The Putin regime is under increasing pressure because of the massacre in Bucha: now the radio messages are even corroborating Russian war crimes.
Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service intercepted radio messages from Russian soldiers in which they exchanged views on atrocities in Bucha, as reported by Spiegel.de. Some of the radio messages must even be traceable to photographed corpses.
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Specifically, this is the case of a civilian who was shot from his bicycle. The image of a corpse on its bicycle went around the world. In another radio message, a man is said to say: First interrogate the soldiers, then shoot them.
Radio messages point to ‘Wagner’ mercenaries
As spiegel.de reports, radio messages reveal that the atrocities in Bucha appear planned and are not the result of “lone soldiers gone mad”. In addition, other sound recordings would be available, which suggests that such massacres are also taking place in other regions. However, it has not yet been possible to assign them to a location.
The material also shows that employees of Russian mercenary troops such as the “Wagner Group” played a key role in the atrocities. This had already attracted attention during its deployment in Syria due to its particular cruelty.
410 bodies counted
The atrocities against the civilian population in the Kiev suburb of Bucha have caused horror across the world. After the withdrawal of Russian troops, Ukraine counts the bodies of a total of 410 residents.
Hostomel, northwest of the capital Kiev, with the airfield nearby, was heavily contested from the start of the war. Most of the original 16,000 residents fled. A few days ago, Ukrainian troops regained control of Hostomel, as well as the neighboring towns of Bucha and Irpin. It was only on Tuesday that the head of the local military administration said about 400 residents of Hostomel were missing and that authorities now wanted to inspect the basement.
NATO plans to continue supplying weapons to Ukraine
The North Atlantic Defense Alliance, NATO, will provide besieged Ukraine with more weapons in the fight against Russia. That also includes heavy weapons, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday, ahead of consultations with the alliance’s 30 foreign ministers in Brussels. Upon arrival, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Ukraine needed “guns, guns and guns”. “We know how to fight, we know how to win.”
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Ukraine and the Ukrainian army have shown in recent weeks that they know how to fight. “But without a sustained and sufficient supply of all the weapons that Ukraine requires, these achievements will come with huge casualties,” he said. The faster and faster Ukraine gets weapons, the more lives will be saved and the fewer cities will be destroyed. “And there will be no more bouchas,” the minister said, referring to recent atrocities in the Kiev suburbs.
Major concerns in Kharkiv
After Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Wereshchuk called on people in Luhansk, Donetsk and Kharkiv regions to flee, worried about a new Russian offensive in the east of the country, the mayor of Kharkiv is trying to calm people down. Neither he nor the military currently consider it necessary to carry out a centralized evacuation of the country’s second-largest city, Ihor Terekhov said in a video message posted on Telegram late on Wednesday.
The city of Kharkiv is well-armed and ready for defense, the mayor said. Whether one wants to leave the city in view of the ongoing bombing is up to each individual. The evacuation order applies to Losowa and Barvinkove districts in the Kharkiv region, he said. These are south of Kharkiv, near the Donbass. The military there expected the military situation to deteriorate.
According to Ukrainian sources, the small town of Lozova has already been targeted by Russian troops with rockets. The announcement was made by the mayor of Lozova, Serhiy Zelenskyy, in a video posted on Telegram late on Wednesday. There were no deaths or injuries, Zelenskyj said. There was no further information about the bombing target.
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