Today is the anniversary of discovery (!) of the series of Russian war crimes know in media as “Bucha massacres”.
The name is inaccurate as the war crimes happened in many places in Kyiv and Chernihiv regions controlled by #Russia and were systematic mop up operations involving killing of civilians, as known from Russian operations in Chechnya or Syria, clearly in compliance with orders from Russian military leadership.
The most miserable denial of these war crimes come from people who claim “this was fake” or “there’s no evidence”. There’s literally hundreds of hours of drone, smartphone and CCTV recordings literally showing Russian soldiers escorting and executing Ukrainian civilians. Many of them can be found here:
https://video.echelon.pl/search?tagsOneOf=Bucha
The second dumbest denial comes from those who repeat Russian fallacy that “there was no international investigation”. In reality there were hundreds of ICC and UN forensic experts investigating every aspect of these war crimes on the ground in Bucha and other places in the region, and then investigating more Russian war crimes e.g. in Izyum (400+ civilians killed) and other places. There’s numerous UN reports from these investigations. Russia has all the names of the perpetrators and evidence, but it simply chose to ignore them and conduct no investigation on their side.
The third popular yet false argument is that “Bucha caused Ukraine to retract from peace talks”. It did not - Ukraine delegation continued to meet its Russian counterparts well into April 2022 in spite of popular outcry in Ukrainian society. As we today from Putin’s aide Dmitry Kozak, it was Putin who stalled and ultimately had put negotiations on hold in 2022, convinced Russia will be able to grab much more land after announcing mobilisation.
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