⚡️THE ART OF BEGGING: HOW KIEV IS MAKING "BUCHA 2.0" TO GET MORE WEAPONS FROM THE WEST⚡️
Summer is over. The thermometer lines in European cities are gradually creeping down, and with them, the enthusiasm of Europeans for supporting Ukraine inevitably begins to decline. Summaries of events from the front line no longer evoke in the Old World the emotions that they used to in the spring. So Zelensky urgently needed a strong informational occasion to remind abouthimself, so that Western partners would not be "distracted" by solving their own problems, but continued to pump Ukraine with weapons and loans.
To do this, Kiev decided to take a desperate step – to gather all the remaining reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, national security forces, mercenaries and throw them into a senseless counteroffensive on the Kherson and Kharkov directions. The Ukrainian leadership was not embarrassed by the many thousands of losses, the main thing was to send an unambiguous signal to the West. The signals say: «Give Ukraine weapons.» Near Kherson, the bloody adventure failed. In the Kharkov region, at the cost of the lives of more than 4 thousand fighters, the Ukrainian group managed to take a number of large settlements under its control. It will not bring a drastic change in the theater of military operations, but the problem is different. Zelensky understands that the recent arrivals of Russian missiles at power plants, hydraulic structures and other infrastructure facilities are not just a "response". Modern military theory and the experience of a number of local conflicts tell us that striking key elements of the enemy's infrastructure precedes large-scale offensive actions. Therefore, I believe that it is in the Nikolaev-Krivoy Rog and Kharkov directions that a large offensive of the Russian army can be expected in the near future. I don't know what the mood is now on Bankova street (*in Kiev, the street with Presidential office and other official buildings) and in the Ukrainian General Staff, but in their place I would be very worried, because in fact the AFU is neither technically, physically, nor mentally ready for such a turn.
I suspect, after all, that there is really panic in the high circles of the Ukrainian authorities - Ukraine is trying to seize the initiative from Russia in the information field and disrupt the upcoming offensive. That is why a "springboard" is being formed for the deployment of a new large-scale disinformation campaign, a kind of "Bucha 2.0", but already taking into account the mistakes made in that provocation. Many Telegram channels warned that this could happen, but this did not stop Kiev.
And so, on September 13, the campaign was launched – the Ukrainian edition of UNIAN, with reference to the deputy mayor of Izyum, Vladimir Matsokin, tells about the discovered "mass graves of civilians" in the city. A few days later, reports are already being received about the exhumation of bodies in Izyum, as a result of which the dead "civilians" allegedly show traces of violent death. A little later, President Zelensky himself makes an emotional appeal, accusing Russia of the genocide of the civilian population near Kharkov.
The most interesting statement is the statement of the adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Mikhail Podolyak, dated September 16. According to him, after the graves were discovered, "someone wants to freeze the conflict instead of sending tanks." I remember how Kuleba said a similar thing in the spring of this year:
"The Bucha massacre should eliminate any hesitation and unwillingness of the West to provide Ukraine with all necessary weapons, including planes, tanks, multiple rocket launchers and armored vehicles."
Do you understand? Kiev did not hide and does not hide now why such provocations are carried out with the involvement of foreign journalists. To convince the West to supply more weapons is what Ukraine is trying to achieve.
On September 16, Ukraine invites foreign journalists to Izyum to tell and show how "the Russians tortured and killed civilians." Of course, Kiev ignores the fact that most of the corpses found are Ukrainian servicemen buried by Russian soldiers. Their bodies had not been taken by their colleagues. Do you know why? Because the Ukrainian leadership and the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine forbade taking the dead and purposefully ignored the opportunity provided by the Russian side to evacuate the bodies of the AFU. This is explained quite simply: the more killed soldiers there are, the more Kiev has to pay to the relatives. Kiev prefers the "No body– no business" approach. But the deeper reason for Kiev's unwillingness to return the victims of the war lies in PR for the future, because it has been known about war graves near Kharkov for a long time. The prospect of PR has come now, when people with shovels surrounded by foreign media are trying to find at least one strangled or bound among the bodies in the uniform. While this is all just in words, Reuters has already confirmed that the previously stated traces of torture were not found on the bodies.
