Ukraine: viewers moved by Bucha father’s ‘Yesterday’ rendition for infant son: ‘My heart is tearing’

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A Ukrainian father, who has been chronicling his daily life under the war, has shared a moving moment when he sang “Yesterday” by The Beatles to his infant son, showing how people in the war-torn country are enduring the struggles. Alex Dayrabekov, who fled from Bucha – a town that has now become a grim centre of Russia’s “massacre” and “genocide” with images of bodies strewn across the streets – spoke to CNN and said his“heart is tearing into pieces”. Mr Dayrabekov said he “cannot stop crying sometimes” and he has been collecting testimonies as proof of Russian forces’ alleged crimes. I’m going to collect the evidence, I’m going to help the victims and the eyewitnesses, and I’m going to do everything possible that the international trials will happen, and those who did it will pay.” When asked what he will tell his newborn when he grows up, Mr Dayrabekov said he would say that he began his life at a “historic time when the entire country got together against this evil”.