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Bucha isn’t just a graveyard of Ukrainian dead, it’s a cemetery of Russian weapons

Ukraine and Western nations accused Russian troops of war crimes after the discovery of mass graves and' executed' civilians near Kyiv, prompting vows of action at the International Criminal Court.

BUCHA, Ukraine — The corpses, charred and partially dismembered, lay scattered amid a pile of trash in a lot along the edges of a forest. Tattered remnants of clothing clung to shreds of skin. Who was a man, who was a woman, who was an adult, who a child — this was not possible to determine at a glance. A severed leg, badly singed, was situated some distance away.

This tableau was about 100 yards from a playground with swings and slides, nestled beneath a woodsy shade.

A Ukrainian forensic team, each member donning blue plastic gloves, worked with practiced speed. They pushed past a crush of journalists, ducked beneath crime-scene tape and

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