Day 38: Retreating troops leave devastation

In the Kyiv suburb of Bucha, civilians cheer as a convoy arrives bringing aid, including food, to an area that had been occupied by Russian troops.

A Ukrainian soldier checks the body of a man dressed in civilian clothes for possible booby traps left by retreating Russian forces. Locals said the dead in Bucha were civilians killed by departing Russian soldiers without provocation.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned residents that Russian forces were creating a “catastrophic” situation for civilians by leaving mines around homes, abandoned equipment and even corpses. Anti-tank mines were scattered across a bridge in Bucha.

In Irpin, crosses honoring the civilians killed during fighting mark a mass grave in the forest. In town, a Ukrainian soldier plays a pick-up game of soccer in front of buildings with shattered windows.

Elsewhere, protesters hold posters bearing the image of Zelenskyy during an anti-war rally at the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland.

People hold portraits of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during an anti-war rally in front of the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland, Saturday, April 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

A man stands next to a civilian vehicle that was destroyed during fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces that still contains the body of the driver as Ukrainian servicemen ride on a tank vehicle outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, April 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

A woman holds food items she received after a convoy of military and aid vehicles arrived in the formerly Russian-occupied Kyiv suburb of Bucha, Ukraine, Saturday, April 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

A Ukrainian serviceman uses a piece of wood to check if the body of a man dressed in civilian clothing is booby-trapped with explosive devices, in the formerly Russian-occupied Kyiv suburb of Bucha, Ukraine, Saturday, April 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Ukrainian servicemen stand surrounding the body of man dressed in civilian clothing, in the formerly Russian-occupied Kyiv suburb of Bucha, Ukraine, Saturday, April 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Ukrainian soldiers work to remove the body of a Russian soldier from a destroyed Russian tank, in the village of Dmytrivka close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Apr. 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Anti-tank mines are spread out on a bridge in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, April 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A man and child on a bicycle come across the body of a civilian lying on a street in the formerly Russian-occupied Kyiv suburb of Bucha, Ukraine, Saturday, April 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Crosses to honor civilians killed during fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces, mark a mass grave in the forest of Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, April 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

A Ukrainian serviceman walks past an Antonov An-225 aircraft destroyed during fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces, at the Antonov airport in Hostomel, Ukraine, Saturday, April 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Ukrainian battalion commander "Azimut", 53, rest as he recovers after he was injured in combat against Russian forces, at a military hospital in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Saturday, April 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Civilians cheer along with a Ukrainian serviceman as a convoy of military and aid vehicles arrives in the formerly Russian-occupied Kyiv suburb of Bucha, Ukraine, Saturday, April 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

A Ukranian soldier eyes a soccer ball during a pick-up game in Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, April 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

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