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Ukraine identifies first suspect in the ‘Bucha massacre.’

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Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova said on May 2 that authorities had identified the first Russian suspected of conducting the massacre of civilians in Bucha – Sergey Kolotsey, commander of a Russian National Guard unit. The Bucha police and prosecutors established that Kolotsey killed four unarmed men on March 18 and tortured another civilian on March 29.

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The Kyiv Independent staff documented what it feels like to live and sleep in Kyiv, Ukraine, as Russia intensifies its drone and missile attacks on the city. Filmed over several weeks in June and July, our journalists take shelter in bathrooms, basements, and parking garages as explosions ring out overhead.

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