Wassim MH Posted April 6, 2022 Posted April 6, 2022 “YES, THAT is him,” says Zoya Merchynskaya, peering into the drain where her husband’s body had been dumped. “You can see his tattoo.” She steps away and covers her face. She returns and looks down again. Hennadiy Merchynskyi, aged 44, was slumped in a sitting position, immersed in dirty water up to his waist; murdered, it seems, by Russian soldiers. His torso was naked. A black strap was fastened around his neck. “They did not take his ring.” She sounds relieved. During weeks of fighting, Russian troops in the territory around Kyiv have been pounded by Ukrainian forces. As they fell back from farmsteads and up-and-coming suburbs like Bucha and Irpin, they left behind the wreckage of tanks and armoured cars as well as loot that they could not take with them. But the Russians also left behind evidence of summary executions and random murders—war crimes on a terrible scale. On April 3rd Irina Venediktova, the Ukrainian prosecutor-general, said that the bodies of 410 civilians had so far been found around the capital. Nobody doubts that the final toll will be much higher.
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