Russia has denied any involvement in civilian deaths in the town of Bucha, insisting that photographs showing the bodies were "fakes" concocted by Ukraine. But several probes are debunking some of these claims.

One claim centred on footage taken from a car as it drove through the town showing what appeared to be dead bodies on either side of the road.

Pro-Russian social media accounts then circulated a slowed-down version of the video, claiming that the arm on one of the bodies moved and were not lifeless.

But the BBC's Reality Check and Monitoring teams have since verified multiple images of the same scene separately captured by news agency AFP, clearly showing a dead body in the same position and place as the video.

Meanwhile, satellite images analysed by the New York Times appear to confirm that many civilians were killed more than three weeks ago, when Russian forces were in control of Bucha.

The newspaper says a before-and-after analysis of the imagery shows objects of a similar size to a human body between 9 and 11 March in the precise positions where bodies were found after Ukrainian forces reclaimed the town last week.

(Source: BBC)