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The Bucha massacre ( Ukrainian: Бучанська різанина, romanized : Buchanska rizanyna; Russian: Резня в Буче, romanized : Reznya v Buche) was the mass murder of Ukrainian civilians and prisoners of war [12] by the Russian Armed Forces during the fight for and occupation of the city of Bucha as part of the Russian ...
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the Russian military and authorities have committed war crimes, such as deliberate attacks against civilian targets (including strikes on hospitals and on the energy grid); indiscriminate attacks on densely-populated areas (including with cluster bombs); abduction, torture and murder of civilians; forced deportations; sexual ...
On 29 July 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a building housing Ukrainian prisoners of war in a Russian-operated prison in Molodizhne near Olenivka, Donetsk Oblast, was destroyed, killing 53 to 62 Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) and leaving 75 to 130 wounded. The prisoners were mainly soldiers from the Azovstal complex, the last ...
The battle of Bakhmut was a major battle between the Russian Armed Forces and the Ukrainian Armed Forces for control of the city of Bakhmut, during the eastern Ukraine campaign, a theatre of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. [14] It is regarded by military analysts to be the bloodiest battle since the end of World War II.
(in Polish) The Polish Institute of National Membrance, Ewa Siemaszko, Balance of the crime (in Polish) Pictures from massacres. Association Commemorating Victims of the Crime of Ukrainian nationalists (in Ukrainian and Polish) Volhynia and Eastern Galicia 1943–1944. Documents of State Committee on Archives of Ukraine
Yaroslav Hunka ( Ukrainian: Ярослав Ількович Гунька, Polish: Jarosław Hunka; born 1925) is a Ukrainian-Canadian World War II veteran of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician) —abbreviated [a] as SS Galizien —a military formation of Nazi Germany. [b] Hunka was born in Urman, [10] Second Polish ...
Map of the Holocaust in Ukraine. Odessa ghetto marked with gold-red star. Transnistria massacres marked with red skulls. The Odessa massacre was the mass murder of the Jewish population of Odessa and surrounding towns in the Transnistria Governorate during the autumn of 1941 and the winter of 1942 while it was under Romanian control.
The Wagner Group, also known as PMC Wagner, [1] a Russian paramilitary organization [1] also described as a private military company (PMC), a network of mercenaries, [1] [2] and a de facto unit of the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) or Russia's military intelligence agency, the GRU, [3] has conducted operations in Ukraine since early 2014.