Quote from: suchmoon on April 05, 2022, 03:00:59 PM

Quote from: Veleor on April 05, 2022, 01:33:30 PM

Quote from: suchmoon on April 05, 2022, 12:34:06 PM

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

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".

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.

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.