You may have noticed the legacy media’s continuous cries that “the satellite images of Bucha prove Russia “did it” – that is, the war crimes of what is being referred to as the “Bucha Massacre.” This “truth” has been repeated relentlessly at every opportunity this past week, including during the UN Security Council meeting held last Tuesday, the 5th of April.
In this post I have compiled information and analysis which paint a different picture than that which is being portrayed by the glaring headlines and talking heads .
An analysis of satellite images by The New York Times rebuts claims by Russia that the killing of civilians in Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv, occurred after its soldiers had left the town.
When images emerged over the weekend of the bodies of dead civilians lying on the streets of Bucha — some with their hands bound, some with gunshot wounds to the head — Russia’s Ministry of Defense denied responsibility. In a Telegram post on Sunday, the ministry suggested that the bodies had been recently placed on the streets after “all Russian units withdrew completely from Bucha” around March 30.
Russia claimed that the images were “another hoax” and called for an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting on what it called “provocations of Ukrainian radicals” in Bucha.
But a review of videos and satellite imagery by The Times shows that many of the civilians were killed more than three weeks ago, when Russia’s military was in control of the town.
One video filmed by a local council member on April 1 shows multiple bodies scattered along Yablonska Street in Bucha. Satellite images provided to The Times by Maxar Technologies show that at least 11 of those had been on the street since March 11, when Russia, by its own account, occupied the town. (Continued…)
Update: New video shows Russian soldiers opening fire on a cyclist in Bucha.
If it makes any sense to you that dead bodies had allegedly been left scattered along Yablonska Street in Bucha since the 11th of March, and that this wasn’t announced to the world until the 3rd of April, I would very much like to hear your explanation. Given the never-ending ‘Putin is a war criminal’ propaganda that we have been bombarded with for a month and half now, I find this completely incongruous.
Let us begin with a look at some of the excellent work by Brian Berletic, a former U.S. Marine and Bangkok-based geopolitical analyst, formerly known by his nom de plume of “Tony Cartalucci”. I first became aware of him through interviews he did with Patrick Henningsen of 21st Century Wire several years ago. It should be noted that Brian uses mainstream sources for his analysis and always provides links to material he references in the description for his videos.
The "Massacre” is being squarely blamed on Russia before any investigation can take place.
Despite no likelihood of a real investigation taking place, there remains the question of why Russia would occupy and live side-by-side Ukrainians outside Kiev but kill them during their otherwise orderly withdrawal?
Or why Ukrainian forces who have tortured and killed prisoners of war, deliberately used the civilian population as shields during combat, and have nationwide tortured and taped its own civilian population to posts for infractions during the war would not immediately see the population outside Kiev as “collaborators” and punish them accordingly.
This is one of the tweets from the very informative Twitter thread Brian linked below the video:
There is so much more to the Bucha story that is not being told. The western media and western governments are deliberately rushing to conclusion. They want to blame Moscow. They want to blame Russian Forces before any evidence comes out. They want to do their political damage before facts start coming to the surface.
If you are following the conflict on social media you’re going to see these kind of videos coming out constantly from all across Ukraine, and also involving police and military. Not just ordinary civilians carrying out vigilantism. This is a top-down method of operation. It’s in every major city. There’s something going on in Ukraine. Something very ugly that the western media is trying to distract from, spin or cover-up for as long as possible, until they can’t. Just like in Syria where they told us for years that there were these freedom fighters, fighting the Syrian Government and then it turned out that they were all Al-Qaeda and Islamic State militants.
I want to stress that the video I’m talking about is very recent, it just recently surfaced yesterday [4 April 2022] and is still unverified. We still have to wait for a lot of information to come out about it but I just thought it was very striking that you have on camera, Ukrainians killing Russian prisoners of war, their hands bound behind their back and leaving them dead on the road, somewhere in Ukraine, precisely as those civilians were left in Bucha.
I just thought it was very striking and I feel that it is very important for us to learn as much as we can about both of these incidents. Dig for the evidence, because the west is going to try to delay or deny any sort of actual meaningful investigation. They’re already jumping to sanctions and all kinds of penalties and punishments, not just for Russia but for people who are questioning this story.
We have to do the investigation because the west will have no investigation. It’s up to ordinary people. That’s your choice. To do as much research as possible into what may or may not have happened or just believe the western media who we know are consistent and habitual liars.
Please watch the complete 6:59min video.
This is Brian Berlectic’s description for his 6th April video embedded below, Debunking the New York Times’ Lazy Ukraine “Satellite Investigation”:
The New York Times claims satellite images it has obtained “prove” Russia is lying about a supposed “massacre” northwest of Kiev.
