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STORY: An adviser to the Ukrainian interior ministry said on Monday that the bodies were those of the village leader, her husband and her son.

Anton Herashchenko named those killed as Olha Sukhenko, her husband Ihor Sukhenko and their 25-year-old son, Oleksandr.

A local resident who gave his name as Leonid said: “They took the three of them and brought them here. Here they were tortured and killed.” He also said Russian forces used the tractor to dig the grave. Reuters could not independently verify these claims.

A Reuters reporter saw the bodies in a forest near a farm, which had been all but destroyed, just outside of Motyzhyn.

The reporter also saw another body of a man in a well near to the burnt-out farm, where black scorch marks climbed up its few remaining walls. He appeared to have been tied up.

Russia calls its actions in Ukraine a "special military operation".