Bucolic Ukraine forest is site of mass grave exhumation
Source: AP
By OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI
BUCHA, Ukraine (AP) The lush green beauty of a pine forest with singing birds contrasted with the violent deaths of newly discovered victims of Russias war in Ukraine, as workers exhumed bodies from another mass grave near the town of Bucha on Kyivs outskirts.
The hands of several victims were tied behind their backs. The gruesome work of digging up the remains coincided with the Ukrainian police chiefs report that authorities have opened criminal investigations into the killings of more than 12,000 people since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24.
Workers wearing white hazmat suits and masks used shovels to exhume bodies from the soil of the forest, marking each section with small yellow numbered signs on the ground. The bodies, covered in cloth and dirt, attracted flies.
Shots to the knees tell us that people were tortured, Andriy Nebytov, head of the Kyiv regional police, said at the scene. The hands tied behind the back with tape say that people had been held (hostage) for a long time and (enemy forces) tried to get any information from them.
A member of an extraction crew works during an exhumation at a mass grave near Bucha, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, June 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
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Richard D
(8,692 posts). . . will walk away, or stay in power.
Warpy
(110,901 posts)He has made too many outrageous blunders to do either. While if his medical condition is grave enough, they might allow him to exit via the hospital, if it turns out to be not so grave, he'll exit feet first but by a more direct route.
Had he seized Crimea and Donetsk in 2014 and invaded in 2017, he might have succeeded. Waiting 8 years for his FSB point man to set up a Ukrainian support team was foolhardy, as was believing the glowing reports with nothing to back them up. Meanwhile, the Ukrainians spent the time knowing what was coming and building up an actual military, something they didn't have after Yanukovych was booted out.
So Putin miscalculated and badly and eventually all the war widows and moms are going to start put two and two together about how much of the army has been lost and I imagine those old boys in the Kremlin are calculating the cost of losing all that equipment. I really can't see him staying in power beyond another few months, at most, however long it takes them to come up with someone who isn't Navalny.
I hope you are correct.
Warpy
(110,901 posts)I can't imagine many countries hanging onto somebody who has made so many mistakes, and I didn't even count what the sanctions have done