However, their own evidence together with videos produced by Ukraine’s own military suggests heavy artillery and mortar strikes most likely killed the majority of those found on the streets. Another video suggests a Russian armoured vehicle may have accidentally shot at least one civilian from around a corner in the middle of tense combat.
Together, it is clear there was no deliberate “massacre” – at least not until Russian forces left the area. Bound and executed civilians appear to have died much more recently, implicating Ukraine. However there is little chance an objective investigation will be launched by the West specifically because of all these indicators.
In the video above, Brian mentions the execution of Ukrainian collaborators by the Ukrainian military, who then tape them to trees and lamp posts, presumably as an example, a warning to others who may be inclined to be friendly with Russian soldiers, especially when they provide humanitarian aid.
The green chemical paint on the face reminds me of a video I previously watched of a beautiful young woman who had been stripped naked and was being stoned with boulders by Ukranian monsters. They made her paint her own face green before they lit her hair on fire. It is absolutely horrifying what is being done to civilians in Ukraine and the Donbas. They are war crimes.
Footage posted by Ukraine’s Defense Ministry and photographs from news agencies showed the bodies of men in civilian clothes on the streets of Bucha, a town northwest of Kyiv. Images showed some corpses with hands bound behind their back.
A screenshot of the original NYT piece was attached to my tweet. It included the sentence:
The New York Times was unable to independently verify the assertions by Ukraine's Defense Ministry and other officials.
Please watch this 7th April further analysis by Brian Berlectic. This is his description for the video:
The New York Times has verified a video of Ukrainian soldiers torturing, executing and mutilating the bodies of bound Russian soldiers outside of Kiev just miles from a recent alleged “massacre” the Western media and Western governments are blaming on Russia.
Video evidence of Ukrainians killing in exactly the same manner as these massacre victims is a damning indictment of not only Ukraine’s conduct during this conflict, but also of the Western world’s complicity in covering up and deflecting for Ukraine and its conduct.
Given that Ukraine and its western allies, including the lapdog legacy media are using satellite images that allegedly prove Russian atrocities against civilians in Bucha, this excellent analysis by journalist, Christelle Néantis of critical importance.
by Christelle Néant
As the scandal surrounding the Bucha massacre grows, new elements prove that this episode is indeed worthy of the mass graves of Timisoara, between the disinformation of the New York Time which releases satellite images that do not hold water, the Ukraine which releases the video of a drone taken on another day, and the truth which appears in the video filmed by the Ukrainian troops in charge of “cleaning the city”.
On April 3, 2022, Ukrainian authorities and Westerners accused Russia of committing a massacre of civilians in Bucha, a town on the outskirts of kyiv. But several inconsistencies indicate that the Bucha massacre is an episode worthy of the affair of the mass graves of Timisoara (a textbook case of misinformation).
To understand what really happened, we must go back to the chronology of events.
On March 30, 2022, the Russian army withdrew from Bucha, as part of the redeployment of troops to the main theater of operations, namely Donbass. Alexander Kots, a journalist who was with the Russian troops in Bucha even said that the Russian army had started to withdraw from this area already several days before , and that March 30 is just the date on which the last soldiers left. The Ukrainian army did not immediately realize that the Russian army had left and continued to shell the area for several days, which may have caused civilian casualties.
On March 31, 2022, the mayor of Bucha, Anatoly Fedoruk, recorded a video, where he expressed his joy at the departure of the Russian armed forces from his city. At no time in the video does he mention the massacre of civilians. The mayor puts on a big smile and talks about victory, etc. Not a word about a possible massacre at Bucha, not a word about civilian casualties. Nothing. Which is strange to say the least.
At the same time, the Telegram channel Bucha Live, which talks about Bucha news, does not mention any massacre of civilians, neither on March 29, nor on March 30, nor on March 31, 2022. There is nothing on this channel before the outbreak of public scandal. Rather odd no for a channel that is supposed to be aware of what is happening locally. [Bold mine.]
First, posts from a Telegram channel dedicated to life in Bucha show photos from 31 March 2022, where there are no bodies in the streets. And no mention of them either.
Another piece of information obtained thanks to this Telegram channel is that the Ukrainian army landed in Bucha on 1 April 2022, and not on 2 April as the Botsman (Ukrainian commander) video suggested. This means that Ukrainian troops could well be responsible for the deaths visible in the April 1 video (see yesterday’s article).
