From: Euromaiden Press — LEST WE FORGET!
31 March marks a tragic anniversary for the town of Bucha, Ukraine. Exactly two years ago, Ukrainian armed forces liberated the community after 33 days under Russian occupation marked by indiscriminate killings. The once-peaceful suburb of 55,000 residents had been transformed into a massacre scene by occupying troops.
In the aftermath, authorities determined that 468 civilians, including 37 children, were murdered by Russian forces during the occupation through means of shooting, torture, rape, and hanging. Across the wider Bucha region, the death toll exceeded 1,400 Ukrainian civilians at the hands of the occupation troops.
Statistics shed light on the brutality: 90% of those killed in Bucha died from gunshot wounds. Rescue teams and soldiers found the bodies of residents scattered throughout private residences, parks, public squares, and mass graves.
“We’ve located three places in Bucha where the Russian occupation troops disposed of bound civilians they had executed. The compound of an agricultural machinery company, Vokzalna Street, Yablunska Street, and near a children’s camp – all sites where we found people with their hands tied and gunshot wounds,” said Mayor Anatoliy Fedoruk.
Two years later, the massacres in Bucha remain in global consciousness as some of the most atrocious war crimes committed in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The war is ongoing…
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