Overview
- Ukraine issued a notice of suspicion to Yurii Vladimirovich Kim, the first commander formally named in the Bucha investigations.
- Kim, a platoon commander in Russia’s 76th Air Assault Division, is alleged to bear responsibility for 17 killings and four instances of ill-treatment in March–April 2022.
- An indictment cited by CNN says Kim ordered his troops to murder civilians between March 7 and April 1, 2022.
- Investigators, supported by Global Rights Compliance, built the case using witness testimonies, crime-scene forensics, reconstructions, identity parades, maps and open-source intelligence.
- Kim is not in Ukrainian custody and the Kremlin rejects the allegations, while Ukrainian officials report more than 450 bodies recovered in Bucha and hundreds more killed in the wider area.