The Archives Department of the Buchanan City Council has released updated data on the number of victims among the community's residents during the Russian occupation. Official figures indicate that the tragedy was even greater than previously reported.
According to the city council, 582 people died in the Buchanan community. Some of them were shot by Russian soldiers, but many deaths were the result of a lack of medical care, a shortage of medicines, and even hunger. The occupiers did not allow the seriously wounded to be evacuated, deprived people of access to food, leaving them without any means of survival.
In addition to the identified victims, 43 bodies remain unidentified. People who may have been local residents or displaced persons have not yet been identified, making it difficult to establish the final scale of the tragedy.
An additional 38 people are reported missing. Some of them may have died during the occupation and been buried in mass graves, while others were likely deported to Russian territory or taken prisoner.
This new data confirms that the crimes of the Russian military in Bucha and the surrounding areas were not limited to mass murders. The occupiers purposefully created conditions in which people died not only from bullets, but also from a humanitarian catastrophe.
Bucha remains a symbol of the brutality of war, and these facts add new pages to the tragic chronicle of the Ukrainian resistance. Ukraine continues to document Russia's crimes so that all those responsible will be justly punished.
