‘House of Cards’ showrunner is filming in Bucha to document ‘genocide’ and ‘heroic resistance’ in Ukraine

“Home of Playing cards” showrunner Beau Willimon has traveled to Bucha, Ukraine, to doc the atrocities of the Russian invasion and seize the “heroic resistance” of the Ukrainian individuals, the Bucha Metropolis Council introduced Friday.

“The playwright desires to inform the entire world the reality concerning the genocide of Ukrainians and the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian individuals,” the town council introduced on Fb.

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Willimon, a 44-year-old American playwright and screenwriter, is greatest identified for serving to to develop the American model of the collection “Home of Playing cards,” and he served as showrunner for its first 4 seasons. He created the drama collection “The First” for Hulu, concerning the first crewed mission to Mars. He additionally served as president of the Author’s Guild of America.

Russian forces initially launched an offensive aiming to seize Ukraine’s capital metropolis, Kyiv. After greater than a month of combating, Russian forces withdrew, leaving horrors of their wake. Bucha, close to Kyiv, has gained worldwide notoriety as a key website of Russian atrocities. Bucha’s mayor has claimed that the town found 400 our bodies up to now.

Earlier this month, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy introduced that his authorities had launched an investigation into alleged Russian atrocities within the space across the capital metropolis of Kyiv, from which Russian forces had just lately withdrawn.

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“We have now simply begun an investigation into all that the occupiers have executed,” the president mentioned. “At current, there’s details about greater than 300 individuals killed and tortured in Bucha alone. It’s probably that the record of victims can be a lot bigger when the entire metropolis is checked. And this is just one metropolis. One of many many Ukrainian communities that the Russian navy managed to grab.”

“Home of Playing cards’” Beau Willimon addresses the gang after the present gained a Peabody Award in New York Might 19, 2014.
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Russian Overseas Minister Sergei Lavrov accused Kyiv of establishing a “stage-managed anti-Russian provocation.”

Related Press journalists noticed the our bodies of no less than 21 individuals in varied spots round Bucha, northwest of the capital. One group of 9, all in civilian garments, had been scattered round a website that residents mentioned Russian troops used as a base. They appeared to have been killed at shut vary. A minimum of two had their arms tied behind their backs, one was shot within the head, and one other’s legs had been sure. 

“You noticed what occurred in Bucha,” President Joe Biden mentioned, describing Putin as each “brutal” and a “battle felony.” “What’s taking place in Bucha is outrageous and everybody sees it.”

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Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., and Rep. Victoria Spartz, R-Ind., grew to become the primary U.S. members of Congress to go to Ukraine amid the invasion Thursday. Daines visited the mass graves in Bucha, saying that he noticed “indeniable proof of Putin’s battle crimes.”

Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Nations detailed surprising claims that Russian troopers raped and kidnapped ladies and women.