They gave 20 minutes to gather parts of a friend and bury him: eyewitness testimony in the Bucha massacre
The list of documented and irrefutable evidences of the mass extermination of the Ukrainian population by Russian barbarians continues to grow.
One of such evidences is the story of a 53-year-old resident of Bucha Mykola, which was posted by ABC News producer Oleksiy Pshemiskiy on his Facebook page.
The full text of his post is below:
This is Mykola. He is 53. He lives in Bucha. Mykola stutters a lot. Only after lighting a cigarette, he starts talking.
He lives in the basement for 34 days. He could have left, but the man was the manager of the five-story building. He says he couldn’t leave. On the first day of the fighting in Bucha, a shell flew into his window, punched the wall, and was stuck in a baby bed sets it on fire. Fortunately, he has already evacuated the children at the time. The fire was extinguished, and immediately, along with three friends, they have lowered all the old men and women into the basement and moved there themselves.
When the Russians captured the city, they began to break into every house. Men were taken out into the street, undressed, looking for tattoos. Two of his friends, Leonid and Serhii, were over 50, and another, also Leonid, was much younger. When they saw Leonid’s passport, they said that he is under 50, so he can fight. They knelt him down and shot him in the head.
Leonid was the first whom Mykola buries. Right in the yard. Near the transformer box. A bloodstain can still be seen at the crime scene.
A few days later, Sergei died. The man went outside to smoke and was shot. Just like that. Without any words or warnings.
When the fighting intensified, the Russians were furious, says Mykola. Before that, people sometimes came out of the basement – to cook food or just breathe air. But then they decided to close up. Closer to the evening, the soldiers started to clatter. They shouted to open it up. They wanted to shoot everyone before leaving the city. It happened in one of the houses on the next street, says the man.
Unable to break down the door, they threw a grenade on the stairs. The second Leonid held the entrance firmly from the other side. The only man who survived with Mykola. Explosion. And after it – silence.
His body was lying on bloody steps all day. Only the next day there was another knock on the door, saying that you have 20 minutes to clean everything. Then Mykola went out and saw, that the head of his friend was toured off and his legs were scattered.
Mykola collected the remains in a bag and dug a new grave. The third already. He says he couldn’t dig the ground deeply, he didn’t have much time, and the years are not the same. And so now the most worrying thing is that when it rains, the sand will wash away, and stray dogs will come.
Amid horror, pain, and death, it is probably easy to lose hope. But today Mykola is my hero. Because sees the worst in people, he did not lose his humanity. Talking to us on camera, the man could barely hold back his tears. And when the recording was over, he cried and thanked that he was just listened to.
Looking at the mass graves, where hardened hands stick out from under the sand, it is easy to lose faith in humanity, but people like Mykola return it.
…It is hard to read and see such testimonies, but we will continue to post them. The world must know about the terrible immorality of the Russian horde. No one should shirk responsibility for the deaths and suffering that Russian orcs sow on our land.
Source: Oleksiy Pshemiskiy
