Three bodies dug up on March 2, 2023, lie in a cemetery on the outskirts of Borodyanka, northwest of the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, in the Russian-Ukrainian war. The bags containing the three unidentified bodies were transported to the morgue.

　　Three freshly exhumed bodies lie in a cemetery on the outskirts of Borodyanka, northwest of the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, on March 2, 2023, during the Russo-Ukrainian War. A bag containing the three bodies was transported to the morgue immediately after they were exhumed. Their identities have not been confirmed.

　Towns and villages on the outskirts of the capital, Kiev, were briefly occupied on February 28 by Russian troops who invaded toward the outskirts of Kiev shortly after the outbreak of the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. He was buried in a makeshift mass grave. Ukrainian military authorities are still digging up the bodies of civilians hastily buried in makeshift graves almost a year after recapturing the Kiev suburb. Nearly 200 bodies remain unidentified, and some 280 people have been registered as missing. The total number of civilian bodies found in the Russian-occupied areas of the Kiev region is about 1,373, of which about 197 have not yet been identified.

　The Ukrainian military rescue team arrived in April 2022, after the Ukrainian army retook Borodianka. The rescue team dug through the rubble for about two weeks and exhumed about 15 bodies. However, they found no traces of the dozens of bodies that had been inside apartments and other buildings. There were rumors that Russian troops had forcibly taken about 100 or more people from Borodyanka residents to Belarus.

　 Borodyanka was heavily bombed on March 1 and March 2, 2022 by Russian forces during the invasion of Ukraine. According to Ukrainian authorities, about 41 bodies were found under the rubble; the Russians, who were repelled from Kiev on March 26, withdrew from the area entirely on April 1; on May 6, local police reported the discovery of about 300 more bodies buried under Russian military occupation.

Warning: Men carry bags containing three freshly exhumed bodies in a cemetery on the outskirts of Borodyanka, Ukraine, Thursday, March 2, 2023. Nearly a year after towns and villages near Kyiv were retaken from Russian troops who had seized territory as they raced toward Kyiv at the start of their invasion of Ukraine, authorities are still exhuming the bodies of civilians hastily buried in makeshift graves. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)