Psychologist: Bucha has come to represent the brutality of Russia’s war in Ukraine

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Ukrainian Natalia Zaretska is a military psychologist who specializes in trauma. The World’s Carolyn Beeler talked with Zaretska in the city of Bucha, outside of Kyiv, about what the people there went through under Russian occupation. People are recovering, but Zaretska explains that life will never be the same for those who lived through the atrocities that took place there. Max Tkachenko contributed to this report.

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