Bucha massacre
2022 massacre by Russian forces in Ukraine
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- Photographic and video evidence of the massacre emerged on 1 April 2022, after Russian forces withdrew from the city.
The Bucha massacre (Ukrainian: Бучанська різанина, romanised: Buchanska rizanyna; Russian: Резня в Буче, romanised: Reznya v Buche) was the mass murder of Ukrainian civilians and prisoners of war by the Russian Armed Forces during the fight for and occupation of the city of Bucha as part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Photographic and video evidence of the massacre emerged on 1 April 2022, after Russian forces withdrew from the city. Verbal reports had been emerging since early March.
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