German intelligence authorities have intercepted Russian military radio traffic discussing the atrocities to civilians in the Ukraine city of Bucha, multiple media outlets are reporting today.

Some of the intercepted radio traffic can apparently be directly linked to dead bodies photographed in the town of 30,000 northwest of Kyiv, the German media outlet Der Spiegel and others reported. Hundreds of bodies were found in Bucha and other Kyiv-area towns when Ukraine re-took the towns in recent days. 

Russia has denied involvement, saying the scenes of carnage were either staged or carried out by Ukraine troops.

Der Spiegel, citing sources familiar with the audio, said it reveals Russian troops spoke of the atrocities as though they were discussing their everyday lives. In one of the intercepted conversations, a soldier apparently told another that they had just shot a person on a bicycle. A photo of the dead body lying next to a bicycle has been shared around the world. In another intercepted conversation, a man apparently is heard saying that Ukraine soldiers are interrogated, then shot.

The Washington Post reported that, in two separate communications, Russian soldiers described how they question soldiers as well as civilians and then shoot them, according to an intelligence official familiar with the audio.

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