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Ukrainian official says 1,020 civilian bodies lying in Kyiv morgues

Men wearing protective gear exhume the bodies of civilians killed during the Russian occupation in Bucha, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
The bodies of more than 1,000 civilians are being stored in morgues in and around Kyiv after Russian troops withdrew from the region, a Ukrainian official tells AFP.
“1,020 bodies [of] civilians, only civilians, in the areas of all the Kyiv region,” Olga Stefanishyna, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine, tells AFP in Borodyanka.
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