22 April 2022

Was the massacre of over 700 civilians at Bucha perpetrated by the Ukrainian National Police and the Safari Unit and Azov Battalion?

If these Nazi-style execution of civilians were perpetrated by the Russians why did Bucha’s Mayor say nothing when he announced its 'liberation'?

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The wanton massacre of civilians, in a Nazi style execution, makes no sense from the perspective of the Russian forces. We know that they have fed and provided water to civilian inhabitants. Why would they want to perpetrate a massacre such as in Bucha? What possible good would it do them?

However the massacre of Russian supporting Ukrainians by fascist militias which abound in Ukraine today does undoubtedly make sense.

Russian Torture victim

Undoubtedly there will be individual instances of war crimes by Russian soldiers. All armies perpetrate such atrocities in times of war and where they happen they should be severely punished. But the story of a Russian massacre at Bucha doesn’t ring true. It is what the CIA’s paramilitaries in El Salvador and Nicaragua have done. It is the United States which set up the School of the Americas in order to train such groups in torture and murder.

Azov Torture Victim

On 30 March Russian forces left Bucha, a town on the outskirts of Kyev. They had been using Kiev as a diversion to split up Ukraine’s troops. They rerouted their troops to the Donbas to bottle up and destroy the 125,000 Ukrainian troops there.

The very next day a beaming Anatolii Fedoruk, the Mayor of Bucha, in a video on Bucha City Council’s official Facebook page, which was aired on Ukrainian TV channel Ukraine 24 TV,  announced, in a translated post accompanying the video that March 31 was:

the day of the liberation of Bucha. This day will go down in the glorious history of Bucha and the entire Bucha community as a day of liberation by the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the Russian occupiers.

Now you would have thought that if there were 700+ dead bodies scattered around town, that he might have noticed something? 

bodies with Russian packs

On 2nd April, the Communication Department of the National Police of Ukraine posted photos and a YouTube video on their website. They declared that their Special Unit, Safari (mainly Azov), would be carrying out a "cleansing operation" to "liquidate" pro-Russian "saboteurs" and "collaborators" on April 1st. They also asked residents to stay indoors and to not be alarmed. A female politician from the area also publicly broadcast the same message on television: that a "cleansing operation" was taking place, and for residents to stay indoors and not t panic. You can find the announcement here:

Special Forces Regiment SAFARI Begins Clearing Operation in Bucha from Saboteurs and Accomplices of Russia’.

The Safari consists of members of the Azov Battalion and one particularly notorious thug and murderer, Sergey Korotkikh, who according to Evan Reif is a man also known as Botsun, Malyuta. Bandit, Terrorist and most fitting of all, Nazi.

Sergey "Boatsman" Korotkikh was not only among the first Ukrainian forces in the town along with his squad of terrorists, he was making jokes about shooting civilians as he entered. He would later happily post these videos on his official telegram channel. Botsun is captured on film asking his commanding officer

“There are guys without blue armbands, can I shoot them?”

“Fuck yeah

Dead bodies with white armbands

Most of the victims were wearing white armbands (friendly to Russia), or had them used to tie their hands behind their backs. The photo of the alley shows multiple victims lying dead next to Russian ration packs. These ration packs are green with star symbols on them which you can see in the photographs. The Ukrainian State's public policy is to treat any civilian who trades eggs and other dairy goods for dry goods with the Russians as ‘collaborators’. The bodies in the street look placed, as they are lying in a symmetrical pattern which isn't natural--the victims wouldn't have fallen so perfectly, if, say, dumped from the back of a moving truck, or shot while in the area.

A young Ukrainian, known only as Halexandria, posted a comment on YouTube in which she stated that she has family who live in Bucha. After the initial fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces, Russians handed out food and water to residents--some took it, and others declined it. After the Russians pulled out on March 30th, the mayor of the town betrayed the townspeople, and told Ukrainian forces which residents took humanitarian aid. Military personnel then broke into people's homes, and shot anyone who the mayor alleged took aid, or had ration packs in their home, and anyone else who got in their way. Her family members witnessed this, as they live very close to some of the residents who were shot.

bodies with Russian packs

All of this evidence points to the Bucha Massacre being committed by the Nazi Safari unit of the Ukrainian National Police, under instructions of the state itself.

On April 4th the New York Times alleged to have satellite photos from the Pentagon which prove that the bodies had been in place since, at least, March 19th. Satellite images show bodies lay in Bucha for weeks, despite Russian claims.

