Bucha

Natalia Lukyanenko watches as authorities excavate a mass grave in the grounds of the Church of Andrew the Holy Apostle in Bucha. Photograph: Anastasia Taylor-Lind/The Observer

Words not needed here but outrage and sorrow are. War crimes committed by Russia, under the orders of Putin and his commanders, require justice to be meted out. How that happens, no one knows but it must be done now.

Sometimes the dead have more to say than the living. Those lying beneath the soft, yellow earth in the grounds of the church of Andrew the Apostle, in the Ukrainian town of Bucha, have many terrible stories to tell.

Residents of Bucha looking for their loved ones wait as the mass graves are investigated. 

Photograph: Anastasia Taylor-Lind/The Observer

War is a Racket - Smedley Butler