Russian tactics much like that of Chechen fighters.

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The city of Irpin was recently reclaimed from Russian forces by Ukrainian fighters, who pushed them out This week, the mayor said 300 civilians were killed during Russia's almost month-long occupation of the city On Marchim get out of his car with his hands up when he was gunned down by a Russian tank crew It is one of many incidents that show potential war crimes being carried out by Russian soldiers in Ukraine The International Criminal Court (ICC) is investigating Russia for possible war crimes in Ukraine Earlier on Friday, Russia accused Ukrainian helicopters of attacking an oil facility in Belgorod - inside Russia The Kremlin threatened to walk out of peace talks, after video of a huge explosion in the region emerged Pictures from Irpin Friday showed soldiers and volunteers carrying body bags down a ruined stretch of road. About a dozen bodies were zipped up in black plastic body bags, lined up on the concrete and loaded into vans. The commuter suburb northwest of Kyiv that had been one of the main battlegrounds for weeks, is now firmly back in Ukrainian hands, a wasteland littered with burnt-out tanks. Now that Ukraine's forces have pushed Russia out of the region, work has been able to begin to collect the dead. Only now is the true scale of the devastation in the city being realised. According to Olena Halushka - a member of an anti-corruption group in Ukraine - some of the bodies were mined by Russian forces before they retreated, creating treacherous booby traps for the recovery workers. The mayor of Irpin said this week that up to 300 civilians and 50 'defenders' were killed during Russia's occupation. Up to 50 percent of the city's buildings and critical infrastructure was damaged, he added. The city was home to around 60,000 residents before Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his attack on Ukraine on February 24. Mayor Oleksandr Markushyn said around 3,500 people had stayed in Irpin, and that officials are still looking for people in hidden in their basements. He pleaded for the city's residents not to return home yet, as it is still under fire from Russian artillery. Nearby, an on-the-ground BBC investigation found 13 bodies strewn along a 200-yard stretch of the E-40 motorway that runs into Kyiv from the west - and about 5 miles south of Irpin. Two were of a young couple who were killed while trying to escape the capital down the highway. Maksim Iowenko, his wife Ksjena and their six-year-old son were part of a 10-car convoy driving down the road when they came under fire from a Russian tank crew. Harrowing footage from March 7 showed Maksim stopping the car and getting out with his hands up. Despite the obvious sign of surrender, the Russian troops - hidden in a tree-line along the side of the road - gunned him down in broad daylight. His wife was also killed in the attack. And as Western journalists accompany advancing Ukrainian troops near Kyiv, they are uncovering more evidence of war crimes carried out by Putin's soldiers - with the mayor of one city claiming 300 civilians were killed in the last month. Biden stand firmly at not giving Ukrain Mig 29 jets even though it's a aircraft that they are already trained on. Maybe Biden could send Ukraine more body bags.