Topic: Russian Invasion of Ukraine[In Progress] - page 340. (Read 73526 times)

Your question had a false premise.  The drone clearly wasn't following the soon to be murdered cyclist.  Who are you trying to fool?   

There are no Russian fighters in the photo here. From the point of view of a resident of Russia, these are representatives of the independent Donetsk People's Republic. From the point of view of a resident of a country that did not recognize the independence of the DPR, these are representatives of Ukraine. Oops.

I wonder what we have here? Do Russian fighters have Nazi stripes, or does it seem to me ?? Head of the Donetsk People's Republic Denis Pushilin visited Mariupol and presented state awards to servicemen of the People's Militia of the DPR directly at the combat position.


A video recording posted on Pushilin's Telegram channel shows an episode with the awarding of this fighter, on whose uniform two stripes are visible - a slightly modified version of the Nazi emblem "Totenkopf" and the Scandinavian symbol "Valknut", which is often used by modern neo-pagans and some neo-Nazis.



[1] https://zona.media/online/2022/04/05/41
[2] https://t.me/meduzalive/56618

You're trying to pull an owl on a globe by giving this video as evidence. I asked four questions about this video, and you essentially didn't even answer one. I hope you are sincerely mistaken, and not deliberately lying in this situation.

When investigating any crime, including a military one, the first question to find the culprit sounds like "who can benefit from this?" If you do not ask this question, then you automatically become, at best, just a victim of propaganda.

Nonsense. The drone operator doesn't seem to have noticed where the bicyclist went - at the end the camera was zooming and panning trying to find what the Russians were firing at. And about 30 of the first 90 seconds (before the shot) the bicyclist wasn't even in the frame. You seem to be just lying for no other reason than to waste my time trying to disprove the shit you make up.

Mariupol is a big separate story. Now Ukrainian marines are quite actively surrendering there, and Russian soldiers treat them within the framework of the Geneva Convention. However, in addition to the Marines, there are militants from Azov who play the role of barrage detachments, and they are not taken prisoner, and when they try to leave through the humanitarian corridor in civilian clothes, they are identified by Nazi tattoos and "denazified" on the spot. I think Azov still has about a thousand bayonets in Mariupol and they will all be destroyed.
You are wishful thinking. The drone operator follows the person on the bike, sometimes being distracted and giving a more general view of the column of armored vehicles.

I also want to remind you that martial law and general mobilization have been declared in Ukraine. Therefore, any man from 18 to 60 can be regarded by the Russian military as a combatant, as long as he has not clearly shown the absence of hostile intentions (for example, a white armband or a "press" inscription on a bulletproof vest).

I'm not trying to justify war crimes against civilians, that's disgusting and horrible. If there are those guilty on the Russian side of unmotivated violence and the killing of civilians, an investigation should be carried out by the military prosecutor's office and punishment from a military tribunal should follow.

The drone is clearly focused on the the vehicles, zooming in and out on them, and the bicyclist is in the lower right corner most of the time. Only after the shot did the camera zoom in on that location.

The rest of your bullshit is equally absurd. There is plenty of evidence of Russian forces shooting civilians for spurious reasons or no reasons, as well as robbing, looting, etc. "No motive"

For example: https://www.bbc.com/russian/features-60988371

This single episode with a cyclist does not fit into the overall picture of corpses neatly arranged in a checkerboard pattern with their hands tied. The armored vehicles in the video are probably Russian, several shots were first fired from an automatic 30-mm cannon of an airborne combat vehicle (BMD) and then another shot from a tank gun. There are a few questions below:
1. Why is the drone operator following this particular person, what is the purpose of his mission?
2. What kind of oblong object similar to a hand grenade launcher shoots this "civilian" from behind at about 0:49?
3. The first shot from an automatic 30-mm cannon of an airborne combat vehicle (BMD) was fired when this person had not even left the corner for line of sight at about 1:48, this person was shouting something and they opened fire at the sound ?
4. A few shots from a BMD cannon and a shot from a tank gun look redundant for one civilian on a bicycle, did the Russian paratroopers run out of machine guns?

If there is evidence here, it is not clear what exactly. Definitely not a mass execution of civilians by Russian soldiers. Maybe the Russians prevented a terrorist attack in this video (or I need a clear answer to my first question, because the reconnaissance drone is too expensive a toy with a short battery life to waste it on idle curiosity of the drone operator). You are trying to pass off as evidence something that is not evidence. The Russians simply have no motive to arrange executions of civilians in Ukraine. But for the Ukrainian side, this is beneficial for a number of reasons. And to blame the Russians, and to send a message to civilians in other cities not to cooperate with the Russian military. On April 2, the National Police of Ukraine on its official website openly wrote that in Bucha, after entering the city, a sweep was being carried out from "collaborators". Apparently, "collaborators" here mean everyone who received food and humanitarian aid from the Russians. Arranging demonstrative executions of civilians and blaming the Russians for everything is quite in style for the side that wanted to spit on the Geneva Convention and continues to torture and kill prisoners.

