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Battle of Bucha, the Glossary

The battle of Bucha was part of the Kyiv offensive in the Russian invasion of Ukraine for control of the city of Bucha.^[1]

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Acetone

Acetone (2-propanone or dimethyl ketone) is an organic compound with the formula.

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Agence France-Presse

Agence France-Presse (AFP) is a French international news agency headquartered in Paris, France.

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Alexander Fomin

Alexander Vasilyevich Fomin (Александр Васильевич Фомин, born May 25, 1959) is a Russian Deputy Minister of Defence.

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Anatoliy Fedoruk

Anatoliy Petrovych Fedoruk (Анатолій Петрович Федорук, born 10 May 1972) is a Ukrainian politician serving as mayor of Bucha, Kyiv Region, Ukraine since 7 April 1998.

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Andriy Tsaplienko

Andriy Yuriyovych Tsaplienko (born 12 October 1968; Андрій Юрійович Цаплієнко) is a Ukrainian journalist, presenter, filmmaker and writer.

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Animal shelter

An animal shelter or pound is a place where stray, lost, abandoned or surrendered animals – mostly dogs and cats – are housed.

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Anton Gerashchenko

Anton Yuriyovych Gerashchenko (Anton Yuriyovych Herashchenko, born 10 February 1979) is a current official advisor and a former deputy minister at the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs.

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Armoured personnel carrier

An armoured personnel carrier (APC) is a broad type of armoured military vehicle designed to transport personnel and equipment in combat zones.

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Azatbek Asanbekovich Omurbekov (born 17 September 1983) is a Russian colonel who commanded the 64th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade of the Russian Ground Forces during its deployment in Ukraine, during which the unit allegedly committed war crimes in the town of Bucha.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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Bild

Bild or Bild-Zeitung is a German tabloid newspaper published by Axel Springer SE.

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Bucha massacre

The Bucha massacre (Buchanska rizanyna; Reznya v Buche) was the mass murder of Ukrainian civilians and prisoners of war by the Russian Armed Forces during the fight for and occupation of the city of Bucha as part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Battle of Bucha and Bucha massacre are Kyiv Oblast in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, March 2022 events in Ukraine and northern Ukraine campaign.

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Bucha, Ukraine

Bucha (Буча) is a city in Ukraine's Kyiv Oblast.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.

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Flag of Ukraine

The national flag of Ukraine (Derzhavnyi prapor Ukrainy) consists of equally sized horizontal bands of blue and yellow.

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Hostomel

Hostomel (Гостомель) is a rural settlement in Bucha Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine.

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Hostomel Airport

Antonov Airport (аеропорт «Антонов»), also known as Hostomel (or Gostomel) Airport (аеропорт «Гостомель»), is an international cargo airport and testing facility in Ukraine, located near Hostomel, which is a northwestern suburb of Kyiv.

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Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization headquartered in New York City that conducts research and advocacy on human rights.

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Human shield

A human shield is a non-combatant (or a group of non-combatants) who either volunteers or is forced to shield a legitimate military target in order to deter the enemy from attacking it.

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Humanitarian aid

Humanitarian aid is material and logistic assistance, usually in the short-term, to people in need.

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Institute for the Study of War

The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) is an American nonprofit research group and think tank founded in 2007 by military historian Kimberly Kagan and headquartered in Washington, D.C. ISW provides research and analysis regarding issues of defense and foreign affairs.

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Interfax-Ukraine

Interfax-Ukraine (Інтерфакс-Україна) is a Ukrainian news agency.

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Irpin

Irpin (Ірпінь) is a city on the Irpin River in Bucha Raion, Kyiv Oblast, northern Ukraine.

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Irpin (river)

The Irpin or Irpen is a river in Ukraine, a right tributary of the Dnieper River.

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Ivankiv

Ivankiv (Іванків) is a rural settlement in Vyshhorod Raion, Kyiv Oblast (province) of Ukraine.

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Kadyrovites

The 141st Special Motorized Regiment, also known as the Kadyrovites and the Akhmat special forces unit, is a paramilitary organization in Chechnya, Russia, that serves as the protection of the Head of the Chechen Republic.

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Kemerovo Oblast

Kemerovo Oblast (Kemerovskaya oblast'), also known as Kuzbass (Кузба́сс), after the Kuznetsk Basin, is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast).

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Kyiv

Kyiv (also Kiev) is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine.

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Kyiv Oblast

Kyiv Oblast (translit), also called Kyivshchyna (Київщинa), is an oblast (province) in central and northern Ukraine.

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Kyiv Oblast State Administration

The chairman of the Kyiv Oblast State Administration (Голова Київської обласної державної адміністрації, Holova Kyiv’skoi oblasnoi derzhavnoi administratsii) or unofficially governor of Kyiv Oblast (Губернатор Київської області, Hubernator Kyivs’koi oblasti), is the chairman of the executive branch of Kyiv Oblast, a province in northern Ukraine.

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Looting

Looting is the act of stealing, or the taking of goods by force, typically in the midst of a military, political, or other social crisis, such as war, natural disasters (where law and civil enforcement are temporarily ineffective), or rioting.

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Mass grave

A mass grave is a grave containing multiple human corpses, which may or may not be identified prior to burial.

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Military engineering

Military engineering is loosely defined as the art, science, and practice of designing and building military works and maintaining lines of military transport and military communications.

