just how they did it was crazy though, using "little green men" and then russian sympathizer and moved in
The Russia - Ukraine Conflict
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yep Putin holding them back because this was really a "police action"
Much Azov about nothing: How the ‘Ukrainian neo-Nazis’ canard fooled the world
Multiple expert assessments made in 2022 conclude the modern Azov Regiment is a fairly typical fighting unit, with little, if any, political bent.lens.monash.edu
Wager Group are a Neo Nazi militia though. You shared Tweets hyping them in the hashtags. You don't get to spam shyt about Ukrainian Neo Nazis like it's a gotcha moment when you are happy to post shyt praising Russian Neo Nazis. Both are scum of the earth but you obviously prefer one of the groups to post anything glorifying them
In addition, Ukraine officials are resigning all over the country. Crickets from western media.
Propaganda may have además Stalin look worse than he was
Like what if he only killed like 6/7million as opposed to 20+ or whatever the hell million American sources say.
fukk Putin thoufg...it's a pandemic and you wanna upset balance because your
nation.
He doesn't wanna work with the west because he doesn't wanna lose power.
His nation seems like it's at a plateau military and socially/culturally. Now these sanctions are gonna make shyt worse..
Like what if he only killed like 6/7million as opposed to 20+ or whatever the hell million American sources say.
fukk Putin thoufg...it's a pandemic and you wanna upset balance because your
nation.He doesn't wanna work with the west because he doesn't wanna lose power.
His nation seems like it's at a plateau military and socially/culturally. Now these sanctions are gonna make shyt worse..
Turkey knows when to flex their power.
At the just right moment their vote or assistance is needed in something and then they make sure to take advantage.
Western media are covering this - it's being framed as an anti-corruption move
Top Ukraine officials quit in corruption crackdown - BBC News
A top aide and deputy minister are among those to resign as Ukraine tackles corruption allegations.
www.bbc.co.uk
Putin Stans - where lying is mandatory
Actually, the decreased interest by the press makes it easier for the West to send "heavier" material, more armour, even battle tanks, and longer range artillery and missile systems. And it would also make it easier for the West to more actively help Ukraine, e.g. by providing intelligence and help in target acquisition. Here is a great project ᐉ Donate a Car for Ukrainian Army and Medical Personnel ⇒ Car to Donate Charity . Everyone can join to help
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Russian mercenaries detail killing men, women and children in Ukraine
A video posted by a Russian NGO contains confessions of 2 former prisoners recruited to serve in Russia’s brutal mercenary corps.
Michael Weiss and James Rushton
Wed, April 19, 2023 at 3:31 PM GMT+2
Azamat Uldarov. (via Gulagu.net)
The Russian mercenaries shot pensioners, women and children — a 5-year-old girl, one said, right through the head.
Details of brutal war crimes committed by the Wagner Group in Ukraine have been published by Gulagu.net, a Russian human rights organization. In the horrifying testimonies, Azamat Uldarov and Alexei Savichev, who say they served as Wagner unit commanders, confess in explicit detail the mass murder of Ukrainian civilians, injured Ukrainian prisoners of war and Russian servicemen who had deserted or refused to take part in the massacre.
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Wagner has played a key role in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by filling out the Kremlin’s front lines with waves of its mercenary fighters. Moscow has allowed Wagner to recruit convicts like Uldarov and Savichev directly from Russian prisons, offering amnesty even for the most violent offenders in exchange for being thrown into the maw of war.
The clips that emerged on social media were taken from a longer video uploaded to YouTube by Gulagu.net. Speaking in video calls to Vladimir Osechkin, the founder of the NGO, Uldarov and Savichev explained that orders to kill Ukrainians had come directly from the Wagner Group's founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin, himself a former convict, who has become one of Russia’s most influential oligarchs.
An image of Alexei Savichev taken from a video phone call with Vladimir Osechkin (inset) of Gulagu.net. (via Gulagu.net)
In January, the U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned Wagner as a transnational criminal organization, accusing it of having “engaged in an ongoing pattern of serious criminal activity, including mass executions, rape, child abductions, and physical abuse in the Central African Republic (CAR) and Mali.” The killings described by Uldarov and Savichev allegedly took place during the recent Russian offensives in Bakhmut and Soledar.
