The zReportage of the week #868: Ukraine : Unbroken by CAROL GUZY of ZUMA Press Wire. On February 24, 2022 the Russian Federation invaded Ukraine. Over last 300 days, Russian armed forces have committed multiple war crimes in the form of deliberate attacks against civilian targets, massacres of civilians, torture and rape of women, children and their pets, and indiscriminate attacks in densely populated areas. Using cluster munitions and firing explosive weapons with wide-area effects such as bombs, missiles, heavy artillery shells and multiple launch rockets. Russian damaged and destroyed scores of civilian buildings including houses, hospitals, schools, kindergartens, nuclear power plants, historic buildings, and churches. The attacks had resulted in the documented death or injury of more than 12,000 civilians including the deaths of 500 children. There is overwhelming evidence of war crimes by Russian forces and more being discovered all the time. Two of Bucha, evidence of a massacre of civilians perpetrated by Russian troops, including torture, mutilation, rape, looting and deliberate killings of civilians. the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (OHCHR) later documented the murder of at least 50 civilians, mostly men, but also women and children in Bucha, some of them summarily executed. Russian troops are guilty of sexual violence, including cases of rape, sexual assault and gang rape, and deliberate killing of Ukrainian civilians. Not limited to that, also hostage taking and arbitrary detentions, including abductions, torture and enforced disappearance, of journalists, activists, public officials and civil servants in Russian-occupied territories. The mission also expressed concern about mistreatment of prisoners of war in the conflict. War is dirt, yet this one has taken the filth to new level. WELCOME TO Ukraine : Unbroken by 4 time Pultizer Winter CAROL GUZY in-depth coverage
© Launched December 20, 2022: The zReportage of the week #868: Ukraine : Unbroken by CAROL GUZY of ZUMA Press Wire. On February 24, 2022 the Russian Federation invaded Ukraine. Over last 300 days, Russian armed forces have committed multiple war crimes in the form of deliberate attacks against civilian targets, massacres of civilians, torture and rape of women, children and their pets, and indiscriminate attacks in densely populated areas. Using cluster munitions and firing explosive weapons with wide-area effects such as bombs, missiles, heavy artillery shells and multiple launch rockets. Russian damaged and destroyed scores of civilian buildings including houses, hospitals, schools, kindergartens, nuclear power plants, historic buildings, and churches. The attacks had resulted in the documented death or injury of more than 12,000 civilians including the deaths of 500 children. There is overwhelming evidence of war crimes by Russian forces and more being discovered all the time. Two of Bucha, evidence of a massacre of civilians perpetrated by Russian troops, including torture, mutilation, rape, looting and deliberate killings of civilians. the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (OHCHR later documented the murder of at least 50 civilians, mostly men, but also women and children in Bucha, some of them summarily executed. Russian troops are guilty of sexual violence, including cases of rape, sexual assault and gang rape, and deliberate killing of Ukrainian civilians. Not limited to that, also hostage taking and arbitrary detentions, including abductions, torture and enforced disappearance, of journalists, activists, public officials and civil servants in Russian-occupied territories. The mission also expressed concern about mistreatment of prisoners of war in the conflict. War is dirt, yet this one has taken the filth to new level. WELCOME TO Ukraine : Unbroken by 4 time Pultizer Winter CAROL GUZY in-depth coverage
investigators and volunteers begin grim work of chronicling civilian deaths and assessing evidence of war crimes in Bucha. Wreckage of war and bodies lie in the streets of Bucha, recently liberated from invading Russian troops in the suburbs of Kyiv where atrocities have been reported. Over 320 bodies have been recovered.
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investigators and volunteers begin grim work of chronicling civilian deaths and assessing evidence of war crimes in Bucha. Wreckage of war and bodies lie in the streets of Bucha, recently liberated from invading Russian troops in the suburbs of Kyiv where atrocities have been reported. Over 320 bodies have been recovered.
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investigators begin the grim task of pulling bodies from a mass grave behind the Church of St. Andrew and All Saints, while assessing evidence of war crimes in Bucha. Wreckage of war and bodies littered the streets of Bucha, recently liberated from invading Russian troops in the suburbs of Kyiv where atrocities have been reported.
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investigators begin the grim work of pulling bodies from a mass grave and assessing evidence of war crimes as families gather searching for missing loved ones in Bucha. Wreckage of war and bodies littered the streets of Bucha, recently liberated from invading Russian troops in the suburbs of Kyiv where atrocities have been reported.
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Wreckage of war, destroyed home and burned out tanks lie in the streets of Irpin and Bucha, recently liberated from invading Russian troops in the suburbs of Kyiv.
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Anguished face of war, as bodies, including those that appear to be Russian soldiers burned in or near their armored vehicles in the streets of Bucha, in the suburbs of Kyiv.
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'I don't want to live with hate in my heart' said Svetlana Kostyantyn about the Russian soldiers that killed her husband as police exhume his body from a makeshift grave in their backyard in Irpin. Kostrya Kostyantyn, father of her child, love of her life. Taken away in an instant by a Russian snipers bullet as he was walking through a park to deliver food to an elderly neighbor. When his brother rushed to help, he too was gunned down. He was taken to a morgue far away in Vyshegrad for forensics since all the morgues in the vicinity were full.
