Tuesday, March 26

This is how the Russians killed a Ukrainian cyclist in Bucha


  • The video shows a cyclist riding down a street in Bucha, carry the bike in your hand until you reach the corner of a road occupied by Russian soldiers who do not hesitate to shoot it down from their tanks

executed at close range by Russian tanks as he walked with his bike in hand through the devastated Ukrainian city of Bucha. This is how a civilian died while the Russian army occupied this city located northwest of kyiv, according to a new video that shows the atrocities committed by Putin’s hosts in Ukraine.

The video shows a cyclist riding down a street in Bucha, carry the bike in hand and walk until you reach the corner of a road occupied by Russian soldiers perched on their tanks. Once the cyclist turns around, a Russian armored vehicle fires several high-caliber rounds. A second armored vehicle fires two rounds in the direction of the cyclist. A column of dust and smoke emerged from the place.

The video shows aerial images recorded by the Ukrainian army at the end of February, when Russian forces controlled the city. It has been independently verified by ‘The New York Times’.

Located 30 km northwest of the center of kyiv, the town was occupied by the invading army from February 27 and It was inaccessible for more than a month.

The shelling stopped on March 31 and the Ukrainian forces could not fully access until a few days ago.

During the entire month of occupation by the Russian forces, Olena, who does not want to give her last name, She took refuge with her 7 and 9-year-old children in basements without electricity. of a four-storey building of social housing, in the company of other inhabitants who stayed there.

“There was no Ukrainian army in the village, only the territorial defense, composed mainly of guards from local companies, without weapons. And then they fled” when the Russians arrived, this 43-year-old woman, talkative and with a powerful voice, explains to AFP.

“At first, there were mostly young soldiers [rusos]. Then, two weeks later, there were others. Older, they were over 40 years old. They were cruel. They mistreated everyone. and it’s then when the massacres began,” she adds before interrupting her speech, pensive and with a somber face.

Russia “categorically” denied all the accusations related to discovering numerous corpses of civilians in this municipality.

corpses on blood

According to Olena, the most seasoned men “They were very well equipped, they wore uniforms of black colors and dark green”, different from those of the regular army.

“I approached the soldiers to ask them what I should feed to my children. And they gave us rations and food. It was they who told us that it was the FSB that forbade us to move, that they were very violent special forces. It was Russians who said this about Russians.”

“Myself I saw how they shot at people. Right before my eyes, a man who was going to get food from the supermarket was shot,” he says.

Only women could go to get water or food. Men were forbidden to go outside and they had to stay home.

“Our neighbors went out to go throw the garbage. It was around 5:00 p.m., there were two men and a woman. One of the men had served in the army. They didn’t come back. They were found by some women from our building when they were looking for firewood in the patio of a house. The corpses were lying in blood on the ground, with bullet marks,” he explains.

“When the FSB agents arrived, they asked us: ‘Why haven’t you left?’ I told them that I have lived here for 43 years, with a quiet life. Go where? Then, they began to treat us as traitors because we had not marched.”

Common pits

On Monday, the bodies of five men, also with their hands tied, were found in the basement of a clinic for children, announced the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office.

According to the mayor of Bucha, Anatoly Fedoruk, 280 people were buried in recent days in “common graves” given the high number of deaths.

In the center of the municipality, on Monday you could still see a street full of a score of smashed bodies of troop transport vehicles, Russian tankers and light armored vehicles, some already rusty, amid smashed houses.

The column was probably targeted for bombing Ukrainians shortly after the arrival of the Russians in the town at the end of February.

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In the gardens, you could still see some areas with the earth and the grass removed, with shell casings scattered around, more or less lined up against each other, suggesting that artillery was installed to attack the kyiv region.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov said on Monday that there were signs of “video falsification” and “disinformation” in the images presented by the Ukrainian authorities. “Judging from what we’ve seen, we can’t trust these video images,” she said.




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