The New York Times published satellite images of Buchi. Bodies appeared on the streets of the city even when Russian troops were there

The New York Times has published satellite images of the Ukrainian city of Bucha, where dozens of bodies of dead civilians were found on the streets.

Journalists analyzed pictures taken by Maxar Technologies since mid-March and concluded that the residents were killed more than three weeks ago, when the city was still under the control of the Russian military.

So, in the period from March 9 to 11, at least 11 dark objects the size of a human body appeared on the pictures of Yablonska Street and remained there for three weeks. Their location completely coincided with the bodies of people from the video made by the Ukrainian military on April 2.

Journalists compared another video from Yablonska with satellite images, showing the bodies of three people, and found that they appeared on the street between March 20 and 21.

The massacre of civilians in Bucha in the suburbs of Kyiv became known on April 2, when the Ukrainian army took control of the city after the departure of the Russian military. The President of Ukraine blamed Russian soldiers for the deaths of local residents. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation called the video and pictures of the dead "a provocation" and "staging the Kiev regime for the Western media." According to the agency, not a single local resident of Bucha "had suffered from any violent actions" until the Russian military left the city on March 30.