when we find people with hands tied behind their back and decapitated, such things are, i don t understand, i don t comprehend. the kids who were killed and tortured so it wasn t enough just to kill for those criminals. indeed, this is genocide. cnn s fred pleitgen travelled to bucha and got a firsthand sight at the atrocities the russians are calling fake. reporter: they said their withdrawal from this area was something they had been planning all the time, doing on purpose, hasn t been taking major losses but what we ve seen seeing jim, especially north western part of kyiv is destroyed russian armor everywhere, certainly taken much more lossed than anyone imagined and certainly more than they care to admit and then you have the civilian casualties, having been on the ground we saw a lot of dead bodies on the streets
these atroatrocities. translator: when we find people with hands tied behind their back and decapitated, such things i don t understand, i don t comprehend. the kids who were killed and tortured, so it wasn t enough just to kill for those criminals. indeed this is genocide. let s go to cnn s ed la lava lavandera. they saw these atrocities firsthand, yet russia is claiming the reports are fake and staged. what more can you tell us about what was found in bucha? obviously this has the potential to really get the world s attention if people have been paying attention up to this point, they should be now because what was witnessed there is absolutely unspeakable.