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Russian troops tortured and executed a village mayor and her family, Ukrainian officials say One of four bodies, including the village mayor and her family, is exposed in a mass grave in Motyzhyn close to Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 4, 2022, after Russian forces were pushed from the area by Ukrainians. Ukrainian officials and local residents have said the mayor of a small town, along with her husband and son, were executed by invading Russian forces that had until recently occupied the area. Mayor Olga Sukhenko and her family were shot and thrown into a pit in a forest behind a plot of land with several houses that the Russian forces then took over in the town of Motyzhyn, they said. Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said Sunday that Sukhenko and her husband, who were reported to have been kidnapped by Russian troops on March 23, were "killed in captivity." One resident of the town, which sits in territory recently abandoned by Russia's forces about 31 miles w...