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Police work with local residents and volunteer body collectors to investigate deaths during the Russian invasion in Irpin, Ukraine. The body of a Russian soldier killed by Ukrainian forces was recovered in a makeshift grave. Irpin and other towns in the suburbs of Kyiv were recently liberated from invading Russian troops where atrocities have been reported.
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A dead woman is seen in a staircase after Russian shelling at a school in the city of Kharkiv. It was believed she had just returned from evacuation and was sheltering in the school as Russian forces continue bombardment of the city in an apparent terror campaign even though Ukrainian forces have pushed them back to the outskirts.
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Man mourns a victim laying dead on street. At least four people were killed and seven injured during Russian shelling in Kharkiv.
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(EDITORS NOTE: Graphic Image depicting a death) Wreckage of war .and bodies lie in the streets of Irpin and Bucha, recently liberated from invading Russian troops in the suburbs of Kyiv.
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Dogs walk near a dead body covered with snow in a homes backyard. Three bodies were discovered in the garden of a home in Bucha, Sergei Guryanova and his brother-in-law Roman who had both been shot in the head and another unnamed civilian. Irina, the wife of Sergei and sister of Roman quietly weeps as she views their bodies. Neighbors said Sergei remained in Bucha to care for his dogs.
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Two captured Russian soldiers were brought to the hospital and distraught zoo staff helped put the injured one on a stretcher and confronted other with the reality of their grief as a result of Russian aggression after learning of the death of Dennis Selevina, a 15-year-old volunteer at Feldman Ecopark Zoo who was killed as rescuers were evacuating animals on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine on May 5, 2022. Two others were also injured by shrapnel and their vehicles destroyed. All were rushed to the hospital where the young boy died. His parents were caretakers and he frequently helped them feed animals. Staff and volunteers have been rescuing animals from the zoo through heroic efforts as it was frequently being shelled over the past months during the Russian invasion. At least five employees were killed, including two found shot to death at close range, and over 100 animals perished including some chimpanzees, orangutangs and kangaroos that died of heart failure. The animals have been moved to other zoos around the country from a transit enclosure at the Feldman house.
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Loved ones attend a funeral ceremony for activist and soldier R. Ratushnyi , 24, who was killed while fighting in the Kharkiv region during the Russian invasion, at Baikove Cemetery in Kyiv, Ukraine, yesterday on June 18, Saturday. Ratushnyi has become a symbol of revolution and mourners came wrapped in the Ukrainian flag, leaving flowers and sorrow at his gravesite.
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Sunlight filters through onto a Ukrainian Soldier who kneels to pray at Church of the Most Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Lviv, as the Russian invasion rages in their country.
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IVAN SKRYPNUK is mourned by his mother LUBA as a funeral is held for the fallen soldier killed in a Russian airstrike at a military base in Yavariv, close to the Polish border. The emotional service took place at Church of the Most Holy Apostles Peter and Paul and burial was at Lychakivske cemetery in Lviv.
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Twins SOLOMIYA and VERONICA MAKARUK, 4 years old, visit make a visit with their parents to view damages at a vehicle graveyard and around the town of Irpin, Ukraine on May 8. The family had evacuated but visited after Irpin was recently liberated from Russian forces.
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I have no tears left, said Natalia Bogdanov who was finally able to bury her husband Eugene Bogdanov in Bucha, Ukraine on May 10. Eugene was killed during the Russian invasion and the family made a heart-wrenching effort to identify his body at the cemetery a few days before when two coffins arrived for burial that had been misidentified and was not him. His body was exhumed from a makeshift grave weeks ago and they had hoped to give him a proper funeral but had to resume the search at morgues for his remains when they realized neither of the decomposing corpses was their loved one. She had already spent two months opening body bags of unidentified persons looking for him. Funerals for victims of the Russian invasion continue in Bucha, recently liberated from Russian forces in the suburbs of Kyiv where atrocities have been reported.
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OLGA says farewell to her boyfriend VOLODYMYR with a kiss at a train station in Lviv as Ukrainian soldiers head east to the front as the war with Russia continues.
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A bird gives hope as it flies by a blown out window. Residents have been living in basement bunkers as shelling continues in Pyatikhatki, a neighborhood in Kharkiv, Sunday. A strike hit approximately 800 meters from their shelters today. Ruska Lozova, a nearby town, was recently liberated from Russian forces but intermittent shelling continues. Lyubov Ivanovna Vlasenko, 70 years old, was just evacuated from there and is now staying in a bunker in this community. She questioned as she looks out her view of devastation and death, 'In the news they say that Putin is sick, but when will he die?'
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President JOE BIDEN greets Ukraine President VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY at the White House. Zelensky delivered a historic speech expressing gratitude for American support in fighting Russian aggression. 'I hope my words of respect and gratitude resonate in each American heart,' Zelensky said, adding 'Against all odds, and doom and gloom scenarios, Ukraine didn't fall. Ukraine is alive and kicking.'
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