The terrible images that come from Bucha They’ve been all over the world: it’s impossible not to feel a sense of despair at the dead bodies of children, the civilians on the ground after what many brand as a genuine war crime. One cannot remain indifferent and insensitive in the face of such gruesome photos, which, however, reflect the tragic reality that afflicted the Ukrainian city. And to think that there are people who had to do a terrible job. As well as Sergei Matukwho was forced for days to collect the bodies left on the street.
The common grave
Bodies pulled from the common grave over the days. There a tragedy took place with grisly outlines. Sergey Matuk, head of the city cemetery, said he received orders from Russian officials to salvage the cemetery corpses on the street and laid them in the common grave. The total number is about 300 people, of whom almost 240 are buried in the mass grave “because it was fought over and we didn’t have access to the cemeteries”.
The majority consisted of men “killed by balls fired by Russian soldiers at close range. Fingers are obviously being pointed at the Russians, who are accused of preventing the population from attending to the victims being collected, partly because they began to decompose and the danger of the spread of disease became more and more real.
abuse and torture
“They told me I had to work alone, but I hired two of my helpers,” Sergey Matuk told Corriere della Sera. So, with lots of rubber gloves and masks, they started patrolling the city. In this case, too, the story is chilling: the streets were deserted thanks to the fact that “the Russians were not only prevented from going out, but also helped.” Therefore, rescuing the wounded, rescuing someone under the rubble, or recovering the corpses is forbidden.
None of them. Someone says that the Russians didn’t worry and acted without making who knows what differences between children and adults, between men and women. Sergey Matuk emphatically repeats that anyone who tried to get through the door of her house “became a legitimate target in her eyes.” The “obvious traces of abuse and torture” as well as headshots and “hands tied behind the back” also caused a sensation.
The Bucha investigation
in the last few hours prosecutors and forensic teams began examining every single body found lifeless in Bucha. This was reported by Iryna Venediktova, Prosecutor General of Kyiv: at the moment, 100 pages of data on the invaders “who occupied Bucha have already been collected; The task is to identify everyone “involved in the massacre”. The pouring rain had prevented the searches and the search exhumation of the bodies could be continued: Currently 185 bodies have been recovered.