‘Heart-breaking’ scenes in Bucha

‘Heart-breaking.’ That’s how our colleagues in Ukraine described what they saw in the town of Bucha when they visited recently.

In Bucha, as you will have seen on the news, mass graves have been found and the streets were seen to be littered with dead bodies.

Our colleagues visited Bucha, Hostomel, Irpin, Borodianka and other towns that lie 30–40km from the capital Kyiv.

‘What we saw there was truly heart-breaking,’ they said. ‘Things are worse in reality than they are on TV, and sadly, the situation in Borodianka is even worse than in Bucha. We saw worse devastation and greater atrocities there.

‘There is still no electricity, natural gas, or water in these towns that are just 30–40km outside our capital Kyiv, so people are cooking on fires in their yards and are truly thankful for any humanitarian aid.

‘People in these towns, for many days hiding from Russians in cellars without food, are so thankful to receive fresh loaves of bread. But, when they see that we are from the Church, they ask for Bibles. This is in spite of the fact that many of them have never had a Bible before, yet they know that this book can help.’