Bucha, the city in the Kiev region of Ukraine, “became one of the first cemeteries of Russian hopes to surround and enter Kyiv,” writes BBC Correspondent Jeremy Bowen in this city. On the eve of this city found the bodies of killed people in civilian clothes,
The Russian BBC Service with reference to its correspondent transfers that in two or three days after February 24, the first Russian troops entered Ukraine, the Ukrainian forces destroyed the column of Russian tanks and armored personnel carriers, moving through the city of Bucha to Kyiv.
BBC team got to Buchi, because on Friday the last Russian soldiers went away, and it was part of the fact that the Kremlin presented as a “calm and rational decision to focus on the war in the east of Ukraine,” writes Bowen.
BBC notes that unexpectedly fierce and well-organized Ukrainian resistance stopped them outside of Kyiv, and the proof is a crushed column of military equipment, which still lies there on the street.
Elite divisions of the Russian Airborne Forces drove into the city on armored machines. When the column moved through Buch to Kiev, she was on a narrow and straight road, according to Bowen, “The perfect place for ambushes.”
Eyewitnesses told that Ukrainians attacked the column by shock Turkish drones “Baikraktar”. Other people said that in the area there were also Ukrainian volunteers from territorial defense. Bowen writes that, be that as it may, the head and closing cars were shot down, and the rest were trapped.
BBC with reference to local residents notes that young soldiers flew, begging not to transmit their territorial defense.
“It seems that the Russians who were preparing to retreat from Buchi, there was no such pity. At least 20 dead men lay on the street, when Ukrainian troops entered the city. Some of them were associated with their hands behind her back. The mayor said that They buried 280 people in fraternal graves, “Bowen writes in his article.
BBC writes that the Russian Ministry of Defense did not comment on the deaths of civilians in Bucha and terrible photos published earlier on Saturday.
Several civilians who stayed in Bucha were told that they tried to avoid meeting with Russians. They prepared meals on the street, because there is no gas, light and water. Volunteers brought products from Lviv. “This is the first bread that we eat for 38 days,” the woman named Maria.