Scott Pelley, a correspondent and anchor at CBS News and 60 Minutes, to Jack Holmes:
"In Kyiv, we went all the way up into the northern suburbs yesterday, including Bucha and Irpin. And I'll tell you, Jack, in 40 years of covering wars, I have never seen such wholesale destruction of civilian neighborhoods, absolutely senseless. It could only have been done to kill the people. There's no military reason for it. 10-story apartment buildings, blown to bits, entire neighborhoods [destroyed]. I was talking to the residents about what happened to a very large 10-story apartment building that was completely a burned out shell. And they said it had been hit by a helicopter gunship that launched rockets into it.
"Behind
a church, the St. Andrew's Orthodox church, we found a mass grave. The
Russians had left and retreated in such haste that they didn't bother to
bury the evidence. And so the grave was open, and there were a number
of people in the grave, a number of bodies in the grave, all clearly
civilian women and men, elderly men, just piled up there, just waiting
for mercy, just waiting for someone at some point to lift them out of
that trench that they were lying in and properly bury them."
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