Let’s go back to this video of Botsman, who had already revealed that Ukrainian soldiers were allowed to shoot men not wearing blue armbands (the mark of Ukrainian soldiers).
The Russian blogger Rybar discovered that by turning up the sound in the last few seconds of this video (posted by Botsman himself, I remind you), you can hear a man say “please don’t kill me”, and then a thud, similar to a gunshot (the go-pro filming the video doesn’t have a high quality microphone, and by turning down the sound when editing the video before publishing it became almost inaudible). So I turned up the sound in the last few seconds of this video to check, and indeed that’s what you hear (see video below).
Satellite photos allow this video to be located as having been filmed in Vokzalnaya Street where a column of Russian equipment was destroyed on 27 February 2022 (equipment seen in the video).
The mistreatment of those suspected of collaborating with Russian forces can be seen in this video filmed by the Ukrainians themselves. The arrested men are severely beaten by Ukrainian soldiers, including in the head.
As a result, the hypothesis of a massacre of civilians in Bucha who had received aid from Russian forces by Ukrainian armed forces is reinforced. Indeed, several of the bodies visible in the photos are located near Russian military rations, which the civilians must have obtained as humanitarian aid from Russia.
However, Ukrainian MP Alexei Zhuravko has published a video of an interview with a woman who left Bucha on 25 March. This woman tells how her house was bombed an hour after she accepted humanitarian aid from the Russian army. Clearly, whistleblowers (probably neighbors, since as the interview with Meduza proves, members of the territorial defense battalions were in Bucha) reported that she had accepted Russian aid, and the Ukrainian army shelled her house.
As the scandal surrounding the Bucha massacre grows, new elements prove that this episode is indeed worthy of the mass graves of Timisoara, between the disinformation of the New York Time which releases satellite images that do not hold water, the Ukraine which releases the video of a drone taken on another day, and the truth which appears in the video filmed by the Ukrainian troops in charge of “cleaning the city”.
Following my article yesterday highlighting several inconsistencies in the official narrative of the Bucha massacre, new information has come to reinforce my analysis.
First, posts from a Telegram channel dedicated to life in Bucha show photos from 31 March 2022, where there are no bodies in the streets. And no mention of them either.
Another piece of information obtained thanks to this Telegram channel is that the Ukrainian army landed in Bucha on 1 April 2022, and not on 2 April as the Botsman (Ukrainian commander) video suggested. This means that Ukrainian troops could well be responsible for the deaths visible in the April 1 video (see yesterday’s article).
Let’s go back to this video of Botsman, who had already revealed that Ukrainian soldiers were allowed to shoot men not wearing blue armbands (the mark of Ukrainian soldiers).
The Russian blogger Rybar discovered that by turning up the sound in the last few seconds of this video (posted by Botsman himself, I remind you), you can hear a man say “please don’t kill me”, and then a thud, similar to a gunshot (the go-pro filming the video doesn’t have a high quality microphone, and by turning down the sound when editing the video before publishing it became almost inaudible). So I turned up the sound in the last few seconds of this video to check, and indeed that’s what you hear (see video below).
Satellite photos allow this video to be located as having been filmed in Vokzalnaya Street where a column of Russian equipment was destroyed on 27 February 2022 (equipment seen in the video).
The mistreatment of those suspected of collaborating with Russian forces can be seen in this video filmed by the Ukrainians themselves. The arrested men are severely beaten by Ukrainian soldiers, including in the head.
As a result, the hypothesis of a massacre of civilians in Bucha who had received aid from Russian forces by Ukrainian armed forces is reinforced. Indeed, several of the bodies visible in the photos are located near Russian military rations, which the civilians must have obtained as humanitarian aid from Russia.
However, Ukrainian MP Alexei Zhuravko has published a video of an interview with a woman who left Bucha on 25 March. This woman tells how her house was bombed an hour after she accepted humanitarian aid from the Russian army. Clearly, whistleblowers (probably neighbors, since as the interview with Meduza proves, members of the territorial defense battalions were in Bucha) reported that she had accepted Russian aid, and the Ukrainian army shelled her house.
Having established this, let us now turn to the latest evidence that Russian soldiers killed these civilians long before they left. First, we had the New York Times pulling out of the hat Maxar satellite images allegedly from 19 March 2022 showing dark spots that are believed to be bodies.
The problem is that it’s not clear why the photos from 28 February are of good quality, but those from 19 and 21 March are pixelated to death. With such a degree of quality, to claim that these dark spots are necessarily bodies is like reading tea leaves. Basically, everyone can see what they want.
