INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Satellite photographs released on Monday appear to rebut Russian assertions that dead bodies in civilian clothing found in Bucha had
appeared there after Russian forces retreated from the devastated Ukrainian town.Mid-March satellite imagery of a Bucha street appears to
show several bodies of civilians lying dead in or just off the roadway where Ukrainian officials recently said they found multiple corpses
after Russian troops withdrew."High-resolution Maxar satellite imagery collected over Bucha, Ukraine (northwest of Kyiv) verifies and
corroborates recent social media videos and photos that reveal bodies lying in the streets and left out in the open for weeks," Maxar
Technologies spokesman Stephen Wood said Monday in a statement.The New York Times published an analysis of close-ups of Bucha's Yablonska
since at least three weeks ago, when Russian forces were in control of the town.AFP photographers entered Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, on
sparked global revulsion, and accusations of war crimes.Russia's Defense Ministry has denied responsibility, saying that all its units
"withdrew completely from Bucha as early as March 30," while the Kremlin has dismissed the graphic images emerging from the town as "fakes"
concocted by Ukraine.That claim was repeated at the United Nations on Monday, where Moscow's envoy Vassily Nebenzia reiterated at a press
conference the corpses pictured in Bucha were not there before Russian troops left the city."Suddenly they appear on the streets lying on
the road, one by one, left and right, some of them are moving, some of them showing the signs of life," he said, claiming the scenes were
"arranged by the Ukrainian information, information warfare machine."But Maxar satellite images dated March 19 and March 21 show that
multiple bodies were on Bucha's Yablonska street at that time.And according to the Times analysis, Maxar images show dark objects of similar
size to human bodies appearing on the street between March 9 and 11.Many of the bodies pictured in the satellite images appeared in the
precise position on the ground as seen in video footage from the same street filmed by a Ukrainian local council member, and in photographs
by international news outlets.In a second side-by-side comparison, the Times studied a video posted on Instagram of a body in the street in
A satellite image from March 21 shows the corpse and the vehicles in the same location.
