Thank you.
Judy: Global outrage group today
as more horrific revelations
surface from bucha, Ukraine.
It have northwest of Kyiv.
Hundreds of Ukrainians died
there.
Many apparently executed by
Russian troops as they retreated
from the town last week.
President Biden spoke to these
latest horrors of war this
morning at the white house.
Pres. Biden: You may remember I
got criticized for calling Putin
a war criminal.
Well, the truth of the matter is
this -- is he is a war criminal.
We have to gather the
information, we have to continue
to provide Ukraine with the
weapons they need to continue to
fight.
And we have to get all the
details, so this can be -- so we
can have a ward -- war crimes
trial.
This guy is brutal.
What is happening to bucha is
outrageous.
Judy: The national security
advisor said today the Russians
are making a strategic shift to
focus their military efforts on
eastern Ukraine and leaving the
towns and cities are correct --
around Kyiv like bucha.
Simon a straw ski and
videographer? Or Troy enough ski
traveled to bucha yesterday to
see the horrific aftermath of
the Russian occupation.
A warning, many images in this
report will upset viewers, but
we feel it is necessary to show
you what the Russian forces
apparently did as they retreated
from this area.
Reporter: This was once a quiet
suburb of the Ukrainian capital.
Now, the town of bucha is
synonymous with the death and
devastation.
On the way in, smashed Russian
columns and the body of soldiers
-- bodies of soldiers who were
ordered to take a Kyiv, but
never made it that far.
Within bucha itself, the Russian
retreat has exposed the horrors
of war for Ukrainian civilians.
Volunteers bag the bodies of a
group of men, unceremoniously
dumped behind the building,
presumably by the Russians who
used it as a base and left
behind their waste and army
issued food rations.
>> What we have seen here is
eight bodies, some of them with
their hands tied behind their
backs.
This could be evidence of war
crimes.
The soldiers were here with --
we are here with say they were
tortured.
Reporter: One of the man's is
shirtless.
His body is bruised and he
appears to have died from a
bullet wound to the head.
>> I know one of these people
personally.
I have talked to him.
His wife called me and asked me
to help.
He drove a minibus for a company
in Kyiv.
Reporter: Also shot in the head?
>> Yes, in the head.
Reporter: The local cathedral, a
mass grave.
We saw 13 bodies still exposed,
but there are as many as 57
beneath the ground, according to
a press.
In all, more than 300 civilian
bodies have been recovered in
bucha so far.
According to the community
funeral director.
Part of Russia's response to
allegations that it's forces
committed war crimes has been to
blame the Ukrainians themselves
for killing their own people
after Russian forces pulled out
on March 31.
That timeline is not supported
by the evidence.
Bodies like these, of men, in
civilian clothes with gunshot
wounds to the head in a
partially decomposed estate.
It also does not square with the
accounts of residents of bucha
itself.
>> They just took people and
shot them for nothing.
Just before the flood.
The last five days they were
here, you could hear it.
Before, it was relatively quiet.
You just hear their vehicles.
But then there was automatic
gunfire all over their place.
They killed an old lady in the
school, we carried a body with a
head wound out of a nine story
building.
We found civilians in a garden
over there.
All of them straight to the
head.
Reporter: Bucha and ear pin are
as far as Russia's armored
column made it.
This is where the tip of the
sphere was broken by Ukrainian
resistance.
But we are finding now is the
Russians retreated, the
devastation in their wake, and
the civilian toll has been
really high.
>> He is a veteran.
In other words, he served for a
year and defended our country.
Reporter: She was visiting
relatives when Russian forces
occupied bucha where she lived
with her boyfriend of three
years.
The man whose body was found
with his hands tied behind his
back.
From witness accounts, she has
been able to piece together that
Russian forces were looking for
military veterans, and likely
executed him when they fan --
when they found out he served in
the war in Ukraine in the.
>> I was told he was shot in the
head.
In the photos, he is face down.
You can't see anything on the
back of his head.
That means they were looking in
his eyes when they shot him.
This is insane.
A sane person would not do that.
It is such cruelty.
It is the height of cruelty.
How can you do that?
Reporter: With the atrocities in
bucha exposed to the world,
Ukrainians no longer have any
doubt they are fighting a war
for their very survival.
A war which is far from over, as
Russia refocuses its efforts on