Year after Kyiv area massacres, police struggle to find those still missing

Volunteers carty the bodies of people who were buried by a local resident during the Russian occupation of the town of Borodyanka last year, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, after an exhumation at the town's cemetery, outside of Kyiv, Ukraine, March 2, 2023. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

BORODIANKA, Ukraine (Reuters) - In a corner of Borodianka's town cemetery, the bodies of three men lay buried for a year, to no one's knowledge in the town 55 km (34 miles) northwest of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.

The three men, one of whom police have so far tentatively identified, are the latest confirmed dead civilians from Russian forces' march toward Kyiv last spring.