New York Times reporters have pieced together the stories of 36 people who were murdered in Butsa on Jablunska Street or nearby streets
The New York Times has released a revealing video from their eight-month investigative investigation into the crimes of the Russian military during the March 2022 occupation of the city of Buka in the Kiev region.
Investigative journalists concluded that a significant number of murders committed intentionally. The journalists also believe that soldiers of the 234th Parachute Regiment from Pskov are involved in the atrocities in Buka.
Most dead civilians they were found on Yablunska Street. According to the newspaper, the killings on this street were deliberately committed in order to ensure and accelerate the advance of the Russian military in the direction of Kiev. According to the newspaper’s data, the Russian military searched the city for men who could theoretically belong to the territorial defense of Ukraine and executed many of them after questioning them. In some cases, victims of the Russian soldiers were bystanders.
The reporters of The New York Times, they reconstructed the stories of 36 people who were murdered in Butsa on Jablunska Street or in the adjacent streets. Many of these people died from gunshot wounds. In total, after the retreat of the Russian troops in the city were found more than 400 dead.
Earlier, journalists from the Associated Press came to the same conclusion, that most of the murders in Buka were committed intentionally.
The New York Times reporters identified the names of 22 soldiers from the battalion in question, thanks to information provided by the Ukrainian authorities from the databases of phone calls made by Buka to Russia in early March.
Two paratroopers confirmed in the newspaper that they were serving in the 234th paratrooper regiment and were in Buka. The commander of the regiment was lieutenant colonel Artyom Gorodilov, who had the code name “Uran”. After the retreat of the Russian troops from the Kiev region, Gorodilov was promoted to colonel.
The journalists’ investigation lasted 8 months, during which time they managed to interview many witnesses to the events that took place in Buka in March 2022. They also used data from wiretapping, wireless conversations and CCTV footage to reconstruct the events. .
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has taken thousands of lives and created a humanitarian crisis. It has also dealt a grievous blow to Ukrainian culture. Over 300 sites have been damaged or destroyed since the war began, a New York Times investigation shows. https://t.co/YilAg9eFmp pic.twitter.com/qvceEUHI6d
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