The Archival Department of the Buchan City Council has published updated data on the number of victims among the residents of the community during the Russian occupation. Official figures indicate that the tragedy has gained even larger than reported.
According to the city council, 582 people were killed in the Buchan community. Some of them were shot by the Russian military, but many deaths were the result of lack of medical care, shortage of drugs and even famine. The invaders did not allow the evacuation of the seriously wounded, deprived people of access to food, leaving them without any means of survival.
In addition to the victims, 43 bodies remain unruly. People who could be local or migrants have not yet been identified, which complicates the establishment of the final scale of the tragedy.
In addition, 38 people are considered missing. Some of them could die during the occupation and be buried in the mass graves, while others were probably deported to Russia or captive.
These new data confirm that the crimes of the Russian military in Bucha and the surrounding areas were not limited to mass murder. The invaders purposefully created conditions in which people died not only from bullets but also from a humanitarian disaster.
Bucha remains a symbol of the cruelty of the war, and these facts add new pages to the tragic chronicle of Ukrainian resistance. Ukraine continues to document Russia's crimes so that all the guilty punishment.
