Ukraine's military intelligence claims to have killed three Russian soldiers accused of carrying out some of the worst atrocities of the war in Bucha in 2022 in a dramatic revenge attack timed to coincide with the country's Independence Day.
The men, branded among Putin's 'Bucha Butchers', were blown up in a targeted air strike in the Russian-occupied Luhansk region.
Two more were said to have been left seriously wounded in the explosion, according to Ukraine's GUR intelligence directorate.
Bucha - a quiet commuter town just outside of Kyiv - became a byword for Russian barbarism in 2022, when retreating Kremlin troops left behind mass graves and streets littered with bodies.
Civilians were executed in cold blood, tortured, mutilated and raped as Moscow's soldiers unleashed a reign of terror during their failed assault on the capital.
