The Russian opposition publication Meduza has published a crucial video that almost categorically refutes the Russian Defense Ministry’s lie that “while Russian troops were there, everyone was alive”. Video shows that residents were killed long before the city was liberated from Russian invaders.

These recordings clearly show the dead people, whose bodies lie on Yablonska Street, as well as on several neighboring streets of Bucha. The bodies are located exactly where they were filmed on video and photos from the ground by Ukrainian police and journalists.. All the dead, filmed from the air, lie not only in the same places, but also in the same poses as on filming from the ground..

One of the recordings shows that next to the combat vehicles of the Russian army, literally a few tens of meters away, are the bodies of the dead..

On the shooting of March 29 and 30, Russian military equipment was not in the same place. It is March 30 that the Russian Ministry of Defense calls the day of the withdrawal of troops from Bucha.

Journalists give three key arguments in favor of the fact that the video they received is not a forgery and actually reflects the real picture of what happened.

Firstly, Russian military equipment is clearly visible on Yablonskaya Street, moreover, on several shootings and on different days.. Several armored vehicles are there on the 23rd, and until March 28. In the video, dated March 29, Russian equipment is no longer on the street.. Such equipment is not in service with the Ukrainian army.

Secondly, the source provided raw, original drone video files.. These files contain detailed metadata, including the date of capture..

Thirdly, since the metadata can be faked if desired, the journalists brought in two independent experts who checked the shooting time using astronomical shadow analysis on the image.. Its results allowed us to confirm that the time in the metadata matches the actual time of filming, and the first video with the dead could not be filmed after March 26, 2022..

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Earlier it was already reported that the bodies of the tortured and killed residents of the city lay in Bucha for weeks..