Rewriting Bucha Russian governor promotes paratrooper’s story that flips the narrative of one of the invasion’s most documented atrocities

Rewriting Bucha Russian governor promotes paratrooper’s story that flips the narrative of one of the invasion’s most documented atrocities

In December 2022, the U.N. Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine concluded that Russian forces “summarily executed or carried out attacks on individuals” in the early weeks of their full-scale invasion, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of civilians in towns across the Kyiv, Chernihiv, and Sumy regions. In Bucha, just outside Kyiv, U.N. investigators documented the killing of 73 civilians (54 men, 16 women, and three children) and said th…