Investigators are handling 358 individual case files on residents killed in Bucha. Forty-five episodes of ill-treatment have been solved, and about ten russian servicemen have been brought to account.
These figures were given by Dmytro Shevchuk, deputy head of the war crimes investigation department of the National Police, at the film premiere, reports Radio Svoboda.
One sniper and five people killed
The film "Bucha. The Vertical of Terror" was screened in Kyiv on 8 September. It is the fourth investigation by journalist Dmytro Dzhulai into the mass killings of civilians in Bucha in the spring of 2022.
At the centre of the film is Artem Dementiev, a reconnaissance sniper of the 234th air assault regiment from Pskov. He is suspected of killing at least five residents of Bucha, as well as of torture and cruel treatment of civilians.
Photo: Radio SvobodaWhy the figures differ between sources
The report cites data from the archive department of the Bucha city council: 554 civilians killed across the community. This is not the only official figure — as of 31 March 2026 the city council together with the Kyiv regional administration named 561 civilians killed, including 12 children.
The discrepancy has a simple explanation: different sources count different territories — the town of Bucha, the Bucha community or the whole Bucha district. So the figures cannot be placed side by side as equivalent.
The premiere was attended by Radio Svoboda president Stephen Capus, vice-president Lisa Curtis, chairman of the board Stephen Rademaker and Dmytro Liubarets, a witness of the events in Bucha.
Earlier we reported that Bucha again held the "Voices of Silence" rally for the missing and the captured.
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