This Sunday, April 2, President Volodymyr Zelensky saluted the Ukrainian resistance against “The greatest force against humanity of our time”On the first anniversary of the discovery of the bodies of civilians killed in Bucha, a city that has become a symbol of the atrocities committed by the Russians.
Moscow, for its part, has repeatedly denied any involvement and mentioned A.S “Starting” Ukraine and its allies.
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This anniversary comes a day after Russia assumed the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council, as it confronts the Western countries that have shunned it since the start of its invasion of Ukraine.
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“Ukrainian people! You have stopped the greatest force against humanity in our time. I stopped a power that despises and wants to destroy everything that matters to people.”President Zelensky said on Telegram.
We will liberate all our lands. We will return the Ukrainian flag in all our cities and towns.supported him, while Russia still controlled more than 18% of the Ukrainian territory.
“We continue to fight for the independence of our homeland”For his part, the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Army, Valery Zalogny, noted.
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On April 2, 2022, AFP journalists saw the bodies of twenty men in civilian clothes in Buca, one of them handcuffed behind his back, as well as the bodies of charred cars and destroyed homes.
These scenes shocked the entire world, as Kyiv and Westerners repeatedly denounced summary executions of civilians and war crimes.
Since then, Bucha has become a symbol of the atrocities attributed to Moscow’s forces during their occupation of the region.
Defeat the “Russian Evil”
For the commander of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, Oleksandr Sersky, the forced withdrawal of the Russians from the Kiev region a year ago, when they were near the capital, was ‘strategic victory’ to “The foundation for successful new operations”.
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Volodymyr Zelensky was visibly upset and very touching “war crimes” it will be “Recognized by the world as genocide” After going to Bucha a year ago.
Since then, almost all foreign leaders who have visited Ukraine have made a detour to go to Bucha.
On Friday March 31, the first anniversary of Russia’s withdrawal from the Kyiv region, after unexpected Ukrainian resistance, Zelensky said he hoped to become a butcha. “symbol of justice”Swear you want to win “Russian evil”.
We will never forgivehe had supported him, promising to bring him to justice “all the culprits” Russians.
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Ukraine’s rating “more than 1400” The number of civilians who were martyred in Bucha district during the Russian occupation, including 37 children. Of them, 637 were killed in the city itself.
The forehead is frozen for months
The anniversary of the discovery of the bodies of these Ukrainian civilians on the outskirts of Kiev comes after a few weeks of rare fighting, while the front that stretches from eastern to southern Ukraine has been virtually frozen for several months.
On the outskirts of Kiev, desolation and barbarism follow the Russian retreat
Since the beginning of the year, the Russians have claimed marginal gains, especially around the city of Bakhmut (Donbass), without being able to penetrate the Ukrainian defenses, which are reinforced by Western weapons. And this, however, at the cost of huge losses, they acknowledged.
The Russian military, backed by the Wagner paramilitary group, would like to be able to declare victory on the battlefield, after several humiliating setbacks, starting with the withdrawal from the Kiev region a year ago.
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Forced withdrawals followed in the northeast and east prompting Russian President Vladimir Putin to mobilize hundreds of thousands of reservists, without reversing the fighting at this point.
On the ground, the fighting has decreased in intensity compared to the beginning of the year, although heavy clashes continue around Bakhmut.
This Sunday, Andreich Ermak, Zelensky’s chief of staff, indicated that the Russians did “heavy bombardment” in Kostiantynivka, near Bakhmut, killing at least six people and wounding eight.
