Key evidence has emerged that appalling massacres of civilians by the Russian troops (recently discovered in Bucha and other towns near the Ukrainian capital Kyiv) are part of a pre-planned strategy of Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin.
Much to the horror of any civilized human, hundreds and hundreds of mutilated corpses of Ukrainian civilians have been discovered tossed in mass graves, left rotting in the streets, or decomposing in basement torture chambers.
Putin’s Private Army of Mercenaries Heavily Involved
The evidence of unequivocal war crimes, crimes against humanity, and acts of genocide committed by Putin’s Russian brutes have been found after the regions north of Kyiv were liberated by the Ukrainian military.
Besides the tons of photos, videos, satellite images, survivors’ testimonies, and plain, commonsense human logic and decency, major new evidence has now emerged.
This evidence is not only showing the Russians committing massacres, but they also did it systematically, as part of a pre-planned strategy to crush the Ukrainians’ will to resist.
The evidence is a radio transmissions intercepted by the BND, the foreign intelligence service of Germany, German magazine Der Spiegel revealed in a report.
The wiretapped conversations show the atrocities in Bucha and other Ukrainian towns have been committed by one of Putin’s private mercenary armies, the Wagner Group.
⚡️Der Spiegel: Russian soldiers discussed killing civilians in Bucha by radio.
The conversations have been intercepted by German intelligence, Der Spiegel reported on April 7. Russian soldiers also said that Ukrainian prisoners of war had been shot dead after being interrogated.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) April 7, 2022
BUCHA, Ukraine – A dog stands next to the body of an elderly woman killed at the entrance of her house in Bucha, outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, April 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana) pic.twitter.com/632Lb2JaVI
— Felipe Dana (@felipedana) April 5, 2022
⚡️Bucha mayor: Almost 90% of people found dead have ‘bullet wounds, not shrapnel wounds.’
Mayor of Bucha Anatoly Fedoruk told Deutsche Welle that the number of people found dead is growing every day. The mayor said that three mass graves were found in the city.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) April 7, 2022
‘Deliberate Strategy’ of ‘Normalizing’ Atrocities
To make the wiretapping revelations of the German intelligence even more harrowing, some of the taped conversations of the Russian brutes are linked to specific corpses discovered in the streets of Bucha.
According to the report, in one of the radio transmissions, one Russian soldier tells another how he, together with his colleagues, shot dead a person riding a bicycle.
Another Russian soldier could be heard saying they first need to “question soldiers and then shoot them.”
The recordings reportedly demonstrate that the mercenaries from the Wagner Group were on the ground in Bucha. They took part in the atrocities and committed similar acts of genocide in other parts of Ukraine, which have yet to be exposed.
The wiretapped messages show Russian troops routinely discussed their war crimes as something regular and mundane, not as absolutely outrageous atrocities.
According to the report, the BND told the German legislators that killings of Ukrainian civilians by Putin’s hordes were “normalized” and a “deliberated strategy.”
The revelations led two former members of the German Cabinet, a former Interior Minister, and a former Justice Minister, to file an official criminal complaint with the German Prosecutor’s Office for a war crimes investigation into Russia’s military and leadership, including Putin himself.
Germany already applied the so-called rule of “universal jurisdiction” earlier this year with the sentencing of a high-ranking official of the Syrian dictatorship for crimes against humanity.
This means a German court might sentence Putin for the Ukraine atrocities, even before an international war crimes tribunal could get to him.
Hard to find words… The killing of civilians in Bucha by Russian war criminals is appalling beyond any measure.
Help us stop Russia. Demand your governments to act now:
– Provide Ukraine with all weapons we need
– More tough sanctions on Russia
– Cut all trade ties with them pic.twitter.com/pYLbMALQfp— Ukraine / Україна (@Ukraine) April 4, 2022
These are the indicative estimates of Russia’s combat losses as of April 7, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/h66hhbFcAf
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) April 7, 2022
⚡️Russians' torture chamber discovered in basement of children's health resort in Bucha.
The bodies of five murdered men were discovered in the basement.
Their hands had been tied and they appear to have been tortured.
Source: Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/lIwUHHAUw5
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) April 4, 2022
Sokhumi, Georgia 1993
Bucha, Ukraine 2022History repeats itself. Never forget, never forgive. pic.twitter.com/vFPcrvzERQ
— Mariam Kereselidze (@mariamkker) April 4, 2022