ai—written by team of Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (KHPG) at the Tribunal for Putin (T4P) based on interviews with Darrell
ai
aiCHAPTER 3

aiI am Darrell Patrick Loveless from Arkansas USA. My wife Sarah and I moved to Ukraine a few weeks ago. We want to get permanent resident status and support Ukraine in every possible way. 

aiNow I teach English at the MAUP Lyceum in Kyiv. I work with students in grades 4, 6, 10, and 11. My wife is a psychologist studying for a master’s degree. She also works online in an American firm. 

aiI feel a connection with Bucha and the local people. It is a wonderful city. We just got an apartment here.

ai
ai...It’s been a year since Bucha was deoccupied and I can still smell death and burning in the air. I have been to many places in the city and feel it. I know it’s gone, but it’s still on my mind. What I saw in Bucha in 2022 will forever remain in my memory. I have never experienced anything like it.

aiThe people who committed these crimes, the Russian soldiers who were here, must be held accountable. Vladimir Putin must be held accountable because everything depends on him. He is the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armed Forces and bears the same responsibility as those who physically committed the crimes.

aiNot many people in their lives have to work 14 hours a day identifying nameless murder victims. This should never have happened. But everything I have seen shows 100% that the Russian army killed many civilians.

aiThe Russians left clear signs everywhere of ill-treatment, torture, gunshot wounds, and mining all over including in playgrounds.

aiMany news channels and Russians say it’s fake. It’s not fake. I saw it with my own eyes. I cannot express how many corpses because I lost count. We received them every day — ordinary people. Civilians who obviously did not pose a threat, but the Russian army killed them in their own homes.

aiThe evidence was documented by the [French] National Gendarmerie and the National Police of Ukraine. They documented everything. This is murder.

ai
ai...As I said, we moved to Bucha. Why? 

aiI love Bucha. Ukrainians are the strongest people I have ever met in my life. Their strength gives me strength.

aiUkrainians work wonders on the battlefield, and I feel drawn here. I want to support the country and Bucha in every possible way: teaching English, participating in hostilities, helping with recovery, delivering medicines to the front line — all I can do to help Ukraine. That’s why I’m here. I am happy that I can be here, put down roots with my wife and make Ukraine my home. Glory to Ukraine!