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Saturday, May 16, 2026

DW team finds Russian Bucha claims to be false - DW (English)

Russia rejects all accusations its troops committed war crimes in Bucha. A Kremlin spokesperson said the allegations were a "monstrous forgery." But there is mounting evidence that Russia's claims are false, as DW's fact-checking team found out.

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The images of civilians killed in Bucha have shocked the world. The Russian government and pro-Russian accounts claim they were staged and that some bodies were moving. Our DW fact check shows those are false claims.

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War crimes are violations of international humanitarian law in an armed conflict. By all accounts, civilians are being targeted in Ukraine, most recently in the streets of Bucha. However, there...



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