Mayor of Bucha: In a week we will begin to return to normal life

KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO — TUESDAY, 5 APRIL 2022, 18:47

Mayor of Bucha Anatoliy Fedoruk believes that the city will be able to start returning to normal life in a week.

Source: Fedoruk, on air

Quote: When asked when Bucha residents will be able to return home, Fedoruk replied, "Today – after 7 April,  specialists, doctors, public utilities, who provided this city and our villages with its livelihood, may return.

I hope that in a week we will be able to slowly return to  life. In the conditions that already exist. We are working to restore water and gas supply."normal

Details: The mayor added that authorities do not recommend that civilians return to the city, but urged professionals who were necessary to the functioning of the community to return.

He said that there are currently almost 3,700 civilians in Bucha.

"Almost all networks that came to Bucha, Irpin, Vorzel, were destroyed by the aggressor. We are working in the city to check out internal networks. And we think that 60 percent of the internal network has survived, and there is hope that as soon as the main power supply is provided, the city will have electricity, " Fedoruk said.

He also assured residents that law enforcement officers were patrolling the city's streets to prevent looting.

"I can assure you and the homeowners that the National Police and the Territorial Defence Battalion provide constant patrols and work hard to prevent looting," he said, adding that "those who survived the occupation would not permit themselves to walk in other people's homes. "

Background: 

On 1 April, Bucha was liberated from Russian occupying forces. On 2 April, the mayor of Bucha, Anatoliy Fedoruk, announced that nearly 300 citizens had been buried in mass graves, and that dozens of corpses had been found in the streets, some with their hands tied. As of the morning of 4 April, 330-340 civilians killed by Russians in Bucha had been buried.

On 3 April, the Prosecutor General reported that the bodies of 410 civilians killed in the region during the Russian occupation were being taken for examination by forensic experts.

The Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine has published a list of Russian soldiers involved in the atrocities in Bucha.