Bucha... This geographical name will now go down in history as Song My in Vietnam, like Sabra and Shatila in Lebanon, like Vukovar in Serbia...

And also Irpen, Motyzhin ... A woman's hand with a multi-colored manicure, a guy lying near his bicycle, a woman's head next to other remains in a pit in which they tried to burn the corpses, a white scarf or belt tying the hands of a person lying with shot through the head, a meter later another corpse, and another, and then again corpses, and again ... We drove along the road and fired? For everyone who walked or ran? And who then tied his hands behind? They drove a column of prisoners, although in the pictures everyone is in civilian clothes; led to execution or distilled to a filtration camp, but the order came to drop everything and retreat? Or just drunken and stoned fighters against the "Nazis", leaving Kiev, finally staged a bloody bacchanalia as a memory of "the same people with us"? But why in Irpen were they at least buried in a common grave, and in Bucha they were left to lie on the sidewalks, although the houses were mined? Hurrying home for forgiveness Sunday?

There is no doubt that Ukrainian and international investigators will get to the bottom of the names of units, names and surnames of those who committed these crimes. But Russia, the Russian side, first of all, should be interested in everyone being named by name, because this is a verdict. For all of us.

It would seem that after February 24 there was nowhere to fall further, a nation that was proud that it had liberated Europe from the brown plague, putting 27 million people on the altar of victory over absolute evil, suddenly became an aggressor nation waging an aggressive war in a brotherly country . The catastrophe has already happened, the abyss has opened up, we continue to fall there, but it doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter at all how deep we fall. Because the blame for this will fall on our children and grandchildren. And the myth of the liberators, which was the most important component of our self-identification, what lay at the very root of the national memory - regardless of whether you are a supporter of the regime or not, will be completely destroyed. Photographs of civilians who were shot, whose hands were first tied, and then shot in the back of the head and left like cattle in the street - this we will not forget, nor will they forget us.

Investigate openly and fully, make public and bring repentance - this will no longer save us from shame, but at least the children will have arguments to say: our parents did a terrible thing, but we investigated, admitted and pray for forgiveness ...

Bucha, Irpen, Motyzhin - we have to live with this now ...

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