Naturally the BBC and dozens of other MSM echoed this nonsense. The Pentagon denied that they had any photographic evidence confirming that Russian troops had committed the massacre. That was because an independent analysis of the satellite imagery concluded that it was taken on April 1st.  But see Russia to show UNSC 'empirical evidence' regarding Bucha deaths and Scott Ritter’s What Happened in Bucha Ukraine

Any forensic pathologist would tell you that bodies exposed for two weeks would have bloated, expanded with gas, burst, changed colour, and spilled liquidised organs onto the ground according to any basic forensic analysis. The victims were clearly killed soon after the Russian withdrawal,

Was Alleged Russian Army Massacre of Civilians at Bucha Actually a False Flag Event Staged by Ukrainian Nazis?

The Russians, when accused of this crime 3 days later, immediately demanded a special session of the UN Security Council. And you know what? Britain, which was in the Chair, refused the request. Now why would that be?

The Guardian, ever the faithful servant of the British Security State and NATO, is getting very perturbed about all this. It ran an article on April 21 Facebook posts disputing Bucha atrocities shared 208,000 times in a week. It seems, judging by comments on the Guardian’s Facebook page that more and more people are not buying the never ending, ceaseless propaganda barrage by NATO and its loyal press.

The neo-Nazi insignia of NATO's Nazis

Now if the Guardian and the rest of Britain’s yellow press were seriously concerned about this horrific massacre, then the first thing they would do would be to demand an impartial, international inquiry into who did this. Even UN Secretary General, António Guterres’s demand for an inquiry has been ignored. Yet the Guardian complains in a non-story that people aren’t buying into NATO’s lies anymore.

The real question is why, instead of a barrage of war propaganda, the Guardian and the BBC aren’t supporting Gutuerre’s demand for an inquiry.

NYT: Ukraine Responsible For Bucha War Crimes Against Russians

Perhaps the reason is because, as a Pentagon official admitted, even they can't independently confirm atrocities in Ukraine's Bucha, official says. None of this has prevented a rush to judgement by the mass media. Why? Because they want it to be the Russians. The idea that they might at last have to face up to the fact that the West is backing a Ukrainian state, whose security forces depend on 100,000 strong neo-Nazi paramilitaries might cause people to start asking questions as to why we are backing Zelensky. People might even start to ask whether Russia had a very good case for intervening in Ukraine in order to defend its Russian speaking population and Ukrainian Russians.

Woman  tortured and killed by Azov in Mariupol - swastika engraved into her

Background

The background to this is what happened in 2014. To compensate for the lack of soldiers, the Ukrainian government resorted to paramilitary militias. In 2020, they constituted about 40 percent of the Ukrainian forces and numbered about 102,000 men, according to Reuters. They were armed, financed and trained by the United States, Great Britain, Canada and France. There were more than 19 nationalities.

Disagreeing with NATO's narrative is defined by Twitter as 'harassment'

These militias have been operating in the Donbas since 2014, with Western support. These militias are violent, convey a nauseating ideology and are virulently anti-Semitic and are composed of fanatical and brutal individuals. The best known of these is the Azov Regiment, whose emblem is reminiscent of the 2nd SS Das Reich Panzer Division, which ‘liberated’ Kharkov from the Soviet Union in 1943, before carrying out the 1944 Oradour-sur-Glane massacre in France.

The characterization of the Ukrainian paramilitaries as "Nazis" or "neo-Nazis" is considered Russian propaganda. But that's not the view of the Times of Israel, or the West Point Academy's Center for Counterterrorism. In 2014, Newsweek magazine seemed to associate them more with... the Islamic State.

Russian Torture Victim

So, the West supported and continued to arm militias that have been guilty of numerous crimes against civilian populations since 2014.

The integration of these paramilitary forces into the Ukrainian National Guard was not accompanied by a "denazification," as some claim.

What happened in Bucha is part of a continuous fabrication of stories over the war in Ukraine.  It is literally impossible to believe anything you see anymore on the BBC, Sky or the major press with the exception of the Morning Star. 

Take for example the so called Russian strike on a railway station in Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine involving a Tochka-U missile. This kind of missile is not used by Russia but it has nonetheless been blamed on Russia.

The serial number on the missile that hit the Kramatorsk train station matches exactly, bar one digit, the serial number on a missile that was shot into the Donbas in 2015. Russia decommissioned Tochka-U missiles in 2019. Also, an analysis by DNR forces on the ground found that the trajectory very likely points to the missile being fired from Ukrainian-held territory.

