There is a body in the basement of the abandoned yellow home at the end of the street. The man is young, pale, a dried trickle of blood by his mouth, shot to death and left in the dark, and no one knows why the Russians brought him there, to a home that wasn't his. There is a pile of toys near the stairs. There is an empty line under a cold, gray sky. There is nothing left of normal on the blackened end of the street in Bucha, where tank treads are stripped from charred vehicles, civilian cars are crushed, and empty Russian military ration and liquor bottles are stacked next to them. In a town where death is abundant but satisfactory explanations for it are not, the man in the basement is almost unimportant. Mykola Babak pointed out the man after pondering the scene in a small courtyard nearby. There are three men laying down. A person is missing an eye. There is a bunch of yellow flowers on an old carpet. A dog is running by a wheelbarrow. The dog's body is in the wheelbarrow. It has also been shot. There is a This story is part of an ongoing investigation from The Associated Press and Frontline that includes an upcoming documentary. There is a Babak has a cigarette in one hand and a bag of cat food in the other. He says that he is very calm today. He said that at the beginning of their occupation, the Russians focused on forward progress. They went house to house looking for young men, sometimes taking documents and phones. They seemed to be tiring of Ukrainian resistance. The Russians seemed angry. They seemed to be drunk at times. They were nice the first time they visited Babak. They yelled at him and his brother-in-law when they came back. They put a grenade to the brother-in-law and threatened to pull the pin. They took an AK-47 and fired at Babak. One of them said to kill him, but another told them to leave. The Russians asked him why he was still here. Babak is 61 years old, like many who stayed in Bucha. It was difficult to leave. He thought he would be spared. The Russians accused him of being a saboteur. He spent a month without running water or electricity. He wasn't prepared for this war. Maybe the Russians were also. Babak remembers that on March 31, the Russians jumped into their vehicles and left, so quickly that they abandoned the bodies of their companions. Mykola was taking stock of the occupation. They weren't shooting anyone who stepped out of their house. They did on the next street. There is a Two dozen witnesses of the Russian occupation were encountered by The Associated Press. Most people said they saw a body. Most of the people killed were men. Many people, including the elderly, say they were threatened. The world would like to know why. Mariupol, Kharkiv, Chernihiv and nearby Irpin are some of the worst places in Ukraine. The images from this town have made them into a global consciousness. As of Wednesday, Mayor Anatoliy Fedoruk said there was a count of dead civilians. The artist helps to collect the bodies. It certainly appears to be deliberate. A senior U.S. defense official said this week that it was difficult to know what more motivation was behind this. The residents of Bucha are out in the cold and offer theories. The Russians weren't ready for an extended fight or had undisciplined fighters. Some believe the house-to-house targeting of younger men was a hunt for those who had fought the Russians in eastern Ukraine and had been given housing in the town. Discipline broke down by the end. Body parts were thrown into wells. Women in their 70s were told not to leave their houses or they would be killed. I'll burn your house, said one soldier. The Russians behaved at first, but then they got hungry. They got cold. They started to steal. They shot the screens for no reason. They were worried that there were spies in the Ukrainians. The nephew was arrested on March 7 for filming destroyed tanks with his phone. He was shot in the ear four days later. Aleksandrova and a neighbor went out to protect nearby homes from looters after they thought the Russians were gone. They were taken to a basement by the Russians. They asked us, "Which type of death do you prefer, slow or fast?" They were given 30 seconds to make a decision. Suddenly the soldiers were called away, leaving Aleksandrova and her neighbor shaken but alive. The Russians became desperate when it became clear they wouldn't be able to move on Kyiv. The soldiers were thinking about how to get out. He says that killing civilians is very easy. There is a The Associated Press journalists who contributed were: Oleksandr Stashevskyi, Felipe Dana, and Vadim Ghirda. There is a Follow the AP's coverage of the war. "This is how we survived the war, we hid in the basement, and the shelling went on," said Natalia Titova, a 62-year-old retiree, as she showed reporters the entrance to her basement. My husband, children, and my daughter-in-law were in the basement. 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Israel's defense forces released footage of nighttime raids in the West Bank, showing them searching houses and taking blindfolded men into custody. The new quarterback was the star of the scrimmage. A series of deaths at a hospital for elderly patients in Shanghai is underscoring the dangerous consequences of China's stubborn pursuit of a zero-COVID approach. The Associated Press was told by relatives of patients that multiple patients have died at the hospital. Family members have taken to social media to plead for help and answers after getting little to no information from the hospital, so they are demanding to see the video from inside the facility.Associated Press
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