The "561" Memorial by the Church of St Andrew the First-Called, Bucha
The mass burial site of 33 days of russian occupation: 116 bodies by the church, 561 names on the memorial.
During the russian army's occupation of Bucha from 27 February to 31 March 2022, local residents buried the dead on the grounds of the Church of St Andrew the First-Called in a thirteen-metre trench and three other places; the appearance of the trench was recorded by satellite images around 10 March. Exhumation began on 8 April: according to the Kyiv Regional Prosecutor's Office, 116 bodies were exhumed from the burial by the church, among them 26 women and two children, 69 of them killed by gunshot and mine-blast wounds. The figures for the dead in Bucha differ by institution: the prosecutor's office — 637 civilians in the town and over 1,400 in the district; the National Police — 422 identified bodies in Bucha, 514 missing, "the number is not final"; the city council's archive — 381 in the town and 554 in the community; on the memorial — 561 civilians of the community. On 27 March 2025 the interactive memorial complex "561. We will not forget. We will not forgive" opened by the church, with the faces, names and stories of each of them.
The church grounds and memorial are open ground, daily; the schedule of services is on the parish website. The annual memorial event is in late March, the anniversary of liberation on 31 March.