(30 Mar 2025)
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Bucha, Ukraine – 30 March 2025
1. Wide of people during minute of silence at Bucha cemetery
2. Various of people singing Ukrainian anthem at cemetery
3. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Anatolii Fedoruk, Mayor of Bucha:
"306 defenders gave their most precious… gave their lives during the war, and today is a whole day of events in the Bucha hromada (municipality), and we begin them with the Heroes’ Alley at the central cemetery."
4. Close of lighting of lamps
5. Various of Antonina Artamonova at the graves of soldiers
6. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Antonina Artamonova, Bucha Resident:
"We gave everything we had. And now we have to give away, as they say, minerals. Let’s sign a deal, oil and gas. Well, there are different discussions at this level. And I really don’t like it. Because the world has to understand that it is the world that owes us, in fact. Because we stopped this plague, this fascism, at the cost of the lives of those who are buried here and those who are now holding the frontline there. And in fact, we are still being asked to give something more, to make a deal, instead of putting pressure on the aggressor and pointing out that it is the aggressor who is guilty, Russia is guilty. And Russia needs to be asked, and it needs to be pressured. They are putting pressure on the victim, on us. It is very unpleasant, it is very painful for us."
7. Wide of a woman and soldier at side of grave
8. Woman and child at grave
9. Wide of people walking towards church
10. Wide of people during minute of silence near church
11. Wide of choir singing a prayer
12. Mid of Ihor Lvutin and people listening to church bells
13. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Ihor Lvutin, military personnel, ex-research institute worker:
"I buried so many guys, my fighters. What did they fight for? To give away these territories? It’s written in our constitution that this is our territory. Are we supposed to dishonour our constitution? And give all this to the enemy? So I say no. By no means."
14. Woman touching memorial plaque, crying
15. Priests reading a prayer
16. Priest blessing the memorial
17. Bucha church priest, Andrii Holovin singing prayer
18. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Andrii Holovin, Bucha church priest:
“It is very important for us not just to turn the page as if it never happened, but it is very important that there is justice and punishment – not because we are so vindictive and want revenge. But in order to prevent revenge from those relatives who identified Russians, who know the phone numbers of the Russians who were here, so they do not take revenge. For these people to have peace in their hearts, it is very important that the crimes are prosecuted.”
19. Mid of memorial plaque with lower
STORYLINE:
Ukrainian officials, soldiers and residents gathered to mark three years since Ukrainian forces retook the town of Bucha.
Russian troops quickly occupied Bucha after invading Ukraine and stayed for about a month.
When Ukrainian troops retook the town, they found what became known as the epicentre of the war’s atrocities.
Mass graves of civilians were discovered and thousands of war crimes were documented after it was retaken in March 2022.
This year’s commemoration was overshadowed by political developments with many Ukrainians expressing displeasure at the state of ceasefire negotiations with Russia.
According to Ukrainian government and military analysts, Russian forces are preparing to launch a fresh military offensive in the coming weeks to maximize pressure on Kyiv and strengthen the Kremlin’s negotiating position in ceasefire talks.
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