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The mercenaries gave Gulagu.net explicit details about how Russian forces were ordered to go house by house in Bakhmut, killing anyone they found inside, civilian and military alike. “To kill everyone. Not to take anyone prisoner. We were told this by Prigozhin. Via video,” Uldarov claimed, adding that his forces carried out these orders ruthlessly.
“When I went into the basement, there were children there. And I was instructed not to release any. I was in command. Me and my group killed everyone. Then we all left. We didn’t let anyone out,” he said. “There were about 40 children there,” Uldarov said. “I gave the command to kill everyone. It was a big house, nine floors. The whole basement was packed and mined. I made the decision to ‘zero’ everyone.”
Prigozhin denied the allegation on the social media site Telegram. “Regarding the execution of children, of course, no one ever shoots civilians or children, no one absolutely needs this. We came there to save them from the regime they were under.”
“As for what [Osechkin] filmed, I looked at the pieces of video I managed to see,” he added later. “I can say the following: If at least one of these accusations against me is confirmed, I am ready to be held accountable according to any laws.” But, he continued, “if none is confirmed, I will send a list of 30-40 people who are spitting at me like Osechkin (there is a whole list of them, including the scum that fled Russia) that the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine is obligated to hand over to me for a ‘fair trial,’ so to speak.”
A photo taken from video of an unspecified location in Ukraine and released by the Prigozhin Press Service on March 3, shows Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company, asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to withdraw the remaining Ukrainian forces from Bakhmut to save their lives. (Prigozhin Press Service via AP)Less
In another chilling video, Uldarov describes how he personally murdered a young Ukrainian girl. “She is screaming. She’s a little, you know? Five, maybe 6 years old. And I took a kill shot, you know?”
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Uldarov later recanted his confession on a Prigozhin-linked news site, claiming he was drunk and pressured to admit things he hadn’t done in the war.
In a separate video testimony, Alexei Savichev detailed to Osechkin the murder of unarmed young Ukrainian teenagers earlier this year. Savichev recounts how teenagers captured by Russian forces were made to pull up their shirts to reveal any possible tattoos — a common Russian tactic to determine their ideological disposition.
Wagner mercenaries shot those with tattoos, Savichev said. He attempted to justify his actions by claiming he didn’t consider the teenage Ukrainians to be “civilians.” The presence of tattoos, he asserted, were evidence that his victims were members of the Azov battalion, a nationalist unit in the Ukrainian military. Russia, falsely, has amplified the unit's influence and describes all Ukraine’s defense forces as “neo-Nazis.”
Yet documents published on Gulagu.net’s own Telegram channel confirm many of the details in Uldarov and Savichev’s accounts, including certificates of the release from their former penitentiaries and the “courage” medals they received from Wagner. Another of the documents was a presidential pardon for Uldarov, personally signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Azamat Uldarov. (via Gulagu.net)
Supporting evidence of the ex-mercenaries’ atrocities was further published by the Ukraine’s domestic security service, known as the SBU. On their Telegram channel, the Ukrainian intelligence organization published what the SBU claims was an intercepted phone call between a Russian soldier and a woman who is apparently his wife, which supported the testimonies made by Gulagu.net. In the recording, an unnamed Russian soldier details a similar “no quarter” policy to the woman, explaining how he, too, had to kill women, children and teenage girls. The woman attempts to justify the murder of civilians, claiming that “anyone peaceful will have already left.”
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While executing civilians under any circumstances is a war crime, giving an order of “no quarter” is also against international law, according to numerous treaties, including the Geneva Conventions, to which Russia is a signatory.
Yahoo News cannot independently verify the veracity of this SBU intercept.
The video confessions published by Gulagu.net are the latest evidence of likely Russian war crimes committed during the course of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Last week, a video circulated on social media showing a captive Ukrainian soldier being beheaded by his Russian captors. Another video showed two beheaded Ukrainian soldiers near a destroyed Ukrainian M113 armored personnel carrier.
Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian Parliament’s human rights commissioner, told news outlet Ukrainska Pravda that his office has received “dozens” of videos showing Russians publicly executing Ukrainians. "There are beheadings, cutting off genitals, ears, nose, limbs or phalanges on the hands,” Lubinets said. “Some [of the perpetrators] have been identified.”
Last month, Ukrainian President Zelensky posthumously bestowed the Hero of Ukraine award on Oleskandr Matsievskiy, an unarmed Ukrainian captive who was filmed being shot and killed by Russian soldiers.
