War in Ukraine. The horrors of war by Bucha

Rescuers work at the site of Friday evening's Russian drone strikes in Myla, Kyiv Region, Ukraine, August 30, 2026.

People walk past homes damaged in a Russian drone strike in Myla, Kyiv region, Ukraine, August 29, 2026.

A man looks at his vehicle, which was destroyed in a Russian drone strike, in Vyshneve, Kyiv region, Ukraine, August 28, 2026.

Men stand next to a burned car at the impact site of a Russian drone in a residential neighborhood in Vyshneve, outside Kyiv, Ukraine, April 3, 2026. (Vyshneve is a city 2 km south of Kyiv in Ukraine. It is in the Bucha Raion of Kyiv Oblast.)

People walk in front of a house which was damaged after a Russian strike on residential neighbourhood in Kriukivshchyna, Kyiv region, Ukraine, on Friday, April 3, 2026.

Damaged private houses and car at the site of a Russian drone strike in Hostomel, Kyiv Region, Ukraine, March 19, 2025.

Memorial in Bucha shows the names of 501 people who were victim to war crimes such as executions.

A cyclist rides on a bicycle past a house destroyed by shelling in Hostomel near Kyiv, on 19 March 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Matvii Sotnichenko, 4, runs near a destroyed building in Horenka, outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, March 5, 2023.

Evacuees living in container housing in Bucha brave freezing temperatures and power cuts. Ukrainian civilians who have fled Russian-occupied cities in the east, along with local Bucha residents who have lost their homes, do their best to cope with temporary modular housing. But with electricity frequently cut off, they improvise for sources of heat while their children bundle up and try to do homework before the next outage.

A plate with frozen food is seen in the apartment of Tetiana Reznychenko. Her apartment has no electricity, heating, or water and is on the fifth floor of a building destroyed by a Russian military strike in the Ukrainian village of Horenka.

Local residents shovel snow as a work of world-renowned graffiti artist Banksy is displayed on the wall (L) of a destroyed building in the Ukrainian village of Horenka, which was heavily damaged by fighting in the early days of the Russian invasion, November 19, 2022.

Kateryna Tyshchenko, accompanied by her 9-year-old half-sister Yuliia Zaika, stands outside her prefabricated accommodation which was built next to her destroyed house in the village of Moshchun near Kyiv, Ukraine, November 8, 2022.

A cat sits in the remains of the destroyed house of Vadym Zherdetsky in the village of Moshchun, outside Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Nov. 4, 2022.

Vadym Schvydchenko stands next to his truck recentely damaged by a mine on a dirt track near Makariv, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 14, 2022. The detonation of the 7.5-kilogram (16-pound) explosive charge blew Vadym Schvydchenko and his daughter's toy clean out of the cabin. The truck — and his livelihood — went up in flames.

Women clean inside a damaged building at the Vizar company military-industrial complex in Vyshneve, Ukraine, on April 15. The site, on the outskirts of Kyiv, was hit by Russian strikes. (Vyshneve is a city 2 km south of Kyiv in Ukraine. It is in the Bucha Raion of Kyiv Oblast.)

A woman walks amid destroyed Russian tanks in Bucha, in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine.

A boy looks at a destroyed Russian tank in Bucha.

Local residents ride bicycles past flattened civilian cars in the town of Bucha.