Footage of the 2022 Bucha Mass Grave Disseminated with a Manipulative Description

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On March 27, a Russian-language Facebook account shared footage of a mass burial. The description of the video states that people in Ukraine are banned in this way so that they don’t have to pay money to their family members.

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The footage is distributed manipulatively. The video was actually shot in March 2022, when intense Russian bombardment in Bucha and Irpin killed dozens of civilians, and since the victims could not be identified, they had to be buried in this manner.

In March 2022, dozens of civilians were killed in Mariupol, Bucha, and Irpin as a result of intense Russian bombardment. In 2022, Andriy Levkivsky, a doctor working in Irpin, published photos of the mass grave on Facebook. Doctors buried the victims who were taken to Irpin Hospital.

“And now about not nice: 67 civilians were buried in a mass grave in the territory of the city church in Bucha. The dead could not be identified. You say there is no war? – wrote Andriy Levkivsky in 2022.

Source: Andriy Levkivsky’s Facebook page 

The BBC article notes that most of these cities were then controlled by the Russians, also the dead could not be identified, so it was necessary to bury the victims in mass graves. The published footage shows one such grave.

The BBC was told at the hospital that a “ritual service” was held before the funeral. Not all victims could be identified, and no one knew exactly where their relatives were.

Source: BBC

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Facebook account Ирина Илларионова regularly publishes posts of anti-Ukrainian content and has disseminated disinformation as well.


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Topic: Politics
Country: Ukraine
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