SeattleGriz wrote: ↑Tue Apr 05, 2022 9:00 am
Ibanez wrote: ↑Tue Apr 05, 2022 8:49 am
Seems like you are picking and choosing when to trust the NYT. Are you in the Hunter thread all on board with with their "mea culpa?"
You think the Ukrainians are putting bodies in barrels, executing women and children all to prove that the Russians that invaded them are really the bad guys? The world is already against the Russians - there's no logical need to take it that far.
Only criticizing the NYT if they can't corroborate their story.
Where I'm having trouble is the Mayor of Bucha is in video on March 31st declaring the Russians had left and no mention of atrocities. Also official Ukrainian police report from April 2nd mentioned nothing of atrocities or dead bodies.
Is it possible that in the last 3-4 days, as Ukrainians started going back into the city, that these bodies were discovered? I feel that we started hearing these stories around Friday of last week. I remember seeing on Saturday, April 2, the stories about charred bodies and corpses with their hands tied.
Timeline of Withdrawal
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs statement claimed in its Telegram statement that Russian forces pulled out of Bucha on March 30. It also alleged that “the so-called ’evidence of crimes’ in Bucha did not emerge until the fourth day” after its forces had apparently left, which would be April 3, “when the Security Service of Ukraine and representatives of Ukrainian media arrived in the town.” The Russian statement also cites a video posted online by the mayor of Bucha, Anatoliy Fedoruk, which claimed Bucha had been liberated as of 31 March 2022.
Other statements, reports and open source evidence, however, raise questions about this timeline and the complete accuracy of Fedoruk’s March 31 claim.
For example, Russian media outlet TV Zvezda claimed in an article published on the morning of April 1 that: “Airborne units, in cooperation with the Marines, successfully held back the actions of enemy forces in the direction of Gostomel – Bucha – Lakes for five days. As a result, the Marines were able to take full control of the territory from the Irpin River towards Kiev, with a total length of five kilometres.
“The commander of one of the Marine units Alexey Shabulin noted that currently Russian Marines conduct search and reconnaissance operations and clean up settlements with the further task of gaining a foothold in them”, the TV Zvezda article stated.
On the morning of April 1, meanwhile, a video was shared on Telegram featuring the secretary of the Bucha City Council, Taras Shapravsky, stating: “Currently, the city remains under occupation, many mines, houses and even corpses. Therefore, we ask those who remain not to approach dangerous objects. The liberation of the city continues, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, territorial defence are working to regain every metre of native land”.
Video Footage From Bucha
Videos and photographs from Bucha, showing deceased individuals in civilian clothes, first appeared on social media channels on April 1.
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2022/04 ... -evidence/
Or did the Ukes murder its own citizens and stage these scenes to further vilify the Russians - those patriotic stewards of liberty and freedom.
