Another one bites the dust!
Another one bites the dust! Hey, hey, hey another one bites the dust!
[URL]https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/31/oligarch-renounces-tinkov-russian-citizenship-ukraine-war[/URL]
Crime Scene: Bucha. The AP documentary about the massacre
Bucha was only one of many killing sites left by the Russian troops in their hasty retreat, but it was the first one. And the one that's been studied extensively.
One of the units that committed war crimes in Bucha was the 64th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade. In April 2022, the brigade received the honorary guards status from Putin for the job well done.
The film is difficult to watch, just a fair warning.
[URL]https://apnews.com/article/bucha-ukraine-war-cleansing-investigation-43e5a9538e9ba68a035756b05028b8b4[/URL]
[QUOTE]The first man arrived at 7:27 a.m. Russian soldiers covered his head and marched him up the driveway toward a nondescript office building.
Two minutes later, a pleading, gagged voice pierced the morning stillness. Then the merciless reply: Talk! Talk, f--ing mother-f--er!
The women and children came later, gripping hastily packed bags, their pet dogs in tow.
It was a cold, gray morning, March 4 in Bucha, Ukraine. Crows cawed. By nightfall, at least nine men would walk to their deaths at 144 Yablunska street, a building complex that Russians turned into a headquarters and the nerve center of violence that would shock the world.
Later, when all the bodies were found strewn along the streets and packed in hasty graves, it would be easy to think the carnage was random. Residents asking how this happened would be told to make their peace, because some questions just dont have answers.
Yet there was a method to the violence.
What happened that day in Bucha was what Russian soldiers on intercepted phone conversations called zachistka cleansing. The Russians hunted people on lists prepared by their intelligence services and went door to door to identify potential threats. Those who didnt pass this filtration, including volunteer fighters and civilians suspected of assisting Ukrainian troops, were tortured and executed, surveillance video, audio intercepts and interviews show.
The Associated Press and the PBS series Frontline obtained surveillance camera footage from Bucha that shows, for the first time, what a cleansing operation in Ukraine looks like. This was organized brutality that would be repeated at scale in Russian-occupied territories across Ukraine a strategy to neutralize resistance and terrorize locals into submission that Russian troops have used in past conflicts, notably Chechnya.[/QUOTE]