Thursday, April 07, 2022

Bucha, Updates Three and Four

We've been skeptical of the "massacre" reports out of Ukraine.  

Now German intel releases recordings of Russkie soldiers supposedly doing the deed.

...Germany's foreign intelligence service, the BND, has heard messages from Putin's forces discussing the brutal murder of civilians in the city of horrors outside Kyiv, which was recaptured by Ukraine over the weekend.

The transmissions have been linked to specific corpses seen in Bucha, with one soldier talking about how he and his colleagues shot dead someone on a bicycle, while another said: 'First question soldiers, then shoot them.'

The audio messages have been relayed to German parliament by the BND to further debunk baseless Kremlin claims that the bodies were staged by Ukraine after Russia withdrew from the city in a 'monstrous forgery', Spiegel reported. 

The wiretap recordings also show that the Wagner Group was present in the city and played 'a key role' in the massacre, and that there are likely similar scenes of slaughter elsewhere in the country.

The shadowy military company which has been linked to a string of killings, rapes and war crimes around the world is known as Putin's private army which carries out his dirty work at an arm's length from the state. ...

Fair and balanced!

Here's how the Ukraine's troops responded.

...Video published on Wednesday shows Ukrainian soldiers killing their apparently captured Russian counterparts with their hands tied behind their backs - just as accusations of similar atrocities committed by Russian forces surface from the city of Bucha.

The video, which the New York Times verified Wednesday, shows Ukrainian troops committing the killings, after what appeared to be an ambush outside a village west of Kyiv.  

'He's still alive,' one of the Ukrainians - identifiable by their flag patches and 'glory to Ukraine' paraphernalia - can be heard saying, as a Russian soldier is seen with a jacket pulled over his head. 'Film these marauders. Look, he's still alive. He's gasping.' 

One of the soldiers then shoots the man three times. After the second shot, the man keeps moving but stops after the third bullet. ...

Like we said, fair and balanced.

1 comment:

Mar said...

Best part of the article"
"Meanwhile, Ukrainian soldiers have also used one of Moscow's captured thermobaric weapons against Russian troops.
They fired the feared 'blazing sun' TOS-1A rocket launcher near Izyum in eastern Ukraine. The 'vacuum bombs' suck in oxygen from the target area, creating a blast that can destroy internal organs. They are illegal to use against civilians, but are lawful against military targets"
That vaunted Russian isn't all that good