There is a line of tidy homes on Vokzalna Street, the place crumbling houses as soon as lined a roadway suffering from burned-out Russian tanks. There are neat sidewalks and contemporary pavement with blue and yellow bunting hanging overhead. And there are backhoes and bulldozers plowing throughout a building web site the place a brand new dwelling items retailer will exchange a earlier one which was burned to the bottom.

They are remaking Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv that turned synonymous with Russian atrocities within the earliest days of the invasion of Ukraine, the place civilians had been tortured, raped or executed, their our bodies left to rot within the streets.

More than a yr after Ukrainian forces wrested again Bucha from Russian troops, the city has drawn worldwide funding that has bodily remodeled it, and it has turn into a stopping level for delegations of overseas leaders who come by means of nearly weekly.

And but behind the veneer of revitalization, the ache that suffused Bucha throughout its month of horror underneath Russian occupation nonetheless lingers.

The stays of a minimum of 80 individuals killed in Bucha throughout the occupation in March 2022 haven’t been formally recognized, native officers mentioned. This month, the city unveiled a memorial with the names of 501 individuals killed throughout that occupation, with an official acknowledgment that the listing was incomplete.

That juxtaposition — jarring in its contrasts — now defines life in Bucha.