 3: The mayor of Bucha, Kiev region Anatoly Fedoruk reported hundreds of deaths citizens after the liberation of the city from the Russian military. He said this in comments to Agence France-Presse (AFP).

“We have already buried 280 people in mass graves in Bucha,” Fedoruk said.

According to him, the streets of the city are "littered with corpses."
The bodies are scattered for several hundred meters, the cause of death is still unknown, specifies the agency. It is reported that all the dead are in civilian clothes, someone lay right on the sidewalk, some - near the car or bicycle.

The mayor of Buchi after the liberation of the city from the troops of the Russian Federation reported hundreds of dead citizens.

Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Mykhailo Podolyak also tweeted posted a photo showing the bodies of people and noted that this photo is from Buchi.

Bucha, Kyiv region. On the streets are the bodies of people with their hands tied shot by Russian soldiers. These people were not military. They don't have there were weapons. They didn't pose a threat. How many more cases like this happen? now in the occupied territories?” Podolyak wrote.

In addition, photographer Mikhail Palinchak posted a photo on Facebook, on which probably covers the body or bodies of people. The photographer indicated that the photo made in the Kiev region, he did not name a specific settlement.

“Dead civilians on the side of the highway, 20 km from Kyiv, Kyiv region,
Ukraine, April 2, 2022. Under the covers one man and 2-3 dead
naked women who tried to burn on the side of the road,” wrote the photographer.

On April 2, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported that the entire Kyiv region was liberated from Russian troops, including Irpin, Bucha, Gostomel.

Russia has described the images as a staged performance.

TRANSCRIPT:

1min 36: Galya, local resident (Ukrainian): I've been sat at home all this time in the basement. It was scary. We couldn't see anything from the baseement."

1min 49: Valery, local resident (Russian): I worked two shifts when the war began on February 24, then I found out my colleague was killed [they work in pairs in shifts; when the shift of our hero ended and his partner did not come to work, then he found out that he had been killed].