A video posted by a Russian NGO contains confessions of 2 former prisoners recruited to serve in Russia’s brutal mercenary corps.
Michael Weiss and James Rushton
Wed, April 19, 2023 at 3:31 PM GMT+2
Azamat Uldarov. (via Gulagu.net)
The Russian mercenaries shot pensioners, women and children — a 5-year-old girl, one said, right through the head.
Details of brutal war crimes committed by the Wagner Group in Ukraine have been published by Gulagu.net, a Russian human rights organization. In the horrifying testimonies, Azamat Uldarov and Alexei Savichev, who say they served as Wagner unit commanders, confess in explicit detail the mass murder of Ukrainian civilians, injured Ukrainian prisoners of war and Russian servicemen who had deserted or refused to take part in the massacre.
ADVERTISEMENT
Wagner has played a key role in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by filling out the Kremlin’s front lines with waves of its mercenary fighters. Moscow has allowed Wagner to recruit convicts like Uldarov and Savichev directly from Russian prisons, offering amnesty even for the most violent offenders in exchange for being thrown into the maw of war.
The clips that emerged on social media were taken from a longer video uploaded to YouTube by Gulagu.net. Speaking in video calls to Vladimir Osechkin, the founder of the NGO, Uldarov and Savichev explained that orders to kill Ukrainians had come directly from the Wagner Group's founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin, himself a former convict, who has become one of Russia’s most influential oligarchs.
An image of Alexei Savichev taken from a video phone call with Vladimir Osechkin (inset) of Gulagu.net. (via Gulagu.net)
In January, the U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned Wagner as a transnational criminal organization, accusing it of having “engaged in an ongoing pattern of serious criminal activity, including mass executions, rape, child abductions, and physical abuse in the Central African Republic (CAR) and Mali.” The killings described by Uldarov and Savichev allegedly took place during the recent Russian offensives in Bakhmut and Soledar.
ADVERTISEMENT
The mercenaries gave Gulagu.net explicit details about how Russian forces were ordered to go house by house in Bakhmut, killing anyone they found inside, civilian and military alike. “To kill everyone. Not to take anyone prisoner. We were told this by Prigozhin. Via video,” Uldarov claimed, adding that his forces carried out these orders ruthlessly.
“When I went into the basement, there were children there. And I was instructed not to release any. I was in command. Me and my group killed everyone. Then we all left. We didn’t let anyone out,” he said. “There were about 40 children there,” Uldarov said. “I gave the command to kill everyone. It was a big house, nine floors. The whole basement was packed and mined. I made the decision to ‘zero’ everyone.”
Prigozhin denied the allegation on the social media site Telegram. “Regarding the execution of children, of course, no one ever shoots civilians or children, no one absolutely needs this. We came there to save them from the regime they were under.”
“As for what [Osechkin] filmed, I looked at the pieces of video I managed to see,” he added later. “I can say the following: If at least one of these accusations against me is confirmed, I am ready to be held accountable according to any laws.” But, he continued, “if none is confirmed, I will send a list of 30-40 people who are spitting at me like Osechkin (there is a whole list of them, including the scum that fled Russia) that the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine is obligated to hand over to me for a ‘fair trial,’ so to speak.”
A photo taken from video of an unspecified location in Ukraine and released by the Prigozhin Press Service on March 3, shows Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company, asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to withdraw the remaining Ukrainian forces from Bakhmut to save their lives. (Prigozhin Press Service via AP)Less
In another chilling video, Uldarov describes how he personally murdered a young Ukrainian girl. “She is screaming. She’s a little, you know? Five, maybe 6 years old. And I took a kill shot, you know?”
ADVERTISEMENT
Uldarov later recanted his confession on a Prigozhin-linked news site, claiming he was drunk and pressured to admit things he hadn’t done in the war.
In a separate video testimony, Alexei Savichev detailed to Osechkin the murder of unarmed young Ukrainian teenagers earlier this year. Savichev recounts how teenagers captured by Russian forces were made to pull up their shirts to reveal any possible tattoos — a common Russian tactic to determine their ideological disposition.
