is it fair to say from the moment you saw him you felt something special? bucha is only 30 kilometres from kyiv. a growing commuter town. and at its heart is yablunska street. on this street a glassware factory helped create a thriving community in soviet days. new flats were being built for young couples creating theirfuture in bucha. for decades, bucha had known peace. archive: nato says it s the biggest deployment of russian troops in belarus since the cold war. even when tensions started mounting on ukraine s borders, for yulia and andriy, invasion seemed far away. suddenly, the russians had landed, trying to take the capital, kyiv. elite airborne forces staged a surprise attack, just five kilometres from yablunska street. across bucha, residents sought shelter underground. they filmed what was happening, as they would throughout the unfolding crisis. natalia and her son fled west to safety, joining hundreds of thousands of ukrainians in the face of the russian advance. h
Through text messages, death certificates, social media posts, satellite imagery and personal testimony, we retraced the final moments of dozens of Ukrainians killed along one street in Bucha.
ivan says he was taken with several others to a courtyard beside the building. among them, katarina s son, denys rudenko, and olha s husband, anatoliy prykhidko.
Witness testimony and videos obtained by The New York Times show how Russian paratroopers executed at least eight Ukrainian men in a Kyiv suburb on March 4, a potential war crime.