The Russians killed recklessly, intensifying terror against civilians after each success of the Armed Forces.
Reporters and photographers spent The New York Times in Buchi spent about a week recording eyewitness accounts of Russian atrocities . Putting the footage on a map of the area, they drew up a map of the killings of civilians.
“Bucha is a landscape of horror. When the Russian offensive on Kyiv stopped, the city was flooded with a campaign of terror and revenge against civilians, “the article reads.
Journalists were able to document the bodies of nearly three dozen people in the places where they died – in houses and forests set on fire in an empty parking lot. head of the Bucha District Prosecutor's Office Ruslan Kravchenko . Many people died of starvation, cold, lack of medicine and doctors. Police continue to find the bodies, and the death toll will rise. Kravchenko estimates that at least 1,000 people died in Bucha.
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Russians killed recklessly, sometimes with outright sadism, and partly out of revenge, journalists say. According to eyewitnesses of those terrible events, any success of the Ukrainian military caused a flurry of terror against civilians.
“They shot at everything. They fired at houses. They shot at a woman on the street. They shot at dogs, “said Anatoliy Rodchenko, a resident of Motyzhyn. He says of the presence of the Russian army: “It was like a nightmare.”
Elderly teacher Lyudmila was killed on the doorstep of her house as she went to open the door. “Roman Gavrilyuk and his brother Serhiy were shot dead in their yard together with dogs, literally riddled with bullets. A young woman was shot by a sniper while carrying tea to her family. A girl raped by the Russian military was killed and thrown into a potato cellar.
“They could not defeat our army, so they killed ordinary people,” explains Nazar's son, Roman Gavrilyuk.
Witnesses said Russian snipers set up positions at a local school and opened fire on anyone passing by. Pedestrians and armored vehicles were also shot.
On March 5, snipers began firing on anyone moving south of the school. By March 11, at least 11 bodies were lying on Yablunskaya Street, according to satellite images from Maxar.
And they started searching houses.
“They stole everything. The house was turned into a pit, and one room was used as a toilet, “said 65-year-old Tatiana Masonets . The occupiers left mountains of garbage and beer bottles in other houses, where they were “quartered” during the occupation of Bucha.
According to the Commissioner for Human Rights Lyudmila Denisova , “horrific cases of sexual violence of the Russian military in Bucha” and other places were recorded. Including a case where a group of women and girls were kept in the basement of the house for 25 days. Nine of them are now pregnant. Denisova suggests that the violence was caused by revenge for the Ukrainian resistance, and that the Russians are using it as a weapon of war.
As they retreated from Bucha, the occupiers shot detainees or anyone who stood in their way. “At least 15 people were found dead with their hands tied in various locations across the city, indicating that people were detained and several units executed,” the statement added.
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