Ukraine live news: Satellite photos suggest bodies have been lying on streets of Bucha for weeks – contradicting Russia’s claim

By Deborah Haynes, security and defence editor, in Ukraine

Russia has denied responsibility for the killing of any civilians in Bucha, accusing the Ukrainian government of creating a “provocation”.

However, one resident described to Sky News how she personally witnessed a Russian soldier shoot one of her neighbours dead.

Iryna, 47, said the soldier had challenged the man for stepping outside his apartment block.

“They asked for his papers. He said: ‘I don’t have my documents with me. I live on the ground-floor and I’ll get them now’,” she recalled.

Iryna said she and her husband watched from their flat in the same block as he turned around to go back inside and retrieve his papers.

But the man, who was not quite 50 years old, had barely stepped away when the soldier shot him in the back of the head, she said.

“He didn’t even see it coming, he didn’t even have time to say anything,” said Iryna. 

“My husband and I heard a pop. And he fell.”