The Body in the Woods | An Independent TV Original Documentary
It was a month into Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
Russian forces had withdrawn from around Kyiv and in their wake Bel Trew and her team stumbled on a body by an abandoned Russian camp.
His hands were tied. He had been burned and shot in the back. Soldiers said he was a teenager.
As Bel tried to find out who he was and what had happened, she uncovered a nightmare world: a nation struggling to find thousands of its missing and to identify its dead.
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I just listened to Bel"s q&a on 5live. Inspiring and chilling at the same time. Stay safe Bel
A heart breaking story and so very important to tell it.
RIP to the young man. What a heartbreaking story. She’s very brave to report this.
@nanskiboutski243
Жыл бұрын
He got off easy. Imagine what they did to 16 year old girls 😶
@raevj
Жыл бұрын
There are plenty of rapes of men & boys too. The Russia soldiers are even raping their own soldiers. There were a few Russian soldiers who hung themselves & left suicide notes due to it.
As an acheologist in western Europe, I wonder if I may be of some help there. Thank you for this documentary, very sad. War is a grim business.
@msmysticstorytime
Жыл бұрын
You should go and avail yourself
@The_ZeroLine
2 ай бұрын
You could, but you’ll need to go there instead of waiting for a reply on KZread. They have a system for putting volunteer specialists into the right work.
Holy sh$t. This was so hard to watch. Thank you for making this! I'll show it to all my friends.
I remember the first time I watched that murder on the road a year ago. In these 12 months I've seen huge pile of corpses and bloodshed but that is not a 0.0001 of the horror the average ukrainian is going through. Stop the war! Help with whatever you can!
I started tearing up once she took out the hedgehog. Normal people lives shattered by a war no one wanted. Heartbreaking.
@user-hv9vn4fi4w
Жыл бұрын
Really? 10 years killed own citizens in Donbass, is it normal?
@jamesferguson2353
Жыл бұрын
@@user-hv9vn4fi4w watching Russian state media lately, because this is a whole different level then what happened in the Donbass .I would dare to say the Russians need to leave Ukraine and go back to What ever rock they crawled out from under because they have got there revenge 10 fold by now
@militantcapitalist4606
Жыл бұрын
@@user-hv9vn4fi4w eff off wumao bot; you learned the schi from your ruzz brothers
this is absolutely soul crushing
Thank you Bel for your bravery in filming this for us. Utterly heartbreaking - I feel for them all desperately and wish more than anything that it would stop.
@anomalyp8584
9 ай бұрын
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a heartbreaking documentary and a beautiful reporter
A very moving documentation. Almost unbearable, but important to show the world. And this is only the beginning. The mess in the still occupied regions will be exponential.
15:08 That scene of an injured woman and a young boy being escorted to a ditch for execution broke me, I mean I understand why the injured woman but why execute the child as well
@nanskiboutski243
Жыл бұрын
So the boy doesnt turn out like them a rapist and a murderer
@nanskiboutski243
Жыл бұрын
You are all masculinists, feeling bad about boys and men getting killed but not caring that girls and women get raped and raped and raped and maybe, if they're lucky, finally killed by a bullet . And not from festering wounds due to rape and torture.
@oksanadutchak7479
Жыл бұрын
The didn't. Probably were thinking about it, but in the end, they let the woman and the child go. The journalist made a very bad manipulation not telling about their destiny directly
Shocking someone somewhere has to be held accountable
@luvsnowblading3230
Жыл бұрын
Yhaaaa it’s my fraudulent person in the USA 🇺🇸 office Bidumb he is starting wars all over the world 🌎 to detract away from his evil destruction of my USA 🇺🇸 PUSH BK NOW ON THIS DICTATOR NOW………..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Put Bidumb in prison for all these war crimes and that includes the Middle East pull out to……………..!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't know about anyone else but I thought that identification using DNA would be relatively straightforward and simple. After watching this report I've come to realise that seemingly straightforward procedures can become almost impossible in the chaos of war.
@olavl8827
Жыл бұрын
Identification by DNA is only simple in theory. You find the genes, you have a match. In practice you need sophisticated (=expensive) equipment, highly educated specialists, perfect samples to compare, proper "chain of custody" procedures, etc. All depending on a well organised bureaucracy and logistics. It's quite a task for a poor country with many shortcomings that is also still fighting a war for its very survival. That is to say: they need help with this.
oh man this is horrifying, all the pain, lost families, relatives, lives that Putler's SMO caused in Ukraine, he should pay a bill for it soon
Why hasn't more people seen this?
