Despite Russia’s repeated denials they were responsible for any Book. massacre inBased outside Kyiv, Russian military vehicles and forces are seen on a Buka street near civilian bodies, new drone video obtained exclusively by CNN shows.
CNN has confirmed the geolocation and authenticity of the drone videos on March 12 and 13. CNN is not taking the name of the person who took the video for his own safety.
Video from March 13 shows a Russian military vehicle sitting at a crossroads. CNN has identified three objects in the video – from a military vehicle just down the road – to be the same bodies seen in the video from April 1 and photos taken by satellite Maxar Technologies on March 18.
Additional drone video from March 13 shows another Russian military vehicle moving down the road in the direction of the bodies.
In a March 12 video, several Russian soldiers are seen surrounding a military vehicle parked outside a house, just down the road with bodies. It is not clear what they are doing at home.
CNN asked the Russian Defense Ministry for comment, but did not immediately receive a response.
International Outrage: Russian officials – President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov – have repeatedly claimed that videos and satellite images showing bodies in Bucha are fake.
This drone video is the first piece of evidence to emerge from Buka that shows Russian vehicles and soldiers operating on the road, where bodies were found by Ukrainian forces when the city was recaptured on April 1.
Images that emerged from Buka after the Russian army had retreated have caused great outrage in the international community. This prompted some leaders, including US President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron, to call the atrocities committed in Buka war crimes.
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