In Bucha, the story of one man's body left on a Russian killing field

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"There were bullet holes in his calves & his arms were stretched out at strange angles between slats of wood with nails through them. His wife looked at the thin sweater he was wearing... thinking how he must have been so cold in his final minutes."

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In Bucha, the story of one man’s body left on a Russian killing field
Interviews and other evidence show Russian soldiers slaughtered civilians by day, drank and laughed in the evenings. They saved their worst for Yablunska Street.
9:51 AM · Apr 16, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2022/bucha-atrocities-civilian-killings/

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BUCHA, Ukraine — Police found the body in an abandoned Russian military camp where occupying soldiers had sat around drinking wine, their laughter so loud that neighbors seethed as it echoed down Yablunska Street.

They had known for weeks that there was a body in the camp, yet another among so many corpses the Russians left behind. Overwhelmed crews picking them up simply hadn’t gotten to it yet. So no one knew it was Ivan Monastyrskyi.

His neighbor was the first to identify him, recognizing the unshaven face of a man who had watched his beloved street become a killing field. When his wife, Yulia, approached the body, her blue eyes froze.

There were bullet holes in his calves and his arms were stretched out at strange angles between slats of wood with nails through them. His wife looked at the thin sweater he was wearing and couldn’t help thinking how he must have been so cold in his final minutes.

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