Simon Coveney: 'I had seen the horrors but I was not prepared for the beauty of Bucha'

In peacetime, this would be such an attractive place to raise a family, close to central Kyiv, but with space and the beauty of the countryside — and we will help these remarkable people rebuild when the madness of this war ends
Foreign Affairs and Defence Minister Simon Coveney meets Ukraine's foreign affairs minister Dmytro Kuleba.

Foreign Affairs and Defence Minister Simon Coveney meets Ukraine's foreign affairs minister Dmytro Kuleba.

I stood above a trench of a mass grave where the bodies of 56 civilians had been found in Bucha, Ukraine.

A mass grave, in Europe, in 2022.

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