the northern ireland trade row, post brexit. the government is set to publish legisation to give ministers the power to override parts of the deal with the eu. the controversial us preacher who s accused of being politically extreme draws thousands of people and also protesters at the start of a uk tour. and chelsea lifts the trophy after beating manchester city in extra time to win the women s fa cup final at wembley. good evening. the bbc has seen further evidence of apparent war crimes committed by russian soldiers in ukraine. since russian forces were pushed back from kyiv at the end of march, the bodies of more than 1,000 civilians have been discovered in the bucha region, just outside the capital. many were found in shallow, temporary graves. now, the bbc has learned more than half of the dead, around 650 people, were shot in what a senior police official has described as executions. in this special report, our eastern europe correspondent sarah rainsford has be
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a place of sunshine. but when the town of bucha was occupied, russian troops set up base here. alyona shows me pictures of her brother in happy times. but volodymyr was one of the men found in that basement. his death has shattered her. when they last spoke, he told alyona he loved her, but she heard a voice full of fear. translation: it s so hard. i hate them, with every cell of my body. i know that s wrong to say about people. ..but they are not human. how could they torture those men? there wasn t a patch on their bodies that was not beaten. when russian troops retreated from bucha, they left streets filled with death.
but he told me he d been thrown in a cellar at the camp, his legs soaked in water, so he d freeze, and a gun held to his head. translation: they kept saying, where is the fascists? where s the nazis? where is zelensky? they said, you have until the morning to remember what you ve seen, and if not, you ll be shot. viktor escaped because there was shelling and his captors scattered. but volodymyr is now buried in a grave with no date for his death. his family don t know when he was shot, but this town does know that civilians are not only caught up in this war, they re being targeted. sarah rainsford, bbc news, bucha. finland and sweden have abandoned their longstanding military neutrality and announced their intention tojoin nato in response to russia s