Posted on 04/02/2022 2:45:14 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
Journalists entering a Ukrainian town which saw fierce fighting with Russian forces have found dead bodies of men in civilian clothes strewn on a street.
An AFP news agency reporter in Bucha, near Kyiv, counted at least 20 bodies. At least one man had his hands tied.
Ukrainian forces regained control of the town this week and photos show widespread devastation.
BBC journalists in another part of Ukraine found the bodies of two civilians killed by Russian forces.
Earlier this week the BBC's Jeremy Bowen and his team counted a total of 13 bodies, some of whom may have been Ukrainian soldiers, along a stretch of road between the villages of Mria and Myla.
Ukraine says Russian forces have made a "rapid retreat" from around Kyiv, with one official saying the whole region around the capital has been retaken since the invasion began on 24 February.
The invasion has seen thousands killed in ferocious fighting and has made refugees of at least four million Ukrainians. Western states have responded with tough sanctions against Russia and military supplies for Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has sought to justify his attack by arguing that Ukraine, a former Soviet state with Nato and EU ambitions, was a constant threat and Russia could not feel "safe, develop and exist".
In Bucha, where a photographer for Reuters news agency also recorded dead bodies, holes gaped from apartment blocks hit by shelling and crushed cars littered the streets.
Sixteen of the 20 bodies seen by AFP lay either on the pavement or by the verge. Three were sprawled in the middle of the road, and another lay on his side in the courtyard of a destroyed house.
An open Ukrainian passport lay on the ground next to the person who had his hands tied behind his
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Civilian corpses littering the streets outside their houses, hands bound, executed in groups. Claim by the Bucha Mayor that there’s a mass grave of over 300 civilians, some as yet unconfirmed photos. Civilian bodies stuffed into the water supply systems. As yet unconfirmed news reporter story of mass rape, then burning the women involved alive in a pile of tyres. Houses stripped of everything movable to supply the flea markets of Belarus. It's like a re-enactment of the sackings of antiquity.
Ukraine ping
Tied behind his excerpt?
Why they did that?
Babi Yar
“The massacre was the largest mass-murder under the auspices of the Nazi regime and its Ukrainian collaborators during the campaign against the Soviet Union...”
33,771 Jews in initial two-day massacre.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babi_Yar
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Looks like the Ukes are still “winning” the “war”.
We’re gonna need more sunflower seeds.
Sounds like the friendly Chechen troops are eliminating Christian civilians using techniques perfected in their region, while giving Russia’s Spetsnaz troops instructions on extreme cruelty.
“Ukrainian Auxiliary Police were the major perpetrator of the Holocaust on Soviet territories based on native origins, and those police units participated in the extermination of 150,000 Jews in the area of Volhynia alone.
“The auxiliary police registered the Jews, conducted raids and guarded ghettos, loaded convoys to execution sites and cordoned them off.
“They also took part in the massacre in Dnipro, where the field command noted that the cooperation ran “smoothly in every way”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Auxiliary_Police
The Russians are war criminals.
The two deserve each other. This isn't America's fight.
The Einsatzgruppen also had a good many Lithuanian members and “auxiliaries,” who were no slouches when it came to killing Jews.
This isn’t America’s fight.
***Then we should loudly renounce the Budapest Agreement that our president signed, the Ukes HONORED, and the Rukes have VIOLATED twice by invading. No other country should ever trust us, ever. Especially when it comes to the nonproliferation of nukes.
The two deserve each other. This isn’t America’s fight.
Repeat: There are no Good Guys in this conflict.
“Why they did that?”
Why did YOU do THAT?
[Looks like the Ukes are still “winning” the “war”.]
Babi Yar was mentioned in the orginal post. Additional facts were helpful, hopefully, to all readers of the thread.
Not mentioned was the Lviv Pogram in 1941 which was initiated by the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.
Ukraine rates the 4th in the number of people recognized as “Righteous Among the Nations” for saving Jews during the Holocaust.
The history of the Jews in Ukraine goes back over a thousand years. Jewish communities have existed in the territory of Ukraine from the time of the Kievan Rus’ (late 9th to mid-13th century). Some of the most important Jewish religious and cultural movements, from Hasidism to Zionism, rose either fully or to an extensive degree in the territory of modern Ukraine. According to the World Jewish Congress, the Jewish community in Ukraine constitutes the third-largest in Europe and the fifth-largest in the world.
In the Ukrainian People’s Republic (1917-1920), Yiddish was declared a state language, along with Ukrainian and Russian. At that time, the Jewish National Union was created and the community was granted an autonomous status. Yiddish was used on Ukrainian currency in this same period, between 1917 and 1920.[12] Before World War II, slightly less than one-third of Ukraine’s urban population consisted of Jews; they were the largest national minority in Ukraine.
Total civilian losses during World War II and the German occupation of Ukraine are estimated at seven million. More than one million Jews were shot and killed by the Einsatzgruppen [paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass-murder, primarily by shooting, during World War II (1939–1945) in German-occupied Europe.]
As ordered by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, the Wehrmacht cooperated with the Einsatzgruppen, providing logistical support for their operations, and participated in the mass murders. Historian Raul Hilberg estimates that between 1941 and 1945 the Einsatzgruppen, related agencies, and foreign auxiliary personnel murdered more than two million people, including 1.3 million of the 5.5 to 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust.
After the close of World War II, 24 senior leaders of the Einsatzgruppen were prosecuted in the Einsatzgruppen trial in 1947–48, charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes.
Putin has fixed the base price for bricks new gold currency at $1600 per oz.. thats only the base
The timing is always of interest.
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