The President of Ukraine visited Bucha in the Kyiv region, where the Russian occupiers staged a massacre of civilians.
Among other things, the President spoke with local residents and foreign journalists.
"It is very important for us that the press and journalists are here, and this is the most important thing. We really want you to show to the world what happened here, what the Russian military and the Russian Federation did in peaceful Ukraine. It is important for us that you see that this is a civilian population that fights for everyone, living without electricity, without water. Nevertheless, they repulsed the Russian occupiers," Zelensky said.
The President said that today the people who received humanitarian aid asked if we could help with food for stray animals.
"This is a characteristic of our people, who treat animals as people, and what you see around you, what they have done to this modern town, is a characteristic of the Russian military, who treated people worse than animals," Zelensky added.
The killing of civilians in Bucha is a war crime and it will be recognized by the world as genocide. "We know of thousands of people killed and tortured, with limbs cut off, women raped and children killed. I think this is genocide," he said.
After Bucha's release the mayor Anatoly Fedoruk reported about hundreds of killed locals. According to him, 280 people were buried in a mass grave. He also said that the bodies of murdered people, some 14 years old, were lying on the streets of the city. "All these people were shot and killed in the back of the head," said Anatoliy Fedoruk.
On Sunday, March 3, 410 bodies of killed civilians have already been removed from the Kyiv region liberated from Russian troops.
The head of British intelligence MI6 Richard Moore said that the executions of Ukrainians in the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine are not accidental - they were planned by the leader of the Russian occupiers Vladimir Putin.
Following the publication of evidence of war crimes committed by Russian troops in Bucha, Germany proposed the establishment of a tribunal to punish the perpetrators, similar to the one that existed in Yugoslavia.