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German intel said to intercept Russian communications on murder of civilians
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Workers line up bodies for identification by forensic personnel and police officers in the cemetery in Bucha, north of Kyiv, on April 6, 2022, after hundreds of civilians were found dead in areas from which Russian troops have withdrawn around Ukraine's capital, including the town of Bucha. (Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP)
German intelligence services have intercepted Russian soldiers’ radio messages discussing the murder of civilians and captured soldiers, Der Spiegel reports.
The paper says soldiers were heard talking in two separate communications of questioning individuals before shooting them.
The findings would undermine Russia’s denials that its soldiers were responsible for atrocities in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha and other locations.
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