From Reuters:
“Recalling Bucha deaths, Zelenskiy
describes 'horrific' year in Kyiv region”
(Bucha deputy mayor Serhii Shepetko
places flowers on graves of unidentified people killed by Russian soldiers
during occupation of the Bucha town, on a day of the first anniversary of
Russia's attack on Ukraine, at the town's cemetery, outside Kyiv, Ukraine
February 24, 2023.)
Ukraine's president said on Thursday
the past year had been "the most horrific" in the lives of many
residents of the Kyiv region, where Russian troops are accused of committing
war crimes before withdrawing a year ago. The Ukrainian military recaptured the
small towns of Irpin and Bucha outside the capital, Kyiv, in late March last
year.
International investigators are now
collecting evidence in Irpin, Bucha and other places where Ukraine says Russian
troops committed large-scale atrocities. Russia denies the allegations. "For
many residents of the Kyiv region, the past year has become the most horrific
in their entire lives. And the liberation of the Kyiv region has become a
symbol of the fact that Ukraine will be able to win this war," President
Volodymyr Zelenskiy wrote in English on the Telegram messaging app. "Events
that could not be imagined in the 21st century have become a reality in the
satellite cities of Kyiv – Bucha and Irpin. Russian troops marched on the
Ukrainian capital from the north and brought death and destruction."
Zelenskiy wrote his Telegram post
under video footage showing heavily damaged buildings and vehicles that had
been destroyed in Bucha and Irpin. The video also included interviews with
survivors recalling their experiences during the occupation, and footage of
corpses lined up on the ground in black body bags. The video, compiled by the
Ukrainian fundraising initiative UNITED24, put the civilian death toll in areas
of the Kyiv region liberated from Russian forces at 1,137, including 461 killed
in Bucha alone.
The Russian forces that invaded
Ukraine on Feb. 24 last year were halted outside the capital and later pulled
back, but the Kyiv region is still frequently the target of missile and drone
strikes as battles rage elsewhere.
^ 1 year ago the World learned first
hand about what Russian Occupation is Ukraine is really like when the liberated
areas around Kyiv were left strewed of dead Civilian bodies.
At least 458 Ukrainian Men, Women and
Children were tortured, raped and murdered by the Russians in Bucha alone.
The Russian Soldiers who committed
these War Crimes were praised by the Russian Government, the Russian Media,
their Families and Ordinary Russians.
The Bucha Massacre, sadly, was not a
lone event, but with every liberated area once under Russian Occupation the
Ukrainians and the World learn of more Torture Chambers, more Mass Graves (such
as in Izium with over 400 Bodies found so far.)
In case anyone still wondered why the
US and the World needs to continue to help Ukraine defeat Russia the innocent
tortured and murdered Ukrainian Men, Women and Children at the hands of the
Russian People are the main reason.
You either support Ukraine and Human
Life or you support Russia and their Mass Graves - there is no in-between. ^
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