Bucha, a city in Ukraine where civilians were massacred under Russian occupation in the early days of the invasion, is seeking to build ties with the atomic-bombed city of Hiroshima in western Japan to learn from its experiences of recovery, officials from both cities say.
The family of Sadako Sasaki, who died of radiation poisoning in 1955, wants her paper cranes recognized by UNESCO as a significant symbol of the horrors.
As city pays homage to the victims of the 1945 nuclear bombing, the memories are being preserved by the next generation. Survivors tell stories to “successors”.