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“Butcha must become a symbol of rebirth”: the strange metamorphosis of the martyred Ukrainian city

2024-02-17T12:12:16.119Z

Highlights: In April 2022, the photos taken around her home stunned the world. Oksana, 57, brandishes her index finger, and the images resurface. “These are war crimes, and they will be recognized as genocide,” predicts President Volodymyr Zelensky. Less than two years later, the massacre disappeared from this suburban landscape beaten by an icy wind. The town of Boutcha, on the outskirts of kyiv, became the symbol of Ukraine's martyrdom.


In this town on the outskirts of kyiv, the Russian occupiers had sowed death and desolation at the start of the war in Ukraine. Less


There were corpses of children here.

There, a bus riddled with bullets.

Car wrecks lay a little further away.

Oksana, 57, brandishes her index finger, and the images resurface.

His round face comes to life.

In April 2022, the photos taken around her home stunned the world.

A crossroads of horror.

Two perpendicular streets in ruins, covered with bodies, debris and an overturned bicycle, the cyclist stiffened in the saddle.

Occupied for a month by the Russian army, the town of Boutcha, on the outskirts of kyiv, became the symbol of Ukraine's martyrdom.

“These are war crimes, and they will be recognized as genocide,” predicts President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Less than two years later, the massacre disappeared from this suburban landscape beaten by an icy wind.

“Invest in a new apartment for 725 euros per square meter,” encourages a large advertising panel upstream.

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Source: leparis

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