New Details on Bucha Mass Grave Provided by Satellite Images

Satellite imagery released Sunday showed new information regarding a mass grave in the Ukrainian town of Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv.

The images, from Maxar Technologies, show that a mass grave is located at the Church of St. Andrew and Pyervozvannoho All Saints.

According to Maxar, the first signs of excavation of the mass grave occurred on March 10th, about two weeks after the war started. Images from March 31st show a major trench near the church. Social media footage showed dozens of dead civilians being buried in the mass grave, the company said.

Bucha is where five weeks of firefights between Russian and Ukrainian forces occurred before Russia withdrew from the town as an alleged move away from Kyiv.

Ukraine’s defense ministry said in a statement that "the Ukrainian city of Bucha was in the hands of [Russian] animals for several weeks. Local civilians were being executed arbitrarily, some with hands tied behind their backs, their bodies scattered in the streets of the city."

Other world leaders have called for a harsher response to Russia after the images were released.