Kiev (EFE)
In a video posted this Friday on his Telegram channel, Zelenski recalled that just a year ago the Ukrainian army managed to control this city, located on the outskirts of Kiev, again, and that it had remained under Russian control for 33 days.
“Bucha and the Bucha district. 33 days of occupation. More than 1,400 deaths, including 37 children,” the president denounced in a brief message that he accompanied with a video with images of the city before it was invaded and after the Russians passed through it.
“More than 175 people were found in mass graves and torture chambers. 9,000 Russian war crimes,” Zelensky said.
He also recalled that “365 days have already passed since it is a free Ukrainian city once again. A symbol of the atrocities of the army of the occupying country. We will never forgive. We will punish all perpetrators.”
Symbol of the cruelty of war
Bucha became one of the symbols of the alleged atrocities that the Russian army committed in Ukraine after invading the country on February 24 last year.
The Ukrainian authorities and institutions and organizations from allied countries sent forensics and specialized technicians to the area to determine whether the Moscow Army committed crimes against humanity there and in other nearby towns, such as Irpín.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) last month issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin for deporting children from Ukraine to Russia, one of the war crimes attributed to Russian troops during the invasion. .
The human rights organization Human Rights Watch has claimed to have indications that the Russian Army committed possible war crimes in areas under its control in the neighboring country, including summary executions of civilians in Bucha.
Putin has rejected these accusations, calling them “falsification”.
