Ukraine’s intelligence unit claimed that civilians in the Kharkiv region gave poisoned cakes to Russian soldiers, killing two of them and hospitalizing 28 others.
Satellite imagery just released shows a mass burial site in Bucha, Ukraine, and bodies laying on the streets for weeks after Russian forces destroyed the area. Russia has previously claimed that the bodies were on the city streets only after their forces had left the area, but the satellite images completely contradicts those statements, showing images of bodies on the streets well before Russian soldiers had left Bucha.
"As a result, two invaders were killed at once, another 28 went to intensive care," the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense’s intelligence unit said, according to the English translation. "Ukrainians resist the occupiers by all available means," the intelligence unit added. FILE IMAGE - A man drives a car past the rubble of a destroyed building in the eastern Ukraine city of Kharkiv on April 2, 2022.
The Ukrainian agency also claimed that about 500 more Russian soldiers were hospitalized "due to heavy alcohol poisoning of unknown origin." It said the Russian command had written off these cases as "not combat losses," according to the translation. The claims come as grisly images of civilians apparently killed by Russian forces in towns on the outskirts of Kyiv before they withdrew have caused a global outcry. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenskyy said that civilians had been tortured, shot in the back of the head, thrown down wells, blown up with grenades in their apartments and crushed to death by tanks while in cars.