is it fair to say from the moment you saw him you felt something special? bucha is only 30 kilometres from kyiv. a growing commuter town. and at its heart is yablunska street. on this street a glassware factory helped create a thriving community in soviet days. new flats were being built for young couples creating theirfuture in bucha. for decades, bucha had known peace. archive: nato says it s the biggest deployment of russian troops in belarus since the cold war. even when tensions started mounting on ukraine s borders, for yulia and andriy, invasion seemed far away. suddenly, the russians had landed, trying to take the capital, kyiv. elite airborne forces staged a surprise attack, just five kilometres from yablunska street. across bucha, residents sought shelter underground. they filmed what was happening, as they would throughout the unfolding crisis. natalia and her son fled west to safety, joining hundreds of thousands of ukrainians in the face of the russian advance. h
for decades, bucha had known peace. archive: nato says it s the biggest deployment of russian troops in belarus since the cold war. even when tensions started mounting on ukraine s borders, for yulia and andriy, invasion seemed far away.
natalia and her son fled west to safety, joining hundreds of thousands of ukrainians in the face of the russian advance. her husband, andriy, was to follow. across ukraine, peoplejoined the territorial defence, a reserve military unit defending neighbourhoods.
Witness testimony and videos obtained by The New York Times show how Russian paratroopers executed at least eight Ukrainian men in a Kyiv suburb on March 4, a potential war crime.