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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Daniel Boffey in Kyiv

‘It was like a movie’: recaptured Bucha recounts violence of Russian invasion

 A destroyed building is pictured in Bucha, north-west of Kyiv, on 2 April.
A destroyed building in Bucha, north-west of Kyiv, on 2 April. Photograph: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images

It was, said Taras Schevchenko, like a scene from a film.

At 6am on the morning of 24 February, from the vantage point of the kitchen window of his fifth-storey apartment overlooking Gostomel airport, on the northern outskirts of the Ukrainian town of Bucha, Schevchenko watched as about 20 Russian helicopters flew into vision, spilling paratroopers on to the tarmac below.

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