“The results of the forensic evidence we have gathered so far reveal that these were not just isolated incidents of military personnel making a mistake, but a systematic policy targeting the Ukrainian people,” Tamas Semkiv, Ukraine’s chief prosecutor over the massacre, told the AP Bucha. and PBS. Ukrainian prosecutors have named Russia’s 76th Guards Airborne Assault Division as responsible for the atrocities and are pursuing its commander, Gen. Sergei Chubarykin, and his boss, Col. Alexander Tchaiko, on war crimes charges. Bucha became a byword for Russian atrocities in Ukraine after investigators, the military and journalists first visited the town in early April, only to find mutilated corpses – some with their hands tied behind their backs – to be on the side of the road. . A visibly shaken Volodymyr Zelensky, who visited Bukha shortly after it was recaptured by Ukrainian forces, said the atrocities were proof of Russia’s genocidal plans for the entire country, accusing Russian troops of treating locals “worse than animals ».
