The killings in the Ukrainian town of Bucha were no random act of a rogue Russian military unit but part of a deliberate Russian campaign to commit atrocities.
An analysis of satellite images by The New York Times rebuts claims by Russia that the killing of civilians in the town of Bucha occurred after its soldiers had left the town.
UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet believes the reports on mass killings in the city of Bucha raise serious and disturbing questions about possible war crimes.
Ukrainian law enforcement officers have found a torture chamber in the basement of a children's sanatorium in Bucha where Russian troops tortured civilians.
The United Kingdom will call a United National Security Council meeting tomorrow, April 5, to discuss mass killings committed by Russian invaders in Bucha, Kyiv region.
U.S. President Joe Biden called for a trial to take place against Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin and Russian forces following reports of Russian atrocities in Bucha, and added he was looking into additional sanctions against Russia.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has invited former German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who led the nations during the 2008 Bucharest NATO summit, to visit Bucha to see what policy of concessions to Russia has led to.
Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, says an independent investigation must be conducted to hold accountable everyone complicit in mass killings of civilians in the town of Bucha outside Kyiv.
There have been many reports of the Russian forces killing civilians in Bucha, a satellite town near Kyiv. According to a local activist Oleksandr Ostapa, 57 bodies have been buried near a church in Bucha, 53 of them civilians. “They will have to be identified later,” he said.
Anatoliy Fedoruk, the mayor of Bucha, a town on the outskirts of Kyiv region, which has been the site of fierce shelling by Russian invaders over the past days, was wounded on Sunday, March 6.