500,000 Iraqi children were not killed by Madeleine Albright, despite her clumsy statement, but by Saddam Hussein.
However, I do not see how that relates to the current situation in Ukraine. A crime is a crime regardless of who the perpetrator is and what justification is sought for it.

We must give credit to Americans here.. Madeleine Albright readily admitted killing 500 000 children, I'm just not sure if that was out of conviction that it was righteous thing to do,
or because she knew USA will protect her even if she would kill another 500 000

Certainly, the perpetrators rarely admit it if ever. But on this game (not a game really) of accusation and denial in the end there are countries that will believe it, some other will believe it and pretend they don't and some others will not care, yet this will not be indifferent when trying to negotiate or open diplomacy - it does have some weight and does not play in favour of removing sanctions.

This is not something unique to Russians. I bet almost all aggressors and genocidal maniacs have at some point reacted in such a way and denied or minimized their atrocities, or even claimed they were never committed.

For example, after the Bosnian genocide in the 1990s, when it was shown that a staggering 8,000 Muslims had been massacred in a matter of several days, the Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic first denied that any war crimes had taken place, and then justified it by claiming that all the victims were Bosnian army forces and they were all killed in a firefight.

Likewise, when the Rohingya have been massacred by the Burmese military, the Burmese president, Aung San Suu Kyi, dismissed these crimes as "fake news" and said the Rohingyas were attacking themselves.

These examples could go on for pages, but the point is, in every instance when independent investigators finally do investigate these crimes and documents them, the aggressor and their enablers denounce the proceedings as "fake," or claim they never occurred.

What's the point of this deflection? Are you going to claim that these are Ukrainian military vehicles? Even if media lied about "complete" liberation, the proof still stands.

Or until they say the examiners set up the bodies themselves. The most common response of Kremlin is attacking the attacker with the same words, saying "it wasn't us, it was you".

The massacre was initiated in NKVD chief Lavrentiy Beria's proposal to Joseph Stalin to execute all captive members of the Polish officer corps, which was approved by the Soviet Politburo led by Stalin.[1] Of the total killed, about 8,000 were officers imprisoned during the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland, another 6,000 were police officers, and the remaining 8,000 were Polish intelligentsia the Soviets deemed to be intelligence agents and gendarmes, spies and saboteurs, former landowners, factory owners and officials "intelligence agents and gendarmes, spies and saboteurs, former landowners, factory owners and officials".[2] The Polish Army officer class was representative of the multi-ethnic Polish state; the murdered included ethnic Poles, Ukrainians, Belarusians, and Jews including the chief Rabbi of the Polish Army, Baruch Steinberg.[3]

The government of Nazi Germany announced the discovery of mass graves in the Katyn Forest in April 1943
The USSR claimed the Nazis had killed the victims, and it continued to deny responsibility for the massacres until 1990, when it officially acknowledged and condemned the killings by the NKVD, as well as the subsequent cover-up by the Soviet government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre

80 years have passed and Russians are doing the same exact thing. Same people, same mentality, different times.

The Ukrainian source "Cycпiльнe Hoвини" reported that this video was filmed on March 3, 2022 by aerial reconnaissance of the Azov Battalion. This information is in the description at the link.

However, on March 3, the Ukrainian media claimed that Bucha "was completely liberated from the invaders".

Drone footage of Russian forces killing a person whose body was recently found next to a bicycle in Bucha. Dated before March 11.

https://twitter.com/bellingcat/status/1511284174921076736

Do they say deserters? That is effectively killing civilians, as they do not have weapons and seem to have given up the army? The only case in which they could potentially be executed is if they were still combatants without uniform (AKA spies / saboteurs) and it would require trial.


Of these, crimes against peace are quite clear, also these three war crimes are certain:


On crimes against humanity, I think that "murder" is certain, "deportation" seems likely, "other inhuman acts" quite likely.

I do not think there is really a way to talk Putin's way out of these - I mean, credible way.

Meanwhile on the other side of the country civilians are also being killed and Russian propaganda is working on new excuses:

https://russian.rt.com/ussr/news/978134-mariupol-likvidaciya-dezertiry



Not sure if they had the supposed deserters in custody, i.e. they executed prisoners of war, or they just shot at civilians from a distance, but either case sounds like an admission of a war crime.

On this case, it look quite unintentional and the proof given makes sense, it could be an UKR vehicle. One case does not make a story and in a digital world there will be many other documents to examine. My personal take is that there has been plenty of intentional civil killing and war crimes and the ones near Kyiv seem clear and well documented.

Whatever that brand of car is, I want one.

The russian nazis got paranoid that the ukrainian nazis could run them over with the help of NATO, USA and EU.
Fair to say, some reasonable concerns in there, but facing the massive fake news and public deception, not to speak of the blunt attack against UA, Russia looks extremely odd.