Bucha

Black, gray, blue and yellow illustration of Russian war

Holding Russia accountable for war crimes

Conflict & Justice

In wartime, it is rare that people are held accountable for the crimes they commit. Sometimes justice takes decades, or it never comes. But cell phones and city surveillance videos mean that atrocities can be caught on cameras. Dina Temple-Raston, the host of the podcast, “Click Here,” reports that Ukrainian officials are working with the International Criminal Court to collect the data and file cases so those who commit war crimes don’t go free.

Buildings on Central Street in Borodyanka, a Kyiv suburb, were directly struck by Russian missiles.

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Ukraine
Funeral workers burry a coffin with an unidentified civilian body, who died in Bucha during the Russian occupation period in February-March 2022, during a funeral in Bucha, Ukraine

Digital clues and the stories Ukraine’s mass graves tell

Conflict & Justice
mass grave with bodies

‘They were shooting and shooting and shooting’: Ukrainian survivor shares harrowing account of atrocities in Bucha

Ukraine
People cook on an open fire outside an apartment building which had no electricity, water or gas since the beginning of the Russian invasion in Bucha, UkraineVadim Ghirda/AP

Russia faces growing outrage amid new evidence of atrocities

Ukraine
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