What happened? The New York Times searched for evidence of the execution by russian paratroopers of eight men at 144 Yablunska Street in Bucha.
Source. This was reported by the NYT.
Details. The publishing office established the names of all the executed men and the reasons for that. Those were Anatoliy Prykhidko, Andriy Matviychuk, Andriy Verbovyi, Denys Rudenko, Andriy Dvornikov, Svyatoslav Turovskyi, Valerii Kotenko and Vitaliy Karpenko.
Surveillance footage in front of the office building at 144 Yablunska Street showed that russian paratroopers occupied Bucha around the time a group of men was executed. They drove vehicles of BMD-2, BMD-3 and BMD-4 designs, which were used almost exclusively by the Airborne Forces of the russian federation.
The paratroopers patrolled the area, conducting house searches and operating in and out of 144 Yablunska Street, a four-story office building that the russians turned into a base and field hospital.
Nearby, at 31 Yablunska Street, Ivan Skyba, a 43-year-old builder, and five other fighters had been manning a makeshift checkpoint when the russians returned. Skyba told The Times that they had a grenade, bulletproof vests and a rifle.
According to him, they were warned via radio that russians were back in Bucha and moving in their direction, that's why they hid in the house beside the checkpoint, along with the 53-year-old homeowner, Valerii Kotenko, who had been bringing the fighters tea and coffee.
Later they were joined by two more fighters, Andriy Dvornikov and Denys Rudenko. Around an hour later, russian soldiers conducting searches found the men and forced all nine of them, including the homeowner, out of the house at gunpoint. The soldiers searched the men for tattoos and made some of them remove their winter jackets and shoes. Then they walked them to the russian base at 144 Yablunska Street.
What happened next was described to Times reporters by Skyba and seven civilian witnesses whom russian forces also rounded up from neighboring houses and held in separate group yards.
The witnesses said they saw the group of captives in the parking lot in front of the russian base with shirts pulled over their heads. According to Skyba, the russian soldiers made them kneel down and then almost immediately shot down one of the men, Vitaliy Karpenko.
It is noted that one person was let go. According to the local military commander and investigators, he is currently under investigation. The document, which was reviewed by the NYT, stated that “treason” was the matter.
Skyba said that he was shot, and he fell, the bullet hit him in the side.
The bodies of the men killed in the parking lot and inside the building were taken to the yard, and together with six other victims they were laying there for almost a month.