US EditionUkraine identifies Russian commander as suspect in Bucha killings
Yurii Vladimirovich Kim is suspected of ordering 17 killings and attempts to conceal bodies during Bucha's occupation, marking a key step toward prosecuting Russian military leadership.
- Ukraine's Office of the Prosecutor General issued a Notice of Suspicion starting a pre-trial probe with the National Police of Ukraine and Global Rights Compliance support.
- During the illegal occupation of Bucha, Yurii Vladimirovich Kim, 28, lieutenant platoon commander of the 76th Air Assault Division, allegedly ordered troops to hunt, harm and kill civilians.
- Evidence gathered — from photographs to exhumations — involved 330 victims and witnesses, plus 59 experiments, 86 photo IDs, 89 inspections, and three exhumations at Bucha crime scenes and mass graves.
- Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and Ukrainian authorities have urged the International Criminal Court to investigate after 458 bodies including nine children were recovered in Kyiv Oblast.
- Maksym Tsutskiridze, first deputy head of the National Police of Ukraine, said the investigation aims to map the chain of command and build systems guaranteeing punishment for international crimes.
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A leader of the Russian massacre in Butcha has been unmasked by Ukrainian investigators and is officially suspected of involvement in the massacre. This is the first time a Russian commander has been accused of involvement in the atrocities in the Ukrainian city.
Ukraine identifies Russian commander accused of mass murder in Bucha
By Angus Watson, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine has identified a Russian commander it accuses of “systematic and coordinated war crimes” in Bucha, near Kyiv, where hundreds of civilians were murdered during its brief occupation by Russian troops in 2022. Yurii Vladimirovich Kim, the commander of a platoon in Russia’s 76th Air Assault Division, is accused of ordering his troops to murder civilians between March 7 and April 1 2022, according to an indictment…
Ukraine identifies Russian commander accused of mass murder in Bucha
By Angus Watson, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine has identified a Russian commander it accuses of “systematic and coordinated war crimes” in Bucha, near Kyiv, where hundreds of civilians were murdered during its brief occupation by Russian troops in 2022. Yurii Vladimirovich Kim, the commander of a platoon in Russia’s 76th Air Assault Division, is accused of ordering his troops to murder civilians between March 7 and April 1 2022, according to an indictment…
Ukraine identifies Russian commander accused of mass murder in Bucha | News Channel 3-12
By Angus Watson, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine has identified a Russian commander it accuses of “systematic and coordinated war crimes” in Bucha, near Kyiv, where hundreds of civilians were murdered during its brief occupation by Russian troops in 2022. Yurii Vladimirovich Kim, the commander of a platoon in Russia’s 76th Air Assault Division, is accused of ordering his troops to murder civilians between March 7 and April 1 2022, according to an indictment…
Ukraine identifies Russian commander accused of mass murder in Bucha
By Angus Watson, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine has identified a Russian commander it accuses of “systematic and coordinated war crimes” in Bucha, near Kyiv, where hundreds of civilians were murdered during its brief occupation by Russian troops in 2022. Yurii Vladimirovich Kim, the commander of a platoon in Russia’s 76th Air Assault Division, is accused of ordering his troops to murder civilians between March 7 and April 1 2022, according to an indictment…
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