Disinfo: US, UK, EU finance provocations similar to Bucha massacre

Summary

Washington, London and Brussels finance provocations that are similar to the Bucha massacre. The same thing happened in Srebrenica, Aleppo and Douma.

Disproof

Pro-Kremlin disinformation obfuscating atrocities against Ukrainian civilians committed by the Russian armed forces in Bucha, in the vicinity of Kyiv.

Russia's claims that video footage showing dead bodies on the streets of Bucha is staged have been fact-checked and debunked by the BBC, Bellingcat, The Atlantic Council, Mediazona, the Insider, Sky News, the New York Times and others.

Accounts of violence against civilians in Bucha have been collected by the Human Rights Watch:

"On March 4, Russian forces in Bucha, about 30 kilometers northwest of Kyiv, rounded up five men and summarily executed one of them. A witness told Human Rights Watch that soldiers forced the five men to kneel on the side of the road, pulled their T-shirts over their heads, and shot one of the men in the back of the head. “He fell [over],” the witness said, “and the women [present at the scene] screamed.”

See also here.

The President of Ukraine, who visited the liberated town of Bucha, said:

"These are war crimes and they will be recognized by the world as genocide. We are aware of thousands of people killed and tortured, with their limbs cut off. Raped women, murdered children. I believe this is genocide"

The European Union has condemned in the strongest possible terms the reported atrocities committed by the Russian armed forces. The EU called for accountability for human rights and international law violations by the Russian Armed Forces, including full support for the investigation launched by the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Read more about the EU's response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

See related disinformation claims, alleging that videos from Ukrainian town Bucha are context-and-evidence-free; that Britain is lying by saying that Bucha massacre is Russia's fault; that the images of dead bodies in Bucha may be a diversion of attention from US biolabs in Ukraine.

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  • Reported in: Issue 279
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 06/04/2022
  • Article language(s) Russian
  • Countries and/or Regions discussed in the disinformation: Russia, Ukraine
  • Keywords: War in Ukraine, Human rights, Bosnia war, Syrian War, War crimes
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Disinfo: Accusations against Russia are groundless, Bucha events are a well-directed show

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Pro-Kremlin disinformation obfuscating atrocities against Ukrainian civilians committed by the Russian armed forces in Bucha, in the vicinity of Kyiv.

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Disinfo: Bucha provocation aimed at accusing Russia of war crimes; no civilians suffered from Russian troops

All photos and videos about the alleged crimes of Russian troops in the Ukrainian town of Bucha near Kyiv are a provocation. Not a single civilian suffered from violence when Russian troops were there. Ukrainian troops were shelling Bucha round the clock.

Apr 05, 2022
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Pro-Kremlin disinformation obfuscating atrocities against Ukrainian civilians committed by the Russian armed forces in Bucha, in the vicinity of Kyiv. The claim is made in the context of the wide Russian invasion of Ukraine, which began on 24 February 2022.

Russia's claims that video footage showing dead bodies on the streets of Bucha is staged have been fact-checked and debunked by the BBC, Bellingcat, The Atlantic Council, Mediazona, the Insider, Sky News, the New York Times and others.

Disinfo: Ukrainian corpses move, stand up and avoid transport in Bucha

Ukrainian "corpses" move, stand up and avoid transport in Bucha. Fake throwers spread a video with "bodies of the dead" lying on the road, allegedly filmed in the city of Bucha, Kiev region. The "corpses" in the footage move their arms and remove their limbs so as not to fall under the wheels of military equipment.

Such staged footage of alleged "Russian crimes" is an example of the work of Western PR structures and media companies to promote fake news about the situation in Ukraine.

Apr 05, 2022
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Well-known pattern of pro-Kremlin disinformation obfuscating atrocities against Ukrainian civilians. This time committed by the Russian armed forces in Bucha, in the vicinity of Kyiv.

Russia's claims that video footage showing dead bodies on the streets of Bucha is staged have been fact-checked and debunked by the BBC, Bellingcat, The Atlantic Council, Mediazona, the Insider, Sky News, the New York Times and others.