Kyiv/Berlin (dpa) – One year after the Russian withdrawal from Bucha, Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called for the war crimes discovered in the town to be punished. Writing on Twitter, Scholz said the atrocities showed what the war meant to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin. “The images are burned into my memory,“ Scholz said, and warned that the crimes must not remain unpunished. “That’s why we’re united behind Ukraine. Russia will not be victorious!“
Ukraine also commemorated the atrocities committed in the suburb of Kyiv shortly after Russia launched ist war of aggression. On a visit to Bucha, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy (photograph) and international visitors commemorated the victims. The invasion ordered by President Vladimir Putin had begun on 24 February 2022, but Russian troops withdrew from the area around the capital, Kyiv, some five weeks later due to a lack of progress. The massacre in the suburb of Bucha was subsequently discovered.