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| 'Kill everyone': Russian violence in Ukraine was strategic |
| 2022-10-27 |
| [AP] ZDVYZHIVKA, Ukraine Even by the standards of the important military officers who came and went in this tiny village, the man walking behind the Kamaz truck stood out. Soldiers providing security peered from behind fences, their guns bristling in every direction. Two Ka-52 Alligator attack helicopters circled overhead, providing additional cover for Col. Gen. Alexander Chaiko as he escorted an aid convoy in March from the schoolhouse on Tsentralna street that Russian officers commandeered as a headquarters. Fifteen minutes away, in the village of Ozera, the lives of three men were about to take a dramatic turn for the worse. While Chaiko was directing Russia’s attack on Kyiv from Zdvyzhivka, the men were brought to the village by Russian troops, who interrogated and tortured them and then shot them in the garden of a large house about a kilometer (less than a mile) from where the general now stood. The deaths of these men were part of a pattern of violence that left hundreds of civilians beaten, tortured and executed in territory under Chaiko’s command. This wasn’t the work of rogue soldiers, an investigation by The Associated Press and the PBS series "Frontline" shows. It was strategic and organized brutality, perpetrated in areas that were under tight Russian control where military officers — including Chaiko himself — were present. War crimes prosecutors in Ukraine are trying to gather evidence against Chaiko, who earned a global reputation for brutality as leader of Russia’s forces in Syria. And international human rights lawyers said evidence gathered by AP and "Frontline" was enough to merit an investigation of Chaiko at the International Criminal Court. This story is part of an AP/FRONTLINE investigation that includes the War Crimes Watch Ukraine interactive experience and the documentary "Putin’s Attack on Ukraine: Documenting War Crimes," on PBS. Caution - Graphic images at link below: Photojournalist describes what Russia left behind in Bucha: 'It's apocalyptic' |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 This article is in regards Bucha. Which I see as a false flag. Azov was in Bucha, and my open sources lead me to believe Azov were the perps. I'll name drop Adrien Bocquet. He is a European citizen who served with a humanitarian mission in UKR alongside Ukrainian Army in Bucha. He is not pro-Russian and was not a Putin stooge. Just a peacenik volunteering. I dont see any reason for him to spread propaganda, he's not involved with any pro-russia ngos or orgs, dont see him lies in favor of Moscow. Adrien was there in Bucha and denies the Russians committed the atrocities. He counters to say, no surprise, Azov was the party responsible. |
| Posted by: mossomo 2022-10-27 12:59 |
| #3 |
| Posted by: Thrater Trotsky2564 2022-10-27 11:06 |
| #2 Or, you have an eyewitness account of atrocities by Russian soldiers which have been repeated so often it doesn't take 30 seconds to peruse many organizations and regions where mass rape and murder was perped by Russians on Ukraine for the simple reason Ukraine is not and will not be Russia anymore, those days are finished as much as it bothers Russians and their American ass suckers. |
| Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962 2022-10-27 10:24 |
| #1 Watch Russian soldiers cook and eat school children! Watch those Kamov copters duck shoot an entire pensioner home! Cringe as those communists play bicycle buzkashi with Ukranian genitalia! From the same intrepid journalists who shared a Hamas base to bring you the truth from the frontlines. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-10-27 07:43 |