Patrick Lancaster and Matron at Mariupol Hospital

Or take the continuous lies that have been broadcast about Mariupol. It has taken a brave and independent journalist, Patrick Lancaster (please donate to his appeal for expenses) to broadcast the truth about the Russian bombardment on a hospital in the city. Patrick interviewed the matron in the hospital that was bombed who confirmed that all the patients had been ordered days before to leave in order that Azov thugs could establish themselves in the hospital.

Of course when Israel bombs a hospital or clinic in Gaza no one says a word when Israel says Hamas is using it. But when the neo-Nazi Azov regiment claims a hospital was bombed it is held to be true. But judge for yourself.

Dead left behind in Mariupol

There is a concerted attempt to whitewash the Azov brigade. We had one of the main Zionist organisation in the United States, the Anti-Defamation League, which can sniff out ‘anti-Semitism’ miles away, whitewashing Ukrainian neo-Nazis.

Youtube, which for some reason defines itself as a 'community' does its best to deter people from accessing material questioning NATO's Nazi narrative

As Ali Abunimah wrote on 17 March, two weeks before the ADL published an article by Andrew Srulevitch, its director of European affairs, which can only be called a whitewash of Ukrainian Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera, who had the blood of 200,000 Jews on his hands as well as 100,00 Poles.

In an interview with David Fishman who is a professor of Jewish History at the Jewish Theological Seminary as well as a member of the academic committee of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Srulevitch asked

“We’ve seen torchlit marches in the middle of [Kiev] with the red and black flags of UPA … and pictures of Stepan Bandera, who allied with the Nazis during WWII” “Isn’t that evidence of Nazism in Ukraine?”

Fishman replied

“For Ukrainian nationalists, UPA and Bandera are symbols of the Ukrainian fight for Ukrainian independence. The UPA allied with Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union for tactical – not ideological – reasons.

This is a complete lie. As Daniel Lazare wrote in 2015 in a review of Grzegorz RossoliÅ„ski-Liebe’s book Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist.

“Bandera envisioned the Ukraine as a classic one-party state with himself in the role of führer, or providnyk, and expected that a new Ukraine would take its place under the Nazi umbrella.”

However Fishman then contradicted himself:

 “For Jews, however, not only is allying with the Nazis unforgivable under any circumstance, but historians have documented that Ukrainian nationalists participated together with Germans in the murder of many thousands of Jews in Ukraine,” Fishman adds.

If ‘Ukrainians’ participated in murdering thousands of Jews doesn’t that suggest some form of ideological alignment? People then wonder why I have made it a specialism to document the history of Nazi-Zionist collaboration.

Fishman asserted that “There are neo-Nazis in Ukraine, just as there are in the US, and in Russia for that matter... But they are a very marginal group with no political influence and who don’t attack Jews or Jewish institutions in Ukraine.”

Another example of this attempt to whitewash Ukraine's neo-Nazis was the sacking of Jewish journalist Konstanty Gebert from a Polish newspaper for refusing to describe Azov as 'far- right' rather than neo-Nazi.

The leader of Ukraine’s Jewish community, Eduard Dolinsky, clearly doesn’t agree. See  ‘Open anti-Semitism’: Ukrainian police request names and addresses of city’s Jews - Jewish leader says last such demand was ‘during the German occupation

And this report Ukrainian neo-Nazis torture Jewish anti-war MMA athlete suggests that ADL are doing what Zionists have always done, lying and playing down anti-Semitism when it is the genuine article. Why? Because their relationship with the US state demands that they ignore the actual anti-Semitism of the US’s allies. It is a replay of the Zionists’ behaviour in WW2.

We know from the presumed death of blogger Gonzalo Lira that the Azov Battalion and Ukrainian neo-Nazis will stop at nothing to silence independent journalists and bloggers and prevent the truth emerging from Ukraine. In this they are enormously helped by papers like the ‘liberal’ Guardian.

NATO's fascist goons joke about the murder of Gonzalo Lira who was betrayed by the Daily Beast  to the SBU

In the same way the true story of what has happened in Mariupol and the reported murder of hundreds of its Russian speaking inhabitants is being deliberately covered up by our mass media. They prefer to report on the ‘heroic’ last stand of Azov at the steel plant. Human shields only apply in Gaza not Ukraine. See Patrick Lancaster’s road of death and his interview with a Mariupol resident


Resident in Mariupol interviewed about Azov's terror

The Western press cannot even admit that the purpose of NATO is to fight to the last Ukrainian. See NATO admits it wants 'Ukrainians to keep dying' to bleed Russia, not peace

We hear a lot about Zelensky being Jewish (in fact he is an ultra-Zionist). But as The Nation wrote:

TV comedian-turned-politician Volodymyr Zelensky was elected last year as Ukraine’s first Jewish president, yet “anti-Semitism and fascist-inflected ultranationalism are rampant” in the country, reports .

