Russian mobile crematoria weren't for their own dead soldiers - meant for the genocide plan.

[Grasswire2]

Here's an unrolled twitter thread on the topic.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1510391427427147778.html

On Bucha: after my last meeting in Ukraine I was walking to the car when a senior Ukrainian security official, flanked by two General Officers grabbed my arm and said "by the way; the Russians have moved a unit onto the Belarusian axis who will lead the killings." 1/4.

Anyone saying that Bucha is the result of brutalisation or rogue behaviour is wrong. This was the plan. It was pre-meditated. It is consistent with Russian methods in Chechnya. And if the Russian military had been more successful there would have been many more towns like it. 2/4

This context - in which the Ukrainians knew that there were troops preparing to perpetrate acts like this, with the Kremlin describing Ukrainian identity as an accident of history - also explains why Ukrainian resistence has been so fierce. They see the stakes as existential. 3/4

People calling for a specific response to Bucha are taking an atrocity out of its context. The response should be to ensure that Ukrainians can defeat the invasion through steady and systemic assistance. The volume and speed of kit delivered matters. 4/4
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[Wingus Dingus]

1. It appears to have been a massacre. This is animal behavior, from Russia.

They've turned their "troops" into animals. This isn't one or two bad apples.

[cagefreesoylentgreen]

2. Look up "Filtration Camps"

Or don’t if you’ve got a weak stomach.

It’s vile what they did in Chechnya.

[Irish_Dem]

3. I had a bad feeling they were going to use them just like Hitler did.

For mass deaths of civilians, genocide.

We can see now Russia doesn't care about their dead soldiers, they just leave them where they fall.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. There was a kill list at the time of the invasion

Putin intended to purge Ukraine of its leaders

[uponit7771]

5. No doubt MAGA will do the same to minority groups in USA if they take over all of US government.

Worldwide there's a darkness that is spreading among those who support Putrid or his mindset.

[lapfog_1]

7. not just minorities...

everyone here would be at risk (at DU).

[2naSalit]

10. +1

[I_UndergroundPanther]

12. if you are a DU'er

and a minority it might be very dangerous to exist here if repugs take control. Being trans non binary and disabled my ass would be targeted too.

[uponit7771]

14. +1,

[uponit7771]

13. +1,

[I_UndergroundPanther]

11. I feel like I am a walking target

to these asshole wingnuts. I hope democracy wins. I suspect a lot of people will gtfo of the country if repug fascists get control.
I will want to flee but lack the means to do so. Ill probably get killed.

[Initech]

6. Vladimir Putin is a terrorist.

[dchill]

8. Well, yeah. But that's just because he's a...

...completely insane, megalomaniacal mass-murderer.

[blue-wave]

9. My God!!

They really are nazis!!

Ukraine must be supplied with everything it needs to win this illegal invasion. Putin and his team of butchers must be charged and arrested on war crimes charges and then suffer the punishment. If evil like this allowed to fester, the whole world will be in danger. Stop the evil now!!