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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Daniel Boffey in Kyiv

Ukrainian children used as ‘human shields’ near Kyiv, say witness reports

An abandoned Russian tank in Chernihiv region, Ukraine.
An abandoned Russian tank in Chernihiv region, Ukraine. Photograph: Serhii Nuzhnenko/Reuters

Russia has been accused by Ukraine of using children as “human shields” while regrouping its forces, as the first horrifying witness accounts from the newly liberated town of Bucha, near Kyiv, emerge.

Ukraine’s attorney general is gathering a dossier of claims about the Russian use of local children to avoid fire when in retreat from around Ukraine’s capital and elsewhere.

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