• The tail from a Russian helicopter and other destroyed military equipment in the 'Crucified Ukraine' show, at the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War, in Kyiv, on May 21. | NICOLE TUNG / THE NEW YORK TIMES
    The tail from a Russian helicopter and other destroyed military equipment in the "Crucified Ukraine” show, at the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War, in Kyiv, on May 21. | NICOLE TUNG / THE NEW YORK TIMES
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KYIV, Ukraine – Just days after Russian troops retreated from the suburbs surrounding Kyiv, Yuriy Savchuk, director of a World War II museum in the city, joined the police and prosecutors who were investigating the full extent of the suffering inflicted there by enemy soldiers.

Over the next month, Savchuk and his colleagues meticulously documented what they saw, taking more than 3,000 photographs. And they came away with some of the abandoned traces of the Russian invasion: the diary of a commander; a book that Russian troops had carried, called “No One Judges the Winners”; a parachute soldier’s map showing targets on Kyiv’s left bank; and the ATM cards and passports of dead Russian fighters.

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