Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky believes the scenes in the town of Borodyanka are "significantly more dreadful" than the horrific sites witnessed in Bucha. Russian forces there have been reported as leaving civilians dying in the rubble of their destroyed homes for a week.
Ukrainian officials reported that 300 people were killed by Russian troops in Bucha with an estimated 50 of that number executed. On the damage seen in Borodyanka, 15 miles away though, Mr Zelensky said: "They have started sorting through the ruins in Borodianka. It's much more horrific there, there are even more victims of Russian occupiers."
Iryna Venediktova, Ukraine's Prosecutor General, added that 26 bodies had been recovered from underneath two destroyed apartment buildings in Borodyanka and accused Vladimir Putin of targeting civilian areas. The Ukrainian Parliament, meanwhile, posted the following tweet: "The destruction in Borodyanka was considered even worse than in Irpen and Bucha.
