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Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award : Santi Palacios / Revista 5W

  • L'enterrement de Valentina, 82 ans, le 12 avril 2022. La femme est décédée pendant l'occupation russe dans la maison de retraite où elle vivait. Après le retrait des troupes, les corps de six de ses résidents, dont celui de Valentina, ont été retrouvés dans l'établissement. Devant sa tombe se trouve son fils, Anatoliy. Il a dit qu'à tout moment, les travailleurs des foyers de soins essayaient de prendre soin des personnes âgées. Mais faute d'électricité, d'eau, de gaz et de médicaments, et compte tenu de l'état de santé précaire de ces personnes, elles sont décédées les unes après les autres. / The burial of 82-year-old Valentina on April 12, 2022. The woman died during the Russian occupation in the nursing home where she lived. After the withdrawal of the troops, the bodies of six of its residents, including Valentina's, were found in the facility. In front of her grave is her son, Anatoliy. He said that at all times the nursing home workers tried to take care of the elderly. But due to the lack of electricity, water, gas, and medicines, and taking into account the precarious health of these people, they gradually died. © Santi Palacios / Revista 5W

    L'enterrement de Valentina, 82 ans, le 12 avril 2022. La femme est décédée pendant l'occupation russe dans la maison de retraite où elle vivait. Après le retrait des troupes, les corps de six de ses résidents, dont celui de Valentina, ont été retrouvés dans l'établissement. Devant sa tombe se trouve son fils, Anatoliy. Il a dit qu'à tout moment, les travailleurs des foyers de soins essayaient de prendre soin des personnes âgées. Mais faute d'électricité, d'eau, de gaz et de médicaments, et compte tenu de l'état de santé précaire de ces personnes, elles sont décédées les unes après les autres. / The burial of 82-year-old Valentina on April 12, 2022. The woman died during the Russian occupation in the nursing home where she lived. After the withdrawal of the troops, the bodies of six of its residents, including Valentina's, were found in the facility. In front of her grave is her son, Anatoliy. He said that at all times the nursing home workers tried to take care of the elderly. But due to the lack of electricity, water, gas, and medicines, and taking into account the precarious health of these people, they gradually died. © Santi Palacios / Revista 5W

  • Olga, 80 ans, marche parmi les corps sans vie des hommes tués à côté du bâtiment qui servait de quartier général aux troupes russes à Bucha. C'était le 2 avril 2022 et les derniers soldats de Moscou venaient de quitter la ville. Olga a vécu le mois sous l'occupation russe avec son mari Mykokla, âgé de 85 ans, qui s'est terré dans leur maison. / Olga, 80, walks among the lifeless bodies of slain men next to the building that served as the headquarters of Russian troops in Bucha. It was April 2, 2022, and the last soldiers from Moscow had just left the city. Olga lived the month under Russian occupation with her 85-year-old husband Mykokla, who holed up in their home. © Santi Palacios / Revista 5W
  • Les corps sans vie de plus d'une douzaine de personnes gisant sur la route et le trottoir de la rue Yablunska à Bucha, le 2 avril 2022. Certains d'entre eux étaient menottés, d'autres portaient des brassards blancs et la plupart auraient été abattus. / The lifeless bodies of more than a dozen people lying on the road and sidewalk of Yablunska Street in Bucha, April 2, Some of them were handcuffed, others had white armbands and most of them were apparently shot dead. © Santi Palacios / Revista 5W
  • Valeriy pleure à côté du corps de son fils aîné, Oleksiy, abattu dans le centre de Bucha le 12 mars. Son corps, qui avait été temporairement enterré dans le jardin de sa maison, a été déterré le 8 avril pour être transféré à la morgue pour une autopsie avant d'être incinéré. L'exhumation a été suivie par Valeriy lui-même avec son autre fils, Andriy, sa famille, ses amis et des policiers. / Valeriy cries next to the body of his eldest son, Oleksiy, shot dead in the center of Bucha on March 12. His body, which had been temporarily buried in the garden of his home, was dug up on April 8 to be transferred to a morgue for an autopsy before being cremated. The disinterment was attended by Valeriy himself along with his other son, Andriy, and family, friends, and police officers. © Santi Palacios / Revista 5W
  • La ville de Bucha est vue depuis un immeuble de neuf étages de la rue Yablunska, où de nombreux cadavres laissés par les troupes russes après leur retraite ont été retrouvés. C'était l'un des nombreux bâtiments occupés par les soldats russes. De cette fenêtre, ils contrôlaient la population civile. / The city of Bucha is seen from a nine-story building on Yablunska Street, where many of the corpses left behind by Russian troops after their retreat were found. This was one of the many buildings occupied by Russian From this window, they controlled the civilian population. © Santi Palacios / Revista 5W
January 3, 2023
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The Bucha massacre, by Santi Palacios / Revista 5W
Finalist of the 26th edition of the Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award of Médicos del Mundo.

The town of Bucha, very close to Kyiv, will go down in history as one of the symbols of the atrocities perpetrated by Russian forces in the invasion of Ukraine. As the days went by, after the withdrawal of Russian soldiers from this town, taken in the initial stages of the war, details of the executions, murders, and abuses that took place during the month-long occupation emerged.

This photo essay captures the sensations and images immediately after the departure of the Russian troops and during the days and weeks that followed, documenting a scene in which the trail of war crimes is visible. The signs of violence on the corpses, the desolation of the landscape, and the shocked faces of the survivors and their testimonies spoke of a massacre whose real dimension gradually became known.

Nearly half a thousand civilians were killed in this residential locality; some 3,500 people were trapped and suffered for a month from violence and fear, bombings, and the lack of electricity, water, and heating. The International Criminal Court opened an investigation into possible war crimes. The images in this essay capture one of the darkest chapters of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Bucha, Ukraine, April 2022.

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