How Can Anyone Believe Putin? #217 By Hank Silverberg The news from Ukraine has gotten worse this week. The Russians continued their murderous missile and air strikes on Ukrainian cities even as their army was pushed back out of several Ukrainian towns. Military casualties are mounting on both sides. (A street in Bucha, Ukraine Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images) But it was the bodies of dead civilians in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha which showed us the worst of this war. Civilians had been executed and left lying in the streets, some of them with their hands tied behind their back. And the city's Mayor, Anatoly Fedoruk, says there's also a mass grave holding 230 bodies just from that one small town (pre-war population of 36,971). Several other towns were liberated from Russian control, but Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky warned citizens not to g...