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Molotov cocktail

A Molotov cocktail (among several other names – see) is a hand-thrown incendiary weapon consisting of a frangible container filled with flammable substances and equipped with a fuse (typically a glass bottle filled with flammable liquids sealed with a cloth wick).

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MSN

MSN (meaning Microsoft Network) is an American web portal and related collection of Internet services and apps for Windows and mobile devices, provided by Microsoft and launched on August 24, 1995, alongside the release of Windows 95.

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National Guard of Russia

The National Guard of the Russian Federation (translit), officially known as the (lit),Official website.

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National Police of Ukraine

The National Police of Ukraine (translit,;, NPU), often simply referred to as the (label), is the national, and only, police service of Ukraine.

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Northern Ukraine campaign

The northern Ukraine campaign was a theater of operation in the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Battle of Bucha and northern Ukraine campaign are February 2022 events in Ukraine, Kyiv Oblast in the Russian invasion of Ukraine and March 2022 events in Ukraine.

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Obozrevatel

Obozrevatel (OBOZ.UA) is a Ukrainian Internet publication of socio-political orientation, created in 2001.

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Oksana Zabuzhko

Oksana Stefanivna Zabuzhko (Окса́на Стефа́нівна Забу́жко, born 19 September 1960) is a Ukrainian novelist, poet, and essayist.

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Oleksandr Pavliuk

Oleksandr Oleksiiovych Pavliuk (Ukrainian: Олександр Олексійович Павлюк; born 20 August 1970) is a Ukrainian general serving as commander of the Ukrainian Ground Forces since 11 February 2024.

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Oleksii Arestovych

Oleksii Mykolaiovych Arestovych (Олексій Миколайович Арестович; born 3 August 1975) is a Ukrainian political advisor, former military officer, and columnist. He is also a theologian and the founder of the Apeiron School. Arestovych was a speaker for the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine.

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OMON

OMON is a system of Military special police units within the Armed Forces of Russia.

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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is an American government-funded international media organization that broadcasts and reports news, information, and analyses to Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the Middle East.

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Reuters

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.

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Russian Airborne Forces

The Russian Airborne Forces (desantnye voyska Rossii, VDV) is the airborne forces branch of the Russian Armed Forces.

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Russian Armed Forces

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, commonly referred to as the Russian Armed Forces, are the military of Russia.

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Russian invasion of Ukraine

On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which started in 2014.

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Sniper

A sniper is a military/paramilitary marksman who engages targets from positions of concealment or at distances exceeding the target's detection capabilities. Snipers generally have specialized training and are equipped with telescopic sights. Modern snipers use high-precision rifles and high-magnification optics.

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SOBR

The Special Rapid Response Unit or SOBR ('Special Unit of Quick Response'), from 2002 to 2011 known as OMSN (Otryad Militsii Spetsial'nogo Naznacheniya, Special Police Unit), is a spetsnaz unit of the National Guard of Russia (Rosgvardiya).

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Soviet–Afghan War

The Soviet–Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) from 1979 to 1989. The war was a major conflict of the Cold War as it saw extensive fighting between Soviet Union, the DRA and allied paramilitary groups against the Afghan mujahideen and their allied foreign fighters.

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Special police

Special police usually describes a police force or unit within a such an agency whose duties and responsibilities are significantly different from other forces in the same country or from other personnel within the same agency, although there is no consistent international definition.

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State Special Communications Service of Ukraine

The State Special Communications Service of Ukraine (Also known as the SSSCIP, State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine), also known as Derzhspetszv'yazku (Держспецзв'язку), is a specialized executive authority of which the key functions include the provision of secure government communications, government courier service, information protection and cyber defense.

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Substation

A substation is a part of an electrical generation, transmission, and distribution system.

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Tacitus

Publius Cornelius Tacitus, known simply as Tacitus (–), was a Roman historian and politician.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Kyiv Independent

The Kyiv Independent is an English-language Ukrainian online newspaper founded in 2021 by former staff of the Kyiv Post and media consultancy Jnomics Media.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.

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The Times Literary Supplement

The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) is a weekly literary review published in London by News UK, a subsidiary of News Corp.

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The Times of Israel

The Times of Israel is an Israeli multi-language online newspaper that was launched in 2012.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Aquinas (Aquino; – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar and priest, an influential philosopher and theologian, and a jurist in the tradition of scholasticism from the county of Aquino in the Kingdom of Sicily.

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Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.

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Ukrainian Ground Forces

The Ukrainian Ground Forces (SVZSU, Сухопутні війська Збройнихсил України), also referred to as the Ukrainian army, are the land forces of Ukraine and one of the eight branches of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

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Ukrainian resistance in Russian-occupied Ukraine

During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia occupied vast portions of the territory of Ukraine, having already occupied parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts as well as the entire Autonomous Republic of Crimea since the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war in 2014.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

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War crime

A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostages, unnecessarily destroying civilian property, deception by perfidy, wartime sexual violence, pillaging, and for any individual that is part of the command structure who orders any attempt to committing mass killings including genocide or ethnic cleansing, the granting of no quarter despite surrender, the conscription of children in the military and flouting the legal distinctions of proportionality and military necessity.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bucha

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Battles of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022

Kyiv Oblast in the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Northern Ukraine campaign

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