Wagner mercenaries shot those with tattoos, Savichev said. He attempted to justify his actions by claiming he didn’t consider the teenage Ukrainians to be “civilians.” The presence of tattoos, he asserted, were evidence that his victims were members of the Azov battalion, a nationalist unit in the Ukrainian military. Russia, falsely, has amplified the unit's influence and describes all Ukraine’s defense forces as “neo-Nazis.”
Yet documents published on Gulagu.net’s own Telegram channel confirm many of the details in Uldarov and Savichev’s accounts, including certificates of the release from their former penitentiaries and the “courage” medals they received from Wagner. Another of the documents was a presidential pardon for Uldarov, personally signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Azamat Uldarov. (via Gulagu.net)
Supporting evidence of the ex-mercenaries’ atrocities was further published by the Ukraine’s domestic security service, known as the SBU. On their Telegram channel, the Ukrainian intelligence organization published what the SBU claims was an intercepted phone call between a Russian soldier and a woman who is apparently his wife, which supported the testimonies made by Gulagu.net. In the recording, an unnamed Russian soldier details a similar “no quarter” policy to the woman, explaining how he, too, had to kill women, children and teenage girls. The woman attempts to justify the murder of civilians, claiming that “anyone peaceful will have already left.”
ADVERTISEMENT
While executing civilians under any circumstances is a war crime, giving an order of “no quarter” is also against international law, according to numerous treaties, including the Geneva Conventions, to which Russia is a signatory.
Yahoo News cannot independently verify the veracity of this SBU intercept.
The video confessions published by Gulagu.net are the latest evidence of likely Russian war crimes committed during the course of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Last week, a video circulated on social media showing a captive Ukrainian soldier being beheaded by his Russian captors. Another video showed two beheaded Ukrainian soldiers near a destroyed Ukrainian M113 armored personnel carrier.
Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian Parliament’s human rights commissioner, told news outlet Ukrainska Pravda that his office has received “dozens” of videos showing Russians publicly executing Ukrainians. "There are beheadings, cutting off genitals, ears, nose, limbs or phalanges on the hands,” Lubinets said. “Some [of the perpetrators] have been identified.”
Last month, Ukrainian President Zelensky posthumously bestowed the Hero of Ukraine award on Oleskandr Matsievskiy, an unarmed Ukrainian captive who was filmed being shot and killed by Russian soldiers.
Ukrainian officials planned 'mass strikes' on Moscow and other cities 'with everything' they had, but they stood down after US intervention: report
Ryan PickrellMon, April 24, 2023 at 12:42 PM
the numbers, one year later
Ukrainian army from the 43rd Heavy Artillery Brigade fire the German howitzer Panzerhaubitze 2000, called Tina by the unit, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near Bakhmut, in Donetsk region, Ukraine, February 5, 2023.REUTERS/Marko DjuricaMore
- The Washington Post reports Ukrainian officials had plans for "mass strikes" on Russian cities on the first anniversary's of the war.
- Ukraine's military intelligence chief directed an officer to hit "with everything" available, but the plan wasn't carried out.
- Officials in Kyiv have disputed the Post report based on leaked documents, calling it "strange media" and "sensation."
The Post reported that Maj. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov, who leads Ukraine's military intelligence operations, known as the HUR, instructed an officer to "get ready for mass strikes on 24 February," adding that the attacks were to be executed "with everything the HUR had." Budanov's reported instructions were attributed to a classified National Security Agency document.
A couple of days before the one-year anniversary though, the Central Intelligence Agency sent out a report noting that the HUR "had agreed, at Washington's request, to postpone strikes" on the Russian capital. The SBU, Ukraine's security service, did not agree to that however, the agency said.
The HUR did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
Major General Kyrylo Budanov speaks to Sky News.Sky News
The pair of documents offering insight into Ukrainian planning were part of a significant leak of classified intelligence information that made global headlines in recent weeks and led to the arrest of a 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guard member suspected to have leaked these documents online, The Post reported. The leaked documents have caused frustration in Washington and in allied capitals.
As Ukraine attempts to fend off Russian invaders, the US has supported the country with billions of dollars in security assistance, arming it with anti-tank weapons, howitzers, rocket-artillery, air defense systems, infantry fighting vehicles, tanks, and more, but Washington has been hesitant to provide capabilities that would allow Ukraine to strike deep into Russia and Russian-occupied territories.
For instance, though the US provided High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) to Ukraine with Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) rockets, it has held off on sending Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) with ranges of just under 200 miles, munitions that expert observers say would give Ukrainian forces a greater edge in this ongoing fight.
