the ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky visited this monday Buchaa small town about 50 kilometers from Kyiv recently recovered by the Ukrainian troops and where the Russian army is accused of having committed a “slaughter” against the civilian population. “You see what happens every day when our fighters go in and take back territories”, declared Zelensky to media, including AFPdressed in a bulletproof vest and accompanied by Ukrainian soldiers, on a street in the city devastated by the fighting.
Zelensky spoke to the press during a visit to this city recovered from the occupying Russian troops. “They are war crimes and will be recognized as genocide”, he declared. The Ukrainian president mentioned “thousands of people killed and tortured, with limbs cut off, women raped and children killed”.
Ukraine accuses the Russian army, which invaded the country, of committing a “massacre” in Bucha, northwest of kyiv. The Russian army occupied Bucha since February 27 and for more than a month, the town was inaccessible. On Saturday, the AFP saw the bodies of at least 22 people in civilian clothes on the streets of Bucha, including bodies next to a bicycle or with shopping bags next to them. They also saw a corpse with hands tied behind their backs.
The cause of death could not be immediately determined, although two people had a large head wound. According to the mayor of the city, Anatoly Fedorukabout 300 people were buried in “mass graves” to Bucha. The images published from Bucha provoked a wave of international condemnation, accompanied by promises of new sanctions against Russia.
While, Moscow denies killing civilians in Bucha despite the evidence that travels the planet. The Kremlin assured that the experts of the Russian Ministry of Defense discovered signs of “video fakes”. Yesterday, one of them had said that a corpse was moving: later it was discovered that it was the light reflection of a vehicle.
Bucha’s crimes
The killings of civilians in Bucha by Putin’s forces cast further doubt on the nature of Russia’s military modernization, revealing “a failure of leadership at all levels” and will backfire on Vladimir Putin’s plansassured this Monday the magazine The Economist in an extensive chronicle on the massacre.
“For weeks of fighting, Russian troops in the territory around kyiv have been hit by Ukrainian forces. As they withdrew from farms and emerging suburbs like Bucha and Irpin, they left behind the remains of tanks and armored vehicles, as well as loot they couldn’t take with them. But the Russians also left behind evidence of summary executions and random killings, war crimes on a terrible scale.”wrote the influential British publication.
According The Economist, the massacre, which Ukraine’s prosecutor general says left at least 410 civilians killed, evidence the backwardness of the Kremlin troopscontradicting the Russian narrative about an alleged modernization of the army.
“In the 1990s, the country’s armed forces were a post-Soviet mess, starved of resources, beset by corruption and infected by intimidation. Recruits were still stripped of dignity and abused. That was supposed to have changed after years of reform after the 2008 Russo-Georgian war. The size of the army was reduced and contained more professional soldiers,” the influential British publication wrote. “None of that supposed progress was seen on April 3 in Bucha, on the northwestern outskirts of kyiv.”
(With information from AFP and agencies).-
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