A victim of CIA trained torturers in Ukraine

It has been also been confirmed that the SAS are in the Kiev region training Ukrainians. NATO has been training Ukrainian troops since at least 2014. The third floor of the SBU (Ukraine’s version of the SS) headquarters is dedicated to the CIA who are also heavily involved in such activities.

There are also reports that the Ukrainians asked the Turkish military whether their drones could administer over 20 litres of aerosol, and the Turks said no. There is now footage of jerry-rigged drones that have been captured by Russians which have tanks and aerosol administration devices attached to them. Why would this be?  Because if you want to stage a false chemical attack (& remember Azov alleged a chemical attack in Mariupol which has now been forgotten) then a drone would be an idea means of delivery.

Tony Greenstein

See also

https://scheerpost.com/2022/04/06/questions-abound-about-bucha-massacre/

“One less traitor”: Zelensky oversees campaign of assassination, kidnapping and torture of political opposition

Ukrainian neo-Nazis torture Jewish anti-war MMA athlete

Retired Swiss Military-Intelligence Officer: 'Is it Possible to Actually Know What Has Been And is Going on in Ukraine?'

The Ukrainian conflict is a U.S./NATO Proxy War, but one which Russia is poised to win decisively – Scott Ritter

Pro-war socialists


13 comments:

  1. Excellent work. Socialists must not be misled, again, by the mainstream media, the imperialist media, into allying themselves with the Nazis in Kiev and their sponsors the NATO satellites of the United States.
    In this matter the Russians are absolutely right. They, most reluctantly and at great cost to themselves intervened to prevent a massive offensive on the last bastions of resistance to the racist, brutal, Nazi inspired regime that NATO had imposed on Kiev in 2014.
    Since 2014 not only have the two 'Peoples Republics' been under constant attack but the entire Russian speaking region in the east, which almost unanimously voted against the coup regime, has been under a brutal Nazi militia occupation, subject to beatings, killings and every form of abuse for being Russian in New Russia!
    Those who disguise their support for imperialism and its fascist creatures by affecting a 'plague on both their houses' judgement and allying themselves with the media's Russophobia and childish demonisation of VV Putin, deserve our contempt.
    I am old enough to remember similar weaseling, on the basis that the VietCong was Stalinist, over Vietnam. I didn't last long.

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  2. Absolutely - see also my article in this week's Weekly Worker https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1392/pro-war-socialists/

    This was will define things for the rest of this century. Will the US be able to use its military to overcome its economic weakness and remain the world's no. 1 imperialist power. Those fools who think it's about Ukrainian self determination are repeating what the social democrats did in 1914 when they supported their own ruling class in WW1 - if you are not subscribed to my blog list just let me know and I'll put you on tonygreenstein111@gmail.com

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  3. I'm on the list Tony, thanks. Followed the link too, for which, also, thanks.
    There must be many parasites which consider themselves the deadly and daring enemies of the hosts which, in fact rely on the minor but useful offices that they perform.

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  4. Hi TOny, excellent analysis and in line with my own and that of Tony Kevin, whose focus on Bucha was published by The Scrum last week. My article focuses on that single satellite photo from Maxar Technologies, now a US DoD-linked organisation, which was taken on March 18th, and showed blobs in Yablunska St not there in a photo from February 28th. It was claimed the bodies had already been there for up to a week, so were over three weeks old when photographed by the Western media - a truly unbelievable claim. My analysis focused on the fallen cyclist as we have an excellent photo of him, appearing to have just been blown over that same day, and showing no sign of injury or damage.
    But the Maxar photo - which I also assumed to have been ordered and taken after the Nazis laid the corpses out on the street - did not need to have been taken that day, as the "bodies" have been photoshopped into the 'high definition" image. The job they did - which notably involved Malachy Browne - was as clumsy as Eliot Higgins's efforts to paste a BUK launcher on a low loader. The photos in my article illustrate this beyond any reasonable doubt. I am about to do some more analysis on this photo, and what an authentic satellite shot would look like. I won't be able to use a current sat shot of Yablunska street however, as the area around it is covered with a rectangular patch of fog that obscures details.
    You are welcome to republish details or images from my article, and please share them with colleagues.
    https://1489.is/the-bikeman-of-bucha/

    I can supply you with the originals also, as there is some devil in the detail.

