Butja - Ukrainas Srebrenica?

Everything was in flames. One hand showed up there; another one near the basement. There were legs ripped from bodies. It was horrific,” she said. After this initial defeat, the Russians returned and captured the town on March 5. Larisa said that men dressed in black asked her son for his papers and took away their cellphones. During the entire time, the Russian troops were seeing the remnants of the attack that ended their fellow soldiers’ lives. Hatred had been running high since that morning of February 27, according to testimony from local residents.

After Russian forces withdrew in March 2022, Ukrainian authorities and international investigators (from UN, ICC, NGOs and independent experts) uncovered mass graves and bodies of civilians, many showing signs of execution, torture, and mutilation.

The killings of these non-combatants were not limited to specific areas, although the UN states there were localities where Russian troops carried out attacks on civilians with greater intensity. This was the case in Bucha, which lies within Kyiv’s metropolitan belt, 25 kilometers (15 miles) west of the capital, where corpses remained scattered in the streets after the withdrawal of Russian forces. The UN mission has documented the executions of 73 civilians in Bucha – 54 men, 16 women, two boys and a girl), and are attempting to verify a further 105 cases. Local authorities put the number of people killed in the Bucha massacre at over 400.