The city of Bucha as seen from a nine-story building on Yablunska street, where many of the bodies were found after the withdrawal of Russian troops. It was one of the many buildings occupied by Russian soldiers. From this window they controlled the civilian population. April 13, 2022.
The lifeless bodies of more than a dozen people lie on the road and sidewalk of Yablunska Street, in Bucha, April 2, 2022.
A chain of tanks destroyed in an offensive by the Ukrainian army on Vokzalna Street, in Bucha. On Saturday, April 2, Ukrainian soldiers walked among the remains of Russian tanks, photographing and inspecting them. Many of the houses around the tanks were destroyed.
Ammunition recovered by Ukrainian security forces from abandoned Russian tanks on a road leading to the town of Bucha, April 1, 2022.
Olga, 80, walks among the lifeless bodies of eight men who were executed in early March outside a building which served as the headquarters to Russian troops in Bucha. April 2, 2022. Some of the men were found handcuffed. Olga and her husband Mykokla, 85, survived the month under Russian occupation while locked up in their house near this building.
The lifeless body of Andriy, 32, lies on the ground, handcuffed and next to the bodies of 7 other men, at the building used by the Russian troops as headquarters during the occupation in Bucha, Ukraine. In the following pictures, taken on April 11, Andriy's father, girlfriend and other relatives attend his burial at cemetery number 3, in Bucha. The father, also called Andriy, told me his son had moved to kyiv but in the first days of war he went back to the family house in Bucha. When Russians troops arrived, Andriy and others hid in a basement but the Russians found them and took them prisoner. They were executed on March 4, Andry's father said: his son, he said, was shot directly in the forehead.
A car, with the letter "V" identifying the Russian army, remains wrecked and abandoned on a street in Bucha, Ukraine, on April 3, 2022.
Vasyl holds his dog, Muhtar, while assessing the dismantled streets of Bucha after the withdrawal of Russian troops, on April 3, 2022.
A partially destroyed bus remains abandoned in the middle of a street in Bucha, Ukraine, April 9, 2022.
On Sunday, April 3, soldiers from the Ukrainian Army and volunteers from the so-called Territorial Defense Forces carried out a food distribution. By this point, survivors had begun hesitantly emerging from their homes. Many were elderly residents but there were also some children.
The lifeless body of a woman lies in the courtyard of a house on Yablunska Street, in Bucha, Ukraine, on April 2, 2022.
Ruslana, 10, holds a deactivated grenade outside her home in Bucha, Ukraine, on April 10. She and the rest of her family lived through the month of occupation, locked down in their house.
A destroyed Russian vehicle on the road connecting the towns of Dmytrivka and Bucha, on April 1, 2022.
The corpse of a man with rope tied around his ankles lies next to train tracks in Bucha, Ukraine, after the withdrawal of the Russian troops. April 6, 2022.
A woman in her 30s, killed in Bucha during the Russian occupation, was found half-naked -she was just wearing a coat- in the basement of a house that had been occupied by Russian soldiers.
A hand seen buried in a mass grave in Bucha, on April 6, 2022.
The exhumation of bodies from a mass grave next to the church of Saint Andrew, in Bucha, April 10, 2022. The mass grave was dug at the beginning of March. It was when cemetery workers, authorized by Russian troops, brought unidentified bodies during the weeks of occupation.
Valeriy, with the help of his son Andriy, their relatives, friends and police officers dig up a coffin which holds the body of his eldest son, Oleksiy, who was shot dead in the center of Bucha on March 12. Oleksiy didn't return home after visiting someone who was going to be evacuated. His father and brother couldn't go beyond the surroundings of the house to search for him due to the presence of Russian troops. It was the next day that Valeriy found the body of his son on the street in the center of the city. After giving him a temporary burial in the garden Valeriy had to dig up Oleksiy’s body on April 8, to transfer him to a morgue for an autopsy, before being cremated.
Bodies collected from the streets and houses of Bucha were brought to Cemetery Number 3 for registration before being transferred to morgues where they were identified and autopsied, April 12, 2022.
The bodies of six elderly people were found at a nursing home after the withdrawal of the Russian troops. One of the bodies was identified as Valentina, 82. On April 12, her son, Anatoliy, attended his mother's burial, at the Cemetery Number 3 in Bucha. He said the elders were not abandoned by their carers during the occupation, but due to the lack of electricity, water, gas and medicines, and given their precarious health, they gradually died.
