The BND agency presented its findings to the country’s parliament on Wednesday, according to the news magazine Der Spiegel, which claims to include communications corresponding to known deaths. Vladimir Putin’s troops have been accused of large-scale atrocities in Bukha after withdrawing from the north of the country last week. Ukraine says hundreds of bodies have been found in mass graves, while others have been left to rot in bags or in the countryside on the city streets just 25 kilometers west of the capital Kiev. Local officials say more than 300 people have been killed by Russian forces in Bucha alone and about 50 have been executed. The Kremlin categorically denies the allegations. In an interception, a soldier is heard talking about shooting a man from his bicycle, Der Speigel reports. A corpse lying next to a bicycle was also photographed. A completely destroyed building is visible after the bombings in the Horenka area of Butsa (Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Additional recordings indicate that similar events occurred in other cities and towns throughout Ukraine, but their natural origins were more difficult to trace. A German government spokesman declined to comment on Der Spiegel. The BND’s foreign intelligence service declined to comment. Following are reports from the same newspaper claiming that the German government had access to satellite images from Bucha showing Russia being involved in the killing of civilians. “It is true that the federal government has indications of a Russian attack on Butsa,” a security source said. This map shows the extent of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (Press Association Pictures) “However, these findings in Bucha refer to satellite imagery. Bucharest can not be clearly assigned to radio broadcasts. “ He concluded by saying that there was no indication of an order from the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces regarding Bucha. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had earlier described the scene in Bucha as evidence of “genocide” and “war crimes”, with corpses “in barrels, underground, strangled, tortured”. However, Moscow responded on Tuesday, calling the allegations “monstrous forgery” in order to discredit the Russian military and justify new Western sanctions.
