Here in Ukraine, “no one can talk about anything else,” said Iuliia Mendel in The Washington Post. Every mobile phone is full of harrowing images of the dead bodies lying in the street, with their hands tied behind their backs, and of the partially buried corpses in mass graves. Every laptop carries reports of the summary executions and sexual violence, the women raped in front of their children, the bodies crushed under tanks. Before the war, Bucha, 35 miles northwest of Kyiv, was “known as a great, cosy town, an affordable option for those looking to stay close to the capital”. But following the retreat of Russian forces from Bucha, and the discovery of the horrors they perpetrated during their four-week occupation, it’s now synonymous with the murderous brutality of…
