Going outside in occupied Bucha was extremely dangerous. People were shot right on the street. Many of the wounded could not be taken away due to constant enemy shelling of streets and houses.
During the occupation of the city of Bucha by Russian troops, a local resident Vladimir was shot two times by racists as soon as a man came out of his house into the street. This and other dramatic stories from the occupied city, a local resident Irina told Elena Zhezheri for the article “How Bucha fought for her life: the birth of Alice and the history of the field hospital at home” .
“In early March, I do not remember the exact date, because then everything was mixed up, Uncle Vova decided to go to the next house to visit relatives. Nobody even asked him anything, just silently Russian soldiers shot him in both legs. And if it weren't for the brave men from our house who took Uncle Vova off the road under the bullets, I don't know how his story would have ended, “says Iryna.
She organized round-the-clock care for Volodymyr, stopped the bleeding, treated the wounds, and found painkillers and antibiotics.
And when the Russian military came into the house and announced that they would take the man to their hospital in Gostomel, he flatly refused and said that he had a doctor he trusted.
On March 10, Volodymyr managed to be evacuated from Bucha.
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According to data German Intelligence, intercepted radio reports from the Russian military about the massacres in Bucha, show that the killings were not accidental actions or actions of individual soldiers who lost control of themselves. Rather, it is a common tactic or even a strategy of Russia to intimidate Ukrainians.
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