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Bucha, Ukraine - Apr 13, 2024

American Volunteer at Bucha Morgue -1

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Darrell Patrick Loveless

By Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group

Bucha, Ukraine, Apr 13, 2024

aiCHAPTER 1
aiI am Darrell Patrick Loveless
from Arkansas, USA. Last year
I was here in Bucha in April,
right after the Russians left
the city. I worked in the
morgue with the Ukrainian
police and the criminal
investigation department of
the French Gendarmerie and
saw with my own eyes the
atrocities committed by the
Russians. It was tough.
aiMy job was to pick up
unidentified bodies from
trucks as they arrived. We
carried them to a tent where
French and Ukrainian doctors
performed autopsies.
aiI saw with my own eyes the
damage caused by the
Russian soldiers who occupied
the city, and the variety of
ways they killed and tortured
people — traces of ropes on
bound hands, gunshot and
shrapnel wounds. The
Russians laid many mines
everywhere: in children’s
parks, churches, on the streets
where people walked, all
places they could harm
someone.

As a US veteran I've seen
victims of war, everything
happening in war. But this
was unlike anything I had
ever experienced.

aiThe bodies of hundreds of
people ended up in the
morgue. It was grueling. There
were families there.
ai
aiMany people could not be
identified: they had been
outdoors for so long that no
one could recognize them. The
French team brought their
DNA specialists. They took
samples from people to find
out who they were. We
received about 14 bodies per
day, plus 200‑300 bodies that
were already stored in
refrigerator trucks.
aiPeople were killed and
buried in their gardens. We
saw these burial places. I
spoke with several family
members. Liudmyla’s husband
was shot dead by a Russian
sniper simply for going into
the street. It was terrible. It
was probably the most
challenging thing I have ever
had to do.
aiAs a US veteran I've seen
victims of war, its
consequences, and everything
happening in war. But this was
unlike anything I had ever
experienced. Such a huge
number of people were killed.
It was murder.
ai—text version: Emilya
Prytkina
ai— video recording: Andrii
Didenko, video editing: Denys
Volokha, captions: Tanya
Karliychuk and Mariia
Krykunenko

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Darrell Patrick Loveless in Bucha

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