Claims of war crimes in the Ukraine city mount up as residents tell of a month of fear

It was, said Taras Schevchenko, like a scene from a film.

At 6am on the morning of 24 February, from the vantage point of the kitchen window of his fifth storey apartment overlooking Gostomel airport, on the northern outskirts of the Ukrainian town of Bucha, Schevchenko watched as around 20 Russian helicopters flew into vision, spilling paratroopers onto the tarmac below.

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