RBK-Ukraine with reference to Der Spiegel reports that German Federal Intelligence Service intercepted russian military talking about murdering civilians in Bucha. Some conversations were related to documented bodies.
In one of the radio conversations the soldier says that he and his mates hit a person riding a bicycle. In another radio conversation man said: “First you interrogate people, then you shoot them.”
Intelligence reports that russian mercenaries from private military companies like the Wagner Group were very much involved in atrocities.
German Intelligence states that murdering civilians in Bucha was part of regular russian military actions, maybe a part of exact strategy. The goal was to sow fear among civilians and suppress resistance.
Intercepted talks show that massacres may have occurred in other localities occupied by the russian military, specifically Mariupol suburbs.
Russian army tortured and murdered civilians, including children, in Bucha and other localities.
It’s reported about several mass graves in Bucha. One mass grave contains more than 200 people.
Yesterday Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed that russian occupiers started burning bodies of tortured people to hide traces. Mariupol authorities report that mobile crematoriums have started working in the city.