Massacre in the Ukrainian town of Bucha

After entering the towns of Bucha, Irpin and Hostomel, prosecutors said more time is needed in order for the indescribable war crimes to be properly assessed. 140 bodies have been examined so far and counting.

"We need to work with witnesses. People today are so stressed that they are physically unable to speak", Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Iryna Venedyktova declared.

An enormous mass grave has been revealed by satellite images of the town’s Church of St Andrew Pyervozvannoho All Saints.

"Hundreds of people were killed. Tortured, executed civilians. Corpses on the streets. Mined areas. Even the bodies of the dead were booby-trapped", commented the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in recent release.

Many more people are missing, as the exact number of casualties and missing civilians is not yet known due tot the general chaos in the region. More details will be revealed after the mines will be cleared off the area.

Witnesses recount Russian soldiers shooting and killing unarmed people without any reason, after checking their mobile phones for any compromising anti-Russian footage or photos.

Witness Hanna Herega, a resident of Bucha, described the way her neighbour was executed:

"He went to get some wood when all of a sudden [the Russians] started shooting. They hit him a bit above the heel, crushing the bone, and he fell down.

"Then they shot off his left leg completely, with the boot. Then they shot him all over [the chest]. And another shot went slightly below the temple. It was a controlled shot to the head."

Most bodies that were discovered across the town were tied by their legs or arms and shot in the head or presented close-range gunshot wounds, in what senior Presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych describes as "a scene from a horror movie". Some of the women that lost their lives in the gruesome attack were raped, executed and then burned.

The massacre follows the Russian retreat from Kyiv, as officials in Kremlin claim the Russian army is now focusing on the eastern region of Ukraine. Nevertheless, due tot the invasion, thousands of civilians were killed and more than 4 million Ukrainians leaved their country in the attempt to flee the atrocious war and save their lives.

"This is genocide," President Zelenskyy commented, as he also stated that Russian mothers have raised "murderers, marauders, executioners".

"Not a penny should go to Russia any more. That's bloody money used to slaughter people. The gas and oil embargo must come immediately", Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko also declared.

European leaders also condemn the atrocities committed in the town of Bucha and have urged for more sanctions against Russia, while Ukrainian authorities are intensively documenting evidence in order to prosecute Russia for genocide and war crimes.

In Mariupol more than 100.000 civilians are still trapped in the city’s bunkers without any access to food, water, heat or medicine, as the International Committee of the Red Cross is trying to evacuate the remaining people. So far, safe evacuation of the civilians has been repeatedly sabotaged by controlled Russian shelling.

Moreover, the Mayor of the city of Motyzhyn was killed by the Russian army, along with her entire family, while the city of Chernihiv is almost destroyed by the enemy’s shelling.

Missiles were launched on the Black Sea port of Odesa in what was the most recent attack of the Russian military claiming it targetted fuel depots in the area.

More details about the situation in Ukraine to follow.

 

Source: abc.net.au