Russia to send ‘butchers of Bucha’ troops BACK to warzone after ‘slaughtering 300 civilians & raping kids’, Ukraine says

RUSSIA will send its "butchers of Bucha" troops back to the warzone after they slaughtered 300 civilians and raped children, Ukrainian officials have said.

Members of the 64th Motorised Rifle Brigade of the 35th All-Russian Army withdrew from Bucha last week and arrived in Mazyr, Belarus, yesterday, Ukraine's ministry of defence said.

These barbaric troops left a trail of death and destruction in their wake with Ukrainian authorities discovering several mass graves and corpses left to rot in the streets in the recaptured neighbourhoods around Kyiv.

A report by Ukraine's Defence ministry claimed that Russian commanders are refusing to rotate their brigades, which means the blood-thirsty troops are already on the way to Belgorod in Western Russia for redeployment.

It claimed troops were being sent to the "hottest spots" like Kharkiv, in the hope they will be slaughtered by Ukrainian fighters before they can testify before a war crime tribunal.

"Another goal of the rapid return of the 64th Brigade to Ukrainian territory is the quick 'disposal' of unnecessary witnesses," the report read.

"That is, redeployment to a part of the war front where they will have no chance of surviving, thus making it impossible for them to testify in future courts."

Ukrainian spies have also picked up reports of widespread resistance among Russian ranks and that generals are threatening troops who resign with court martial.

Kyiv says the troops will arrive in Belgorod tomorrow and set off for the border on April 8.

The Kremlin has denied accusations its troops committed war crimes in Ukraine and have gone as far as trying to suggest chilling pictures of dead bodies strewn across Kyiv streets were staged by Ukraine and the West to discredit Putin.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky fought back tears as he visited Bucha yesterday.

The Ukrainian leader, who was visibly emotional, was flanked by security as he vowed to ensure that the “war crimes” committed by Russian soldiers on his country’s soil were “the last such evil on Earth”.

Harrowing pictures from the city, to the north-west of the capital Kyiv, showed the bodies of civilians scattered in the road and in shallow graves —  many with bound hands and signs of torture.

Some of them, from the wounds they had suffered, had been shot from close range.

Heavily mutilated corpses of what appear to be men scattered the floor of a children's camp as rescue workers carried the innocent victims out in body bags.

A local priest said dogs have been seen eating rotting corpses in apocalyptic scenes to grip the commuter town after Russian butchers laid waste to hundreds of innocent civilians.

Men, women and children were found handcuffed with a bullet in the head and chest - their bodies strewn in the streets and dumped in drains.

Women and children have also been found by Ukrainian soldiers, having been raped and then murdered.

Ukrainian officials have said at least 410 bodies have been recovered from the area, with many more feared.

Barbaric Russian troops are believed to have conducted the Bucha slaughter as they scarpered from Kyiv after their botched attempt to take the Ukrainian capital.

While the  at least half a dozen civilian vehicles remained where they had crashed after being mown down by gunfire - one blood splattered car had the word 'child' etched on it.

Andriy Holovin, the priest of the Church of St Andrew Pervozvannoho All Saints, said: "We brought people here from the streets because the dogs were trying to eat the bodies."

Chilling satellite images of the church shows an open 45 feet long trench - believed to have been dug on March 1 when Russia was in control of the region - it has around 60 bodies in.

The images also suggest bodies have been lying on the streets of Bucha for weeks - since at least March 19 - contradicting Russian claims they were planted by Ukraine

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said the evidence of civilian killings was just the "tip of the iceberg".