A convoy of destroyed Russian vehicles stretched for hundreds of metres along a narrow street with broken houses and mangled trees – this is how, after heavy fighting on 27 February 2022, the world saw Vokzalna Street in Bucha.

That Russian equipment was on its way to kill people in Kyiv. But the defenders of Bucha, with some not even having military experience or heavy weapons, joined the battle and foiled the Kremlin's plans to "capture Kyiv in three days".

Finding out how the battle in Bucha unfolded was not an easy task. The city council and territorial defence of Bucha, as well as former officers of the defence headquarters of Kyiv helped LIGA.net find those who defended it in the early days of the full-scale war and reconstruct the events.

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