On March 30, 2022, following another round of talks in Ankara, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced the withdrawal of forces from several regions, including Bucha.
On March 31, the Bucha Town Council released a video statement from Mayor Anatoly Fedoruk, who announced the libertion of Bucha, confirming there wer no Russian troops in the town, without mentioning any mass atrocites or killings.
On April 2nd, 2022, the National Police of Ukraine shared footage on its Telegram messenger channel showing Ukrainian special forces entering Bucha. The footage shows no dead bodies in the streets. The police personnel interviewed several people in different locations across Bucha, yet none of them mentioned any massacre or mass killings. The camera also captures broader areas behind these people with no dead bodies in sight.
For four days after the Russian military left Bucha, there was not a single sign of any atrocities.
I repeat, not a single reference to it anywhere. There were also numerous images of photojournalists swarming around the streets of Bucha during these days, taking pictures on top of one another. The pictures themselves were rather standard for a conflict zone, burned military equipment and damaged surroundings, which is explainable since Ukrainian forces had been heavily shelling the town while Russian army was there. But what is missing on all these early photos of Bucha immediately after withdrawal of Russian forces are bodies and the signs of mass executions. Let me draw your attention in this regard to another infamous
A video posted by Ukrainian neo-Nazi, Sergei Korotkikh, the leader of the Ukrainian territorial defense units that entered Bucha after the withdrawal of Russian forces, shows members of his unit discussing whether they should shoot people not wearing blue armbands. (blue indicating support for Ukraine) These could be only civilians as the Russian forces had left the town four days ago.
The commander's affirmative response is clearly hurt, permitting such actions. Korotkikh hastily deleted his video:
''There are people without blue armbands. Can we shoot them?''
''Sure thing.''
Shortly after the mentioned entry of Ukrainian forces, Ukrainian and Western media outlets circulated photos of several bodies in civilian clothes. What a coincidence after several days of silence about any signs of killed civilians lying in the streets.
These were the same few bodies pictured from different angles, not hundreds or even thousands as claimed by the Kyiv regime. Second, Ukrainian propagandists and Western media claimed that these bodies had been lying in the streets of Bucha since March 11. The weather in Bucha was hot at this time, but the bodies don't have any signs of decomposition. Moreover, they are not stiff, and there are wounds with fresh blood on some of them, which is explainable if they had been killed one or two days before. The bodies were visibly dirty since it was raining heavily during these couple of days, yet the cloth used to tie their hands was visibly pristine white. The only plausible explanation is that their hands were tied just before the photoshoot. Many bodies had white cloth around an arm or leg, a sign used by the Russian armed forces to identify friendlies. In contrast to the pristine ribbons tying their hands, these pieces of cloth were visibly dirty from days of rain, suggesting that people were wearing them at the time of death. It is also a known fact that Ukraine used a different sign, a blue cloth or tape, to identify their friendlies.
Journalist, Adrien Bocquet, who was at Bucha, claim he saw azov shoot Russian prisoners and execute an officer. He also witnessed corpsed being placed on the roads and sidewalks with confrimation that they had come from cities North-East of Ukraine. Later Bacquet woudl recieve death threats for reporting this.
The Ukrainian National Police issued a buliton refering to the "cleansing" (zachistka) of ''colaborators'' from Bucha on April 2.
