Satellite Images and Eyewitness Accounts Reveal Bucha Atrocities
New satellite imagery from Bucha shows bodies lying in the streets nearly two weeks after Russian troops withdrew from the town.
The images depict what seem to be bodies in the same positions where Ukrainian soldiers later discovered corpses upon retaking Bucha, located north of Kyiv.
Firsthand Accounts of Bucha Killings
“Dead people have been found in barrels, basements, strangled, tortured,” said President Zelenskyy, urging Russia to come to the negotiation table to end the war.
Ukrainian officials claim 410 bodies of civilians were found in areas near Kyiv recently reclaimed from Russian forces. Journalists from the Associated Press counted an additional 21 bodies, including a group of nine in civilian clothes who appeared to have been shot at close range.
The atrocities committed by Russian forces in Bucha have triggered global condemnation, with world leaders accusing President Putin of war crimes.
World Leaders Condemn Bucha Massacre
US President Joe Biden condemned the killings in Bucha and accused Russian forces of committing “genocide.” President Biden blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for attempting to “wipe out the idea” of a Ukrainian identity.
Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki echoed President Biden’s comments, stating that the atrocities in Bucha and other Ukrainian towns near Kyiv “must be called acts of genocide and be dealt with as such.”
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson remarked that the killings do not “look far short of genocide.”
