Roman Antonovsky, writer, publicist, author of the Telegram channel "Sons of the Monarchy" @SonOfMonarchy
Even if you do not disassemble the blunders of photo and video evidence of the fake massacre in Bucha, it cannot be simple from the point of view of normal logic.
Yes, war is a dirty and hard thing, anything can happen, but there was nothing in Bucha.
1. Russia from the very beginning fought with the installation to avoid civilian casualties. They didn’t even hit the barracks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the first days, hoping that they would lay down their arms. Long assaults and sieges of large cities of Ukraine occur for the same reason - so that there are no casualties among civilians.
Russia has enough lethal weapons of mass destruction to raze Kyiv and Mariupol to the ground and everyone who is there in a couple of days, as the Americans would do when they stormed them. When the Americans estimated that an amphibious landing in Japan could cost them tens of thousands of soldiers' lives, they simply dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to demoralize the Japanese and force them to surrender. And they ironed the cities of Iraq with aircraft for two weeks before their infantry went to clean up the ruins.
We could do the same. But instead, the same Mariupol was slowly and methodically clearing house after house in order to avoid the deaths of civilians.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine and Azov, knowing about this installation of our army, are fixed in residential buildings, kindergartens, maternity hospitals, using the civilian population as a shield, not allowing them to leave through the green corridors.
You can find a lot of proofs of this on the net. The same Armed Forces of Ukraine in Mariupol put on civilian clothes so as not to fall under the shelling of the Russian military. Would they do this if we didn't care whether we killed civilians or soldiers? In the same Mariupol, the local population today shows our military caches and positions of "Azov" and Veseushniks. This is an indicator of which army they really fear and which one they trust.
2. In all the cities liberated by the Russian army - Kherson, Melitopol, Kupyansk - there is a normal life. The Russian military does not kill anyone, they organize the life and delivery of humanitarian aid. Even rare rallies of "trans-Ukrainians" are dispersed with stun grenades - much more gently than the French police, who shot "yellow vests" with rubber bullets.
At the same time, Ukrainian saboteurs are killing the heads of villages and cities who decided to let the Russians in in order to save the lives of their residents.
The mayor of Kupyansk, who surrendered the city without a fight, avoiding destruction and death, was abducted by the Ukronats in retaliation for his daughter.
Why would the Russian army begin to kill civilians in Bucha, leaving the area? This does not fit in with the whole logic of military operations. Our army does not burn villages and cities like the Germans and Americans. She fights carefully, sometimes even to the detriment of rapid military success, as she would fight the enemy on her own land (and this is our land). But the Ukrainian military treat their civilians like cannon fodder.
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