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The Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), Germany’s foreign intelligence service, has acquired gruesome new insights into the atrocities committed by Russian military forces. DER SPIEGEL has learned that the BND has new satellite images and has intercepted incriminating radio traffic from Russian military personnel in the region north of Kyiv, where Bucha is located. Some of the intercepted radio traffic could be linked to dead bodies that have been photographed in Bucha.

… The BND material also apparently provides evidence that members of the Russian mercenary unit called the Wagner Group played a leading role in the atrocities. The group is known to have perpetrated similar atrocities in Syria.

Eyewitnesses recently reported that the occupying force in Bucha was initially made up of “young soldiers.” Once they were replaced by other units, the witnesses said, the attacks on civilians grew more frequent. Some eyewitnesses have said that Chechen units were in the town. The accounts raise the question as to whether this progression was part of the occupation plan.

Wagner Group & Chechen Muslims. That’s some combo.

Russia has been suspended from the United Nations’s human rights council after its invasion of Ukraine provoked revulsion and outrage around the world.

At a meeting of the UN general assembly on Thursday, 93 members voted in favour of Russia’s suspension, while 24 were against and 58 abstained.

This met the required threshold of a two-thirds majority of the assembly members that vote yes or no, with abstentions not counting in the calculation.

Good propaganda.

Powerful war comms from Ukraine – what’s the price of Russian energy? pic.twitter.com/MvC0pWNJwO

— Bojan Pancevski (@bopanc) April 7, 2022

OTTAWA — The RCMP is launching a national investigation into allegations of war crimes in Ukraine, the Star has learned.

Beginning this week, the RCMP will begin seeking information from Ukrainians arriving in Canada who may have experienced or witnessed war crimes or crimes against humanity since Russia invaded in February, but also as far back as Russia’s invasion of Crimea in 2014.

The investigation is being launched in the wake of reports of hundreds of what appear to be civilians being indiscriminately killed in the city of Bucha over the weekend.

On top of global revulsion, the videos and stories emerging from the town have sparked global calls for tougher sanctions on Russia, the end of diplomatic relations, and potentially Russia’s removal from the UN’s most senior human rights body, all as Russia vehemently denies it is targeting civilians.

HMA

‘It’s Fake,’ ‘It’s Horrible’: Mixed Reaction In Russia To Alleged War Crimes In Bucha

Britain, Canada and Australia have all so far declined to expel Russian diplomats, putting themselves at odds with 15 EU nations that have now evicted more than 200 in response to the pictures of war crimes committed in Ukraine.

A further 100 Russian diplomats had been expelled in the preceding two months.

The British reticence to act came despite an effective warning from the UK foreign secretary, Liz Truss, that the west’s relations with Vladimir Putin’s Russia were over.

Meanwhile the Trudeau Government starts sucking up to Russia’s biggest Ally – Communist China

Canada’s and China’s frigid relationship shows slight sign of thaw with first call between foreign ministers since 2020