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>> im joined now by oleksiy goncharenko, hes a member of the ukrainian parliament. i spoke with him on april 2nd 2022, after ukraine liberated bucha from russian occupation and the world discovered the atrocity that had been committed there. we met for the first time this week in real life in bucha to reflect on the horrors that took place there. its good to see you again. >> its very nice to see you. thank you for the invitation. >> president zelenskyy said something that actually you had said ...

Bucha is on the outskirts of Kyiv and is an area where war crimes were allegedly carried out by the Kremlin’s occupying forces.

In support of ukraine. one has taken place in berlin at the brandenburg gate . our correspondent jenny hill was there. here in the centre of berlin, a symbol of the brutality of this war. behind me, you can see a tank which has been brought here by demonstrators. they say it came from just outside of bucha and theyve positioned it right outside the russian embassy. its gun is pointing at the front door. theres a very sombre atmosphere here — people coming, standing, very quietly staring at the...

Jenny hill was there. here in the centre of berlin, a symbol of the brutality of this war. behind me, you can see a tank which has been brought here by demonstrators. they say it came from just outside of bucha and theyve positioned it right outside the russian embassy. its gun is pointing at the front door. theres a very sombre atmosphere here — people coming, standing, very quietly staring at the tank, taking pictures on their phones, of course, but also having their own quiet moments of ref...

Community to stand for the principles of the u.n. charter while condemning russia for war crimes. >> they have today, russias atrocities, its easy to become numb to the horror, to lose our ability to feel shock and outraged. but we can never let the crimes russia has committed become our new normal. bucha is not normal. mariupol is not normal. irpin is not normal. bombing schools and hospitals in apartment buildings to rubble is not normal. stealing ukrainian children from their families and giv...

Yaegor showed me a video of how much of his town was destroyed. this yaegor showed me a video of how much of his town was destroyed.— of his town was destroyed. this tree was filled with _ of his town was destroyed. this tree was filled with those _ of his town was destroyed. this tree was filled with those tanks, - of his town was destroyed. this tree was filled with those tanks, and - was filled with those tanks, and armoured vehicles, and all these burnt vehicles. bud armoured vehicles, and...

3.9 million people that were living there, at that moment it became that it went from missile strikes to full ground invasion. and to think that those tanks rolled through bucha, and what happened to the people of bucha, i was out this week at the home of one boucher resident, who described how the tanks got stuck on his street and he hid in the basement with eight other people, his dog and cat and essentially called the ukrainian military for help, not knowing what would happen when they came. ...

As the russian troops pulled back last spring from the area around kyiv, the evidence grew of civilian killings, a war crime. ukrainian troops entering the city of bucha found the bodies of dozens of civilians strewn along one of the main streets. a year later, theres still an enormous amount of reconstruction to be done here in bucha, and yet life is starting to return to normal. even on a street like this where the russians killed so many civilians. lets go to the pictures of what happened aft...

No, bucha is the face of russia. that is their real face, what they really think about us, their real attitude to our people. can you forgive them? no, never. never. you know... the russian people or putin? remember why we say "never again" after world war ii, after all those millions of deaths, millions of people who were in such, such bloody war. yes, never again. why do we say "never again"? because we cant... we dont want it. if there we have "never again", here well never forgive. thats tru...

To trade your values and principles and future for a pause in fighting, yes, that can be useful for saving lives. but longer term, if you have plans to exist as an independent nation, that feels unproductive and wrong. you mentioned the word justice. and if we look further ahead into the future, i would like to ask some of you how important it is to you to have some sort of justice for those whove lost loved ones in this war, lost homes, lostjobs, livelihoods, lost whole parts of their homeland,...