Charred, destroyed dead bodies being wrapped up; eyewitness reports of the harrowing danger and death being experienced.

But the bodies that are seen here in Bucha, Ukraine, a heavily contested area in the Kremlin-led invasion about 16 miles from capital Kyiv, were loudly proclaimed by Russian officials as "fake" and "staged."

Russia's Defense Ministry suggested that the bodies had been recently placed on the streets after “all Russian units withdrew completely from Bucha” around March 30.

Russia also claimed that the images were “another hoax” and called for an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting on what it called “provocations of Ukrainian radicals” in Bucha.

These images and testimony from Tuesday (April 5) stand in stark contrast to that.

The footage obtained exclusively shows the corpses of one child, one woman and three men, believed to be a family, all lying on the streets with charred limbs and badly damaged bodies.

Bucha residents are now telling the media the harrowing tale of what they saw.

"The buried? All shot dead. I saw personally the entrance holes in people's heads," Valentin, a local, said.

"They shot at us. Not blast waves, just shooting. They didn’t bury the bodies of the victims on purpose, just so that relatives would come to handle it," resident Piotr said, adding that homes were looted clean.

Ludmila was forced to live in a basement for the duration of the Russian invasion starting on February 24.

"When they drove into our yard, there was such shooting, such a rumble, that I hid in my cellar and did not leave. I was afraid to open my doors. They had already come to kill," Ludmila said.

Officials near the end of the clip are seen giving pillows and blankets to those who were left homeless or left destitute from the invasion.

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