On Saturday, Ukrainian troops proceeded carefully north of the capital, using cables to extract the bodies of citizens from the streets of one village, fearing that Russian forces had left them booby-trapped. Leaving explosives around homes, abandoned equipment, and "even the bodies of those killed," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, Russian troops were creating a "catastrophic" scenario for people. His assertions were unable to be independently verified. Russia is removing its forces from the area around Kyiv and increasing its army strength in eastern Ukraine, according to Ukraine and its Western partners.