Partisan Pensioners Versus Russian Tanks: Tales from Bucha One Year Later

A s Ukrainian President Zelensky toured Bucha with the prime ministers of the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Slovenia on the first anniversary of its liberation from invading Russian forces, a few citizens who defended the northwestern Kyiv suburb chatted over coffee at their rebuilt, Novus supermarket.   Volodymyr Scherbinin, 67, retired Col. Petro Mazin, 61, his wife, Olena, and Richard Hoover-Bachynsky, 65, a Canadian filmmaker who lived through Bucha’s brutal occupation, discussed the events of one year ago and solemnly remembered the hundreds of murdered people in their community.