<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://api.kyivindependent.com/storage/2022/04/GettyImages-1239697377-1024x684.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-24151"/><figcaption>Burned corpses and cars are seen on the road in Kyiv Oblast on April 2, 2022. (Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>



April 4 marks 40 days of Russia's barbarous war in Ukraine. 



The extent of Russia's cruelty against Ukrainians, however, was discovered just two days ago.



On April 2, Ukrainian forces regained control of Bucha, a town northwest of Kyiv, revealing the many horrific atrocities of Russia's weeks-long occupation.



Hundreds of civilian residents were found dead on the streets, by their homes and in mass graves.&nbsp;



Following one of the darkest days of the war, one that truly shocked the Ukrainian nation and the whole world, President Volodymyr Zelensky gave the kind of address that "presidents don't usually give."



"Concentrated evil has come to our land," he said. "Murderers, butchers, rapists, looters, who call themselves an army and who deserve only to die after what they have done."



Since Moscow unleashed its all-out war on Ukraine on Feb. 24, at least 1,232 civilian Ukrainians have been killed, according to the United Nations. The actual figures, however, are expected to be much higher, as casualties from front-line areas aren't counted due to a lack of data.



At least 161 children have been killed and 264 injured by Russia's war, according to Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office.



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://api.kyivindependent.com/storage/2022/04/GettyImages-1239687516-1024x712.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-23970"/><figcaption>Bodies lie on a street in Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, as Ukrainian forces retook control of the town on April 2, 2022 following weeks of Russian occupation. (AFP via Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://api.kyivindependent.com/storage/2022/03/GettyImages-1239490155-1024x682.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-22422"/><figcaption>A cyclist rides past buildings on fire following an artillery fire in Kharkiv, a regional capital in northeastern Ukraine, on March 25, 2022. (AFP/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://api.kyivindependent.com/storage/2022/04/GettyImages-1239680264-1024x682.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-24152"/><figcaption>Rescuers remove rubble from the Mykolaiv Regional State Administration building where at least 35 people were killed by a Russian cruise missile attack on April 1, 2022, in Mykolaiv, a regional capital in southern Ukraine. (The Washington Post/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://api.kyivindependent.com/storage/2022/04/GettyImages-1239719229-1024x692.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-24163"/><figcaption>A partially buried body is seen in a mass grave in the town of Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, on April 3, 2022. Hundreds of killed civilians were found in the town after Ukrainian forces retook it following weeks of Russian occupation. (AFP/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://api.kyivindependent.com/storage/2022/04/GettyImages-1239740784-1024x683.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-24144"/><figcaption>President Volodymyr Zelensky (C) walks in the town of Bucha, just northwest of Kyiv, the site of Russia's massacre of civilian residents, on April 4, 2022. (AFP/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://api.kyivindependent.com/storage/2022/04/GettyImages-1239722417-1024x683.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-24146"/><figcaption>Communal workers and volunteers build a protective structure around a monument to the poet Taras Shevchenko in Kyiv on April 3, 2022. (Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://api.kyivindependent.com/storage/2022/04/GettyImages-1239688959-1024x682.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-24150"/><figcaption>A woman hugs a volunteer fighting with the Territorial Defense Force after the Russian troop withdrawal from the Nova Basan village in Chernihiv Oblast on April 1, 2022. (Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src="https://api.kyivindependent.com/storage/2022/04/GettyImages-1389413682-1024x683.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-24145" width="840" height="560"/><figcaption>President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses the 64th Annual Grammy Awards at MGM Grand Garden Arena on April 3, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Getty Images for The Recording Academy)</figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://api.kyivindependent.com/storage/2022/04/GettyImages-1239723500-1024x688.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-24147"/><figcaption>The newlyweds, medical volunteers Nastya Gracheva and Anton Sokolov, pose for a photograph in a ruined courtyard of a shopping and business complex in central Kharkiv on April 3, 2022. (AFP/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://api.kyivindependent.com/storage/2022/04/GettyImages-1239596962-1024x669.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-24154"/><figcaption>A resident walks in front of a destroyed building in Trostyanets, Sumy Oblast, on March 29, 2022. (AFP via Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://api.kyivindependent.com/storage/2022/04/GettyImages-1239518295-1024x682.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-24156"/><figcaption>U.S. President Joe Biden kisses a child while meeting refugees of Russia's war against Ukraine at PGE Narodowy Stadium in Warsaw, Poland on March 26, 2022. (AFP/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://api.kyivindependent.com/storage/2022/04/GettyImages-1239686721-1024x682.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-24153"/><figcaption>An ostrich walks on the destroyed enclosure at an eco-park in Yasnohorodka, a village north of Kyiv on April 2, 2022. (AFP/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://api.kyivindependent.com/storage/2022/04/GettyImages-1239723348-1024x665.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-24148"/><figcaption>A young girl sits on a suitcase at a train station in Kramatorsk, Donetsk Oblast, on April 3, 2022. (AFP/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://api.kyivindependent.com/storage/2022/04/KCH_5461-1024x683.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-23949"/><figcaption>A destroyed column of Russia's military vehicles is seen on the highway near Buzova village in Kyiv Oblast on April 3, 2022. (Kostyantyn Chernichkin)</figcaption></figure>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="https://api.kyivindependent.com/storage/2022/04/GettyImages-1239613799-1024x683.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-24155"/><figcaption>The family of Ukrainian soldier Ivan Lipskiy grieves at his casket during a funeral of five Ukrainian soldiers in Odesa on March 29, 2022. Lipskiy was killed on March 18 during a Russian air strike that hit the 36th Ukrainian Naval Infantry Brigade killing more than 40 Ukrainian soldiers in Mykolaiv. (The Washington Post/Getty Images)</figcaption></figure>

April 4 marks 40 days of Russia's barbarous war in Ukraine.  The extent of Russia's cruelty against Ukrainians, however, was discovered just two days ago.On April 2, Ukrainian...

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Veronika Strashko