and around kyiv working to cope with the tide of death left behind by russia s retreating forces. there are still more bodies coming? coming, yes. reporter: lots? lots. every day at morning. reporter: andrei beliakov normally teaches forensic medicine. now he s a full-time volunteer, performing endless autopsies. how many murders are you seeing? murders, i think near to 30% is exactly murder. reporter: by his definition that means 30% of the people in these bags have deliberate gunshot wounds to the head. we witness a continuous cycle. shuffling bodies from vehicles to storage to autopsy, to storage and ultimately preparation for burial. usually, it will be the second. most have been exhumed from
refrigerators to accommodate them. this is one of seven sites in and around kyiv working to cope with the tide of death left behind by russia s retreating forces. are there still more bodies coming? coming, yes. a lot. every day at morning. reporter: this man normally teaches for es forensic medicin. now he is working full time performing forensic autopsies. how many murders? up to 50%. reporter: by his definition, that means 30% of the people in these bags have deliberate gunshot wounds to the head. we witness a continuous cycle. shuffling bodies from vehicles to storage to autopsy, to storage and ultimately preparation for burial. usually it will be their second.
capacitated a team of volunteers to move bodies around and large mobile refrigerators to accommodate them. this is one of seven sites in and around kyiv working to cope with the tide of death left behind by russia s retreating forces. reporter: there are still more bodies coming? a lot. every day. reporter: this gentleman normally teaches forensic medicine. now he s a fthd volunteer performing endless autopsies. how many murders have you seen? murders? 100%. reporter: by his definition, that means 30% of the people in these bags have deliberate gunshot wounds to the head. we witness a continuous cycle. shuffling bodies from vehicles to storage to autopsy to storage
this is one of seven sites in and around kyiv, working to cope with the tide of death, left behind by russia s retreating forces. are there still more bodies coming? yes, every morning. reporter: this man normally teaches forensiced me. now he is a full-time volunteer, performing endless autopsies. up to 50%. reporter: by his definition, that means 30% of the people in these bags have deliberate gunshot wounds to the head. we witness a continuous cycle. shuffling bodies from vehicles to storage to autopsy, to storage and ultimately preparation for burial. usually it will be their second.
that means 30% of the people in these bags have deliberate gunshot wounds to the head. we witnessed a continuous cycle. shuffling bodies from vehicles to storage to autopsy to storage and ultimately, preparation for burial. usually, it will be their second. most have been exhumed from temporary graves. families buy new clothes for those as a gesture of respect. but they often go unworn. they can only be laid inside the kochbl. the conditions of the bodies means dressing them is impossible. among those lying here, waiting to be collected, his family says he was killed when munitions struck his home in a small remote village. his wife victoria survived, only to endure a form of hell. intense fighting that she