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Nearly 500 civilians, men, women and children, were massacred in Bucha. The harshness of the images that were disseminated, of corpses lying on the ground or riddled with bullets in cars when they tried to flee, have shocked the world and international leaders have condemned the massacre. While investigations continue to determine war crimes in Ukraine, Bucha’s neighbors try to return to normalcy.
When the kyiv forces entered the neighboring city of Bucha, in the first days of April 2022, after the withdrawal of Russian troops from the Ukrainian city, they found only death and destruction.
Rows of corpses lying on roads and sidewalks. Open graves with corpses piled up without being buried, stories of horror and torture. What happened in Bucha quickly became known to the rest of Ukraine and the world, causing enormous consternation.
Western governments strongly condemned the massacres and an investigation was opened by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to determine “war crimes” in Ukraine. Although the ICC does not have jurisdiction over Russia, since it has not ratified the Rome Statute, the Court’s founding treaty, a trial in the city of The Hague could be the solution so that these acts do not go unpunished.
The Bucha massacre and recently in Izium, (Kharkiv region), where mass graves have been found with hundreds of corpses showing signs of torture, could be considered a “war crime, but also the bombing of the Kramatorsk station, where 52 people died or the indiscriminate attack against a convoy of civilians in Zaporizhia, with more than 25 dead.
Systematic attacks on schools and hospitals and civilian infrastructure would also fall under this definition. While the investigations continue, thousands of civilian survivors of the Bucha massacres have returned to their homes and have to live every day with the painful memory of these senseless crimes.
The trauma is still very great, but little by little, Bucha’s neighbors try to recover normality. Between pain and despair, Svetlana alone raises her son Vladimir, a cerebral palsy, to whom she has told that her father “is asleep in the cemetery.”
Tetiana, another neighbor, has to live with the traumatic memory of having to see daily the corpses of 8 civilians who remained for an entire month in the backyard of her house. “The Russians were shooting in all directions, at any movement in a street or a window, at anything hot they saw in their thermal viewers,” Tetiana tells France 24, who keeps videos on her mobile that she secretly recorded during the month of Russian occupation of Bucha.
Other inhabitants must deal with the uncertainty of the disappearance of a loved one. Olexandra, 17, has not heard from her father for more than six months. She continues to wait every day for the call from the services to look for those who disappeared during the war.
Little by little, life has returned to Bucha and other suburbs of kyiv, where schools and businesses have reopened. Despite the apparent return to normality, so far, in western Ukraine, the scars of the war are so deep that it will take generations to overcome the wounds caused by the conflict.
