In the Ukrainian city of Bucha, Putin's troops massacred defenseless civilians. There are dead bodies everywhere. Burned, mutilated, buried.

Eyewitness accounts of the atrocities

Irina Abramova (48): “It was March 5. We were at home in our semi-detached house. Suddenly we heard an explosion: they destroyed half our house. Then they started shooting through the windows. 'Come out,' they called. My husband Oleg went out and said, 'Don't shoot! Here are only civilians. The soldiers said, 'hands up.' I went outside. They asked me why I was hiding. I said, 'We're scared. And you shoot. They said: 'Look, we are Russians. We have a Saint George ribbon (Russian military badge). We come to set you free.'"

Irina: "Then our house started to burn. Oleg tried to put out the fire. At that moment, they grabbed him, pulled off his sweater, pushed him to his knees and shot him in the head. Then they started to interrogate me. They asked me, "Where are the Nazis?" "I told them to kill me too. A fighter aimed his gun at me. I said, 'Kill my cat and me.' While he was still pointing the gun at me, he said he wouldn't kill women."

"They forced us to give up our phones."

A sniper shot at the people. We couldn't leave the city for a month until the Russians left. We could fetch water. There was a checkpoint in the city. They forced us to give up our cell phones. I told them: 'We have nothing left; you took everything from us." "They finally drove us out of town and said, 'Never come back!' They blamed us for the deaths of their comrades. We said: 'We are old people; what have we done to you?' They replied: 'You elected the President; you let Nazis in power. You started the Maidan protests. I wasn't there, but they blamed me for everything."

"All our belongings were burned, documents, everything we had"

They were looking for Nazis; they wanted Nazi addresses. They were wearing Saint George's ribbons; they must have been Kadyrovtsy fighters (paramilitary fighter unit from Chechnya) because they wore the letter V. We saw on their faces that they weren't Russians. Also, they spoke with an accent."

Irina Abramova next to her husband's dead body

Irina's father, Vladimir (72), says: "All our belongings were burned, documents, everything we had. They said they were Russians and came to free us. They dragged Oleg out, forced him to his knees and shot him in the head. Half of his head was shredded."