American Volunteer at Bucha Morgue -2

war story

Bucha, Ukraine - Apr 15, 2024

American Volunteer at Bucha Morgue -2

This is about

Darrell Patrick Loveless

By Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group

Bucha, Ukraine,
Apr 15, 2024

ai—written by team of Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (KHPG) at the Tribunal for Putin (T4P) based on interviews with Darrell
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aiCHAPTER 2

aiI was in Bucha for over a month as an American volunteer. We worked 12-14 hours a day to determine how people were murdered, what type of ammunition was used, etc.

aiMost victims I saw were women, elderly people, and children. We saw very few men of military age. It was terrible. There was no reason to kill these people.

aiMost wounds were from gunshot to the head. Their injuries indicated that they had been executed. These were not cases of people accidentally getting hurt on the street from soldiers fighting. These were murders and torture — lots of injuries on the body. People were burned alive. People were destroyed as if doused with gasoline and set on fire.

These were murders and torture — lots of injuries on the body. People were burned alive.

aiFrom conversations with technicians who worked in the gendarmerie, I know they took samples from the remains of explosives to determine what kind of explosive it was and where it was made. This was done to establish whether shrapnel seized from the bodies of the dead was produced in Russia — Russian ammunition of Russian soldiers.

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ai...A year has passed. I still see these people in my dreams.
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aiProbably the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do in my life was helping family members get into a refrigerated truck so they could inspect the body bags and determine where their loved ones were.

aiAnd mass graves. It was unbearable. It’s been a year, but I still feel the pain. This changed me forever.

aiThe material was produced by: video recording: Andrii Didenko, video editing: Denys Volokha, captions: Tanya Karliychuk and Mariia Krykunenko, text version: Emilya Prytkina.