GEOFF BENNETT: Ukrainian prosecutors investigating possible russian war crimes say they found 410 bodies
in the town surrounding Kyiv meantime Moscow continues to deny its military is targeting
civilians but as russian troops pull back from those areas correspondent Ali Rogan reports
they are scorching the earth behind them a warning some of the images in this story are disturbing
in the wake of russia's withdrawal from the kiev suburbs a trail of death
in the town of bucha hundreds of bodies lay in mass graves
and on the roads what ukrainian officials say is evidence of war crimes is this genocide
this morning Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy was explicit. "Indeed this is genocide."
But secretary of state Antony Blinken would not go as far.
WOMAN: "Do you see this as genocide?"
BLIINKEN: "Look, we will - we will look hard and document everything that we see; put it all together."
as they return to towns deserted but destroyed by Russia, Ukrainian forces received a warm welcome we prayed we asked
God to give our warriors our defenders health and God's protection Ukrainian and western officials
say Russia is shifting its forces and focus from the north and capital region to the south and east
"We think this is the redeployment in our opinion they're changing the tactics now."
in the port city of odessa today residents woke up to a russian attack on an oil facility
"This is not a good morning for Odessa we woke up to powerful explosions near our home the impact was huge it was terrifying"
Further along the coast the city of Mariupol remains under siege
On Sunday, the red cross tried for the third day in a row to bring aid in and get civilians out
but the russians have not honored their pledge to allow safe passage.
For PBS News Weekend, I'm Ali Rogan. for more on the devastating situation in bucha i'm joined by
For more on the devastating situation in Bucha, I'm joined by
special correspondent Simon Ostrovsky who was there earlier today. Simon give us a sense of
what you've seen today. "Well the devastation in Bucha is really difficult to describe.
It's so total the Russian troops pulled out just a few days ago and what they left behind has
really uh exposed the horrors that's the civilians living in Bucha and the area surrounding Kyiv
lived through during the Russian occupation that lasted more than a month. What we saw were
civilians bodies uh littering the roads some of them killed with shrapnel or from explosions but
disturbingly many of the people that we saw who had just been left out in the streets to rot
had actually seemingly been executed because they had gunshot wounds to the head we witnessed a
scene of a group of volunteers behind a building clearing a number of bodies eight or nine bodies
of men who had all seemingly been executed several of them had their hands tied behind their backs
and they were discarded behind this building with other waste that the russian troops left behind
like MRE packets food ration packets that came from Russia and so we spoke with the head of a
funeral service in Bucha who told us that over the last several days they've actually collected
and found around 300 civilians so far and who were killed and they're finding 30 or 40
every day and i think that the death toll is just going to continue to grow as the ukrainian forces
to continue to move north into the areas that the russians have retreated from.
It's a horrifying account special correspondent Simon Ostrovsky appreciate you joining us.
Thanks for having me.
And to note our coverage of Ukraine is supported in part by the Pulitzer center
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