Video “This is the unthinkable here,” said the president of the European Commission, Friday, April 8, before the corpses of civilians killed in Bantha, Ukrainian locality that the Russians occupied.
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, arrived on Friday in Boutha, a small town northwest of kyiv, became a symbol of the atrocities of the war in Ukraine, found a reporter from AFP.
Ursula von der Leyen, who is accompanied by the leader of the European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, and the Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger, had announced earlier Friday to go to the capital as a sign of support for Ukraine.
The three leaders went to see the common pits dug to Bantha to bury the dozens of civilians killed in the fighting.
Friday, Ukrainian investigators have begun to exhume one of these pits, a long trench dug behind a church of the city. A team of AFP, during his visit to the city Saturday, two days after his liberation of the Russian troops who had occupied it several weeks, had also seen twenty corpses dressed in civilian clothes in a street, one of which had the hands linked in the back.
Since, other images have been published and the bodies found, the Ukrainian authorities and Westerners denouncing “war crimes” committed by the Russian soldiers who occupied the city.