But the biggest problem is that if these people were killed on 19 March 2022, this would mean that the bodies were left outside for a fortnight before being discovered! Unless they are kept in a cold room (at a temperature of 2 to 4°C, which slows down the process but does not stop it), the body will start to putrefy two to three days after death.
However, from 20 March onwards, temperatures rise to 16°C on 22 and 23 March. The weather was also sunny, which meant that it was even hotter on the dark asphalt where the bodies lay. This means that in a fortnight the bodies should be well advanced in their putrefaction.
The bodies should be swollen with gases from the putrefaction of the internal organs, and black-red putrefaction fluid should have escaped from the bodies which would give off a disgusting smell (I attended an exhumation of bodies in the summer of 2016, and I can assure you that even 20 m away from the guys digging the smell was to be vomited).
Moreover, maggots, stray dogs, rats, and scavengers would have had ample time to devour some of the body parts. But this is not the case, these bodies are intact. No inhabitant of the street where these people were killed would have left the bodies there for a fortnight. Even under the bombardment, the civilians of Mariupol buried their dead within days of their death because the smell was so horrible.
And contrary to what some say, Russian forces did not prevent the burial of civilian bodies, since the digging of the mass grave in mid-March (which I mentioned yesterday) is confirmed by several Ukrainian articles from that period.
In addition, more recent photos of some of the bodies confirm that there is something wrong with this story. Here are some photos taken by Reuters.
It is clear from the hands that the body is still “fresh”. The skin has not yet turned green and then black. On the other hand, there is blood accumulated under the nails and the skin of the fingers is crumpled as if they had been in water for a while. The skin on the palm, however, does not show the same marks, which suggests that the person was lying on his back with his arm behind his back and that his right hand was in a shallow puddle. The white bandage binding the hands is very clean. The victim’s clothes are also very clean. It is impossible for a corpse that has been on the street for a fortnight to be so clean.
A photo of the dead cyclist also raises questions. If you look at his hands, you can see that gloves were put on him, but post-mortem. Because of the rigor mortis, it was impossible to put on all the fingers properly. Why put gloves on a dead man?
Moreover, almost all the dead have their hoods pulled down over their heads, or are face down. If they had been shot in the head there should be blood and holes in the hoods. But there is nothing. On the whole, the victims’ clothes are in good condition, which also raises questions.
It should be added that the actual date of the Maxar satellite shot is being questioned by the Rybar blogger team.
Another attempt, this time by telling us that a Ukrainian drone filmed Russian troops shooting at a civilian on 3 March 2022:
Except that there are some consistency problems. To begin with, on 3 March, a video filmed in Bucha and published on Telegram the same day, shows Ukrainian soldiers raising the Ukrainian flag in the town, while it is snowing! The person filming even clearly states that they are in Bucha on 3 March at the beginning of the videos. Clearly on 3 March, Bucha is under Ukrainian control!
You can clearly see on this video that the ground is soaked. Moreover, if we look at the weather forecast of the day before and of the 3rd of March 2022, we can see that it snowed these two days. However, on the video filmed allegedly on 3 March by the drone, the asphalt is dry! Moreover, if we look at the gardens of the houses to the right and left of the street where the man is moving, we see that the grass is timidly starting to turn green again. But the grass has only started to grow here in the last few days thanks to the rise in temperature. On 3 March 2022 it was barely 1-2°C in Bucha and it was snowing!
So nothing is right in this video. On the announced date the city was under Ukrainian control, and the streets should have been soaked from the snowfall!
As we can see, the elements brought by the Ukrainians and the Western media to support the thesis of Russia’s responsibility for the Bucha massacre do not fit and show clear traces of an attempt to falsify history. As in Timisoara, as in the case of Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, or the incubator case in Kuwait.
And already after this false-flag affair, the Ukrainian army blew up a chemical tank in Roubejnoye, surely to make it look like a chemical attack by Russia, while the Russian army and the LPR people’s militia are surrounding the town. The Russian Ministry of Defense had warned that Ukraine might resort to such a provocation and unfortunately this is what happened.
The war propaganda is in full swing and both Ukraine and its Western bosses are ready to use any lie to portray Russian soldiers as bloodthirsty beasts and war criminals, while Russian troops are doing everything to preserve the lives of civilians in this conflict and are distributing hundreds of tons of humanitarian aid in the areas under its control
Christelle Néant
Given the foregoing information and much more that is ‘out there’, it appears to me as a lay person that there is certainly a lot of information which substantively disputes the “western” NATO narrative of the Bucha Massacre.
Speaking of war propaganda, here is a scene from a soon to be released, made-for-television film:
