In Bucha, the scope of Russian barbarity is coming into focus

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Source: Washington Post

This story contains graphic photos and video, including images of a decapitated body.

BUCHA, Ukraine — The name of this city is already synonymous with the month-long carnage that Russian soldiers perpetrated here.

But the scale of the killings and the depravity with which they were committed are only just becoming apparent as police, local officials and regular citizens start the grim task of clearing Bucha of the hundreds of corpses decomposing on streets and in parks, apartment buildings and other locations.

As a team from the district prosecutor’s office moved slowly through Bucha on Wednesday, investigators uncovered evidence of torture before death, beheading and dismemberment, and the intentional burning of corpses.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/06/bucha-barbarism-atrocities-russian-soldiers/

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President Biden is absolutely correct. Putin is a butcher. This is also further evidence of the extreme hate and intended genocide of Ukraine by Putin and his henchmen. All propagated in Russian media.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

1. Got a link without a paywall

[herding cats]

4. You can try using this

Hop the paywall: https://12ft.io/

It's what you see used when posters here say, "without paywall' or "non-subscription" it works.

[BigmanPigman]

2. Another mass murder by drunk Russians.

I keep hearing about how fucking drunk and undisciplined these Russian troops are. That adds fuel to their mass killings without remorse.

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12. I did a little research on the Russian military a few days ago...........

I learned that the military is mostly composed of the dregs of society in Russia. Drunks, misfits, etc., those who cannot afford to pay the $5,000 to get out of service.

And there is a hierarchy within the military, also... The new "recruits" are stripped of their new uniforms by higher ups and given old and ragged uniforms, they are mistreated, etc...

They pass this on to the victims.......

[BigmanPigman]

14. That doesn't surprise me, especially after hearing about

their lack of victories from the beginning. Crappy troops and crappy weapons does not add up to a win in their future. Maybe they will have to hire more mercenaries (perhaps from Eric Prince).

[GB_RN]

3. Jesus H. Christ...

I'm angry over the atrocities, but my first thoughts are that I'm glad that my friend lives in Kyiv, and then I get angry at myself for being selfish and not being angry at first over the atrocities.

I fucking hate Putin for doing this shit. I don't believe in gods, heavens or hells, but if I did, I'd hope he'd be going to the lowest depths of whatever punishment-type afterlife there is.

[Warpy]

5. It was no picnic in Kyiv, sirens would go off at all times, day and night

and the sound of shelling just 10-15 miles away both had to be nerve wracking.

I have faith that Putin is going to realize his worst nightmare, that people around him are going to realize he's a pipsqueak who has completely lost the plot after ripping off the country for over 20 years and who needs to go. Dictatorships are brittle things, and a blunder like the war against Ukraine is a failure that won't be ignored for long.

If the Russians are at all smart, they need to update their constitution, that any president who tries to become president for life needs to be marched out in back of the Kremlin to meet a firing squad. "Politicians are like diapers, they need to be changed often and for the same reason"--apocryphal but true.

[GB_RN]

6. I Know.

She's told me that the shelling had come close to where she lived and the power transfer station for her neighborhood had been hit.

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10. Yup

I go from anger to tears to just having to take a step back from it all for my peace of mind. There are not enough adjectives for the way I feel about these evil savages.

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7. All I see from all this is Fox News supporting Putin and doubling down on their support for murder

They did this. They're the ones in bed with murderers and the worst elements of humankind on the planet.

If only Russians in congress knew shame.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

8. How ironic...

This word in Russian, "правда" (written in Western letters pravda) the name of the state newspaper translates to "truth" in English.

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9. Yeah, I know

Isn't that bizarre!! It makes the old adage, "The truth is stranger than fiction" ring with real truth.

[Warpy]

11. Burning and burial aren't coverups, they're a sanitation necessity

Leaving corpses out to rot is not a good idea for anyone who is dug in close by. Likely the people in the streets were killed in the last week or so, when the army knew they'd be retreating back into Belarus soon.

Cremating or burying some of the bodies isn't the crime. Rolling into a village and opening fire on all the houses is the crime. Tossing grenades into those houses to wreck them is the crime. Shelling apartment houses is the crime.Destroying hospitals with bombs and shelling is the crime. Rounding up male civilians and shooting them in the legs before executing them is the crime. And I won't mention what they did to any women and girls they caught.

Putin and his undisciplined rabble of an army are butchers. It looks like even Russia's allies are sickened by it. Instead of voting against removing Russia from the human rights committee, they abstained.

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13. Kick