Kyiv (dpa-AFX) – According to Ukrainian sources, eleven bodies were found in a garage in the Kiev suburb of Hostomel. The police discovered them on Wednesday, the Ukrainian internet newspaper Ukrajinska Pravda reported on Thursday night, citing a telegram entry by former Interior Minister Arsen Avakov. Accordingly, the killed are said to be civilians. They are said to have been killed by Russian soldiers. The information could not be independently verified.
Hostomel, north-west of the capital Kyiv, with the nearby airfield, had been heavily fought since the beginning of the war. Most of the original 16,000 residents fled. A few days ago, Ukrainian troops regained control of Hostomel, as well as the neighboring towns of Bucha and Irpin. It was only on Tuesday that the head of the local military administration said that around 400 residents of Hostomel were missing and that the authorities now wanted to inspect the basement./vee/DP/zb