God rest there poor souls god give them a beds in havin rip🙏🙏🙏❤️
RESPECT
Putin, who has less left of his life to look forward to than he does looking back, will not like his reception in the next life. He has much to answer for.
@luvsnowblading3230
Жыл бұрын
Can you say Hitler and my fraudulent person in my USA 🇺🇸 office Bidumb they are both very old and want to go out with a 💥 to what a viele 🤷🏼♀️
if you are going through hell keep going - slava ukraini
А чуток, косточку там не заберешь, привидение будет. Это сложно обьяснить, но надо брать весь грунт...😢
Sorry can cel !!
I'll never understand this kind of evil. How could you be so inhumane & have such pure hatred & evil in yoir heart. What happened to Ukrainian's & Russian's being so called brothers, as that's what they used to call each other before the war. My heart breaks for the Ukrainian's. I pray for them every single day & not a day goes by that I'm not thinking about them or watching footage on this war. I hope they repel this evil from their land very soon. Slava Ukraine.🇺🇦 🇺🇸
Bel Trew ❤ Great work!!! Gourgeous Lady ❤
YOU BEST LİAR ❗❗ NOMİNES
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They did that to him in which order…
So senseless soldiers fighting soldiers I understand but will never understand civilians including children just being murdered ! No doubt the end times are here and judgement days is rapidly approaching.
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Блиин,ответите, за мирных жителей, рано или поздно. Все, кто создал эту войну, и кто исполнял преступные прика за ы.... Рано или поздно........😮
Тупин не хочет в этом отвечать, и поэтому и правит несчастную, но богатую страну. Дичь.... Отправьте детей с элиты на передовой(не в тылу), только на передовой. Всех, кто поддерживает этот "конфликт". Почему забираете, тех, кто не хочет в этом участвовать..? Твари... Как я вижу, их иного, зомбалей, их и возмите, пусть с флагом там и помрут....
How many died in Donbass?
@jacqdanieles
Жыл бұрын
In the uprising that Pootin started, funded, armed, supplied, & supported?
@shurely2559
Жыл бұрын
And the same amount died in Ukraine in the last 8 years what was Ukraine supposed to do let the seperatists kill them and take their land u do realise they were taking Mariupol and places back then as well but in you're logic they were to sit back and let it happen
And MAGA supports this.
Not a fan of the writing or production
no war
@RichardTClark396
7 ай бұрын
Will be many wars and rumors of wars the Bible prophecies are all coming to fruition.
Poorly written
I'm furious at the manipulations in the movie. You are telling about war crimes and horrific tragedies. But why aren't you telling the story of the woman and the boy from that car till the end? Russians were planning to execute them, yes (and this explains the comment made by their relative on 15:00). But, according to Ukrainian authorities, the Russians let them go in the end. Why aren't you telling this? Why are you making audience think that they were executed? This is very unprofessional and manipulative
@shurely2559
Жыл бұрын
Calm down I knew what she was saying and maybe she should have used better words but I'd hardly say she was being manipulative about it
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🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 GLORY TO UKRAINE!🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Shame what the yukrains did 2 theyself
@shurely2559
Жыл бұрын
Really what a stupid comment to make yeah they are stupid why would u say something so dumb
do you know what ? everyone take one camera went to ukraine made something . you can't trust this honestly . it's not very popular tv news to make documentary it's start new but we don't know they KZreadr or tv . I've never seen this page before . but thank you for this kind video
@christinetennick1174
Жыл бұрын
This is true footage and I know that it really did happen,
@RockinStacy
Жыл бұрын
The Independent is real news, search for it online. They have a website, Twitter etc.
@shurely2559
Жыл бұрын
U do know it's easy enough to search the names of ppl in videos to check stories
An excellent but awful documentary. It made me hate Putin even more.
@RichardTClark396
7 ай бұрын
He will be in the lake of fire soon.
West propaganda
@shurely2559
Жыл бұрын
How is it propaganda go over to Ukraine and see for yourself and talk to Ukranians because that was all she did and showed video of what happened that's not propaganda idiot
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One side of the story funny, what about the crimes that Ukraine as committed for 8 years before russia actually start the operation ? Nobody is talking about that.
@jacqdanieles
Жыл бұрын
Putin started this war in 2014. What was the Ukrainian government supposed to do with a traitorous rebellion?
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