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Asharq Al-Awsat
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Ukraine Marks Grim Bucha Anniversary, Calls for Justice

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky looks on as Slovenia's Prime Minister Robert Golob delivers his speech during a commemorative event in Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, on March 31, 2023. Efrem Lukatsky, AP

Ukrainians marked the anniversary of the liberation of Bucha Friday with calls for remembrance and justice after a brutal Russian occupation that left hundreds of civilians dead in the streets and in mass graves, establishing the town near Kyiv as an epicenter of the war's atrocities.

“We will not let it be forgotten,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said at a ceremony in Bucha, vowing to punish those who committed outrages there that are still raw. “Human dignity will not let it be forgotten. On the streets of Bucha, the world has seen Russian evil. Evil unmasked.”

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