A mass burial in Bucha, Ukraine, last year after Russian troops were expelled.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/09/world/europe/nato-germany-lithuania-russia-ukraine-war.html

Amnesty International concluded that Russian forces had unlawfully killed civilians in Bucha, Andriivka, Zdvyzhivka, and Vorzel.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12872931/russian-ukrainian-swastikas-prisoners-war-crime.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

“As a Ministry, we will work closely with the National Treasury, as well as the Office of the Attorney General to evaluate the extent to which the proposed changes could affect the country’s immigration laws,” Mr. Bucha added.

Source: https://www.lusakavoice.com/2023/05/02/pan-african-housing-financier-seeks-review-of-statutory-docs/

Bucha is just outside of Kiev and was the site of some of the fiercest fighting since the Russians invaded.

Source: https://www.eastidahonews.com/2023/12/a-secret-santa-surprise-for-family-who-lost-everything-even-their-sons-accordion-when-their-home-was-destroyed-in-war/

Bucha is on the outskirts of and is an area where war crimes were allegedly carried out by the Kremlin’s occupying forces.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/bucha-kyiv-kremlin-volodymyr-zelensky-un-security-council-b2289374.html

Bucha, outside Kyiv, is the site of a mass grave that was filled with the bodies of civilians murdered by occupying Russian troops.

Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canadian-medic-ukraine-brandon-mitchell-1.6727705?cmp=rss

Bucha residents gather to mourn the death of Oleksiy Zavadskyi, a Ukrainian serviceman who died in combat on January 15 in Bakhmut, during his funeral in Bucha, Ukraine, Thursday, Jan.

Source: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jan/22/ukraines-tragic-week-shows-theres-no-safe-place-in/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS

Bucha residents gather to mourn the death of Oleksiy Zavadskyi, a Ukrainian serviceman who died in combat on January 15 in Bakhmut, during his funeral in Bucha, Ukraine, Thursday, Jan.

Source: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jan/22/ukraines-tragic-week-shows-theres-no-safe-place-in/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS

BUCHA, Ukraine — On one of the last nights of the Russian occupation of Bucha, a lone Russian soldier, drunk or high, went out looking for wine.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/31/world/europe/bucha-ukraine-killings.html

But she also didn’t imagine that Russian soldiers would systematically torture, rape, pillage, and kill civilians, as they did in Bucha, Borodyanka, and the town of Izyum, some seventy miles from Kharkiv.

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-museum-director-who-stayed-behind-to-defend-ukrainian-literature

During a visit to Bucha two days later, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky described the killings of civilians as "genocide".

Source: https://www.euronews.com/2023/03/31/ukraines-bucha-still-grieves-one-year-after-liberation

During his trip, the former prime minister visited Borodyanka and Bucha, the suburbs of the Ukrainian capital that has witnessed some of the most horrific atrocities of the war.

Source: https://www.samfordcrimson.com/boris-johnson-makes-surprise-visit-to-war-torn-ukraine-to-meet-with-president-zelenskyy-pledge-help-2023-01-23.html

Earlier Hayashi visited Bucha, the emblematic site of an alleged massacre by Russian troops, the Kyiv region administration said.

Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/09/09/ukraine-russia-war-news-elections-black-sea-strikes-live/

He the country last April, just days after the world learned about the mass killings, sexual violence and other crimes committed against civilians in the town of Bucha by the invading Russian forces.

Source: https://spectator.sme.sk/c/23152859/slovakia-heger-in-kyiv-jets-to-ukraine.html

In January, an eye-catching yurt providing free electricity, food, and tea in Bucha, Ukraine, where Ukrainian forces discovered horrific Russian war crimes when they retook the town last April.

Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/03/07/russia-colonialism-imperialism-solidarity-ukraine/

In the current hour in the German Bundestag, coalition factions have demanded that MPs want to talk about Wednesday’s massacre in the Kiev suburb of Bucha.

Source: https://columbuspost.com/ukraine-war-ticker-london-russia-wants-to-recruit-400000-new-soldiers-putin-sanctions-will-have-negative-impact-on-russia/

In this photo taken on April 2, 2022, bodies of some 20 men lie on Yablunska Street in Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, after the Russian army pulled back from the city following a failed attempt to encircle the capital.

Source: https://nypost.com/2023/02/24/ukraine-war-25-haunting-photos-show-brutality-of-russia-invasion/

Kyiv also broke off any potential for talks after the discovery of alleged Russian war crimes in Bucha, Kyiv, in March 2022.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/galleries/article-11946029/Ukraine-renews-hope-peace-talks-Russia.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

Leaders from Croatia, Slovakia and Slovenia were also in Bucha and Moldova’s President Maia Sandu said those responsible should be held accountable.

Source: https://www.kuwaittimes.com/zelensky-vows-to-defeat-russian-evil/

Now, the name Bucha is associated with the brutality of Russia’s advance and is the focus of an international war crimes investigation after hundreds of mass graves were uncovered in the wake of Russia’s retreat.

Source: https://wtop.com/russia-ukraine-war-news/2023/02/reflections-of-war-a-year-in-ukraine/