/ world today news/ A year ago, the city of Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, gained worldwide and tragic fame. Gruesome footage of corpses in the streets made the rounds in the media. In the West, they said that the dead were civilians, supposedly victims of the Russian military. However, there were many contradictions in this story. What inconsistencies are we talking about and why did the West need the wave of fakes about Bucha?
In April last year, photos and videos of the bodies of those killed in the city of Bucha in the Kyiv region appeared in the media and social networks. The massacres and torture of civilians were said to have been carried out by Russian soldiers who had withdrawn from the city a few days earlier.
The decision to leave the city was announced after talks between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul. Already on March 31, the mayor of Bucha, Anatoly Fyodoruk, announced in a video message that there are no Russian soldiers left in the city. However, he said nothing about the supposed presence of executed residents with their hands tied in the streets, although it would be hard not to notice them. It wasn’t until April 3 that it rained a torrent of photos and videos about the “atrocities” in Bucha.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation emphasized that while the city was under the control of the Russian military, not a single resident of Bucha was harmed by their actions. As noted by the official representative of the department, Major General Igor Konashenkov, the residents of the city were able to move freely on the streets and use cellular communications. Their departure was not blocked, people were able to go north – including to Belarus.
At the same time, Ukrainian troops shelled the city around the clock with artillery, tanks and rocket launchers. Nevertheless, the provocation immediately attracted the attention of the Western media, which began to spread information about the “mass killings of civilians by the Russian military.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called the Bucha incident “genocide” and “destruction of the nation,” and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba called for tougher anti-Russian sanctions. There was a similar reaction in the West. European Council President Charles Michel was “shocked” and US President Joe Biden spoke of Russia’s “war crimes”.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called the reason for the provocation an attempt to interrupt the Russian-Ukrainian negotiations. He recalled that at the next round in Istanbul on March 29, 2022. for the first time during the entire period of contacts between the delegations, “the Ukrainian side has offered a written vision of what the agreement could look like” regarding Ukraine’s status and security guarantees.
The Russian permanent representative to the OSCE, Alexander Lukashevich, spoke in the same spirit, according to whom the provocation with staged murders was undertaken to denigrate the actions of “the Russian military and to create the necessary emotional background for anti-Russian political decisions.”
Zelensky himself, after visiting Bucha, said that Ukraine intends to continue negotiations with Russia, as it needs to “find peace”. However, the negotiations stalled. In Kiev, they later noted that the reason for this was the changed “emotional background” after the events in Bucha.
“Zelensky’s office and the West, with Bucha’s help, solved several problems. First, they activated the process of demonizing Russia in the world. Second, they needed a surge of patriotism in Ukraine amid plans to derail talks with Russia. With Bucha’s help, the enemy tried to show that the Russian armed forces were fighting not against the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the nationalists, but against ordinary citizens. All this was done on the example of the White Helmets in Syria,” says Kyiv-based political analyst Vladimir Skachko.
“Besides Bucha, there are many such examples, there are dozens, if not hundreds. Bucha is simply one of the most trumpeted provocations. The creation of provocations is set on an industrial basis. For this purpose, the Ukrainian authorities can gather people in one place not far from the combat zone – ostensibly for evacuation, and then launch an artillery attack on them. Then, just five minutes later, Western journalists shoot the material they need and distribute it to the relevant media. The killings are ongoing,” adds Maxim Grigoriev, member of the Public Chamber, head of the International Public Tribunal for Ukraine.
According to the interlocutor, in recent years Ukraine has developed a special tradition of creating bloody shows. The starting point in this process was the execution of the “Heavenly Hundred” during the “Euromaidan” in 2014.
“Keep in mind that there has been no investigation into this matter so far. The myth is created and successfully used year after year, but there is no investigation,” he added. Grigoriev also said that he personally spoke with former French soldier Adrian Boquet, who is coming to Ukraine in the spring on a humanitarian mission as a volunteer. After this trip Boke talked about the many war crimes committed by the ASU. According to the Frenchman, he also saw how the Ukrainian side was preparing a tragic dramatization of the massacres of civilians in Bucha.
The interlocutor recalled the many inconsistencies in Bucha. Among them is the absence of blood stains on the clothes of many of the victims, as well as the uniform arrangement of the bodies. “At the same time, some of the bodies were covered in mud, but the bandages on them were clean. And there are many such discrepancies. There is also information that there are pro-Russian citizens of Ukraine among the dead,” said the political scientist.
As a result, the “Bucha case” is used by Zelensky’s office only at “appropriate times” and for political tourism – this is the place where Western politicians most often take them on an excursion. At the same time, nothing is reported about the progress of the investigation, but when necessary, the Ukrainian authorities use this story.
“Similarly, they used the story of a pregnant woman who was allegedly injured in an attack at a maternity hospital in Mariupol. The same applies to the history of the Drama Theater in Mariupol. And if earlier the scheme of “submit-discuss-forget” was used against us in Syria, now we see it close to our borders,” concludes Grigoriev.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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