Police identify over a hundred Russian soldiers who committed war crimes in Bucha, Kyiv region
Kyiv, Ukraine ( Svidomi) — The National Police of Ukraine has identified more than a thousand Russian military personnel who were in Bucha in late February 2022. More than 100 of those identified are involved in war crimes, the police press service reports.
"The information allowed us to overlay the routes of the occupiers' movement with a specific time and place, which, in turn, made it possible to identify the presence of a particular unit at the crime scene at the time of its commission. We were able to analyse the full structure of the occupiers' so-called BTGr (battalion tactical groups), their leadership structure, types and differentiation of equipment and weapons," said Ivan Dulkai, senior investigator of the National Police for particularly important cases.
The documented crimes will be handed over to the International Criminal Court.
March 31 marks the second year since Bucha was liberated from Russian occupation. In 2022, the liberation of Bucha became the first large-scale evidence of war crimes committed by Russians in Ukraine.
After the de-occupation, 422 murdered civilians were found in the city, and a total of 1,190 dead were found in the Bucha district.
The head of the criminal police, Andrii Niebytov, emphasises that the figures are not final. The number of people killed may be higher, and law enforcement officers continue to investigate the crimes.
"Our people killed by the occupiers, whose bodies were lying on the streets of Bucha, were evidence that no one in the world should stay away from this battle,"
the President of Ukraine said on the second anniversary.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that "Russia has destroyed its morality" by making "violence and hatred its ideology".
