Posted on 10/27/2022 2:36:06 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Carnage left by Russian soldiers on the road to Kyiv wasn’t random. It was strategic brutality, perpetrated in areas under tight Russian control where military officers — including one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s top generals accused of war crimes in Syria — were present.
The man in charge of this war was Col. Gen. Alexander Chaiko, earned a global reputation for brutality as leader of Russia’s forces in Syria.
This story is part of AP/FRONTLINE investigation that includes War Crimes Watch Ukraine interactive experience and documentary “Putin’s Attack on Ukraine: Documenting War Crimes,” on PBS.
Witnesses and survivors in Bucha, Ozera, Babyntsi and Zdvyzhivka — all places under Chaiko’s command — told AP and “Frontline” that Russian soldiers tortured and killed people on slightest suspicion they might be helping the Ukrainian military. Intercepted soldier phone calls obtained by AP, told their loved ones they’d been ordered to take a no-mercy approach to suspected informants.
"MOM, I AM KILLING CIVILIANS"
Russian soldiers openly discussed atrocities against civilians during phone calls with their mothers, wives and friends that the Ukrainian government intercepted near Kyiv.
March 21st, a soldier named Vadim told his mother: “We have the order to take phones from everyone and those who resist — in short — to hell with the f------.”
“We have the order: It does not matter whether they’re civilians or not. Kill everyone.”
“We have the order NOT to take prisoners of war but to shoot them all dead directly,” a soldier nicknamed Lyonya said.
“There was a boy, 18 years old, taken prisoner. First, they shot through his leg with a machine gun, then he got his ears cut off. He admitted to everything and was shot dead,” Lyonya told his mom. “We do not take prisoners. Meaning, we don’t leave anyone alive.”
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Since none of the reality behind the globalists using the Ukraine for money laundering and corruption is never publicized in anything you post, I thought I should add it for balance - the real cause of death and destruction BEGINS with the globalists and people like Zelinsky who sold themselves for money and special treatment.
With the level of one sided propaganda wherein Ukrainian henchmen like Zelensky are portrayed as saintly heroes, by the time you post something about 'Russia Russia Russia' I just have to assume it's more propaganda.
Maybe if the globalists hadn't violated agreements and parked their biolabs on the border and if they weren't laboring to start WWIII, I would at least wonder if this article has any grains of truth in it. But you've spammed FR with mountains of propaganda and this looks like more of it.
Notice how she skipped all those articles that cited the Ukrainians ‘cleansing’ civilians (in the Donbass areas that they have taken) recently of ‘collaborators’ or for feeding Russian or Donbass militia soldiers or even of the continued ongoing shelling of Donbass region civilians?
Narratives must be continuously peddled to maintain them...cause if you tell the lies long enough, repeat them incessantly, those who don’t know differently will be seduced into believing them.
Russian corruption
Andrey Kozyrev, who served as foreign minister under President Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s, put forward what he said were misjudgments made by President Vladimir Putin in ordering the invasion.
In the thread, he claims Putin overestimated the Russian military, which he dedicated billions of dollars to modernizing. But this money, Kozyrev claimed, may have been lost to Russia’s endemic corruption
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—Andrei V Kozyrev (@andreivkozyrev) March 6, 2022
“The Kremlin spent the last 20 years trying to modernize its military. Much of that budget was stolen and spent on mega-yachts in Cyprus. But as a military advisor you cannot report that to the President. So they reported lies to him instead,” wrote Kozyrev.
Cyprus has long been a favored destination for Russian officials seeking to launder money, and was infamous for its long-running “golden passport” scheme that until 2020 allowed rich foreigners to effectively EU buy citizenship.
Transparency International ranks Russia as one of the world’s most corrupt countries, putting it 130th of 176, with a particular problem in its defense sector.
The Germans did kill civilians on suspicion in WW1 and WW2, sometimes wiping out whole villages.
I would suspect Russians in Ukraine have bayonetted far fewer babies since the invasion in February than American abortionists have in the past week.
The man who stopped our Isis rebels. We were really angered by that because it thwarted our plan to overthrow Assad and install a Sunni Wahhabis government.
Woodrow? That you? No that was a Brit propaganda campaign.
The fact that you conflate the WWI and WWII German army shows you to be exceedingly uninformed. The two are incomparable. WWI was a German army that conducted none of the war crimes and atrocities of the WWII version. They were no different than the WWI British army. Well, except in one important respect. German soldiers has the right to vote and had for several decades. Over half of the British soldiers did not have a right to vote and only got out after the war. Before the war you had to be a property owner.
I would at least wonder if this article has any grains of truth in it.”
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” - Soren Kierkegaard
You have chosen to be fooled twice:
1. to believe what isn’t true;
2. refuse to believe what is true.
Not my intention to change anyone’s opinion.You alone are responsible for what you chose to believe.
And who was the richest Russian oil oligarch busted by Putin for fraud?
It would be Mikhail Khodorovsky, the one who lives in London and funds the “dossier center” that supposedly verified identities in this hit piece.
The fact is AP and majority of the Western press/media is dead and haven’t investigated anything in years. They are stenographers, not journalists.
The truth is out there, but you have to really look for it.
“Russian oil oligarch busted by Putin.
I believe Khodorkovsky was arrested on politically motivated grounds. PUTIN paranoia can not stand for ANYONE to get powerful!
NOW THE REST OF THE STORY:
1. UPDATE 1-Russian ex-PM says tycoon’s arrest was political
https://www.reuters.com/article/russia-khodorkovsky-putin/update-1-russian-ex-pm-says-tycoons-arrest-was-political-idUSLDE64N0Q120100524
* Ex-PM says tycoon angered Putin by funding Communists
* Kasyanov says 2003 arrest of Khodorkovsky was political
* Russia has always denied politics were behind the arrest
By Aydar Buribayev
MOSCOW, May 24 (Reuters) - The Kremlin ordered the arrest of Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky in 2003 because he had angered Vladimir Putin by funding an opposition party, Putin’s former prime minister testified on Monday in court.
