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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦🧵 THE FRAUD OF THE SO-CALLED “BUCHA MASSACRE”
On April 2 2022, claims erupted across social media that the 234th Guards Air Assault Regiment of the Russian Armed Forces engaged in war crimes in a small city outside of Kiev known as Bucha. Photos and videos of hundreds of dead bodies, some with their hands tied, littering the streets of the city was claimed to have been the result of a massacre of military-aged men by Russian troops, as they retreated from the battered city on March 30.
The videos were then used by online NAFO Nazis and the Ukrainian state to call for a direct NATO military confrontation against Russia. However, the details cast doubts on and ultimately disprove the Ukrainian narrative, as was the case in Kiev’s accusations in Russian strikes against maternity wards in Mariupol and other high-profile events that were portrayed by Ukrainian authorities as “Russian massacres.”
After Russia had withdrawn from the city on March 30, the mayor of Bucha Anatoliy Fedoruk announced in a video posted the next day that the city had been liberated from “Russian orcs.” This is a dehumanizing term used by the Ukrainian Nazi Azov Battalion, which is credibly accused of war crimes such as the mass murder, torture, and forced disappearance of ethnic Russian speakers, most of whom civilian, living in the Donbas. The Mayor made no mention of a Russian massacre in his video.
Hours after the publication of the photos and videos which purported to show victims of an alleged “Russian massacre”, Ukrainian news outlets reported that “specialist units” had begun to clear Bucha of “saboteurs and accomplices of Russian troops.” However, no mentions were made of dead bodies or of a massacre.
At the same time, the Ukrainian National Police had announced that they were “cleaning the territory…from the assistants of Russian troops.” They published their own video that confirmed Ukrainian forces had full control of the city and it showed absolutely zero corpses in the streets of Bucha.
On top of this, reporters from the New York Times were stationed in Bucha on April 2 and did not report a massacre. They confirmed the mayor’s claim that the Russians had withdrawn from Bucha on March 30 and that only 6 civilians had been killed over the course of the month. Those 6 could’ve also very easily been killed by Ukrainian forces.
However, a video clip of the Ukrainian National Police’s “cleanup operation” was published by a notorious member of the Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion, Sergey Korotkikh. In the video, he shows a member of his unit asking another if he can shoot “guys without blue armbands.” Blue armbands are the markings worn by Ukrainian military forces while civilians wore white armbands. The Azov militant stridently and enthusiastically responded with “fuck yeah!” Korotkikh then deleted the video, fearing it implicated Azov in yet another war crime.
On April 1, after the mayor had confirmed the Russian withdrawal, the Bucha City Council declared that a “large number of saboteur groups and Russian military disguised as civilians remain” in the city. The next day, Ukrainian media reported that Azov forces began a clearing operation in Bucha of these Russians “disguised as civilians.” Based on the information provided, the massacre that took place in Bucha was carried out by Ukrainian authorities/military forces and their various Nazi brigades.
And most damning of all, French war correspondent Adrian Bocque who spent three weeks in Bucha as a medical volunteer confirmed that the Ukrainian military tortured and murdered Russian hostages and Ukrainian civilians who wore white armbands before laying their corpses out in the streets. In response to his reporting, paid Ukrainian operatives attempted to assassinate him in Istanbul.
@KobeissiLetter So let me get this right
Spend $70B of tax payers money on bombing Iran
Then spend $300B of tax payers money repairing the damage
Then increase taxes to help cover the debt
In the last few weeks Jacobin attacked Ibrahim Traore and Chris Smalls. I can tell you guys first hand there is nothing more the western left hates more than when Black men start to reject liberalism and embrace revolutionary politics
Death threats against me. A subpoena from Congress. Interviews cancelled and censored. A source indicted. Witnesses killed. Read the book that the corrupt national security state and criminal actors within it have fought tooth and nail to suppress. Now available in paperback.
FACT: Jimmy Dore and Tucker Carlson supporting the Canadian trucker strike during COVID and the 2022 rail strike puts them objectively to THE LEFT of AOC
Jimmy: They want you to turn against your neighbor but your neighbor is not your problem because your neighbor is suffering under the same oligarchy that you’re suffering under
Tucker: Exactly
(In December 2022, facing the threat of a railway shutdown, Congress used emergency measures under the Railway Labor Act to mandate a labor contract and prohibit a strike. AOC voted in favor of the resolution that imposed this agreement)
Reminder that the US regime was brought to its knees and completely humiliated by Iran, because now they’re desperately trying to make us forget any of that happened.
@SecRubio Mr. Rubio, I'll be waiting for your June 8 tweet.
That's the anniversary of the USS Liberty attacked by Israel and killed 34 American sailors and 171 wounded.
"Land back" is an ideology for BUMS
It is a billionaire-backed ideology for people who have built nothing in their lives but want free, huge swaths of land & resources handed to them for free based on race.
"MY BLOOD SAYS I AM OWED FREE STUFF!"
It belongs nowhere in Marxism
Meet Joe, otherwise known as OneLAClean, the man who has single-handedly built a successful network of volunteers and activists who come together to feed those in need.
Los Angeles is a region marred by food deserts and economic disparities. A significant part of the work that the ACP does is rooted in the development of food sovereignty for the communities we serve. Part of this work involves networking with community members to come together and provide food to the people who need it most.
🚨BREAKING: Everday Americans HATE Hasan Piker(@hasanthehun) because he reminds them of their HUMILIATION! If they give one inch to Pikers positions, then they have to admit the need for a COMMUNIST Revolution.
Haz Al-Din suggests taking the STALIN pill. Be angry at the SYSTEM!
🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺 Will Ukraine Cut Crimea Off with Recent "Mid-range Strike Campaign?" (A: No)
US-Ukrainian attacks on Crimean lines of communication are increasingly being cited as part of Ukraine's "turning point."
While these capabilities represent an advancement in the US proxy war on Russia, without the ability to couple interdiction with Ukrainian offensives - logistics will be complicated but never "cut" or even reduced to a point of operational or economic crisis for Crimea.
Russia possesses many times greater capabilities to carry out similar logistics interdiction operations, say against Ukrainian-held cities, where logistical lines are more concentrated than those connecting Crimea to the rest of Russia.
Even with this advantage, Russia still needs to physically encircle targeted cities and move a greater concentration of firepower into range of these lines of communication to create actual operational crises for Ukraine.
Ukraine has no prospect of coupling logistical interdiction with Ukrainian offensives to ever cut Crimean logistics.
It is another method of certainly raising the cost for Russia, but not a means of "turning the tide" for Ukraine and its US sponsors.
All attempts to claim otherwise are simply propaganda to justify continuing a war otherwise slowly destroying Ukraine in the process.
ISW is one of the primary sources pushing this narrative, and it is simply the latest version of this narrative used to convince Ukraine and the Western public "victory is just around the corner."
The other headline is from the Atlantic Council, 2023...