How the wounds of Russian occupation still torment Ukraine's Bucha


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Baker Yaroslav Burkivsky (left) and his colleague Viktor Kovalchuk in front of their bakery in Bucha, Ukraine. — Photos: dpa

Baker Yaroslav Burkivsky keeps his bread in one of the green ammunition boxes that Russian troops left strewn around Bucha in late March when they abandoned their advance on the Ukrainian capital Kiev.

Made of wood and about a metre long, it snugly houses a few dozen loaves, an unwelcome but practical reminder of a horrific occupation.

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Ukraine , Bucha , Russian invasion , war crimes

   

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