Once Russia’s richest man, Khodorkovsky’s business empire — which pumped more oil than OPEC member Qatar — was carved up and sold to state-controlled companies after his arrest, sending a signal to Russia’s tycoons to stay out of politics.
Mikhail Kasyanov, who became a vociferous Kremlin critic after serving as Putin’s prime minister from 2000 to 2004, told a Moscow court that Putin, while president, had been angered by Khodorkovsky’s support of the Communist Party.
“He said approximately the following: that YUKOS not only financed the (Western-leaning) Union of Right Forces and Yabloko parties, which he, President Putin, had permitted, but it also bankrolled the Communist party which he, President Putin, had not permitted,” Kasyanov said.
Called as a witness by Khodorkovsky’s lawyers, Kasyanov’s testimony gave a rare insight into the tightly controlled political system Putin crafted as president and the motives behind a battle with one of Russia’s most powerful businessmen.
Khodorkovsky has always said he is the victim of corrupt officials under Putin who feared his political ambitions and wanted to carve up his YUKOS oil company, which was once widely held by U.S. and European emerging market investment funds.
Putin stepped down as Kremlin chief in 2008 and is now prime minister. He has rejected any hint of politics in the case against Khodorkovsky, whom he compares to U.S. gangster Al Capone.
The government says Khodorkovsky was found guilty of serious crimes by a court and should serve his jail term.
Officials have also alleged that Khodorkovsky bought influence on a grand scale in Russia’s State Duma lower house of parliament to further his interests.
Kasyanov said the arrest in July 2003 of Khodorkovsky’s business partner, YUKOS shareholder Platon Lebedev, a move that is seen as the start of the public battle with Khodorkovsky, had come as a surprise.
“It was a surprise for me when in July 2003, Platon Lebedev was arrested,” Kasyanov said. “Both (YUKOS) co-owners were arrested on politically motivated grounds.”
Soon after Lebedev’s arrest, Khodorkovsky was detained by armed officers from the FSB security service at an airport in Siberia.
The arrest sent shockwaves through the Russian business community which feared the Kremlin could try to regain control of raw materials companies which had been sold off at rigged auctions after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Russia’s stock market tumbled as investors dumped shares in YUKOS. Russian equities later soared as the economy boomed under Putin, but some major investors had steep losses when YUKOS was bankrupted by billions of dollars of back tax claims.
Kremlin critics say Khodorkovsky’s arrest marked a turning point in Putin’s presidency by giving hardliners the upper hand and creating enduring uncertainty about the security of those assets sold off in the privatisations of the 1990s. (Reporting by Aydar Buribayev, writing by Dmitry Solovyov, editing by Guy Faulconbridge and Maria Golovnina)
2. An exiled oligarch who spent almost a decade in a Russian prison predicts the Ukraine war will end Putin’s regime
Hannah Towey
Mar 7, 2022, 1:12 PM
https://news.yahoo.com/exiled-oligarch-spent-10-years-181204997.html
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former Yukos oil company chairman who was charged with embezzlement and tax evasion, speaks to the media after his release from a Russian prison. Sean
Mikhail Khodorkovsky was once Russia’s richest man, before spending almost a decade in prison. He told CNN that the Ukraine war has “significantly reduced” Putin’s ability to stay in power. “We are no longer thinking in terms of him being around another decade,” he said in the interview.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky — an exiled oligarch who was once the richest man in Russia — said on Friday that Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has “significantly reduced” the longtime president’s chances of remaining in power.
“I’m convinced that Putin hasn’t got much time left. Maybe a year, maybe three,” he told CNN during an interview, adding later, “Today we are no longer thinking in terms of him being around another decade as we thought a week ago.”
Khodorkovsky is the former CEO of the Russian oil giant Yukos, a position that temporarily made him Russia’s richest man in 2003 with a reported net worth of $15 billion. In 2001, he founded Open Russia, a diplomacy initiative that was later shut down by Russian authorities.
After being charged with fraud and tax evasion, Khodorkovsky was sentenced to nine years in prison in 2005. He was later pardoned by Putin and released a year early in 2013.
Putin’s former prime minister testified that the Kremlin ordered Khodorkovsky’s arrest due to his funding of the opposition party, according to a 2010 Reuters report.
Now the exiled businessman lives in London and is known as one of Putin’s most outspoken critics. In his interview with CNN, Khodorkovsky said Putin is his “personal enemy” but also “the enemy of humankind.” A handful of Russian billionaires have spoken out over the past week to similarly denounce the invasion of Ukraine.
His prediction that Russia’s attack on Ukraine will eventually end Putin’s rule has been echoed by experts at the Kennan Institute, a Russian research center in the US.
“The attack on Ukraine was not just an absolute crime,” Mikhail Minakov, the institute’s senior advisor on Ukraine, wrote in a blog post last week. “It was an irreparable mistake that put into motion the end-game for Putin’s regime in Russia.”
GAZPROM
3. SIX Russian businessmen die ‘by suicide’ within three months: Four oligarchs and two directors at oil giant Gazprom ‘have taken their own lives’ in spate of deaths among Russia’s elite since Purtin invaded Ukraine https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10770211/Six-Russian-billionaires-executives-oil-giant-Gazprom-died-suicide-three-months.html
yah
you would believe it was political and he was not defrauding russian citizens
your putin paranoia would not allow for anything else
he wanted putin deposed becaause putin was cleaning out the corruption.
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