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"They found a woman who looked like my daughter, but without a head," — report

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They found a woman who looked like my daughter, but without a head, — report

Russian troops entered the territory of Kyiv Oblast on the first day of the full-scale invasion — February 24. They occupied well-off Kyiv suburbs Bucha, Irpin, Gostomel and surrounding villages. From the first days of March, the occupiers began to kill locals. Men were taken out of apartments and shot, women were raped, people who simply went outside to get water or firewood were killed, and apartments were looted. On April 1, the Ukrainian army entered Bucha. The next day the authorities started to remove the bodies from the streets. Shortly afterwards, the corpses were exhumed from mass graves dug by the Russian soldiers. One of the largest was found near the church of Andrew the Apostle. A total of 416 victims of the occupants were exhumed in the city. As of the end of April, 1,187 Ukrainians killed by Russian soldiers were found in Kyiv Oblast. 1080 of them are in Bucha district. They were all civilians. Mykhailyna Skoryk, an adviser to the head of the Irpin City Council, and a member of the council Taras Vyazovchenko, together with representatives of the Prosecutor Generalʼs Office, criminologists from France, Ukrainian police and volunteers organized the identification of the bodies. First, they described the corpses, then created database of the killed. Then they organized the collection of DNA samples from the living — those who couldnʼt find their dead relatives. Babelʼs editor-in-chief, Yevhen Spirin, volunteered at the Bucha morgue and tells how it all happened.
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