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David Pratt

David Pratt in Ukraine: Bucha won't forget atrocities – but knows life must go on

From left: Vitaliy Chaika, Vitaliy Mekekechko and Andriy Makarov, standing at the site of the mass grave in the grounds of Bucha's Church of St Andrew the Apostle. Photograph: David Pratt

In the latest of his dispatches from places that bore the early brunt of the Russian invasion, Foreign Editor David Pratt reports from the Ukrainian city of Bucha, where people are still coming to terms with their losses and atrocities that took place...

ALL three are young men. In fact, Vitaliy Chaika tells me that today is his 24th birthday and that once our chat is over, he’s heading off to have a celebratory barbecue and some beers.

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