Bucha, Ukraine
The Bucha massacre was the mass murder of Ukrainian civilians and prisoners of war by the Russian Armed Forces during the fight for and occupation of the city of Bucha as part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (or the Special Military Operation to De-militarize and De-Nazify Ukraine). Photographic and video evidence of the massacre emerged on 1 April 2022 after Russian forces withdrew from the city.
According to local authorities, 458 bodies have been recovered from the town, including 9 children under the age of 18; among the victims, 419 people were killed by weapons and 39 appeared to have died of natural causes, possibly related to the occupation. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights documented the unlawful killings, including summary executions, of at least 73 civilians in Bucha.
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2. Locations were some of the bodies were found.
3. Destroyed Russian armor once the Ukrainian Forces moved in.
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7. Civilian car was run over by a Russian tank, killing it's driver.
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Photos showed corpses of civilians, lined up with their hands bound behind their backs, shot at point-blank range, which ostensibly gave proof that summary executions had taken place. An inquiry by Radio Free Europe reported the use of a basement beneath a campground as a torture chamber. Many bodies were found mutilated and burnt, and girls as young as fourteen reported being raped by Russian soldiers.
Russian authorities have denied responsibility and instead claimed that Ukraine faked footage of the event or staged the killings itself as a false flag operation, and have claimed that the footage and photographs of dead bodies were "fake news".
As part of the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the Russian military entered Ukraine from the southern border of Belarus. One of the initial moves was a push towards the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, as part of which a huge column of military vehicles moved south towards Kyiv.
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On 27 February 2022, Russian advance forces moved into the city of Bucha, making it one of the first outlying areas of Kyiv taken by Russian forces. According to Ukrainian military intelligence, Russian forces occupying Bucha included the 64th Motor Rifle Brigade headed by Lieutenant Colonel Azatbek Omurbekov, under the 35th Combined Arms Army.
Following the Russian withdrawal, video footage was posted to social media on 1 April 2022, showing mass civilian casualties. According to Mayor Fedoruk, "hundreds of Russian soldiers" were also among the bodies found in the region. Subsequently, further evidence emerged which appeared to show war crimes committed by Russian forces while they occupied the region.
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Many of the victims appeared to have been going about their daily routines, carrying shopping bags. Footage showed civilians dead with their hands bound. Other footage showed a dead man next to a bicycle. Journalists entering the city themselves discovered the bodies of more than a dozen people in civilian clothes.
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34. KIA Russian tanker.
35. Elderly woman killed by Russian shelling.
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37. Burned civilians or Ukrainian POWs.
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By 9 April, Ukrainian forensic investigators had begun recovering bodies from mass graves, such as at the church of Andrew the Apostle.
On 21 April, Human Rights Watch published an extensive report that summarized their own investigation in Bucha, implicating Russian troops in summary executions, other unlawful killings, enforced disappearances, and torture. It also urged Ukrainian authorities to preserve evidence and cooperate with the International Criminal Court to bolster future war crime prosecutions.
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48. Several civilians who were executed and then their bodies set on fire.
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On 8 August 2022, officials released a count of civilian deaths in the town of Bucha alone: 458 bodies, 419 with signs of shooting, torture, or violent trauma, and 39 apparently of natural causes but being scrutinized for their relationship to the Russian occupation. 366 were male, 86 female, and five of indiscernible gender due to their condition. Nine were children. 50 bodies remained unidentified, along with body parts and ash.
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76. Husband of the Mayor of a nearby town, who was later exhumed, along with their son, in a mass grave.
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58. This dead woman was ID'd when a friend saw this pic and recognized her nail polish design.
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62. Naked body of a woman found in a house - reportedly beaten and raped.
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63. Exhumation of a number of men who had been shot and some with hands tied.
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The Bucha massacre was the mass murder of Ukrainian civilians and prisoners of war by the Russian Armed Forces during the fight for and occupation of the city of Bucha as part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (or the Special Military Operation to De-militarize and De-Nazify Ukraine). Photographic and video evidence of the massacre emerged on 1 April 2022 after Russian forces withdrew from the city.
