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[[File:Safari.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Ukraine Special Forces SAFARI was sent into Bucha after the Russian withdrawal to hunt down so-called "collaborators", for example, people who accepted Russian humanitarian relief.<ref>https://youtu.be/9vGUJXuYQZQ?t=686</ref>]]
The '''Bucha massacre''' was a mass killing of alleged "Russian collaborators" by the [[Zelensky regime]] on April 2, 2022 , in the city of Bucca, Ukraine.
Joe Lauria of Consortium News reported that on March 30, 2022, according to the Russian Defense Ministry, all Russian forces left Bucha. This was confirmed on March 31 Bucha mayor Anatolii Fedoruk in a video on the Bucha City Council official Facebook page. The translated post accompanying the video says:
==SBU safari for collaborators==
''[[The New York Times]]'' was in Bucha on April 2, 2022 , and reported that "some of the dead wearing civilian clothes appeared to have been bound and executed."<ref>[https://archive.ph/oXMS5 Russia in Broad Retreat From Kyiv, Seeking to Regroup From Battering], By Andrew E. Kramer and Neil MacFarquhar, ''The New York Times'', April 2, 2022.</ref> Instead, the ''Times'' confirmed the Russian withdrawal was completed two days after the mayor of Bucha said it was, and that the Russians left “behind them dead soldiers and burned vehicles, according to witnesses, Ukrainian officials, satellite images and military analysts.” The ''Times'' said reporters found the bodies of six civilians. “It was unclear under what circumstances they had died, but the discarded packaging of a Russian military ration was lying beside one man who had been shot in the head,” the paper said. In Bucha, the ''Times'' was close to the [[neo-Nazi]] [[Azov Battalion]], whose soldiers appear in the newspaper’s newspaper's photographs. The ''Times'' suggests that Azov Nazis may be responsible for the killings:
[[File:SBU actions in Bucha April 2, 2022.PNG|right|300px|thumb|[[SBU]] special forces with Cyrillic '''СБУ''' acronym brutalizing civilians, April 2, 2022.<ref>https://twitter.com/NG_Strategy/status/1511921181259022343</ref>]]
{{quotebox-float|“Something very interesting then happens on [Saturday] 2 April, hours before a massacre is brought to the attention of the national and international media. The US and EU-funded Gorshenin Institute online [Ukrainian language] site Left Bank announced that:
The answer may lie in the video of the territorial defense of Ukraine, which clearly states the question ‘Can I shoot at them if there are no blue armbands?’ To which a positive response follows. The video was originally posted by the leader of the [[territorial defense]] Sergey ‘Botsman’ Korotkikh.”<ref>https://mronline.org/2022/04/07/staged-massacre-in-bucha/</ref> Sergey ‘Botsman’ Korotkikh later makes startling postings about the disappearance of Chilean/American journalist [[Gonzalo Lira]] from [[Kharkiv]]<ref>Sergey ‘Botsman’ Korotkikh</ref>
On April 3, 2022 , when the story broke, Russia immediately requested a meeting if the [[UN Security Council]] for the following Monday, April. The [[United Kingdom]], another permanent member of the Security Council, [[veto]]ed holding a Security Council meeting in the matter.<ref>https://www.sott.net/article/466326-Britain-blocking-UN-investigation-into-Bucha-massacre-in-Ukraine-Russia</ref>
Russian UN Ambassador said in a statement:
{{quotebox-float|"[[London]] shows clearly what does the so-called [[new world order]] looks like, the order based on rules and based, it seems, on violation of all possible and impossible norms of international law, treaties and any norms of civilized behavior at all."<ref>https://tass.com/world/1432333</ref>}}
Western media and the NATO allies [[coverup]] came unglued by their own investigation. A team of forensic investigators from Kyiv reported that dozens of civilians who died in the city of Bucha were killed by tiny metal arrows from shells fired by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) artillery.{{fact}}
Pathologists and coroners who are carrying out postmortems on bodies found in mass graves in the region north of Kyiv said they found small metal darts, called fléchettes, embedded in people’s people's heads and chests. “We found several really thin, nail-like objects in the bodies of men and women and so did others of my colleagues in the region,” Vladyslav Pirovskyi, a Ukrainian forensic doctor, told ''[[The Guardian]]''. “It is very hard to find those in the body, they are too thin. The majority of these bodies come from the Bucha-Irpin region.”{{fact}}
Independent weapons experts who reviewed pictures of the metal arrows found in the bodies confirmed that they were fléchettes, an anti-personnel weapon widely used during the First World War. These small metal darts are contained in tank or field gun shells. Each shell can contain up to 8,000 fléchettes. Once fired, shells burst when a timed fuse detonates and explodes above the ground.
Fléchettes were not widely used during the [[Second World War]], but were brough back by the US during the [[Vietnam war]]. “Fléchettes are an anti-personnel weapon designed to penetrate dense vegetation and to strike a large number of enemy soldiers,” according to Amnesty International. “They should never be used in built-up civilian areas.”<ref>[https://southfront.press/bucha-investigation-contradicts-itself-confirms-afus-atrocities/ BUCHA INVESTIGATION CONTRADICTS ITSELF, CONFIRMS AFU’S ATROCITIES], 5.04.2022, ''Southfront''.</ref>
A team of 18 experts from the forensic department of France’s France's national gendarmerie, alongside a team of forensic investigators from Kyiv, have started documenting the situation after the re-occupation of Bucha by the SBU Safari force. “We are seeing a lot mutilated (disfigured) bodies,” said Pirovsky. “A lot of them had their hands tied behind their backs and shots in the back of their heads. There were also cases with automatic gunfire, like six to eight holes on the back of victims. And we have several cases of cluster bombs’ elements embedded in the bodies of the victims.”
Evidence collected by experts during a visit to Bucha, Hostomel and Borodianka, and reviewed by independent weapons experts, showed that cluster munitions and powerful unguided bombs were used in the region. They killed a large number of civilians and destroyed at least eight buildings. These types of weapons are banned by the Ottawa Convention, which Ukraine is party to. Illegal cluster munitions were discovered in Ukrainian weapons storage depots.
