Posted on 04/05/2022 3:18:42 AM PDT by tlozo
Satellite photographs released on Monday appear to rebut Russian assertions that dead bodies in civilian clothing found in Bucha had appeared there after Russian forces retreated from the devastated Ukrainian town.
Mid-March satellite imagery of a Bucha street appears to show several bodies of civilians lying dead in or just off the roadway where Ukrainian officials recently said they found multiple corpses after Russian troops withdrew.
"High-resolution Maxar satellite imagery collected over Bucha, Ukraine (northwest of Kyiv) verifies and corroborates recent social media videos and photos that reveal bodies lying in the streets and left out in the open for weeks," Maxar Technologies spokesman Stephen Wood said Monday in a statement.
The New York Times published an analysis of close-ups of Bucha's Yablonska street, and concluded — after comparing it with video footage from April 1 and 2 of dead bodies along the street — that many had been there since at least three weeks ago, when Russian forces were in control of the town.
AFP photographers entered Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, on Saturday and directly confirmed the presence of some 20 bodies — all in civilian clothing, some with their hands bound — in scenes that have sparked global revulsion, and accusations of war crimes.
Russia's Defense Ministry has denied responsibility, saying that all its units "withdrew completely from Bucha as early as March 30," while the Kremlin has dismissed the graphic images emerging from the town as "fakes" concocted by Ukraine.
That claim was repeated at the United Nations on Monday, where Moscow's envoy Vassily Nebenzia reiterated at a press conference the corpses pictured in Bucha were not there before Russian troops left the city.
"Suddenly they appear on the streets lying on the road, one by one, left and right, some of them are moving, some of them showing the signs of life," he said, claiming the scenes were "arranged by the Ukrainian information, information warfare machine."
But Maxar satellite images dated March 19 and March 21 show that multiple bodies were on Bucha's Yablonska street at that time.
And according to the Times analysis, Maxar images show dark objects of similar size to human bodies appearing on the street between March 9 and 11.
Many of the bodies pictured in the satellite images appeared in the precise position on the ground as seen in video footage from the same street filmed by a Ukrainian local council member, and in photographs by international news outlets.
In a second side-by-side comparison, the Times studied a video posted on Instagram of a body in the street in front of two cars. A satellite image from March 21 shows the corpse and the vehicles in the same location.
Maxar again.
Trust but verify.
tlozo - the pro-Putin folks will come up with a way to dismiss this
Other countries are getting the message that reliance on US/EU is a kind of neo-slavery and indirect subjugation. Your NWO will be broken.
The simple fact that you find it necessary to call us "pro-putin" shows the weakness of your side.
Most of us are just not blindly accepting the Biden NWO ejaculate called "news" as easily as you do.
Paid Russian stooges and evil Putin propagandists will be here to defend the genocide.
Did you support Stalin when he, too, murdered millions of Ukrainians?
So its better the Russians killed them, then having Ukrainians possibly be part of the western world. Okay. Seek help.
No one believes your propaganda, not to mention my concern is for the American people, not with Zelenskkk.
Yes, you're famous for your bs neutrality, always bashing Zelensky not Pootie.
Thanks.
https://twitter.com/spriter99880/status/1510996139868405768
Ukrainian national police inspected the streets of Bucha from saboteurs and Russian associates, on 02.04,2022, we see clean streets. There are no corpses on the video.
the recording is original from the Ukrainian police.
A pox on both their houses.
I am calling you “pro-Putin” as that’s what your posts are. I don’t think you are, like NorseViking, a Russian posting from Russia (check his posts from 2021 and earlier), so I’m calling you “pro-Putin”
As to Biden - he’s a pedo stuttering loon - and I’m not a particular fan of Zelensky.
What I am, is against the invasion of a neighbouring state - which is what Putin is doing.
Maybe you should re-think the propaganda here. Saying you will "break" the NWO in the same thread as Russians murdering and gang raping with impunity is not a good combination. Are you going to break the NWO by raping our families to death, JonPreston?
99.9% of you actually become offended at any news that Russia is losing. I've even seen posters insult the US and Ukrainian militaries as homosexual and in need of being wiped out by the Russkies, and have been told many times that the defeat of Ukraine is imminent and something to be celebrated. The Putinists are absolutely pro-Putin. There's no ifs ands or buts about it. Maybe you, by some miracle, will claim you are different, but I have my doubts. I don't remember your posts enough to know for sure.
More Biden propaganda? Prove any of that happened, and supply your non MSM sources.
This video obviously doesn't invalidate the other videos. It's not one of the streets referenced din the link. Did someone claim there are bodies on every single street? And considering the source, are we even sure it's the same city?
Not sure how things work in the Kremlin, but towns have more than one street in most countries.
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