Ukraine: Buča is the new Srebrenica – SME.sk

Dead civilians lay on the streets. KIEV. Ukraine’s defense ministry has named the liberated city of Bucha a new town in Srebrenica. the city’s streets are littered with bodies, the ministry wrote on twitter. The “atrocities” in Buč were condemned, among others, by the British Minister of Foreign Affairs Liz Truss. Mayor Anatoly Fedoruk told Reuters that more than 300 people had been killed in the city. They had to bury 280 bodies in the common graves, the mayor said. Pieces of bodies, hands, feet, reporters from the site, could be seen in the unclaimed mass grave near the church. To his left lay the body of a man with a yellowed face and sunken eyes on the edge of the lawn beside the bicycle. Another lay in the middle of the road, a few feet from the entrance to the house. Vasily said he was the godfather of his son, his lifelong friend. The locals will not be able to return for at least a month. Read The still unburied dead in Buč are not wearing uniforms. They are civilians with bicycles, some still holding shopping bags in their stiff hands. Some are apparently dead for days, if not weeks. Eighty-year-old Maria Dabize, according to The Sunday Times, said Russian soldiers had tied up their hands and feet and killed them in a nearby neat brick house. Ukrainian soldiers found 18 dead bodies on her street in a cellar. men, women and children. “The atrocities in Bukh and other (Ukrainian) cities are frightening. News that Russian forces are attacking innocent civilians is disgusting,” the British Secretary of Defense wrote on Twitter. “Britain is working with other countries to gather evidence and “supports the investigation of war crimes by the International Criminal Court. Those responsible will be held accountable,” she added. In the north of Ukraine, Russian troops are slowly but visibly withdrawing. However, the situation in eastern Ukraine remains very serious, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. According to him, Russia is preparing new military strikes in Donbas and Kharkov. War in Ukraine