“Shooting! At the intersection! Forbidden! Zones! V "

New evidence of the murders of civilians near Kyiv. Here's what the journalists who visited there learned

Journalists of many international agencies and publications last weekend and on Monday were able to get to the cities and villages of the Kyiv region, which until recently were controlled by Russian troops - and where, after their retreat, the bodies of hundreds of dead civilians were discovered, according to Ukrainian official data. The most famous of these settlements was buch, although the murders took place not only there - among the most resonant were shots with the head of the village of Motyzhin Olga Sukhenko, her husband and son, who were killed and buried in a mass grave.

On April 4, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Irina Venediktova stated that the “worst situation regarding the victims in Borianka” is another city of the Kyiv region, from where the Russian troops left. Venediktova at the time of writing this text did not tell the details.

On April 4, the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky also visited Buch and told reporters that talking with Russia after murders of civilians is very difficult and that this is why Russia should not be delayed with negotiations: “It is very difficult to talk when you see what they have done here. And daily, you understand, there are people in barrels, in cellars and so on, strangled and simply tortured. Therefore, I think that they need, if [they] have something to think, then think faster. ”

On April 3-4, journalists published many stories of Buchi residents about the events that took place under Russian occupation, and also showed new terrible shots with the dead. Among them are charred bodies on the roadway, presumably belonging to the family with children, and the bodies found in the basement of a children's camp in Buch. According to Sky News, five people found the remains of five, four of them were tied behind their backs. Before their death they were tortured, the Ukrainian authorities said.

Some of these testimonies were published on his Utuub channel, journalist Denis Kazan. In his video there is also an image of a fence with the inscription “Shooting! At the intersection! Forbidden! Zones! V ".

Most oral evidence relate to murders committed, according to local residents, by the Russian military. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation at the same time claims that during the occupation in Buch, not a single local resident was injured from violent actions.

A resident of Buchi Tatyana Vladimirovna told Reuters that the Russian military (she said from Chechnya) was located in an apartment building where she lived with her husband. As follows from the article, they were kept in custody for several days, then the woman was released. Her husband disappeared, and a few days later she found his mutilated body in the basement under the stairs. Reuters correspondent writes that he saw a photograph of his body, as well as the corpse of another person who remained in the same place.

69-year-old dog breeder Vladimir Kopachev said that the Russian military killed his daughter, her boyfriend and friend. According to him, they killed everyone who went outside. 76-year-old Antonina Pomazanko, about whom the New York Times wrote and told Denis Kazan, buried her 56-year-old daughter Tatyana, killed in the early days of the war, in her yard. Tatyana went to the gate when Russian tanks drove around the city, thinking that these were Ukrainians. According to the woman, the Russians opened fire.

Sergei Krappalkichny, who, judging by the publications in the media, is responsible for the funeral business in Buch, told The New York Times that he had left the city on March 10. Before leaving, he buried 57 people in the cemetery, of which 15 were killed from natural causes, and the rest from gunshot wounds (including, judging by injuries, during extra -judicial reprisals) and shrapnel. Electricity did not work in the city morgue; Before leaving, the captive agreed with the excavator, and he dug a hole near the church under the mass grave. During the absence of a drip in the city, 40 bodies were put in it. On April 3, returning to the city, he gathered about 30 bodies, including the bodies of 13 men with tied hands and gunshot wounds in the head. Eight bodies, as follows from the article, were found in the courtyard of one of the houses, five in the basement.

A ritual service employee, working with Kaplichnaya, told the Supilna TV channel that for these days he and his colleagues gathered 330-340 bodies of the dead, but "this is not all." “We do not have time just at everyone. At least 20 addresses for tomorrow are definitely. Many who were buried in the gardens, in the yards, ”he said.

The New York Times has various evidence of how the Russian military behaved. The 60-year-old retirement teacher shared that they helped local residents wear bags, while the 45-year-old sculptor said that he was kept tied to a metal pillar for two days, beating. The Russians tried to find out from him where the Ukrainian military are located, and also who belongs to the territorial defense in the city. The owners of the three-story building, who during the occupation occupied the Russian military, talked about a 19-year-old soldier who told them that he dreamed only to get a wound and go home.

The Ukrainian edition of NV published a large story of a resident of the Buchi district, who spent most of the war with her mother in the basement, and was able to evacuate with her neighbors on March 20. According to her, the number of reports of the death of people grew precisely in the last days before the departure of the Russian troops. ““ They transported water - they shot, ”“ cooked food in the yard - shot ”,“ saw on the street - shot ”. The Russians were very atrocious in the last days. They say that on March 25 some new rotation came in. I went in and so I went out, ”the publication quotes her (official data on whether such rotation was committed before).

The woman also said that there were “snipers” on Russian checkpoints: “When they left, they already saw these snipers in Russian military uniform. <...> The driver went out to talk. We sat in the back seat. Suddenly, a box of neighboring good fell on my head, and I inadvertently made a sharp movement with my hand to push the box back. And that sniper took up the machine gun. If I had moved a little more sharply, she would have shot me. ”