A woman in Bukha said Russian soldiers claiming to be liberators had shot her husband before her. Iryna Abramov said in interviews that the troops dragged her husband, Oleg, into the street on March 5. Russia is accused of killing 300 civilians in Bucharest, accusing it of war crimes.
A resident of the Ukrainian city of Bukha, on the outskirts of Kiev, said that Russian soldiers came to her house declaring that they were liberators and then killed her husband in front of her. After being controlled by Russian forces for weeks, Bukha was recently recaptured from Ukraine, with authorities later saying that Russian troops had killed more than 300 civilians while they were there. In a video interview released by the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture and in a separate interview with the BBC, Bucha resident Iryna Abramov said Russian troops stormed her home on March 5 and dragged her husband, Oleg, into the street. “They did not ask or say anything, they just killed him,” he told the BBC. “They only told him to take off his shirt, to kneel and they shot him.” According to a translation of the interview posted on social media, Abramov said that the Russian troops had first told them: “We are the liberators. We have come to liberate you.” Abramov told the BBC that after Oleg was shot, soldiers told her and her 72-year-old father, Volodymyr, that they had three minutes to leave the house, meaning they had to leave Oleg’s body on the street. He said the body had been on the road for a month while they had taken refuge nearby, before Ukrainian forces picked it up and removed it, the BBC reported. Volodymyr Abramov told the BBC he did not know the whereabouts of his son-in-law. Iryna Abramov said her husband’s blood was still stained on the street where he was killed, the BBC reported. Following reports and images of corpses in Bucharest, both Ukraine and US President Joe Biden have named Russian President Vladimir Putin a war criminal and the United States has called for Russia’s suspension from the UN Human Rights Council. The story goes on Russia says the images of the dead were made to depict Russian troops as evil. Insider’s Tom Porter has published a timeline that undermines this claim. Speaking from Bhutan on Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said there could be worse war crimes that have not yet been discovered as Ukrainian forces reclaim territory in the north of the country. “There are already reports that the death toll could be even higher in Borodyanka and some other liberated cities near Kyiv,” he said. Read the original article in Business Insider
