Berlin, Apr. 10, (dpa/GNA) - A mass grave containing dozens of Ukrainian bodies was found Saturday in Buzova, a village west of Kiev, a local official says.
Taras Didych, the local leader, told Ukrainian TV that the bodies were found in a pit near a petrol station.
Bodies had also been found in a dozen shelled cars on the main road from the cities of Kiev to Zhytomyr, which goes through Buzova, he said.
Russian troops recently withdrew from the area around Kiev, after spending the first several weeks of the war trying unsuccessfully to blockade the city.
The United Nations has been able to confirm more than 1,700 civilian deaths. But, like the government in Kiev, the UN assumes the actual toll is far higher.
GNA