How Russian soldiers ran a 'cleansing' operation in Bucha
It was a cold, gray morning, March 4 in Bucha, Ukraine
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It was a cold, gray morning, March 4 in Bucha, Ukraine
In Bucha, Russian soldiers hunted people on lists prepared by their intelligence services and went door to door to identify potential threats. Those who didn't pass this filtration, including volunteer fighters and civilians suspected of assisting Ukrainian troops, were tortured and executed, surveillance video, audio intercepts and interviews show.
The organized brutality would be repeated at scale in Russian-occupied territories across Ukraine
The Associated Press and the PBS series "Frontline" obtained surveillance camera footage from Bucha that shows, for the first time, what a cleansing operation in Ukraine looks like.
It was a cold, gray morning, March 4 in Bucha, Ukraine. By nightfall, at least nine men would walk to their deaths at 144 Yablunska street, the nerve center of Russian violence that would shock the world.