How Russian soldiers ran a 'cleansing' operation in Bucha

[dalton99a]

https://apnews.com/article/bucha-ukraine-war-cleansing-investigation-43e5a9538e9ba68a035756b05028b8b4

How Russian soldiers ran a 'cleansing' operation in Bucha
By ERIKA KINETZ, OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI and VASILISA STEPANENKO


In this image from March 4, 2022, surveillance video provided by the Ukrainian government, Russian troops lead nine men at gunpoint to their headquarters on Yablunska Street in Bucha, where they would be tortured and executed. (Ukrainian government via AP)

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The Associated Press and the PBS series “Frontline” obtained surveillance camera footage from Bucha that shows, for the first time, what a cleansing operation in Ukraine looks like. This was organized brutality that would be repeated at scale in Russian-occupied territories across Ukraine — a strategy to neutralize resistance and terrorize locals into submission that Russian troops have used in past conflicts, notably Chechnya.

Ukrainian prosecutors now say those responsible for the violence at 144 Yablunska were soldiers from the 76th Guards Airborne Assault Division. They are pursuing the commander, Maj. Gen. Sergei Chubarykin, and his boss, Col. Gen. Alexander Chaiko — a man known for his brutality as leader of Russia’s troops in Syria — for the crime of aggression for waging an illegal war.

Police ended up recovering nearly 40 bodies along Yablunska street alone. Prosecutors have identified 12 around 144 Yablunska; AP reporters documented a 13th body in the stairwell of one of the buildings in the complex, in photos and videos taken on April 3.

Taras Semkiv, Ukraine’s lead prosecutor for the 144 Yablunska street case, told the AP and “Frontline” that it’s unusual to see war crimes play out on video and that the CCTV footage and eyewitness accounts from March 4 are key elements for the prosecution.

“The results of the criminal evidence we’ve gathered so far reveal that it wasn’t just isolated incidents of military personnel making a mistake but a systematic policy targeting the Ukrainian people,” Semkiv said.



Syria's President Bashar al-Assad (left), Russia's President Vladimir Putin (right), Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu (second right), and Lieutenant-General Alexander Yuryevich Chaiko (third right) during a meeting. © Alexey DRUZHININ / SPUTNIK / AFP

[captain queeg]

1. The Russians learned well from the Nazis. They learned how to terrorize a population

They apparently forgot the lessons that the terror tactics only increased resistance.

I remember (sorta) there were 3 rules for successful revolution, I think according to Che Guevara. I remember a couple. A supportive population, certainly true in the case of Ukraine. Support and supplies from out side entities, also true. There was a third one that I don’t remember but I really think the Russians are never going to succeed.