The week the world woke up to Russian war crimes in Ukraine
Today in Focus
The Guardian
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🗓️ 8 April 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:09.0 | Photos published this week from the Ukrainian suburb Bootsia have shocked the world. |
| 0:14.0 | Today, the story of just one street, what its residents saw, and how they survived. |
| 0:20.0 | Before we start, a heads up. This episode contains graphic descriptions of war and violence that some might find distressing. |
| 0:38.0 | It was the fourth day of Vladimir Putin's war on Ukraine. Russian troops were moving on the capital, Kiev. |
| 0:44.0 | Their path took them past the house of Serhi Savenko. He lived in a suburb called Bootsia. |
| 0:51.0 | The morning of 27th February was a astonishing and ultimately murderous one for Serhi Savenko, who lives at this mother's lyrissa. |
| 1:02.0 | At number 35, Oksana Street, at 10 past 9, he watched a gased as armored vehicle after armored vehicle rolled past his house 70. |
| 1:13.0 | He counted with Russian soldiers walking alongside. |
| 1:19.0 | All of a sudden, the first missile from the Ukrainian defenders comes in and wipes out his shed. |
| 1:24.0 | Much more accurate than they're on, completely destroying the convoy of Russian armor, searingly white-hot metal thrown into the air. |
| 1:35.0 | Soldiers were cut in half by the Ukrainian artillery. |
| 1:41.0 | Then, the Russians retreated. They tried to turn their armored vehicles around in complete panic. |
| 1:46.0 | Someone failed. The Ukrainian missiles and artillery kept on draining down. Then it went quiet for a little bit. |
| 1:55.0 | The Russians came back an hour later to retrieve their dead. Retrieve what vehicles they could retrieve. |
| 2:02.0 | Then they entrenched themselves with artillery in the front gardens and some of the buildings that survived this initial onslaught. |
| 2:11.0 | And the war had started in the future. |
| 2:22.0 | Some video today, which is pretty extraordinary, which shows in a western suburb of Kiev called Bhucha, a column of Russian military vehicles, armored personnel carriers, |
| 2:36.0 | that appear to have been completely destroyed by Ukrainian forces. Now, that just gives you a sense of what a fight the Ukrainians are putting up. |
| 2:47.0 | These are the kinds of news reports that emerged about what had happened in Bhucha that morning. |
| 2:51.0 | Based on videos like this one, shop by resident of the destruction of Sir Haseveenko Street. |
| 2:57.0 | This is all Bhucha, Bhucha, Malachi, Vysil, Malachi. |
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