According to local authorities, 458 bodies have been recovered from the town, including 9 children under the age of 18; among the victims, 419 people were killed by weapons and 39 appeared to have died of natural causes, possibly related to the occupation. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights documented the unlawful killings, including summary executions, of at least 73 civilians in Bucha.
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2. Locations were some of the bodies were found.
3. Destroyed Russian armor once the Ukrainian Forces moved in.
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5. Destroyed Russian armor.
6. Destroyed Russian armor.
7. Civilian car was run over by a Russian tank, killing it's driver.
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Photos showed corpses of civilians, lined up with their hands bound behind their backs, shot at point-blank range, which ostensibly gave proof that summary executions had taken place. An inquiry by Radio Free Europe reported the use of a basement beneath a campground as a torture chamber. Many bodies were found mutilated and burnt, and girls as young as fourteen reported being raped by Russian soldiers.
Russian authorities have denied responsibility and instead claimed that Ukraine faked footage of the event or staged the killings itself as a false flag operation, and have claimed that the footage and photographs of dead bodies were "fake news".
As part of the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the Russian military entered Ukraine from the southern border of Belarus. One of the initial moves was a push towards the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, as part of which a huge column of military vehicles moved south towards Kyiv.
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13. View from a classroom in Bucha.
14. Another tank-crushed car.
15. Dead driver of crushed car.
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On 27 February 2022, Russian advance forces moved into the city of Bucha, making it one of the first outlying areas of Kyiv taken by Russian forces. According to Ukrainian military intelligence, Russian forces occupying Bucha included the 64th Motor Rifle Brigade headed by Lieutenant Colonel Azatbek Omurbekov, under the 35th Combined Arms Army.
Following the Russian withdrawal, video footage was posted to social media on 1 April 2022, showing mass civilian casualties. According to Mayor Fedoruk, "hundreds of Russian soldiers" were also among the bodies found in the region. Subsequently, further evidence emerged which appeared to show war crimes committed by Russian forces while they occupied the region.
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29. Dog looks at another, which had been shot dead.
30. Brothers.
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Many of the victims appeared to have been going about their daily routines, carrying shopping bags. Footage showed civilians dead with their hands bound. Other footage showed a dead man next to a bicycle. Journalists entering the city themselves discovered the bodies of more than a dozen people in civilian clothes.
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33. KIA Russian.
34. KIA Russian tanker.
35. Elderly woman killed by Russian shelling.
36. Same ^.
37. Burned civilians or Ukrainian POWs.
38. Checking for booby traps.
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By 9 April, Ukrainian forensic investigators had begun recovering bodies from mass graves, such as at the church of Andrew the Apostle.
On 21 April, Human Rights Watch published an extensive report that summarized their own investigation in Bucha, implicating Russian troops in summary executions, other unlawful killings, enforced disappearances, and torture. It also urged Ukrainian authorities to preserve evidence and cooperate with the International Criminal Court to bolster future war crime prosecutions.
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43. Hit by shrapnel from shelling.
44. Hands tied, executed.
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48. Several civilians who were executed and then their bodies set on fire.
49. Beaten, executed men found in a basement.
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On 8 August 2022, officials released a count of civilian deaths in the town of Bucha alone: 458 bodies, 419 with signs of shooting, torture, or violent trauma, and 39 apparently of natural causes but being scrutinized for their relationship to the Russian occupation. 366 were male, 86 female, and five of indiscernible gender due to their condition. Nine were children. 50 bodies remained unidentified, along with body parts and ash.
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76. Husband of the Mayor of a nearby town, who was later exhumed, along with their son, in a mass grave.
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58. This dead woman was ID'd when a friend saw this pic and recognized her nail polish design.
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62. Naked body of a woman found in a house - reportedly beaten and raped.
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63. Exhumation of a number of men who had been shot and some with hands tied.
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70. At the morgue.
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