The notable lack of long-range US-provided capabilities has not stopped the Ukrainian armed forces from conducting strikes far from the front lines of the ongoing conflict, but unlike Russian explosive drone and missile attacks on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure, claimed and suspected Ukrainian attacks have targeted Russian military installations.
Last August, Ukraine struck a Russian military base in occupied Crimea with missiles, causing substantial damage to Black Sea Fleet naval aviation assets, and in December, two air bases deep inside Russian territory were hit, allegedly by Ukrainian drones. Ukraine is also suspected to be behind a number of explosive sea drone attacks on Russian installations.
Smoke rises after explosions were heard from the direction of a Russian military airbase near Novofedorivka, Crimea August 9, 2022.REUTERS/Stringer
Ukraine doesn't always acknowledge these attacks, but officials have hinted at Kyiv's involvement. For example, after the attacks in December, Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, wrote that Earth is round and that "if something is launched into other countries' airspace, sooner or later unknown flying objects will return to departure point."
In the case of the missile strikes in Crimea, Gen. Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, wrote in an op-ed that the aim of these attacks is to "make these experiences even sharper and more tangible for the Russians and for other occupied regions, despite the massive distance to the targets."
Ukrainian officials, which have pushed back on other elements of the leaked documents relating to the war in Ukraine, have dismissed reports that it was planning strikes for the anniversary as "strange media/sensation once again."
"Why would there be a need for us to do this? What task would such a one-time action solve? Would it change the course of the war? Would it make the Russians flee? Would it remove the need for weapons?" Podolyak said on Twitter Monday.
He said that such reports problematically "shape public opinion in Western capitals as if Ukraine was an unreasonable, infantile, and impulsive country that is dangerous for adults to trust with serious weapons."
"We approach the war with ironclad mathematical logic: we need long-range missiles to destroy Russian logistics in the occupied territories and various types of aircraft to protect the sky and destroy Russian fortifications. These are the main components of successful counteroffensive operations and minimization of losses," he added, continuing to make the case for providing Ukraine with additional combat capabilities.
For instance, though the US provided High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) to Ukraine with Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) rockets, it has held off on sending Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) with ranges of just under 200 miles, munitions that expert observers say would give Ukrainian forces a greater edge in this ongoing fight.
The notable lack of long-range US-provided capabilities has not stopped the Ukrainian armed forces from conducting strikes far from the front lines of the ongoing conflict, but unlike Russian explosive drone and missile attacks on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure, claimed and suspected Ukrainian attacks have targeted Russian military installations.
Last August, Ukraine struck a Russian military base in occupied Crimea with missiles, causing substantial damage to Black Sea Fleet naval aviation assets, and in December, two air bases deep inside Russian territory were hit, allegedly by Ukrainian drones. Ukraine is also suspected to be behind a number of explosive sea drone attacks on Russian installations.
Smoke rises after explosions were heard from the direction of a Russian military airbase near Novofedorivka, Crimea August 9, 2022.REUTERS/Stringer
Ukraine doesn't always acknowledge these attacks, but officials have hinted at Kyiv's involvement. For example, after the attacks in December, Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, wrote that Earth is round and that "if something is launched into other countries' airspace, sooner or later unknown flying objects will return to departure point."
In the case of the missile strikes in Crimea, Gen. Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, wrote in an op-ed that the aim of these attacks is to "make these experiences even sharper and more tangible for the Russians and for other occupied regions, despite the massive distance to the targets."
Ukrainian officials, which have pushed back on other elements of the leaked documents relating to the war in Ukraine, have dismissed reports that it was planning strikes for the anniversary as "strange media/sensation once again."
"Why would there be a need for us to do this? What task would such a one-time action solve? Would it change the course of the war? Would it make the Russians flee? Would it remove the need for weapons?" Podolyak said on Twitter Monday.
He said that such reports problematically "shape public opinion in Western capitals as if Ukraine was an unreasonable, infantile, and impulsive country that is dangerous for adults to trust with serious weapons."
"We approach the war with ironclad mathematical logic: we need long-range missiles to destroy Russian logistics in the occupied territories and various types of aircraft to protect the sky and destroy Russian fortifications. These are the main components of successful counteroffensive operations and minimization of losses," he added, continuing to make the case for providing Ukraine with additional combat capabilities.