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    1. thanks David. I am grateful for these additions. It's a bit beyond my expertise satellite photos but you clearly know what you are talking about. I understood that the satellite photos were undated and from commercial not military satellites

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    2. Glad to help Tony. I have done a few photo-analyses of satellite photos before - the house where Al Baghdadi supposedly was killed in NW Syria for instance. But could say photo-analysis is my forte, looking in detail at the videos taken by the White Helmets in Douma hospital after visiting it in 2018, or for that matter at sat photos of Mariupol claiming to show the "flattened city" a month ago. you only have to wave an image in front of the sleepy audience to "verify" the lies you've already filled their heads with.
      On the Maxar images, as I noted in my article, they are always suspect as Maxar bought the Google Earth satellites or business and restricted access to those who can pay, and who need high quality real-time images; they work closely with the US DoD and presumably GCHQ, even though they have their own military satellites. More significantly perhaps, they are able to restrict the public's access to images that some people don't want them to see. The fogging out of the Yablunska St area of Bucha in current images appears to be an example!

      But of course it's not just Maxar, as Malachy Browne is the intermediary for the Atlantic Council/Bellingcat.
      I'm just working on a the Maxar image, modifying it in Photoshop to look like it would if it hadn't been manipulated, and adding a suitable image of a man on a bike. One day perhaps these things may be the subject of trials and sentences, but I think there are too many! It's more important to expose the truth so that our own conviction is rock solid against this cyber-warfare.

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    3. thanks David. I don't purport to understand the technicalities you get into in your article. It would be good to contact you. You can contact me on tonygreenstein111@gmail.com and maybe I can ask you some questions. Though I would prefer if you could just sum up for me the evidence and conclusion without rhetoric as all I know is that there were some photos of bodies on 4 April which apparently were taken on 18 March. Not that my article much mentions satellite photos as I think the other evidence is stronger. Thanks

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  5. Almost perfect synthesis : Gonzalo Lira was kidnapped by SBU, but was finally released and is alive, not even physically tortured either.

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  6. Whats the difference between these Ukrainian neonazis and the Mufti of Jerusalem of 1930s and 40s who supported Germany ?
    Theres all this talk about Western double standards regarding how it reports Ukraine compared to Palestine, and how the Ukrainian fighters are neo-nazis, but never any mention of nazi sympathizing Arabs, like the mufti. Why is that ?

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  7. Anonymous,
    The simple answer to your "what's the difference?" question is - a lot.
    The general principle is don't believe anything until you have had a proper gander.

    (The) Ukraine and Palestine are hugely different, due to their different history and location.

    Cf. Ilan Pappe, The Rise and Fall of Palestinian Dynasty (2010).
    Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years War on Palestine (2020), pp. 42-50; 64-7 & passim.
    Richard Sakwa, Frontline Ukraine (2022 reprint), pp. 40-41

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  8. Sorry, missed the indefinite article before Palestinian in Pappe's book title. Would be misleading if definite article assumed.

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  9. @anon12:54 - The mufti of Jerusalem was Britains choice of leader, not Palestinians, and while there might be antisemitic groups in Palestine, there arent neo-nazi paramilitary groups like there is in Ukraine.

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  10. By way of an update on the original subject of Tony's article - on who was responsible for the atrocities committed in Bucha - I'd like to draw attention to the transcript of Vladimir Putin's conference with Antonio Guterres.
    https://thesaker.is/president-putin-and-un-secretary-general-antonio-guterres-meeting/
    The relevant comments, on Bucha:
    "But, unfortunately, after reaching these agreements and after we had, in my opinion, clearly demonstrated our intentions to create the conditions for continuing the talks, we faced a provocation in the town of Bucha, which the Russian Army had nothing to do with. We know who was responsible, who prepared this provocation, using what means, and we know who the people involved were."
    24 hours later Guterres appeared to have wiped this observation from his head, as he accompanied some of the culprits round the site of their crimes, and then appeared aside 'Elensky in matching outfits. The significance of this false flag operation continues to resonate and intensify as the pretext for driving the whole region into war, and creating a permanent cultural split with Russia. Europe may destroy itself trying to prosecute this war on Russia, as Russia will not give up and go home, as some try to suggest, including sadly STW. Anti-war movements need to wake up to the fact that defensive wars against a ruthless enemy like the Five Eyes are legal and necessary, and that if you poke the bear too much he will finally deal a knock out blow.

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