such an opinion is supported not only by ukrainian scientists, johns hopkins university lecturer eugene finkel, who specializes in the topic of mass violence. in april 2022 , he published a column in the washington post under the title "what is happening in ukraine is genocide." the first thing that convinced me that genocide was taking place was bucha and the killing of civilians in bucha. and since then, i think, that we see in ukraine, only strengthened these conclusions. mass killings of civilians in the kyiv region were discovered in the spring of 2022, after russian troops retreated from there. they took place in different cities and towns, but their main symbol was the butch. then the first serious statements about the genocide were made. once it was a quiet suburb of the ukrainian capital. nowadays, the town of bucha is synonymous with death. and devastation. hundreds of ukrainians died here, many apparently executed by the russian military. bodies with signs of torture, rape and execution are exhumed. some, it seems, were killed with their hands tied. russian soldiers did not c