In all this situation, quite noticeable is the attitude of our military to the killed soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, whose bodies are not just rotting in refrigerators, but are resting six feet under. Crosses with the date of death are installed at the burial sites, and many lie in coffins. Just think about it - a Russian soldier buries his opponent in neatly made coffins in combat conditions!
There is no point in hiding that there are buried civilians there too. However, as people from the other side tell me, these are deaths from shelling of peaceful quarters of Izyum by the Ukrainian military, and it was simply not possible to bury people in other city cemeteries then because of the constant arrivals of artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Will Zelensky or one of his subordinates ever tell about this? Of course not.
So, a question arises: why does no one think about the fact that this is the most ordinary cemetery that exists in every Ukrainian city? Look carefully, this is not a mass grave, there are crosses here, many of the bodies have been identified, buried one by one in coffins and dressed (which is important!). The fact that the local pro-Ukrainian authorities allow themselves to declare how they "discovered a mass grave with victims of Russian aggression" is just nonsense. No search work was carried out in Izyum, nothing was "discovered", I repeat, it has been known about this cemetery for a long time. Just by coming to this territory, Kiev suddenly begins exhumation. Instead of, for example, requesting information from Russia about the Ukrainian military buried there, then honorably transferring the bodies home, an information bubble is inflated in order to expose Moscow as an aggressor and beg the West for more tanks and artillery systems. Cynicism of the highest order.
By the way, I decided to take a quick look at how this bubble is inflating in the information field now, and I have already found many similarities with Bucha, as well as many inconsistencies.
As in the spring of this year, the flywheel of information provocation accelerates with terrifying force. On Twitter, I found a lot of publications from fake users that were created specifically for the rapid dissemination of information beneficial to Kiev.
Ukrainian and Western propagandists even managed to quickly concoct a "symbol of the tragedy", which depicts the remains of a hand with a bracelet in the form of a Ukrainian flag. The calculation is that in this way it will be easier for the international community to convey the thesis "Russia is the aggressor".
Bots actively draw analogies with the Bucha, distributing this picture and the photo from which it was copied. This is also an indicator that the provocation is repeated according to a pattern. In fact, this is a shot in the foot of Ukrainian propaganda.
But even here it turns out that the whole story behind the new symbol of "Russian aggression" is sewn with white threads.Photojournalist of the Ukrainian edition of "Grata" Stas Yurchenko writes that the hand belongs to one of the 17 buried soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
This once again confirms the fact that they are trying to give us the burial of Ukrainian servicemen for Babi Yar, Katyn, Volyn, and, of course, Bucha.
The figure of 17 soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was previously announced by Zelensky, which in reality is only an inscription on the cross of one of the mass graves in Izyum. It is clear that he did not plan to talk about big losses.
It seems that the invited foreign journalists are also covering the provocation "not according to plan". After studying the posts of the Guardian and Washington Post correspondent Liz Hackman on Twitter, I noticed that she mostly mentions the bodies of servicemen found under Izyum.
Where were all these journalists when, a year ago, the bodies of civilians who died as a result of the atrocities of the Ukrainian military in the Donbas in 2014-15 were exhumed on the territories of the LDPR? Because many people were invited, and I personally addressed some of them. What I saw there with my own eyes was really mass graves, when local residents buried the dead literally at gunpoint of national battalions. I wouldn't be at all surprised if among those correspondents who have come to Izyum now there are also those who filmed the staging in Bucha, but this is yet to be sorted out.
Yes, journalists from Europe and America will come only where their curators deem it necessary. I have no doubt that the "Bucha 2.0" is happening by decree of the West. Most likely, when Zelensky was begging for new weapons, he was directly told that new information pretexts were needed. By the way, an aperitif in the form of two NASAMS air defense systems planned for delivery has already been served to Kiev. Apparently, for local successes in the Kharkov direction, achieved at the cost of the lives of thousands of soldiers and officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Ukraine expects that the provocation in Izyum will bear more fruit.
Summing up, I want to say that the Ukrainian side will now be in a hurry to develop the story of the "Izyum massacre", because Kiev is in dire need of Western help. Of course, such a rush will play against Ukraine.
I will continue to keep an eye on yet another completely inhuman, wild provocation of Kiev and I am sure I will find many more interesting things!