Bucha, Update 5

Plain-spoken, brings receipts.

Accepting the fake claims of a massacre is as bad as or even worse than denying a real one.  Besides the immediate damage caused by the deception, it undermines trust and empathy when a real massacre happens.

The allegations of the Bucha massacre are false.

The Russian military left Bucha, Ukraine on March 30, 2022.  On March 31, Bucha mayor Anatoly Fedoruk triumphantly declared Bucha liberated.  On April 1, a video shot from a moving car appeared on Twitter, showing 7 (maybe 8) dead bodies on the Yablonska Street in Bucha.  By April 3, the number of bodies found on the streets of Bucha had grown to 20, and mass graves were shown. ...

...The mass graves are real, but the decision to bury the deceased in a mass grave was made by the local authorities in consultations with clergy after the morgue was overflowing.  Deceased people, including those who had died from natural causes and shooting by both sides, were buried there.

Burying the dead in mass graves in Bucha was known since March 10, at least....

...Among approximately 20 bodies shown in the photos and videos, some appear to be obviously staged.  For example, one body photographed on April 3 had its hands tied behind with a snow-white shred —impossible if the body had lain there for four days.  Moreover, all the bodies were shown from angles from which the faces could not be seen.

As of April 7, no names of victims have been released by Ukraine.  In an interview with DW.ru, Mayor Fedoruk refused even to tell when the names would be released.  No autopsy results were published. The territory is in the hands of the Ukrainian government, and it is supposed to provide evidence of executions, if any....

Then there's this rather important item:

 ...I was born and raised in Kyiv while Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union...

He knows the territory.