'This tears my soul apart': A Ukrainian boy and a killing

But there was no one around to restrain the Russian soldier that day in March when Yura and his father, 47-year-old Ruslan, were biking down a tree-lined street.They were on their way to visit vulnerable neighbors sheltering in basements and homes without electricity or running water. He closed his eyes.A final shot was fired.___This story is part of an ongoing investigation from The Associated Press and Frontline that includes the War Crimes Watch Ukraine interactive experience and an upcoming documentary.___Yura’s extraordinary account alleging an attempted killing by Russian soldiers stands out as international justice experts descend on Bucha, a center of the horrors and possible war crimes in Ukraine. “All children were killed or injured deliberately, since the Russian soldiers deliberately shot at evacuating cars that had the signs ‘CHILDREN’ and white fabric tied to them, and they deliberately shot at the homes of civilians,” the chief prosecutor of the Bucha region, Ruslan Kravchenko, told the AP.The U.N. human rights office says at least 202 children across Ukraine have been killed in Russia’s invasion, and believes the real number to be considerably higher. “It may be difficult if not impossible for a defendant to claim they were somehow justified in trying to kill a child.”___It was left to Yura’s family to retrieve his father’s body. Another soldier in the distance shouted, “Don’t come here or we’ll kill you.” But he didn’t fire.They brought Yura’s father home in a wheelbarrow. They asked what had happened to Yura.“I was shot by a Russian soldier,” the boy replied.At that, his mother was terrified.